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EngelsMiddelbare schoolvwoLeerjaar 4

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Welcome!
Today:
Summary of what you need to learn for the test
Time for questions
Time to study

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Practicalities
  •  Credit Dossier: Lever deze vandaag in via magister!
  • Toets: 19 januari, 3de uur
  • Heel V4 in 1 zoom, wel aparte exam.net per klas/docent. Dus je krijgt via magister een bericht: Zoom link en code voor exam.net
  • Je mag in het Engels of in het Nederlands antwoorden
  • Leg je antwoorden uit!

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What do you need to know for the test:

  • De lesdoelen die op de eerste pagina van je reader staan:
  • De drie verhalen kunnen beschrijven: Wie, wat waar?
  • De twee periodes die we kunnen onderscheiden en de jaartallen.
  • Twee gebeurtenissen/dingen die de Engels taal beïnvloed hebben + op welke manier (Filmpje youtube + link in powerpoints op magister)


  • Heroic code en Beowulf
  • Kennings: wat zijn het en hoe worden ze gebruikt?
  • Chivalry: wat betekent het?
  • Symboliek in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • Chaucer: Wie was hij en waarom is hij belangrijk
  • Structuur van de Canterbury Tales
  • Theme in the Wife of Bath's Tale

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Summary of Beowulf
Main characters:
  • Hrothgar
  • Grendel + mother,
  • Beowulf,
  • Hygelac,
  • Unferth,
  • Æschere,
  •  Wiglaf.
Setting: Denmark, Sweden

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Summary of Beowulf: Plot
  • Hrothgar builds a mead hall
  • Grendel gets annoyed by the noise and attacks the kingdom for 12 years
  • Beowulf, a heroic thane, sails from Sweden to help and fights Grendel barehanded and tears of one of Grendel's arms -> Grendel flees
  • Grendel's mother takes revenge and kidnaps Æschere.
  • Beowulf and his men go the lake where Grendel and his mother live and beheads them both.
  • Beowulf goes back to Sweden and becomes king.
  • A dragon shows up and destroys Beowulf's palace, because a slave has stolen some of his treasure.
  • Beowulf + 12 men go to slay the dragon. Everyone flees except Beowulf and Wiglaf
  • They work together to defeat the dragon, but Beowulf is badly wounded and dies.

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Summary of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Main characters:
  • King Arthur
  • Sir Gawain
  • The Green Knight/Lord Bertilak
  • Lady Bertilak
  • Morgan le Fay
Setting: England

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Summary of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Plot
  •  On new year's day the Green Knight interupts a party.
  • He challenges the knight: One blow for one blow in a year and a day at the Green Chapel
  • Sir Gawain beheads the Green Knight, but he stands back up, takes his head and goes away.
  • Sir Gawain goes on his journey and just when he was feeling very low he saw a castle

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Part 2
  • Gawain and he stays there for three days.
  •  Then the lord of the castle proposes a game: He would go hunting and sir Gawain would stay at the castle, at night they would exchange what they had won that day. 
  • Lady Bertilak visited Sir Gawain's room three times and kissed him 1, 2, or 3 times.
  • Sir Gawain shared the kisses with Lord Bertilak, but did not tell him about the green girdle he had gotten the third day. 
  • Sir Gawain leaves the castle to go to the Green Chapel

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Part 3
  •  Sir Gawain meets with the Green Knight.
  • The first time the Green Knight tries to strike him, sir Gawain startles and the Green Knight stops his swing.
  • The second time the Green Knight stops just before striking.
  • And the third time he only cuts his neck a little.
  • Gawain says that he had his one blow now and the agreement is fulfilled.

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Part 4
  •  The Green Knight reveals that he is lord Berilak
  • The first two nights Sir Gawain was truthful in the game
  • The third night, he was not, because he did not share the green girdle with lord Bertilak.
  • It was a test to see you chivalrous sir Gawain was.
  • But lord Bertilak does not blame sir Gawain for trying to save his own life.
  • Morgan le Fay (Gawain's aunt) send the Green Knight to scare Queen Quinevere to death.

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Summary of The Wife of Bath's Tale
Main Characters:
  • Knight
  • King Arthur + Queen Guinevere
  • Old woman
  • Setting: England, King Arthur's time or:
  • frame-narrative: Pilgrims on their way from London to Canterbury telling each other stories.

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Summary Wife of Bath's Tale
  •  The Wife of Bath tells a story about a knight.
  • The knight raped a girl and is sentenced to death
  • The queen wanted to save him and send him on a quest to save his life
  • The knight had to answer the question: What do women desire/want most?
  • He has a year and a day to find the answer(same a sir Gawain!)
  • He asks many people and gets answers like: wealth, beauty, sex, flattery, do whatever they want to do without being judged etc.

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Part 2
  •  The knight did not find the answer and he went back home.
  • On his way back he found 24 ladies dancing in the forest.
  • When he came close, they all dissapeared, but one old lady
  • The old lady promised to tell him the answer, as long as he fulfills her request.
  • The knight agrees and when he goes back to court he is able to answer the question.
  • Women most desire power over their husbands.
  • Then the old woman tells the knight to marry her.

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Part 3
  •  The knight marries the woman, but feels miserable.
  • He tells the woman she is ugly, poor and not from the upper class and therefore not a good person.
  • The woman tells him that money, or class does not mean you're a good person.
  • The woman gives him a choice: She can either be ugly and a good and faithful wife, or pretty and cheat on him.
  • The knight did not make a choice, but said that she should do whatever she thinks is the best option (which is the thing women most desire).
  • The knight is rewarded for this choice and she becomes both faithful and pretty.

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Theme in the Wife of Bath's Tale
  • Old Age: old age makes one wise and useful. It does not, however, make one a suitable marriage partner for a young bachelor, which is why at tale's end, the old lady becomes a young damsel
  • Appearances: it's a tale about how a knight learns to give up sovereignty to his wife. That sovereignty includes power over the body.
  • Women and femininity: Although "The Wife of Bath's Tale" begins with the sexual assault of a woman, the rest of it imagines a world in which women are sovereign and in which they mete out judgments, administer justice, and have power over men's bodies. This world is the one that women want, a world in which women most desire is sovereignty over their husbands and lovers.



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Questions?
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Good luck with your tests!

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