- Because of Hindu and Buddhist beliefs, their plays were bound to contain a conflict that always has a positive ending.
- The first time the king saw Sakuntala she was in the process of ascetic Kanva being beautiful even while fighting an annoying bee.
- The king, having many wives, assures Sakuntala of his honorable intent because of her true parents
- The king first recognizes his son when the boy is seen at a hermitage playing roughly with a lion cub in the presence of female ascetic
- In The Thousand and One Nights, Shahrayer decides to marry and kill his wives after his brother gives him visible proof that his wife is cheating on him
- Brecca won the race with Beowulf because Beowulf had to kill nine sea monsters and deal with a flood
- Grendel is seemingly impossible to kill because he has no fear and extremely difficult to detect
- Deer that approach Grendel’s lair are entranced into entering, but never leave
- The unusual aspect of the writing of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is that it deals with inner moral testing more than strength
- Arthur cannot eat a meal until he says the proper thanks to God
- Gawain accepts the challenge of the Green Knight because of the call to bravery that the Green Knight demands
- An element of Marie de France’s life that is certain is that she was the illegitimate half-sister of Henry II
- Upon the refusal of the queen’s advances, the queen suggests Lanval would prefer the love of one of his own gender
- When Lanval realizes that he has lost his magical lover, he becomes so angry that he refuses the friendship of Gawain
- Liberality, according to Machiavelli, is appropriate only for one who is becoming a prince
- Messer Remirro de Orco, after restoring unity and harmony to Romagna was given the promotion that his hard work deserved
- Machiavelli states that a prince must be both man and beast
- Gertrude deserves the most sympathy when she learns of the death plot Claudius has put into play when Hamlet is sent to England
- Ophelia is fortunate to receive a Christian burial because of her role in the betrayal of Hamlet through Polonius
- Laertes and Hamlet end up as friends because of Laertes’ honesty and Hamlet’s forgiving nature
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