A Knights Tale
Choose one of the passages below and prepare an analysis of it. Your analysis should explore and explain the meaning and significance of the passage.
1. What is the genre of the text ? How does that genre affect the meaning?
2. What are the major themes and meanings of the work as a whole? How does this passage contribute to them? Does it complicate or refine those themes and meanings? How?
3. What does the passage tell us about the characters involved? If applicable, which characters are speaking?
4. What is the significance of this particular passage?
5. Does the passage contain allusions to other texts? How do those allusions contribute to our reading of the passage? Does it contain assumptions which influence our understanding of the themes and meaning of the larger work?
