Wednesday, January 24, 2007

"The Tale of Sir Gareth"


Now that you have finished reading "The Tale of Sir Gareth," please add a comment about the story. We have been discussing various ideas connected with the King Arthur tales in class. Please comment about one of the following:


  • Give one example of chivalry that Sir Gareth (Beaumains) performs in the story. Explain why it the action was chivalric.

  • Cite and explain one example of an element of the Arthurian romance that you see in the story.

  • Identify and explain one intelligence that Sir Gareth displays (choose from among the multiple intelligences you have learned about).

Please try to make your comment original (that is, do not repeat a previous comment by one of your classmates). You only have to comment once, but feel free to resond to other classmates' comments. Please post you comment by midnight, Thursday, January 25, 2007.

8 comments:

Christina E. said...

Sir Gareth gives us a great example of chivalry by staying with the woman he accmpanied the whole time even when she was very rude and wasn't thankful for his presence. She was completely ungrateful and was calling him names and being ridiculous. He stuck with her the whole time and helped her get her sister back, all the while he protected her and got her sister back. He showed true loyalty.

Anonymous said...

In the story, "The Tale of Sir Gareth", there were few categories of Arthurian Romance. In these categories, there are many examples. One category I chose was jousting/fighting. An example was when Sir Gareth was riding his horse in the beginning. He was blazing through the knights like ripping paper! Literally! He slaid them without harming himself. Sir Gareth pretty much did that to almost every rival he had encountered. I specifically chose this topic because there were only a few new ones that I found in the story. Also, there were only a few topics that the class chose together that were in this story. Jousting/fighting, including loyalty, were the main forms of Arthurian Romance in this story.

Erin O said...

In the Tale of Sir Gareth and example of chvilary is when Sir Gareth was fighting/jousting on pg. 780, because in most stories a lot of the time they fight for some sort of power, but in order to want power they have to fight for it. I also thing jousting/fighting is an example of romance, because they fight for ones love.

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T Sale said...

English 10 Students --
To get full credit on this comment, you needed to (1) mention a specific event or quote from the story, (2) explain clearly and accurately what this example shows, and (3) avoid repeating a previous comment by your classmates. You got at least 6 point (out of 10) if you posted a reasonable comment. You also got 1 point (separate grade) for posting by September 25.

Marcus P said...

sir gareth was very chilvarious to go on a quest and risk his life for a lady he didn't even know. I think that was very chilvaric to attempt to save someone you don't even know, especially the way she ended up treating him. This story had many characteristics of an Arthurian romance, for example knights setting out on quests to save a person (Usually a woman.)
I think Sir Gareth definately showed bodily kinesthetic intelligence in order to joust and defeat other kniights in combat.

Alex C. said...

So one of the really prominent conventions this story contains is the jousting and fighting between knights. Despite how great Sir Gareth's deeds were they lacked a certain creativity to them; "Both broke their spears...they fought with their swords" for some ludicrously long amount of time. Over and over again did they break their spears and fought with swords. This is a very taxing, strong, but taxing example of the convention of fighting or jousting.

Anonymous said...

In the Tale of Sir Gareth, he never tries to argue with his Lady he just keeps fighting for her in order to fufil his quest I think this was an example of chivalry