To Sir, with Love

where he had felt no discrimination based on his skin colour or ethnicity. After the war, like many other ethnic minorities, he could not find work in his field and eventually took up a job as a schoolteacher in the East End of London. The book To Sir, With Love (1959) was based on his experiences there. The other famous works are A Kind of Homecoming, Paid Servant, A Choice of Straws, Reluctant Neighbours. His numerous writings have dealt with the difficulties of

of mother everyone wanted, firm, but loving. As she drew closer, he caught a whiff of spiced apples wafting from her. Gawain bowed. “Hello, Mistress…?” “Nan, Sir Gawain.” She braced her feet and rested her hands on her ample hips, as if preparing to admonish him. “I am close to Drea and her lovely

In the fourteenth-century romance was a common genre of literature and poetry. An element that was emphasized in romance within this time frame was courtly love. Traditional courtly love is described as the medieval tradition of love between a knight and a married noblewoman. This affair entailed a lower-class knight completing heroic tasks in the name of the noble lady. Within this mutualistic relationship the lady would be a fixation that would mesmerize the knight to complete heroic tasks, and

powerful emotion is known as love. Most, if not all of the people in the world, have been affected by this emotion at some point in their lives and literary works or no exception. In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight love can be seen all throughout the story. The love in this story is not only one type of love; there are many different variations of love present. As Sir Gawain makes his way to see the Green Knight and fulfil a promise he once made these different types of love are encountered. All before

they could have a role. The women wanted to be treated like queens. This idea of courtly love-where a knight honored a married woman like he would “his liege lord” (Schwartz 1) can be found in Gardner’s translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Sir Gawain must honor such a lady. Because Sir Gawain honors a married woman, he struggles with being an honest and loyal knight. At the beginning of the tale, Sir Gawain struggles with loyalty. The Green Knight came to test the honesty of one person

Sir Thomas Wyatt: Love Addiction Whether you live in the twenty-first century or lived the early sixteenth century, the idea of love is the same. Falling in love is easy, while recovering from a broken heart is much more difficult. According to The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Sir Thomas Wyatt was a well-educated courtier and diplomat, spending much of his adult life abroad, until imprisoned for treason. After analyzing Wyatt’s poetic work, knowing his past experiences greatly helps find meaning

Courtly Love, a set of affairs between married nobles, women tended to act as the seducers and tricksters, dominating the relationships to a larger extent than they might in normal marriages. Lady Bertilak from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight exemplifies this, acting similarly to Alison by tempting Gawain with her sexual appeal. But unlike Alison, the purpose of her manipulation goes beyond her own pleasure—she achieves her goal of making Gawain compromise his Christian and knightly values. Sir Gawain

"With detailed reference to any 3 incidents in the book, show how Mr Braithwaite changes the behaviour and attitudes of the class." When Mr Braithwaite first encounters his class they are an unruly group of people who never manage to keep a teacher for long. They were mostly unkempt and scruffy and weren't very well educated as Mr Braithwaite found out on his first day, " Twenty-six of the class were girls, and many of their faces bore traces of make-up inexpertly or hurriedly re-moved, giving

physicality of love, and wrote about passion in several of their sonnets. As critic Robert H. Deming asserts, commenting John Donne’s Elegies, “Love of a celestial kind is love of the virtuous and beautiful woman … who is the first step up the Platonic ladder to love of an absolute, static kind. But this love is fit only for souls … hardly fit for bodies” (396). An example of the importance of physical desire is given in the sequence of 108 sonnets of “Astrophil and Stella” by Sir Philip Sidney.

Sir Thomas Wyatt and Samuel Daniels have sonnets in which the speaker is attempting to define love. With one speaker stating his daily life and the other expressing the feeling through paradoxes, both ultimately end up with poems that are not conventionally good love poems. I allege that the reason they cannot effectively define love is that they do not truly understand it because their own egos blind them from it. The scope of both sonnets is restricted to simply the speakers’ focus and they spend