Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as a Medieval Romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is universally acclaimed as the best surviving Middle English romance of the moral type. This is a significant departure from the traditional French romance , which is saturated with love. The French romance deals primarily with…

Character of Oedipus “ Oedipus " , says Victor Ehrenberg, “is the good ruler in spite of his defects, and Creon the bad ruler in spite of his virtues.” Oedipus, in spite of his having murdered his father and committed incest with his mother commands our respect and compels our admiration. The victim of a mistake…

Creon Oedipus Rex Creon of Oedipus Rex and Creon of Oedipus at Colonus , and Creon of Antigone are not the same person. Critics have traced a similarity between Creon of Antigone and Oedipus of Oedipus Rex. Both of them were confident, proud, and aggressive. And yet Oedipus always commands our respect and compels …

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Stor y King Arthur was holding Christmas festival at Camelot. The festival continued for fifteen days. The Knights of the Round Table and the ladies were with the King. They celebrated the New Year at the Chapel. They made religious service and distributed gifts as tokens of affection…

The Faerie Queene as an Allegory According to Martin Gray in his Dictionary of Literary Terms "the simplest form of allegory consists of a story or situation written in such a way as to have two coherent meaning. Or, allegory is a type of story which carries a second meaning along with its surface meaning.&quo…

Role of Fate in Oedipus the King In the Greek tragedy Oedipus the King written by Sophocles, the antagonist is fate. “Destiny is character” here. The role of fate is deeply intertwined in the plot. Predestination in Oedipus the King caused havoc despite attempting to escape it. Two characters bring about a…