10. Social Context: Around 1185, Andreas Capellanus wrote The Art of Courtly Love. In this influential work, Capellanus states, “Love makes an ugly and rude person shine with all beauty, knows how to endow with nobility even one of humble birth, can even lend humility to the proud.” In what ways does “The Wife of Bath’s Tale” reflect Capellanus’s understanding of love and its transforming power? ”

Andreas Capellanus writing implies that love essentially changes the person. Capellanus statement at first glance makes me think that loves makes someone change in a positive way. However, based on the “Wife of Bath’s Tale” love proves to be something that can change someone for the worse. 

In the Wife of Bath’s tale, we have a knight that’s lonely and does an unspeakable crime because of it. From this standpoint, The Knight’s craving for love and lust changed him into a criminal.

What is loneliness? Well, loneliness is sadness because one has no friends or company. I feel loneliness every day and it's hard for me to explain to someone how I'm feeling about it. When I think about loneliness it hurts me knowing that we all don't have true friends that will be there for you. My parents always call them "acquaintances" and to be honest it's true cause they'll not be there for you when you go through things, it might hurt but you must know that God is your only true friend.

When I was reading the three-story for Brit.lit (The Seafarer, The Wanderer, and The Wife's Lament) I felt there were no connection between how I was thinking about "loneliness" but this one Disney princess came into mind and that one princess was Cinderella cause she felt lonely through the movie, she never connect to her step-mother or her step-sisters the only friends she had was Jaq, Gus, Perla, Suzp, Bert, Mert, Luke, Bruno, and the prince.

How she went through it? Throughout the movie, she entourage her animal's friends to never stop dreaming and hopefully one day it will come true. Her dream was to meet the prince and it did come true because all she did was keep dreaming.

When she was singing her song "A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes" that song means to me a lot because she was talking to her mice and birds friends saying that "they can't order me to stop dreaming..." cause they can't and they won't stop us from DREAMING we all have dreams that want to come true like mine dream is to become a Park Ranger and do my best to help families and others who are in need.

She believed in dreams, but also she also believed in doing something about them for example in the movie she believed that she had time making a dress for the ball, but she didn't cause her stepmother told her to clean up the whole house when she was done she went up to her room and found a beautiful dress that her little friends made for her. There so many examples but, this one stands out to me cause the mice to know that she wasn't going to have time making it before the ball.

In conclusion, I feel like Cinderella cause I do feel lonely all day cause it's like I'm left out on everything and I try to fit in, but I can't fit in, the only person who understands me the most was Eliesse Kwok cause she knows what I went through as a kid, not cause I know her parents and she knows mine but we connect as one and we hope to still be connected with each other.

In the two poems, Sonnet 90 and Sonnet 292 by Fancesco Petrarch they were really adorable.

Sonnet 292, the speaker is a man mourning the loss of a loved one he was romanticizing the woman he loved and making sure she would be out to a goddess. The tone was that the speaker looks back on the perfection of his beloved and with that perfection, she made his world a paradise. In lines 1-7, he writes about how wonderfully perfect her physical aspect was. He describes the woman as perfect, flawless, and much like a goddess to him. Another way I felt more sadness when I was reading was in lines 8-13 was that he admits that his "goddess" is dead now and he feels alone and vulnerable, he thought he was a decrepit boat out on the sea. While I was reading I pick up 3 themes in the poem, one is facing reality, the second one is lost love, and the last one is Destruction of beauty the reason why this 3 theme is to me is that he shows us that the speaker shows us how his lover looked and telling us how beautiful she can be.

Abigail Apolinar

Miss Khan

British Literature

October 29, 2018

 “Text Criticism”

10. Critical Interpretations One critic has suggested that Raleigh’s “witty and sardonic” response to Marlowe’s poem is a comment on “the human propensity for self-delusion.” Do you agree or disagree? Consider the subject of both poems—idealized love—and what the speakers have to say about it.

In a perfect world, the world would always be green and clean and May. You would have a perfect view of the rolling green hills every day. To have mountains of flowers that never fade and gowns that never rip. The Passionate Shepard speaks wishfully of his heart’s desire to have loving companion to share his wealth with. He speaks of gifts of flowers gowns and slippers made of gold. The tone is optimistic as if he is positive she will except his gifts gladly and with open arms.

It is said that “Love makes an an ugly and rude person shine with all beauty, knows how to endow with nobility even one of humble birth, can even lend humility to the proud.” and The Wife of Bath’s story is an example of this belief.

In the story a knight, not so noble, rapes a woman and is being punished for it. The king is willing to execute the knight. However, the queen steps in offers the following. If the knight is able to answer her question in a span of a year he shall not be executed. If he fails to give the correct response, his head will be separated from his body in a permanent manner. The knight agrees. The queen then asks him what is it that women most desire and sends the knight on his way.

The knight wonders across the world but is not able to find an answer and has to return to the queen. On his way he stumbles on an old ugly woman (wow! Very rude Mr. Author, looks are subjective). This woman tells the knight that she will save his life if he promises that he will fulfill her one wish. The knight agrees and the woman tell him the answer.

They march together to meet the queen. And the knight gives the queen a response supplied to him by the woman, the queen agrees that the response is correct and the knight is spared. Now, that the knight’s life is spared he must fulfill the woman’s wish. The woman demands that the knight would marry her. The knight begs her to ask for something else but it is no use and he is forced to marry her.

After the marriage the woman can see that the knight is dissatisfied with her looks and offers him a choice. She can either remain old and not pretty, but remain a good wife. Or she can be very pretty but not loyal. The knight, that has learned his lesson says that he shall let her choose, since she is the wife. The wife is delighted and turns both beautiful and remains loyal and they both live happily ever after.