Camelot Monologue

I was a bit content with her earnest tries to travel with me. After noting her diffident character, I knew that

Loved ones, I welcome you all to this sorrowful place, to say goodbye to my beloved daughter, Juliet. If Juliet was here with us today, she would be more than overwhelmed with the audience attending her funeral. Standing here before you today is one of the hardest things I’ve ever had to do. Words cannot describe the sorrow and loss I am feeling. Juliet was my wife and I’s dearest, only child. She meant the world to us. A very obedient child, yet extremely strong in her dedication to love, rarely disobeying our wishes, only once... For her darling husband Romeo.

I’m ready to fight i tried telling myself, but I’m not until I turn on my music but now I think that it is distracting me. Let's do this, it’s now or never. “For Skyrim” I yell.

I pushed the arm in front of me even deeper into the guy’s throat. It was much harder than it had been the first time and I felt his Adam's apple push into my skin.

How long have I been here? How long since I gave up my pride to grovel at the feet of ---?

I need some advice about my family situations and how I can deal with the problem that i have about loving who. I love 2 people but I don’t know which one is better for me. Their names are jamarcus, he's a montague and Isaac, he is Capulet. My Nurse, well you see I don’t want her to know about these boys because I’m afraid that she will spread rumors to everyone in this town.

It was early Spring when I was called to Salem. I believed that I was merely treating a sick child. But as I spent more time in the dreaded town, I realized that I was gravely mistaken. Two months prior to today, I was standing in front of the gallows. The first woman was being hanged that day, she would not confess in dealing with the devil.

It's sad to say goodbye to our fair and sweetest lady, Juliet Capulet, and her prince, Romeo Montague. But things have to change. These two innocent people died because of your bickering and fighting. Why do you always have to fight? Why can't you just get along?

MRS. CAPULET Juliet, are you still crying over Tybalt? You can’t bring him back to life by crying.(WALKS CLOSER)A little bit of grief shows that you care, but too much grief makes you look stupid. JULIET Leave me alone!

Brigitta and Julian, were filled with the Holy Spirit and showed unconditional love for God. They saw the true Mother Mary, who sits with God at the throne, and has great influence over people. Sir Gawain’s women were quite different. One used hatred, anger, and violence, to get what she wanted but because of God’s grace she did not prevail. The other woman tried to seduce a godly man, and did not succeed.

Arthurian legends may seem to only depict knights in shining armor saving damsels in distress or powerful kings with queens sitting idly by their sides, but upon closer inspection, those women were not as delicate as initially portrayed. In fact, there were many influential women who played critical roles in the men’s decisions. Significant ones included the Lady of the Lake, the moon goddess, Morgan Le Fay, the all powerful fairy, and Guinevere, the mere mortal that everybody envied because of her beauty. All three were beautiful enchantresses characterized by being shrouded in mystery, refusing to reveal the true intentions behind their deliberate actions. Yet behind each, there were complex backgrounds of where they came from and how they came to be.

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is an Arthurian romance that is one of the first to highlight women’s roles during the period of change that comes with King Arthur’s demise. Culturally, during the time period, women had little perceived power. Women were treated well and often idolized, but they remained in a male-dominated society, where they were not respected as their own capable beings. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is heavily laced with the Knight’s “Code of Honor,” namely the idea of chivalry. During this time, the chivalric code gave men the idea that women could not achieve much, so these men needed to achieve it for them. Women in Arthurian times, as well as throughout the rest of cultural history, were seen as the downfall of men. Compared to Eve from Biblical times, women were a symbol of lust, sexuality, and temptation. It was the man’s duty to avoid those temptations and remain virtuous. This essay argues the use of this poem as a forewarning toward the danger of women to men’s honor and chivalric values. ¬

Oh, what a horrible sight that was! Poor little Juliet commanded to marry Paris. There wasn’t one day whither I’ve seen Juliet upset her parents. And my God, I’ve tactically raised her. If’t be true only Juliet was my daughter, would I have been understanding of her desires.

After discovering that the Lady was tasked with seducing him, Gawain begins what is referred to as the ‘anti-feminist diatribe’. He compares the Lady to Eve and lists the many men who have fallen trap to women and their attractiveness saying: “And one and all fell pray / to women that they had used / if I be led astray, /Methinks I may be excused” (2425-2428). Gawain attempts to justify the temptation that he fell prey to by claiming that how can he, a lowly knight, be expected to uphold these values when so many before him had failed? Gawain looks no further than the Lady’s beauty to explain how he was so tempted by her.

Gawain, on his quest to find the Green Knight, discovered a magnificent castle. In this castle lived the lord and lady Bertilak de Hautdesert and an old woman. “These ladies were very unalike in appearance, for the younger was fresh, while the other was withered…Her body was short and fat, her buttocks spreading wide. Nicer to look upon was her companion for sure!” (O’Donoghue 31; Line 950-968).