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Romantic Love In Dante’s Inferno and The Lais of Marie De France
Title: Romantic Love In Dante’s Inferno and The Lais of Marie De France
Category: Literature / English
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Romantic Love In Dante’s Inferno and The Lais of Marie De France
Romantic Love In Dante’s Inferno and The Lais of Marie De France
It is fascinating to take the time out to examine in similarities and differences in the way authors Dante Aligheri and Marie De France impart to their readers their views on romantic love. It can almost be said that the two perspectives are “similarly different.”
Marie De France, like Dante, has a distinctive literary form. Her narrative twists and female perspective, differentiate
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Infidelity, or the perception of such, drives men to violent means in the works of both authors. Francesca and Paolo are slain in a jealous rage, while in Guigemar, the Lord lets emotion from the fear of his wife being unfaithful, rule his actions as well. While the enraged man is treated as victim by Dante and villain by Marie, disdain for adultery remains as one commonality of two widely different perspectives of romantic love.
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