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Le Morte d'Arthur

 

Excalibur is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Great Britain.

(King Arthur is fated to be the king / he is the chosen one)

 

The Three Musketeers :the motto "all for one, one for all" ("tous pour un, un pour tous")

Sir Lancelot (Launcelot) was one of the Knights of the Round Table in the Arthurian legend. He is King Arthur's greatest champion whose love affair with Queen Guinevere brings about the end of Arthur's kingdom.

Courtly Love:(also called fine amor) was a medieval European literary conception of love that emphasized nobility and chivalry. Medieval literature is filled with examples of knights setting out on adventures and performing various services for ladies because of their “courtly love.”

Kingdom is Camelot in wheals

Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in Arthurian legend.

Nimue, The Lady of the Lake, shown holding the infatuated Merlin trapped and reading from a book of spells.


"La Belle Dame sans Merci" (French: "The Beautiful Lady Without Mercy" ) is a ballad written by the English poet JOHN KEATS

JOHN KEATS

Synecdoche: (meaning "simultaneous understanding") is a figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something, or vice-versa. An example is referring to workers as hired hands.

Romance: As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a style of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe.(=唐代傳奇 / 配方小說 / 騎士屠龍王子公主)

Anti-romance, Chivalry

Don(=mr.Quixote is chasing Utopia

 

Don Quixote(mad master) and Sancho Panza(calm servant)

Frodo Baggins and Piping

The Lord of the Rings is an epic high fantasy novel written by English author J. R. R. Tolkien.

Dream the impossible dream--Frank Sinatra

The Quest

Somewhere I have never travelled, gladly beyond--E.E.Cummings. 1894-1962

 

Mort-: death, e.g. mortal, immortal, postmortem

Ex- :out, e.g. exit, exclude, expose

A- :no and without, e.g. amateur, anonymous, asocial 

 

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