Chivalry: The Ideal vs. The Reality In this day and age of alleged gender equality, women have the same rights and privileges as men do. They can work the same jobs, be the family bread winner, and serve in the armed forces if they so choose, and while most women firmly support this parity, from time to time when a door is not held open for her or no one offers to help her carry …showed first 75 words of 1105 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1105 total…in the end neither knight came out victorious. The reader is left asking, “So, what was the point?” and that is exactly what White wanted. Chivalry was not all bad, but neither was it all good. There were innate paradoxes and pitfalls. This episode in the novel elucidates that fact, and as for all those people left in the world who lament chivalry’s demise, perhaps they should actually be saying, “Good riddance!” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**