Sir Gawain asks for King Arthur's permission to defend him by being put to the Green Knight's test when he says, " I am the weakest, well I know, and of wit feeblest, and the loss of my life would be least of any; that I have for you uncle is my only praise; my body, but for your blood, is barren of worth; and for his folly befits not a king, and "tis that I have asked it, it ought to be mine". ...
This combination of awareness and honesty would render Remarque both praised by many for his literary genius and despised by the ultra-Nationalist Nazi regime - the latter held book burnings of All Quiet on the Western Front after exiling Remarque to Switzerland. ...
Question Does the Aeneid provide a damning indictment of war? Response In a typically 'Homeric fashion', Virgil depicts war in all its splendour and all its folly in equal measure. The Latin wars that Virgil describes bring fearsome heroes together in search of glory and the upholding of f...
