Essays on The Song of Roland
The two epic poems, “The Iliad” and “The Song of Roland” present two epic heroes, Achilles and Roland. Throughout many of the epic poems in history, the heroes tend to possess many of the same characteristics, such as: A noble birth, capable of deeds of great strength and courage, great warrior, etc. (“Characteristics of Epic...
In this paper, I will examine the links between an instance of counsel in The Song of Roland and in the Fellowship of the Ring. Tolkien drew on the importance of counsel in medieval texts throughout his work. I found that an interesting comparison between these two texts is with the illusion of counsel given...
The transformative Journey, it is a cycle that tells a tale about an individual’s story and how they become a hero. For example, “The epic of Gilgamesh” and “The Song of Roland”. They all share and differ a form of transportive journeys. Most start in the ordinary world and eventually lead to the unknown world....