Tuesday, January 29, 2013

2 Examples of Knights in Pop Culture



1.       Bree of Tarth from A Song of Fire and Ice better known as the Game of Thrones Series. Game of
Thrones is a popular television show which is on its third season on HBO but it is an adaption of the book series which has released 5 books by George R. Martin. Bree is a women who is so ugly and man like that her powerful father outcast her from his family. She responded by being a lot like Britomart and killing every opponent she comes up against. She further parallels Britomart when she fought the most powerful/best looking knight in the realm Sir Jamie Lannister. Like Britomart and Amoret, Bree and Jamie fight nearly to the death and after the fight end up being bound to each other by a sort of love.  Her and Jamie end up being in a kind of courtly love like we discussed in which Jamie saves Bree from rape and Bree saves Jamie from having to fight a hungry bear. There are endless examples of knightly behavior and King Arthur parallels in the books. 

2.       Frodo in the one ring and King Arthur and Excalibur. Both are destined only for only one person. We saw a few examples of Arthur pulling the sword from the stone and they were big moments which consisted of a light shining down from heaven and epic music playing. A similar thing happens when Frodo agrees to take the ring to Mordor. He can see the “All Seeing Eye” and loud music begins to play and everyone at the council is yelling then it slows down and Frodo says “I will take the ring.”

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