Comparing Dove And Sword By Joan Of Arc

Larissa Taylor takes her readers on a journey through the life of the infamous Joan of Arc. Joan can be easily recognized as a historical figure in the 15th century, a female warrior, and a woman that was fiercely independent and determined. Joan’s life has been told again and again, which has slowly taken away from the incredible woman that held so many triumphs. Instead of giving her readers a list of Joan’s accomplishments, Taylor enthralls the reader by detailing every step of Joan’s life, start to finish, so that one can really understand the life of the warrior.

The Lais of Marie de France is a collection of poems that tell enchanting stories of handsome knights, kings, queens, and romance. Although the lais varied in content; the subject of romantic love is the common theme. Since romantic love is the central theme of the lais it is important to define the term. According to the article, The Social Psychology of Love and Attraction romantic love is defined as, “a love that is supposed to stand the test of time, enduring all hardship. Romantic love emphasizes being in love with a certain individual” (Braxton-Davis 1). In the lais Bisclavret, Equitan, Laustic there is a conflict between love and moral responsibility. Many of the characters experience love and tragedy; yet, Marie de France provides a witty insight into loves immoral issues. In the lais loneliness, greed, excitement, and lust are the motivations for many of the characters reckless actions. Marie de France demonstrates how these characteristics combined with romantic infatuation, passion, and a yearning desire; influences corrupt behavior. This behavior then manifested into character traits such as betrayal, adultery, and cruelty that are revealed throughout the lais.

Joan of Arc had a very significant influence on society in the middle ages. It was not only for being a heroine and saint she was recognised for but she was also recognised as a leader and founder of the feminists. Joan became a role model to many women as she symbolised individual and independent thinking. Joan helped show that women could fight and had the same strength as men. A little while after Joan’s death, women stepped out of their traditional jobs/roles and adopted the characteristics of men. Women were allowed to fight in wars, play in male sports, be educated male schools and universities, be employed as equals alongside men in the workforce, and become more than just the usual housewife. This was all because of Joan’s example.

Although the Lais of Marie de France may seem to be ordinary tales of knights and chivalry, each explores the complicated issues surrounding love, loyalty, and gender. Marie uses four stories in particular to make statements on the relationships between men and women of that time.

Marie de France wrote a story about the theme of a “Great love” even though the “love” displayed in the story cannot co-exist in the real world. Lanval is an outcast in his life, despite his loyalty to King Arthur, his generosity to the people he is not accepted in his world.

The Breton lai “Lanval”, written by Marie de France in the twelfth century, is a short romantic poem focused on a foreign knight, Lanval, and his life after meeting a faerie lover. The poem is set in the time of King Arthur, at a place named Carduel—a city in the along the borders of Arthur’s kingdom, Logres. In “Lanval” failure is a negative situation brought upon oneself by their inability to maintain their virtue, thus success in the Middle Ages was heavily influenced by loyalty and integrity.

tale and la Mort d' Arthur the leading plot of both these stories is conceived by the wife and Guinevere's lust and pursuit of love and happiness.

The tales of Marie de France, shed light on the romantic relationships and chivalry of this time period. This is very insightful for modern people to be able to read and understand the culture of that time. Knighthood and chivalry were respected by some, but many times they were disregarded for passion. Love and marriage are largely connected to physical attractiveness of the person and the passion involved. Marriage is not a very serious commitment and will be disregarded whenever another presents themselves as a more attractive lover. Religion is not huge in the stories but can be present when looking for a lover. Magic plays a part in the Yonec and Bisclavret stories, but is not largely present throughout.

The contrast of the two stories, The Knight’s tale, and the Wife of Bath’s Tale, by Geoffrey Chauser, is by the chivalric romances, which have the elements of, based from our previous discussion, wise and just leader, an unattainable woman, a monster / dragon / mythological creature, involvement of destiny, fate, chance, and god, and many more elements that were discussed. The Wife of bath’s tale is a chivalric romance because, first it has the element of a wise and just leader, like the queen, because a queen can also lead a country, just like the Queens of England, Victoria, Mary and the Elizabeths, but the society on medieval times look into women just as a product to be used, because this was stated in the first few parts of the story,

While she tried to escape several times and several attempts were made to free her, she was sold to the English for 10,000 gold coins. Being tried as a heretic and witch, Joan was put on an unfair trial that didn’t have enough evidence and against her and was denied the right to a legal advisor. While in her cell, she wore men’s clothing so she could tie it tighter around herself to keep from being raped and molested. This act almost gave her another count of hercy for cross-dressing but was renounced based on her circumstances. Even though there was a major lack of evidence against Joan, she was sentenced to die on May 30, 1431, by burning.

The stories “Joan of Arc “and beyond they myth: the story of Joan of arc are very interesting they both talk about the same subject but the context is somewhat contrasting and so is their subject. The differences and similarities were explored and explained to their fullest extent and have shown the similarities and differences of “Joan of arc” and beyond the myth: the story of Joan of

Joan uses a lot of pathos throughout the scene, trying to establish that she is worth something to her superiors. She has strong emotions toward the situation, as she was sent from God and does not want to give up easily. Joan also uses ethos to try to show authority to the nobles, even though she knows she is inferior to them. Joan’s passion to finish her mission takes over and she will not let her social class get in the way of what she came to do

The Tale of the Rose was a direct aggression on Jean de Meun's book Romance of the Rose, this work is about a courtly love that depicted women as seducers. Christine claimed this work was misogynistic, vulgar, immoral and slanderous to women. De Pisan later published Letters on the Debate of the Rose as a follow-up to this debate.

Joan was a very simple, faithful country girl. Until a day God called upon her, to fight in his name against the invading English. At that moment, Joan was chosen a messenger of God. Joan's first encounter

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