13-01-21

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 4

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Today:

Summary of what you need to learn for the test

Time for questions

Time to study

Practicalities

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What do you need to know for the test:

• De lesdoelen die op de eerste pagina van je reader staan:

• De drie verhalen kunnen beschrijven: Wie, wat waar?

• De twee periodes die we kunnen onderscheiden en de jaartallen.

• Twee gebeurtenissen/dingen die de Engels taal beïnvloed hebben + op welke manier (Filmpje youtube + link in powerpoints op magister)

• Heroic code en Beowulf
• Kennings: wat zijn het en hoe worden ze gebruikt?
• Chivalry: wat betekent het?
  
• Symboliek in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Chaucer: Wie was hij en waarom is hij belangrijk
• Structuur van de Canterbury Tales
• Theme in the Wife of Bath's Tale
  

Summary of Beowulf

Main characters:

• Hrothgar
• Grendel + mother,
  
• Beowulf,
  
• Hygelac,
  
• Unferth,
  
• Æschere,
•  Wiglaf.

Setting: Denmark, Sweden

Summary of Beowulf: Plot

• Hrothgar builds a mead hall

• Grendel gets annoyed by the noise and attacks the kingdom for 12 years

• Beowulf, a heroic thane, sails from Sweden to help and fights Grendel barehanded and tears of one of Grendel's arms -> Grendel flees

• Grendel's mother takes revenge and kidnaps Æschere.

• Beowulf and his men go the lake where Grendel and his mother live and beheads them both.
• Beowulf goes back to Sweden and becomes king.
  
• A dragon shows up and destroys Beowulf's palace, because a slave has stolen some of his treasure.
  
• Beowulf + 12 men go to slay the dragon. Everyone flees except Beowulf and Wiglaf
• They work together to defeat the dragon, but Beowulf is badly wounded and dies.
  

Summary of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Main characters:

• King Arthur

• Sir Gawain

• The Green Knight/Lord Bertilak

• Lady Bertilak

• Morgan le Fay

Setting: England

Summary of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Plot

•  On new year's day the Green Knight interupts a party.
• He challenges the knight: One blow for one blow in a year and a day at the Green Chapel
  
• Sir Gawain beheads the Green Knight, but he stands back up, takes his head and goes away.
  
• Sir Gawain goes on his journey and just when he was feeling very low he saw a castle
  

Part 2

• Gawain and he stays there for three days.

•  Then the lord of the castle proposes a game: He would go hunting and sir Gawain would stay at the castle, at night they would exchange what they had won that day. 
• Lady Bertilak visited Sir Gawain's room three times and kissed him 1, 2, or 3 times.
  
• Sir Gawain shared the kisses with Lord Bertilak, but did not tell him about the green girdle he had gotten the third day. 
• Sir Gawain leaves the castle to go to the Green Chapel
  

Part 3

•  Sir Gawain meets with the Green Knight.
  
• The first time the Green Knight tries to strike him, sir Gawain startles and the Green Knight stops his swing.
  
• The second time the Green Knight stops just before striking.
  
• And the third time he only cuts his neck a little.
  
• Gawain says that he had his one blow now and the agreement is fulfilled.
  

Part 4

•  The Green Knight reveals that he is lord Berilak
• The first two nights Sir Gawain was truthful in the game
• The third night, he was not, because he did not share the green girdle with lord Bertilak.
  
• It was a test to see you chivalrous sir Gawain was.
  
• But lord Bertilak does not blame sir Gawain for trying to save his own life.
  
• Morgan le Fay (Gawain's aunt) send the Green Knight to scare Queen Quinevere to death.
  

Summary of The Wife of Bath's Tale

Main Characters:

• Knight
• King Arthur + Queen Guinevere
  
• Old woman
• Setting: England, King Arthur's time or:
  
• frame-narrative: Pilgrims on their way from London to Canterbury telling each other stories.
  

Summary Wife of Bath's Tale

•  The Wife of Bath tells a story about a knight.
  
• The knight raped a girl and is sentenced to death
• The queen wanted to save him and send him on a quest to save his life
• The knight had to answer the question: What do women desire/want most?
• He has a year and a day to find the answer(same a sir Gawain!)
• He asks many people and gets answers like: wealth, beauty, sex, flattery, do whatever they want to do without being judged etc.
  

Part 2

•  The knight did not find the answer and he went back home.
  
• On his way back he found 24 ladies dancing in the forest.
  
• When he came close, they all dissapeared, but one old lady
• The old lady promised to tell him the answer, as long as he fulfills her request.
  
• The knight agrees and when he goes back to court he is able to answer the question.
  
• Women most desire power over their husbands.
  
• Then the old woman tells the knight to marry her.
  

Part 3

•  The knight marries the woman, but feels miserable.
  
• He tells the woman she is ugly, poor and not from the upper class and therefore not a good person.
  
• The woman tells him that money, or class does not mean you're a good person.
  
• The woman gives him a choice: She can either be ugly and a good and faithful wife, or pretty and cheat on him.
  
• The knight did not make a choice, but said that she should do whatever she thinks is the best option (which is the thing women most desire).
  
• The knight is rewarded for this choice and she becomes both faithful and pretty.
  

Theme in the Wife of Bath's Tale

• Old Age: old age makes one wise and useful. It does not, however, make one a suitable marriage partner for a young bachelor, which is why at tale's end, the old lady becomes a young damsel
• Appearances: it's a tale about how a knight learns to give up sovereignty to his wife. That sovereignty includes power over the body.
  
• Women and femininity: Although "The Wife of Bath's Tale" begins with the sexual assault of a woman, the rest of it imagines a world in which women are sovereign and in which they mete out judgments, administer justice, and have power over men's bodies. This world is the one that women want, a world in which women most desire is sovereignty over their husbands and lovers.
  
  
  

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