Apr 24, 2007

Thanks to Chi Alpha's ads in the school paper supporting Intelligent Design, I have found a new way to write articles. It liberates the argument, so to speak. So, you read skim indeterminantly browse a critical article, one based in fact, and cite it. Then you pair a brief array of observations with some unfair extrapolation and then affix that God created us. Why, I've been doing this paper-writing thing wrong the whole time!

Here's an attempt of mine.

Women: Magical Tricksters

A new reading of Le Morte Darthur reveals that Arthurian women were enchantresses who would urge world events along. Through their magical ways, the virtue of the chivalric order was properly displayed. Research suggests that they enchanted in two different ways; either directly using magic, or indirectly through love. In this sense, Guenevere, Morgan, and Nyneve accomplish the same purposes by different means. Of course he could not show the full extent of their power within the constraints of the chronicle. He knew more than he wrote. Thus this is a small demonstration of how Malory realized women are bewitchers and probably shoot laser beams out of their eyes while atop a unicorn that definitely evolved from a zebra and rhinoceros mating.

Heng, Geraldine. “Enchanted Ground: The Feminine Subtext in Malory.” Le Morte Darthur. Ed. Stephen H.A. Shepherd. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004. 835-849.

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