Analysis Of The Virgin Warrior : The Life And Death Of Joan Of Arc

Joan was a brilliant student in high school and her parents had high hopes for her even expecting her to be a doctor. Due to her love for music her

On that day norsemen invaded the village leaving everyone dead except for Joan. She hid until it all blew over. Quickly, she took shelter in a hollow crack of the reredos: “Joan shrank back into the darkness. The screams of the dying were all around her. Hunched into a ball, she buried her head in her arms. Her rapid heartbeat sounded in her ears” (154). Joan was truly terrified of the situation, blood was painted on the floor and there were bodies dismembered. Her brother John had died in the midst of battle and her friend Gisla was kidnapped by the norsemen. After the chaos had died down Joan arose from her hiding place and made quick decision in order to elude from the norsemen incase they came back. She did not want her fear to deter her from making the right choice. Joan used this opportunity as a chance to make a brazen choice in her life and start anew with the life she had always wanted: “But now there was no time to consider. It was a chance. There might never be another… At twilight the figure of a young man stepped from the door of the ruined cathedral, scanning the landscape with keen gray-green eyes” (157-158). This tragic event in Joan’s life may haunt her but it made her stronger as a person by choosing the right path that leads her into

By a chain of unfortunate events she’s suddenly thrown in to an arranged marriage by Richild, the wife of Gerold, a man Joan is in love with. In the middle of the arranged marriage, a group of Norsemen attack- “Shrieks, war cries, and howls of pain and terror” is how Joan illustrates the chaos in her mind as the bloody massacre goes on (Cross 151). This is a major hardship in Joan’s life because in the mass murder she loses her friends as well as her brother John. Although this horrifying incident is one that is worthy to traumatize an individual for the rest of their life, Joan is still motivated to keep going. She is still encouraged to evade the situation by dressing as her brother and leaving the town. No matter what, Joan finds something to keep her moving through life, which portrays her character as one who has a positive, motivated outlook on life. Joan’s main motivation to press on after the traumatizing incident was to “get word to Gerold about where she had gone,” which is the initial thought that crosses Joan’s mind (Cross 157). Joan’s motivation to keep moving through life isn’t always her dreams and goals- in this case Gerold is her motivation to leave Dorstadt and continue on with her life, which reveals her inspired

After her childhood she got married to her now deceased husband and they had two daughters. Both parents wanted what was best for their girls. Looking back on it now, Joann wishes that her husband was there more as their daughters were growing up. For the sake of the girls, they both decided that they would never fight in front of them.

Joan of Arc was a teenage girl who heard visions from God to lead an army. She believed that God’s plan for France was to push the English Kingdom out. She approached the king with the statement that she was from God and that was her message that she was bringing God into the war. Joan proved that a woman could lead a battlefield but the end result is unfortunate. Joan had nothing to fear because God was on her side and sent her to do this, lead an army.

Those please shot straight to Joan’s heart. But as Pawl had always told her, during emergent situations, she had to view the person before her as a mere body to be fixed and not get caught up in the emotion. Easy for him to say…

Have you ever heard of Joan of Arc? If so, you have most likely been taught that she was fierce, brave and that she ended the Hundred Years’ War. My impression of Joan of Arc, is quite different. According to history.com, “While the commander of the French army, Joan of Arc did not participate in active combat. Instead, she would accompany her men as a sort of inspirational mascot, brandishing her banner in place of a weapon.”

When Joan’s dad finally moves out, the house is at peace and Joan probably wouldn’t have been able to cope with all of it if she hadn’t moved, met Fox, started writing and asking questions. Joan used writing as a coping method, making fictional universes and using her

Not her father. With him out of the picture for the moment, Joan’s mother seemed so happy compared to the quiet, submissive, melancholy mask she wore at home to protect herself from her husband. These were some of the best moments of the story to read; since the general undertones of the whole book is negative. In those brief moments without having to think about her dad, and just thinking of the present, the good time she was having with her mother, everything was extremely pleasant to read. It just seemed…

Joan said she believed him, and she did, but still, a large part of her wanted a child she conceived with Perceval. Was that selfish of her? Even if it was, she hoped it would come to

Since Joan was saying God talked to her and that people should listen to what she needed to say, the majority did not believe her, which caused her to fail. In the beginning of the book Shaw notes, “Steward: Sir, I tell you there are no eggs. There will be none - not if you were to kill me for it - as long as The Maid is at the door.” (Shaw 60) In this quote the Steward is saying that the Hens were failing to lay eggs for the Maid (Joan) is at the door and based on page 71 Shaw writes “Steward: The hens are laying like mad, sir. Five dozen eggs! Robert: Christ in heaven! She did come from God” as a result, countless people believed that Joan’s presence gave“miracles.” Another miracle people would say would be “Bluebeard: The old fox blushes.

Joan finished up a brief evening shift at the Cup and Sword. A little over a week had passed since her attack and recovery had gone smoothly, so she figured a few hours of light tavern work wouldn’t hurt. She hadn’t done anything all that strenuous, just some serving and easy cleaning. Her father had left Camelot that afternoon to go meet with a spice trader and wouldn’t return until the following day, which meant Terric was short-handed in the kitchen. And to be honest, Joan preferred to remain occupied for a time. Tavern work kept her thoughts from returning to the one notion she wanted to dismiss.

After analyzing Joan’s behavior, she is the type of character who has acquired her own individuality; she’s able to think for herself and generate her own ideas. It

Behind her, Joan heard the whispers of several dozen voices, and those whispers swelled into chatter. She glanced over her shoulder to see many hundreds of people walking behind her, all there to offer support and farewells to the knights. It warmed her heart to see them, for it meant she and her friends were not alone.

Joan is able to provide the reader with a vivid description of the anxieties and ordeals of being a female throughout childhood and adolescence. She starts out with the simple desire to love and be loved, to find acceptance. These desires are not gender specific, as both males and females strive to be love and be loved and find acceptance. The difference is how women and men actually find these. Due to constant victimization by others a pattern of outsiders becomes Joan’s guard and vengeance. Joan's early misery and resentment causes her to see life as her enemy. Because Joan is made to feel as though she is an object, as many women in her time as well as our own feel too, Joan learns to use idealization as a weapon that will reach her emotionally unreachable mother: Joan claims to defy every effort to make her reduce out of a fear of assimilation and loss of autonomy: "I wasn't going to let myself be diminished, neutralized. I wouldn't ever let her make me over in her image, thin and beautiful" (Atwood, 85-6). This in her mind would be surcoming to the gender stereotype that woman not only should fit into, but had to fit into. It was her own way of rebelling against what a woman should be and being herself. Whether this was the correct way to go about it, her reasons were her reasons and that is what is important to her. Unfortunately this only caused a vicious circle. The more she rebelled against the gender norm for her