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A Knight’s Tale
By: Zach Burlingame, Ashley Beverage, Alia Khan
synopsis
Themes • you can change your stars.. make your own destiny.
• not to judge a book by its cover, or a knight by his armor.
• true love conquers all differences.
Relevance to medieval unit•Jousting•The Black Prince•Peasants and noblemen and royalty•Chivalry•Jeffery Chaucer•Women were suppressed•Courtly love•Sales of indulgences•Church was an active role in society•Low literacy rate for peasants•The poor starved•There were knights•People drank alcohol, excessively
MONOMYTHIC PATTERN
• ordinary world ≈ William is a squire• Call to adventure ≈ he replaces his knight when he
dies• fear ≈ what if he gets caught• Kind,wise advisor ≈ Jeffery Chaucer!• Decision to go ≈ he jousts• Series of tests/meets allies and enemies ≈ at his jousting tournaments
• The inmost cave ≈ that anyone can be anyone• supreme ordeal ≈ when adomar accuses william• Seizing the sword ≈ he defeats adomar
Critics
Historical accuracy• There were knights• The Black Prince• England held a jousting tournament• There were noblemen• People gambled• Church• Sales of indulgences
Video clips • Jousting count ahdemar• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrENw_6te78 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=lmdDMBAE0nU 0:35-1:05• a man can change his stars • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhep2fZKHgE • Jeffery chaucer• http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=jdWO9ozir1Y&feature=PlayList&p=7223583AF821F3EF&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=94
Quotes• “you have been weighed, you have been measured,
and you have been found wanting” –Adhemar • “Guinevere comes to Lancelot”
• – Jeffery Chaucer• “If I could ask God one thing, it would be to stop the
moon. Stop the moon and make this night and your beauty last forever. “
• –William Thatcher AKA Sir Ulrich Von Lichtenstein from Gelderland
Heath Ledger
Heath Ledger Died he was 29 years old.
At about 2:45 p.m., on 22 January 2008
He died because he overdosed on prescription drugs
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