Spenser's "The Faerie Queene"
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I. Introduction
When Edmund Spenser wrote his romantic epic The Faerie Queene, he
intended for it to be an allegory. An allegory is a literary device used
to give a literary work two different meanings. One meaning is easily
understood, but the second meaning is expressed through a more subtle
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.... a hero or heroine whose task is to learn a
particular virtue by facing, falling before but ultimately discovering how
to master, the specific vices which beset it” (Evans 143). The second book
portrays the virtue of Temperance through the knight Sir Guyon. The Fairy
Queen ordered him to locate and destroy Acrasia's seductive Bower of Bliss.
With his companion and guide, the Palmer, Sir Guyon completes his mission
successfully, and after his encounters along the way, he becomes the virt ....
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