Robin Hood - Alquin

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English Literature

PTA exam in VWO 6
This year: The Middle Ages (period 4)

• Beowulf
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Robin Hood
• Canterbury Tales

Robin Hood

13th or 14th century

Alquin, pages 40-41

• outlaw

• most popular and permanent figures in English literature 

• ballads
  

• Robin Hood and the Butcher

Questions, page 41

• Form groups of maximum four.
• Answer questions 1 to 10 together.
• Write in full English sentences.

• Appoint one explorer who will gather or share information from the other groups after 15 minutes.

1. He is very chivalrous. In other words, he behaves exactly as one would expect of a knight: he is polite towards her, he flirts with her a little and he promises to serve her.
2. She leads the conversation, actively trying to seduce Gawain. However, she does not seem disappointed that he rejects her advances.
3. His quest matters more than anything else, as indicated by the passage ‘[he] had little love / To spare from his sorrowful quest, which he might not / forestall.’ Furthermore, he has made a vow of chastity, which he is not prepared to break. It might also be that he doesn’t dare accept the lady’s advances, because of his agreement with the lord of the castle.

English Literature

PTA exam in VWO 6
This year: The Middle Ages (period 4)

• Beowulf
• Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Robin Hood
• Canterbury Tales

Accordig to legend,
Robin Hood was an 'outlaw'.
What's an outlaw?

'Beyond the pale' (expression)

• Pale = “wooden stake, picket; fence made from wooden stakes, palisade; bounds, limits; territory or defensive area within a specific boundary or under a given jurisdiction”,
• 'Beyond the pale' suggests that anything outside an authority’s jurisdiction is uncivilized.
• Oxford: considered by most people to be unacceptable or unreasonable

Robin Hood and the Butcher

Which of the following characteristics of a ballad are absent in Robin Hood and the butcher?

1. a simple storyline
2. an ABCB rhyme pattern
3. superstition and supernatural elements
4. repetition / refrain

What might the moral of this story be?

Changes in English

Robin Hood

13th-14th century?