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| 1485-war of the roses. this is the medieval time period. |
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| the "father of english literature." wrote in vernacular, not latin or french. his stories were not for or by nobility. |
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| a story "framed" by a journey. device used to pull stories together. |
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| 5 beats/10 syllables per line. |
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| had many husbands, lustrous, gap toothed, wants to have power in relationships. (told in her tale which was a medieval romance) |
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| where chaucer began the canterburry tales. |
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| star shape on gawain's shield. points are 5 senses (natural intelligence), 5 fingers (natural strength), 5 wounds of christ (religious crap. "have faith" in the wounds), 5 joys of mary (force founded in), and the 5 knightly virtues (being all courteous for the weak). |
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| an anglo-saxon story teller. |
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| wrote the english version of king arthur. |
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| (fey=feo) the old hag in gawain and the green knight. |
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| tradition represented in european literature. idealized love between a knight and a usually married woman. love in the purest form. exists in literature but not real life. no sex, just love. |
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| translates to "fate." term that embodies the concept of inevitability. it is beowulf's wyrd to help king hrothgar. (his duty to return the favor) |
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| "man-gold" legal system of many germanic tribes. it allowed an individual and his family to make amends for a crime by paying a fine known as wergild to a family of another whom he had injured or killed. |
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| hamlet's battle with whether or not he should kill himself. discusses how people don't kill themselves because they don't know what to expect. if it is like dreaming, everyone would do it but they're afraid it would be a nightmare and they can't wake up from death. |
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| anglo-saxons invade and conquer in 440. vikings raid north and east. vikings (or norsemen) then adapted french language and feudal system and invaded/conquered england. |
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| king of danes. father figure of beowulf. and model for future king beowulf. |
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| english story was modeled after another story. about a king arthur and were welsh folk-tales full of myths, magic and super natural things. |
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must have characteristics:
1. narrative poem/prose
2.idealized society
3.laws of nature are suspended
4.idealized hero fights evil and wins
5.often a quest or task involved
6.sometimes a conflict between one's personal desires and duties to the king/country/god |
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| character in the canterburry tales that is greedy and sells pardons. ironic that his tale preaches against being greedy. (story of 3 men who find money) chaucer is exposing corruption by describing him. his tale is a morality tale! |
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| what the pardoner told, a tale that tells a moral. |
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| common person with a common tale. drunk when he tells his tale. he tells a fabliau! |
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| in 440 A.D. anglo-saxons and jutes invade and conquer. call it "angle-land"--->england! |
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| alliteration and assonance |
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alliteration=repetition of initial vowels (ex-brave beowulf)
assonance=repetition of vowel sounds
(ex-green peas) |
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| killed his rival richard III and won the war of the roses then became king of england. |
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| main character in malory's le morte d'arthur. uther is the king of england. |
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| how many husbands the wife of bath had. (all kept dying) |
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| broke from rome and established the church of england. |
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| the husband of an unfaithful wife. |
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| grendel's mother that came back to kill beowulf after he killed her son. |
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| king that tricked gawain to find out if he was noble. |
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| rosencrantz and guildenstern |
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| two old friends of hamlet's that are summoned by claudius to figure out what is wrong with hamlet. |
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| monster that murders people and gets killed by beowulf. |
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| rules and customs of medieval knighthood. |
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| duke of cornwall's wife. uther tries to seduce her and gets tricked into having sex with him. makes a deal with merlin to get her. she then marries uther. |
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| language beowulf was originally written in |
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| hamlet pretends to be insane so he wont be judged when he kills claudius. this makes ophelia literally insane. |
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| the act of being deceived (i.e. igraine was decieved into thinking uther was her husband, everyone in denmark was decieved into thinking hamlet was crazy, everyone was also decieved into thinking that claudius didn't murder his brother etc.) |
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| the ghost of hamlet's father hamlet sr. was the one who told his son how he was killed and to seek revenge on caludius. |
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| to test gawain, the green knight tempts him with many things. gawain only caves to one temptation, the green sash because he thinks it will keep him from getting killed. |
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| henry VII is king of england. |
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| what gawain and the green knight was written in. |
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| how long gawain had until he would face his death? |
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| temptation that gawain gave into because he thought it could save him. |
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| cain is like satan. descendant=grendell. |
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| rosemary for rememberance |
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| flower that ophelia gives to her brother after she went nutso. to remember her father and her before she went crazy. |
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| friend to hamlet that hamlet is telling the whole story to. |
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a metaphor that takes the place of a noun.
(i.e. battle dew --> blood) |
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| the magical sword given to beowulf by unferth. |
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| a sacred object in literature. sword in sword and the stone. |
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| english renaissance is commonly referred to as the elizabethan period. |
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| direct and indirect characterization |
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direct=the author makes a direct referrance to a character. (he was tall)
indirect=reveals facts about a character through thoughts. (he towered over all of his fellow classmates) |
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| what chaucer writes in, a poem that tells a story. |
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| led invasion of england in 1066. first was duke of normandy. |
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| was the archbishop of canterburry. |
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