Hamlet: Chivalry
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It would be obvious to say that society changes over the years.
Yet as the years grow farther apart we tend to forget how those before us
lived their lives. These historic ways of life are thankfully preserved in
literary works put down and documented centuries before us. The goal of
this paper i ....
Middle of paper
.... These are also synonymous
with knight. An interesting contradiction though is that the English
etymology of the word knight is trusted servant. This comes form the
Anglo-Saxon word "cnyht" (De La Bere 35). The idea of a knight being a
servant does not fit most people's ideas of knighthood or chivalry, but in
essence that is what a knight is. A knight's duty is always to his king.
The duality of these roles is what makes chivalry unique. (Barber 9).
So where did chivalry get its s ....
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