1. Approximately when was Middle English spoken?
it's was spoken between the norman invasion of 1066 and about 1470, when the Chancery Standard, began to become widespread.
2. What were the major factors which led to the development and the spread of Middle English?
the major factors were:
- the pre-conquest period which displays a wide variety of scribals and presumably dialectal forms.
- the emergency of more distinct local scribal styles and written dialects and the general pattern of transition of activity over the centuries that follow, as Northumbria,East Anglia and London emerge succesively as major centres of literary production, with their own generic interests.
A. Pig : pork
B. Cow : beef
C. Wood : forest
D. Sheep : mutton
E. House : mansion
F. Worthy : honourable
G. Bold : courageous
4. Compare & contrast the structure of nouns, pronouns and verbs, between Middle English & Modern English.
Nouns: middle english retains only two separate noun-ending patterns. modern english, the strong "s" plural has survived yet.
Verbs: the majority of them follow the general rule, adding an "ed" "d" or "t" at the end, and strong verbs changing their stem vowel as in modern english.
Pronoun: the old english survived into middle english yet with only minor spelling variations as the gradual abolition of the useless distintions between the nominative,accusative,genitive and dative cases.
5. How is pronunciation different between Middle English and Modern English?
In Middle english words were pronounced and Modern english come from pronounciation shifts, which means that pronunciation is no longer closely reflected by the written form because if fixed spelling constraints imposed by the invention of dicyionaries and printing.
6. What is the Chancery Standard, and how did it come into effect?
Chancery Standrd was a written form of english used by the goverment bureaucracy and for the other official purposes from the late 14th century.
it comes into effect for the areas like polical and demographic centres because it was thought that the london form could be confused with words.
7. Who wrote the Canterbury Tales?
was written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century.
8. Describe the medieval pilgrims who journeyed from Canterbury to London.
Medieval pilgrims: were people from all classes, upper and lower sucha as: a prioress,a monk and a pardoner. They traveled alongside a shipman,miller,carpenter,reeve,squire,yeoman and a knight among others.
9. Why did the pilgrims take this journey?
they did the jouney to pay their respects to the tomb of Saint Thomas Becket at the Canterbury Cathedral.
10. It is thought that some of the stories in The Canterbury Tales originated in Italy. What was the name of the Italian book and who wrote it?
Italian Book: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio.
11. The Canterbury Tales is considered an extremely important book, both in terms of English Literature & in the history of English writing. In your opinion, why is this book so important?
It's so import because its :
- rethorical forms and linguistic styles
- historical context, the peasant's revolt of 1381
- themes such as, courtly love,treachery avarice and religious
A detailed explanation of the proper etiquette & behaviour for all knights in Medieval Europe.
13. Who is Sir Gawain?
A knight of king Arthur's round table.
14. What is the challenge that The Green Knight proposes to the Knights of the Round Table?
the green knight offers to allow anyone to strike him with his axe if the challenger will take a return blow in a year and a day.
15. What is the similarity between Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Irish tale of Cúchulainn?
the similarity among this tales are the chivalry and the loyalty.
16. What is the importance of the pentagram/pentangle in the poem?
is that they decribes the pentangle as a symbol of " faithfulness and endless knot".
it also is associated with magical charms,magical forces and also symbolises " the phenomenon of physically endless object signifying a temporally endless quality".
17. How are numbers used to symbolize events in the poem?
- three: the temptation on three separate ways; kisses, hunting and swings at gawain three times with his axe.
- two: two confessions scenes and two castles
- five: the five points of the pentagle code;or the five moral virtues of the chivalry code: frienship,generosity,chastity,courtesy and piety.
- eleven: is associated with transgression.
is considered an outward sing of inward sin.
the neck,specifically, was believed to correlate with the part of the soul related to will.
19. Which actor played The Green Knight in the film adaptation, Sword of the Valiant?
the actor was Sean Connery.
20. In many ways this poem is, in the modern sense, a soap opera. Compare Sir Gawain and the Green Knight with a modern Chilean teleseries.
I don't find yet something similar to this poem in the chileans teleseries but I'm going to try to find one and comapare because at the moment nothing comes to my mind...
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