Three Pages, Double-Spaced
I just finished my final essay for my Chaucer class. God, finally done with all the Final Finalities for that class. As an homage to niewolnoczekac, I present the MS-Word 25% Autosummary of my three-page paper:
Love is a Battlefield
In Books 1-3, it is obvious that Troilus has two very separate personalities that he presents: the public, heroic and invulnerable side, and the private, vulnerable, fainting side. Troilus suddenly sees that love is, indeed, a battlefield. He connects Criseyde with the war at last, and his two personalities begin to blend.
In public, he has been a man who understands strategy. Now, when Criseyde presents her plan to return, his private side worries about questions that his public side raises: Troilus here is beginning to find an enemy in the war of love: anyone who would keep the lovers apart. Thus, he starts attributing war strategies to this situation. Love started the war that they are fighting now.
Troilus is, at these times, letting his private side take control of his public life. While in one of these fits, he actually completely associate’s love and war: Troilus is a son of Troy, a doomed city, while Criseyde is a daughter of Calchis, a traitor to Troy. Thus, they were born to have Criseyde betray Troilus.
When Troilus discovers Criseyde’s betrayal (via the brooch on the cloak of Diomede), he is incensed, and the public side takes control of both sides of his personality again. Troilus finally sees the world as inconsequential, that both Love and War are vanities, and that he is now above such difficulties and stressors.
Love is a Battlefield
In Books 1-3, it is obvious that Troilus has two very separate personalities that he presents: the public, heroic and invulnerable side, and the private, vulnerable, fainting side. Troilus suddenly sees that love is, indeed, a battlefield. He connects Criseyde with the war at last, and his two personalities begin to blend.
In public, he has been a man who understands strategy. Now, when Criseyde presents her plan to return, his private side worries about questions that his public side raises: Troilus here is beginning to find an enemy in the war of love: anyone who would keep the lovers apart. Thus, he starts attributing war strategies to this situation. Love started the war that they are fighting now.
Troilus is, at these times, letting his private side take control of his public life. While in one of these fits, he actually completely associate’s love and war: Troilus is a son of Troy, a doomed city, while Criseyde is a daughter of Calchis, a traitor to Troy. Thus, they were born to have Criseyde betray Troilus.
When Troilus discovers Criseyde’s betrayal (via the brooch on the cloak of Diomede), he is incensed, and the public side takes control of both sides of his personality again. Troilus finally sees the world as inconsequential, that both Love and War are vanities, and that he is now above such difficulties and stressors.