When we now think of knights, we automatically think of knights in shining armours, saving damsels in distress while killing dragons and other mythical creatures. But is this image we have of these heroes correct? Was the Medieval hero really just a tough guy who saved beautiful ladies and killed the ´bad guys´. In this paper I will try to give a standard description of what a Medieval hero really was. After which I will try to determine if Parzival really was a medieval hero, compared to the standards that I have tried to set.
“Then the youth delivered his first joust through a shield, surprising them all by knocking off, back behind his charger, a strong knight, no weakling. A second jouster had arrived. Then Parzival, for his part, had taken a stout new shaft. His youth possessed courage and strength. That young, gentle, beardless man – Gahmuret’s lineage and his innate valour compelled him to ride the charger at full career, head-on into the charge, aiming at the four nails.”
The image that is being created, in the text above, of the hero Parzival, is the knightly image we now have when it concerns m edieval hero’s. We automatically think of knights in shining armours, saving damsels in distress while killing dragons and other mythical creatures. But is this image we have of these heroes correct? Was the medieval hero really just a tough guy who saved beautiful ladies and killed the ´bad guys´. In this paper I will try to give a standard description of what a medieval hero really was. After which I will try to determine if Parzival really was a medieval hero, compared to the standards that I have tried to set.
Kelly Remie
Academia.edu: Graduate Paper (2013)
Abstract
When we now think of knights, we automatically think of knights in shining armours, saving damsels in distress while killing dragons and other mythical creatures. But is this image we have of these heroes correct? Was the Medieval hero really just a tough guy who saved beautiful ladies and killed the ´bad guys´. In this paper I will try to give a standard description of what a Medieval hero really was. After which I will try to determine if Parzival really was a medieval hero, compared to the standards that I have tried to set.
“Then the youth delivered his first joust through a shield, surprising them all by knocking off, back behind his charger, a strong knight, no weakling. A second jouster had arrived. Then Parzival, for his part, had taken a stout new shaft. His youth possessed courage and strength. That young, gentle, beardless man – Gahmuret’s lineage and his innate valour compelled him to ride the charger at full career, head-on into the charge, aiming at the four nails.”
The image that is being created, in the text above, of the hero Parzival, is the knightly image we now have when it concerns m edieval hero’s. We automatically think of knights in shining armours, saving damsels in distress while killing dragons and other mythical creatures. But is this image we have of these heroes correct? Was the medieval hero really just a tough guy who saved beautiful ladies and killed the ´bad guys´. In this paper I will try to give a standard description of what a medieval hero really was. After which I will try to determine if Parzival really was a medieval hero, compared to the standards that I have tried to set.
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