I am horrible when it comes to blog, which is evidenced by the fact that this is my first blog but we’re in the second week of classes. The readings had not been the least bit captivating to me up until tonight. While I will be the first to admit that I don’t like the whole fairytale romance hoopla, but this story was a refreshing change from Menocal and Said. I saw a lot of what we talked about in class today, with more liberal and free sexuality, especially on the part of women. The damsel took me a little off guard. I guess I just wasn’t expecting a woman with free-will to openly ask a knight to lie with her without any qualms or reservations. On a somewhat unrelated note, however, is a seneschal a lower servant/knight sort of? Kay doesn’t seem too chivalric or knight-like to me. Oh, and is there just no consequence for adultery for the Queen? Does the fact that Arthur not find out mean that it just doesn’t count? I am just baffled by it all, I guess.
Yea, so I definitely have a hard time thinking of things to say on these things that I don’t feel like have been said five times more eloquently, but hopefully I’ll get somewhere.