MrBoomba wrote...
TheMadCat wrote...
MrBoomba wrote...
Not among the knights of the time which you are technically playing as, the whole "Knight in shining armor" were just fairytales created during the 1700's to create a sense of justice and happy ending to help stimulate good hope during the riots and repressive nature of the time.TheMadCat wrote...
but I kinda agree with how it is in DA:O due to the fact that during
the medival times, which you assume this takes place in, sex wasnt
looked on as wrong as youd think and Romance was actually not as common.
Well, the ideas of love and romance at least was incredibly strong and popular during the early middle ages and even long before that, look at the center theme of a lot of the Roman and Greek tales (Helen as an example, depending on which version you look at). Exactly how the idea of romance translated into reality I'm not positive, marriage was mostly political for all classes throughout the middle ages and the various Renaissance and revolutionary eras, though there are tons of memories and stories which discuss their true loves outside of said marriages.
Eh? Those fairy tales and ideas have been around forvever. The various Arthurian Legends that originated in the late 11th or early 12th century such as Lancelot and Guinevere (12th century) or Tristan and Iseult (12th century), and about a dozen more stories that splintered from the folklore during the 13th-14th centuries. We can go back to Rome and Greece and look up tales similar in nature. Again though, it's reflection on the real world I'm not sure. Dante Alighieri would be the most famous example, I have a few books which contain nothing but translated memoirs from people in the era that show the notions of love and romance being prominent, one from a land owning knight in Champagne. But yeah, not sure where you're learning medieval history and culture but you may want to pick up a new source.
What thein conquered sex lord trevas?
Im not talking of greece and italy when basing off these observations, currently im in a fairytales class and im doing a paper on certain russian archetypes. The difference between the italian and german/russian culter is very vast and influences the whole romance factor. I personally have been speaking of this game being in the german/russian culture not of the italian/greece. perhaps this is were our facts differ? From these fairytales you can depict how the culture was in the time and im fairly certain german/russian culture wasnt big on romance, but instead more rushed romance than anything.
The whole point of fairytales was to socialize people to accept forced marriage and quick romances, and provide a framework for falling in love after marriage. Disobedience and immorality for your social class was punished; however, there were different expectations of obedience and morality for every social class. A princess was expected to be pure and stay faithful to her husband; a prince was expected to not get caught boinking the maids. A maid was expected to submit to her lord's wishes, and her husband was expected to be pragmatic about it, and to accept that he would have a healthy, odd-looking child in his family but at least they would be well taken care of.
Someone up there is mixing up Romantic literature with fairytales, by the way. Two totally different genres. Not the same things at all.
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