Wednesday, March 24, 2010
A.
Courtly love in the Medievel period was very strict and it was followed like rules to a game. Some of these rules included not being able to show your love to others while in public or else it wouldnt be real love. Another of these rules includes paying for your lovers marraige and children when they get married. In other words, you pay for them to stay away from you. These rules seem rediculous. You shouldnt try to hid your love from the other person when your in public, you should express your love openly if you actually truly love them. Other peoples thoughts or expressions shouldnt matter and shouldnt change how you feel for each other. For example in the story of Lancelot, When his lover shows she is openly in love with him, he ignores her. Later in the story he tells her that he will pay all her generations if she should find another husband. Just the thought of this is rediculous. If someone doesnt love someone then they shouldnt have to pay them or take care of their future family. They should simply say that they dont have the same feeling for each other and just leave them be.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
I agree with you when you say that people shouldn't try to hide their love from others, and that people shouldn't follow silly rules of love. Love is unpredictable and can't really follow a list of rules. However, in modern times people in a sense pay each other to stay away from one another when it comes to alimony payments between a divorced couple or a restraining order.
ReplyDeleteI think you are somewhat right about Lancelot morally, but logistically, wouldn't it be worse if she just followed him around and he did nothing? Although paying her off seems a bit bad, I think it is better than having her follow him around and receive nothing back.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you that it is ridiculous to have to follow a strict set of rules when in love. Love is different for everyone so how can you force all people to follow the same rules? I also find it interesting how the idea of paying off someone you don’t want to be with is so similar to alimony. It just shows how aspects of courtly love still remain in our society today.
ReplyDeleteI agree that you should not have to follow a set of rules when you're in love. As Ingrid said, everyone has different ideas of love, so it's ridiculous to have a set of guidlines to follow.
ReplyDeleteYou raise some good points, but I'm not sure how you overlook the systematic nature of modern true love. If you treat the person you're in love with how ever you feel like treating them, isn't that a sign you care more about yourself than them and their feelings? I think you'd be hard pressed to convince someone you love them if you behave however you want, no matter how spontaneous your behavior is.
ReplyDelete