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The Epic Of The Cid By Michael Harney

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The Epic of the Cid Global Encounters Milos Popovic Dr. Smith 11/5/2016 The poem “The Epic of the Cid” by Michael Harney takes place in twelfth century Spain and references to how the country of Spain during medieval times was ruled by other groups of people, one group being the Arabs. This leads to a continuous result of constant clashing of the different ethnicities because of social indifferences. The book connects onto a lot of chronicles talking about the ongoing battles taking place and describes lots of scenery that depicts conflicts of interests. The author, Harney, goes into detail about the colonization of Spain as well about all the conquests taking place. The Christians in Cordoba bring about the most conflict throughout …show more content…

This lead to much more tranquility in the region because they settled things down after battle. “From its beginning, Islam explicitly recognized its special relationship with Judaism and Christianity” this was a passage that describes all the hidden connections to different religious symbols. All different types of religious symbols and things of that nature that play a role in helping to solve the different types of conflict while also staying representative to specific religions. There are also many displays of dramatic mood change that have an effect to change the narrative and show off emotions and convey certain types of speech also. Harney does a good job of showing off all types of ever changing ranges of emotions. This shows the audience the meaning and sacrifice of all the men involved battling for a communal purpose. Identity is a key feature in the book, it tells us a lot about the characters involved in the main plot. Also the terrain of the region has actually a drastic effect on the battles being taken place because it gives advantage to one side as opposed the other. The narrative describes this hilly, and dark terrain that is hard to navigate especially for the opposition coming into battle. It has a purpose justifying why it makes a difference. The role of family is a motif that is used very subtly by Harney but it also shows …show more content…

The different types of religious groups bring this sense of collaboration with all of their own ideals but just vary religious aspects and symbols involved it shows us all just how crucial certain types of religions take their own practice which is one of the main themes involved here. I got the sense that after reading it all that some type of an illusion was taking place. Control was the ongoing internal conflict that separated and brought together certain types of people. It was this specific narrative that also gauged my own interest in reading the entire poem. There were so many perspectives involved in the main plot that it made it easy for the audience to read into all sorts of themes and motifs like for instance with the Christians and Cordobans. So many subtle details involved that kept interest into reading the rest. The aspect of language as well was one of those main themes that played out in the end to be crucial and lead us to think about what that religious conquest was all about in the end. It is evident all the varying aspects of religion taking place and there ties with the main plot. It is important to note each one has its own separate significance. I would recommend this book for people who enjoy reading into specific motifs and plots relevant to the book. It is a very complex yet simple process

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