Two seconds of Yvain: Okay What is Going On?

Let's clap it up for Queen G for jacking everything all up! She makes a grand appearance in yet another story! Of course, she puts on her big girl panties and forces Calogrenant to tell tale of a spring that makes sh*t get real! But hold on a sec let’s just analyze Queen G because I cannot let her slide.  Queen G in my eyes in the epitome of beloved. She literately has men doing whatever she wants them to do. She can be a b*tch and still all the men love her.

Because, Calogrenent ventured to this Trevi Fountain gone wrong. He was challenged by some random guy who popped up after this tremendous storm. Homie Calo did not come out on top after that battle though (we all probably expected him to win and the story was like sike you thought!). BUT, it’s not over because Yvain being super cool decide he was going to avenge Homie Calo’s terrible loss. So of course, Yvain follows the “truths” of this tale pours the water and the stor happens and the knight appears.

Once he appears, it is on and they start their fight. Yvain does not stop until he is dead and, we’re all like yay he did it but little did he know that the person he killed had a wife back at home and she was not happy. She was in the utmost distress.

When the widower found out he husband was dead she was like…

Another thing that I cannot let slide if the fact that this lady allowed for her HUSBAND’S MURDERER to woo her and become lovers. Like excuse me? No no no absolutely not. He literately tells her he is only physically attracted to her and she’s just all for it. I do like that he is understanding in the beginning, because she is so angry with him as she should be about the murder of her husband. I feel like she shouldn’t have let that go so easily but, I can see where she would have just gave in to it. Let’s take a little speculative look at this. She has someone who defeated and KILLED her once superman husband, whom of course she thought could not be defeated and indestructible. Also, he respects her grieving period and copes with her anger towards him.

All of the men on page 286 are infatuated with women.

Women’s beauty and place is portrayed heavily in this story. On page 286, we have speed dating gone wrong situation where men were just objectifying and preying on maidens. The men were amused by women, which is basically saying that women were entertainment.  I did not like reading this part at all I cringed reading about women that way.

Courage the Cowardly Knight

This portion of Erec and Enide has my brain in all sorts of places. The dwarf, the adventure, the love, the vengeance, the violence was put into a jack in a box and once I started reading it all POPPED out like hey let me give you all this stuff to think about.

I love the great detail they go into when explaining the characters and the battles that Erec involves himself in even if there are a little more gruesome that I expected. Especially, when they go into detail about the beauty of Enide, it gives us a little more than the day dreaming beauty that could just be a figment of the guys imagination. The great detail brings the story to life and creates more of an image in my head. 

When I read, “Poverty humbles many men” I was like TRRRUUUUUUEEEE! I do enjoy the little sprinkles of good and satisfying quotes that are embedded in this story just like this quote here.

 Erec exceeds humbling in my opinion when he gave his love to the maiden. He puts everything down for his love, which is sweet at first I guess because of course he wants to shower her with love and build a deeper connection with her but then I’m like okay my guy, get up and do something with your life, she’ll be there when you get back. Which is why I can see why the maiden beings to pity him. I also, see that they both care a little too much about what people think. I feel as though if people weren’t all up in their business and she hadn’t over heard their comments about Erec, she would have continued to be embraced by his love and blinded by it just as much as he was. 




I even felt a slight pity for Erec too. Only because this is a man who has become vulernable to his maiden and is taking love on with full force and as soon as he does, he is looked at as a coward. Although, I feel like there could have been better ways to handle proving himself able of loving her and being a noble and brave night. I feel like he acted that way more out of anger and pride then, just regaining his dignity. He did not want her to say one word during his journey which was weird. I feel like he just took everything out on her and she was just trying to inform him about what others were saying so he doesn’t ruin his reputation but, also to relieve herself of the guilt she felt for her being the blame.