In what ways does the relationship between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere in Le Morte dArthur exemplify Medieval ideas of courtly love? Is the love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere viewed as an acceptable form of love or as an immoral act?
Consider the Middle English works which you have read in the past few weeks. You will write a three tofive page, thesis-driven researched literary analysis on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Le MortedArthur, and/or The Canterbury Tales. You will carefully evaluate the themes, literary devices,historical context, or other elements of your choice in the selected text(s). You will support your analysiswith textual evidence drawn from the selected work or works as well as TWO (2) peer-reviewed journalarticles which relate either to the text(s) youre writing and/or the topic youre exploring.You may develop your own topic for your essay or choose from the sample prompts below.Sample Prompt #2: In what ways does the relationship between Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere inLe Morte dArthur exemplify Medieval ideas of courtly love? Is the love affair between Lancelot andGuinevere viewed as an acceptable form of love or as an immoral act?Word Count: 1,000 – 1,500 wordsFormat: MLA 12-point Times New Roman Font Double-spaced 1 margin Works Cited page (Four works cited total, both texts and two journal articles)