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Pamela’s prayer represents, in the Arcadia, the Zenith of the character Pamela’s character arc. She represents the pinnacle of virtue being stoic in the face of injustice, and accepting her fate with the knowledge that virtue will overcome injustice and even death. Because of Pamela representing otherworldly grace, and specifically in the context of being…

The four branches of the Mabinogion are rife with references to people being both born into the world through the power of nature, and also contains tales of individuals reverting back to a natural state after a catastrophic event. This takes many different forms, from people being created from flowers to people taking on aspects…

In writing The Canterbury Tales, Chausser had to contend with Christian ideas about virtue representing itself as otherworldly grace. His characters, especially the female love interests, as a result of this idea, follow winding character arcs marked by purity and later introspection. Because the love interests are represented as almost perfect in appearance and grace,…

One of the biggest themes I noticed during our reading was how purity and divinity is not only often portrayed juxtaposed to nature, but also how it is contrasted to man-made barricades to the divine. In The Canterbury Tales, this can be seen when Palemon and Alcite are both confined in the prison and watch…