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    They all laugh lightly and accept Jung Hwa’s winning. Meanwhile, Quinby’s hat wins the Best Young Hatmaker’s Prize, which Galahad secretly signed in for Quinby. Lizzie, while feeling proud about her son, thanks and apologizes Granville for everything. Granville acknowledges that the last hat he made was his best hat because Lizzie wore it. Granville and Lizzie both have feelings

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    Sir Thomas Mallory’s Le Morte d'Arthur is a classic piece of literate that reveals the depths of mankind in numerous ways. Man is a complicated creature, greatly influenced by a variety of circumstances and often the choices made in those times mold man into who he or she will become. The lens for which one views beauty and goodness can be greatly affected by these experiences. As I have spent time reflecting on Mallory’s writing, it is apparent that he used several key themes to explain his views

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    The film Monty Python and the Holy Grail is a parody of Arthurian stories. It is a film that is not very elaborate on special effects, costumes and such as it even includes invisible horses with coconuts to mimic the sound of the “galloping” horses. All which indicate the low budget set on the production of the film. Although, the quality of the film does not suffer with it’s low budget since this adds uniqueness and more comical pieces to the film. The concepts triggered in the film come from elements

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    Thematic Connections Between Three Timeless Literary Texts Despite the typical misassumptions possessed by modern-day readers, the Odyssey, The Holy Grail, and Romeo and Juliet collectively share numerous relations amongst themselves. Because most texts written before the 21st century are worded in a language foreign to today's society, oftentimes readers will misinterpret, or simply fail to recognize the themes and symbolic features attempting to be displayed by their authors. This often results

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    Monty Python and the Holy Grail A British Parody By: Norwin Adarve Monty Python and the Holy Grail has been a comic success in the film industry for almost four decades. The main reason for its success is because the jokes have kept the audience laughing whether they watched it in 1975 or just saw the comedy for the first time yesterday. Monty Python and the Holy Grail would fall under two categories of comedy, a satire and a parody. In contemporary usage, a parody is a work that imitates another

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    portray the way a king should rule during both war, and peace. It is said that Arthur’s table of knights was round so that everyone who sits at it is equal since there is no head of the table. Of the knights that sat at this table, Sir Bedivere, Sir Galahad, and Sir Lancelot, are all in the movie with King Arthur. Sir Robin, and Sir Not-appearing-in-this-film are entirely

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    d'Arthur, completed around 1470, and published in many abridged and complete versions. Malory's work contains in one the legend that had been continually added to over the years by many different writers who introduced such elements as Sir Galahad, and the ill-fated love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere. Geoffery of Monmouth had been the first to put the legends surrounding Arthur into literary form in

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    emerge. Examples of these included, ‘Are You Lonesome Tonight’, 'Suspicion', 'His Latest Flame', and a new gospel album. Presley also had a television show with Frank Sinatra and stared the movies such as G.I. Blues, Flaming Star, Blue Hawaii, Kid Galahad, It Happened at the World's Fair, Viva Las Vegas, and several more. During these years, Presley also played with the Beatles and recorded another

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    She is the most perdurable female figure in King Arthur and his Knights. Without her the suspense and the plot flow could not have been achieved. Her influence has enabled her to penetrate into men’s world a trait that distinguishes her from the rest of the women. Knights are referred to as the queen’s knights. We could say the same of the ladies who accompany the queen and keep the knights in good company (pg.52) .Queen Guinevere, as the King’s wife, is acknowledged by males. But despite her access

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    Chivalry and courtly love are two Arthurian sentiments displayed in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Le Morte d' Arthur, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Monty Python and the Holy Grail differs from Le Morte d' Arthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight because the film satirizes chivalry and courtly love while the other works are upholding it as orthodox. Courtly love from the Middle Ages consisted of knights chasing a fair maiden while always being respectful and courteous to her. Chivalry

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