Order/ Disorder (Religion) Flashcards
Order is shown to be flawed, makes the inevitable disorder of plot understandable
PL: Relationship, eve doesn’t want same things:
S re:God’s order:
FR: Justice system x2
N: “From her husband’s hand her hand soft she withdrew”
God ‘Sole reigning holds the tyranny of Heav’n’
I perceived that the popular voice, and the countenances of the judges, had already condemned my unhappy victim
wretched mockery of justice
Contradiction of Order Gawain struggles to abide by both codes of conduct - sin -love -kissing -pentangle
“he was worried for his chivalry, in case he’d seem/ boorish,/ but more for his virtue lest he’d fall into sin”
“true pursuit of love”= “the bible of knightliness”
re: g not kissing immediately- “I dare not do it lest I might be refused./ if I were refused, it would be wrong to have offered”
virtues are “rooted in this knight,/ each locking to the next so that there was no end/ or beginning to any”
Problems come when go against Religion Gawain faith in religion -belief in mary -b4 B's castle -porter
his firm belief, above all else,/ was that his strength came from the five joys / that noble queen of heaven took in her child”
“blesses himself three times/ before he saw, in the wood, a moated dwelling”
porter: “knelt before him, praying good fortune… that God should/ preserve him”
Deviations from religious order: Genesis: x2 FR: Against domestic: Sacrilegious PL: Eve goes against God in favour of Satan Satan convince: Calls god: Eve acceptance:
two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life.
It is not good that the man should be alone
“I might infuse a spark” “In a solitary chamber
I collected bones from charnel houses; and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame
“do not believe those rigid threats of death; ye shall not die: How should ye? By the fruit?” Calls God, “the Threatener”
“in her ears the sound yet rung of his persuasive words, impregned with reason”
going against order Tries to live by rules: Broke one rule to fulfil another, does not exchange Gawain= guilt: Camelot = because they don't hold him accountable for his sin, no order to be found: PL- Ruined relationship A/E: Satan demeaned: FR can't have Elizabeth Cup
When B asks from who “you’ve taken what was owing and you must not expect/ anything further”
“any more, I’ll quickly repay it… in hostility./ Just one stroke was due to me.”
“the cut was healed that he got on his neck;/ he wore the shining belt around him…beneath his left arm/ to signal that he’s been found guilty of fault”
Courtiers “laughed loudly about it” “it was reckoned to be to the Round Table’s credit”
“contended with gods to sit highest→ constrained into a beast, and mixed with bestial slime”
fall=“the garland … down dropped, and all the faded roses”
“Adam severe”“ingrateful Eve”
“in mutual accusation spent fruitless hours”-
some softened feelings stole into my heart, and dared to whisper paradisaical dreams of love and joy; but the apple was already eaten
the cup of life was poisoned forever
