Essay
‘As long as women are compelled to marry for a livelihood real marriage is a rare exception and prostitution or a kind of legalized rape the rule’ (William Morris). Discuss the ways in which medievalist fantasy perpetuates or subverts gender roles and/or
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the purpose of this essay is to examine the representation of men in the above medieval texts and how the identity and gender roles of the male characters Eddard Stark and Tyrion Lannister in A Song of Ice and Fire, and the knights of Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, are either perpetuated or su...
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