Wednesday, January 30, 2019

The Lady of Shallot

“The Lady of Shallot” is a very interesting story where we can relate the values of patience and caring to the story itself. Before getting to move on with the essay, it is important to know the definition of the two values mentioned before. Patience is the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious. It is the ability to endure difficult circumstances and stay calm. While the word caring is when you feel or show concern or kindness towards other people, usually caring people think about others and give them emotional support as well. Now these two values i can clearly see in the Lady of Shallot, since she is trapped or imprisoned near Camelot, in the Island of Shallot. She has to work on weaving a magical web and can not look directly at Camelot, or she will be cursed. She hears voices in her ear at times that tell her that she will be cursed if she looks directly at the outside world. She could only see by the reflection and shadows on the mirror in front of her. A woman that has to go through all of that by herself is the definition of patience. She takes her time weaving that magical web and doesn’t look directly into Camelot for a while. One day, the Lady of Shallot was tired of seeing the shadows through the mirror that she wanted to experience something real, something in real life, and that was when she commited the huge mistake of looking into Camelot because of her curiosity. She risked getting cursed to look at a handsome man named sir Lancelot whom she saw pass by through the reflections on the mirror she had in front of her that gave her the ability to see from outside her tower. Her patience was lost at that moment. She describes sir Lancelot as a star in a galaxy. He catches her eye and heart as she was weaving the magic web and as he rides the banks of the river while singing. I believe she was not caring on herself when she did that because she already knew what was to come, and the consequences which is the curse that whispered in her ear. She may not have known what the curse would be but it still brings danger. She ran out and got into a boat to run away. She saw she was cursed when the web flew outside her window, but as mentioned before, she didn’t care about it nor the huge and bad stormy weather that the island had and went on her way. She froze to death and was found there laying on the boat and that was when people gathered around wondering who that woman was and at that moment sir lancelot showed care, he showed that he cared about the woman that was in front of him, and that was when he got closer to take a better look and held her and recognised how beautiful and pretty her face was.

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