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Arthur Q4: Romance and love
Yvain and Lancelot are both driven by love, but their love is different.
What do you think of how Yvain wooed and then married Laudine? What about her reaction to her breaking of his promise to return?
How about the love between Guinevere and Lancelot, and how that is meaured against her marriage to Arthur
Comments
I can't judge their actions because their reference points are so very different from mine. They might as well be aliens from Rigel. They do things for reasons they think right and proper.
Yes, as I commented before, breaking a promise is, apparently, one of the most terrible things a knight can do, even if there are extenuating circumstances,
I have to say that I did enjoy revisiting the movie 'A Knight's Tale' when reading the Lancelot story. When Guinevere tells him to lose, then lose some more, then go bash some skulls in. So over the top, but fun. It worked well in the movie as well. Choosing to humiliate oneself for love, because you had no other choice - I wonder if it was a funny then as it is today.
I mentioned this earlier, but I liked the Yvain story more, and definitely because Laudine wouldn't take Yvain's selfishness (at least in places) when he decides to go off adventuring and then just forgets to come home. She warned him and when he messed up she held the line. I loved it. Don't get me wrong, it was still messed up since Yvain had JUST killed her husband, but at least there was a little bit of her not taking his crap.
I had little interest on Guinevere and Lancelot's story. They both seemed to selfish.
I also enjoyed that. I think it may have been as funny as we find it. de Troyes doesn't spare any opportunity to remind us about Lancelot riding in the cart.