Chivalry in Marie de France
Title: Chivalry in Marie de France
Category: /Literature/English
Details: Words: 1160 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Chivalry in Marie de France
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is meant to show the futility of setting unreasonable goals. It is an attempt to warn the men that their present system would ultimately leave them unfulfilled. Her use of a woman to represent the voice of reason is quite symbolic. Perhaps it was a call to arms for women to use their sense to try and break the cycle because the behavior was so ingrained in the psyche of the men of the time.