British Lit Final Analyze Guide
5. Anglo-Saxon Materials
* England invaded by simply Germanic tribes
2. Value community, pagan worshipers, kinship, loyal to each other, prize * Wergald: Man payment- someone is usually killed in tribe, his people wish revenge or money payment. Kill an individual in the additional tribe or get money. * Beowulf wants to shield Wrothgar's Kingdom; kills Grendel for revenge. * Epic
* Most ancient form of materials we have
2. Elevated style (Serious)
* Opens with statement of theme, convocation of the muse
* Shows character an excellent source of position with adventures surrounding epic leading man * Provides history of a people or world
* Common tradition, no single author
* Written in formal language
* Supernatural forces
* Heroic figures-consistent, no interior struggle
5. Elegiac
5. Gloomy
2. Predestined pertaining to death
2. Like Beowulf welcomes fatality
* Eschew himself pertaining to his people
* Impressive Hero
5. Figure of unknown origins
* Trip to the underworld
* Messiah of people
2. High honnete; integrity
* Fortitudo ain Sapientia (Fortitude and Wisdom)
* Character or high estate, commendable lineage
* Commitment, important marriage between warrior and full * Opportunity
* Person travels to kingdoms singing epic reports. Use pneumonic devices to assist remember long poems. 5. Hemmistyck
2. Half collection
* Quantative Meter
* Two stressed syllables
* One half line
2. Ubi-scant
2. Where they have gone?
2. Wyrd
2. Fate
5. Kenning
5. Metaphor-way to rename some thing
2. Middle Ages/Anglo Norman Period
* Challenge of Hastings 1066
2. Duke of Normandy took over England
2. Brought the French language and culture with him
* Last effective invasion of England
5. Chaucer
* First person to write inside the common terminology
* Writes in London language
2. Brought British language back again
2. Considered the dad of English poetry
* Surge of villages guilds
* Group of people who understood a specific transact, middle class/working class 5. Catholic Chapel was incredibly corrupt, feudalism, clergyman sell off indulgences 2. In Canterbury Tales Chaucer brings lumination to this
* Monk: wears rapport, travels, will not obey vows of poverty, resembles a booming lord 5. Friar: offers people convenient penances who donate funds. Dress richly lives prosperously * Canterbury Tales
2. Narrator is within the story- Chaucer being a Pilgrim
* Miller's Prologue
* Fiblieu-no message, purpose is to amuse
* Pardoner's Tale
5. Tale of three close friends who find treasure and all plan to eliminate each other for doing it * Greed: Desire for riches
* Ethical: Money is bad, avarice is the reason behind all wicked
* Account is exemplum: something persons can learn from
* Romance
* Friend Gawin as well as the Green Knight
* Strains social rank
* Goal is to amuse
* Main character not constant
* Depicts pointless excitement
* Zero point or perhaps reason for challenge
* Supernatural does not possess virsilimatude
2. Fantasy not realistic, couldn't happen
5. Originally written in France
* Distant and amazing times and places
5. Exotic and Courtly Like
* Between older female and youthful man. Female is committed secret love. Woman features nobility. Female is in overall power 5. Chivalry, knights in battle standing up to get honor
* Universal Truth: love, chastity, evil, female are idealized: pure, virgins
2. Drama: Morality and Mystery Plays
5. Earliest type of drama took place during mass. Hyrastuitha in Switzerland 5. Trope: decoration of a component to mass
5. Play involved Mary and Mary gonna visit Christ tomb * Called Quem Quaertis: means whom will you seek.
* Secret Play
5. Biblical testimonies from the show up of Eden to last judgement working day. * Performed on a wagon by selected guilds
* Carpenters would tell account of crucifixion
* Second Shepard's Enjoy
* Start with political issue then enter into biblical...
