#in your attempt to prove your feminist crit theory cred you've made up oppression that doesn't exist
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Read an absolutely braindead scholarly take on Lanval "The four remaining lais also portray how a masculine gesture closes the adventure and gives it its ultimate meaning. Like the lovers in "Chaitivel" and "Chievrefoil," Lanval takes over the resolution-and the meaning-of the lai. His final act of leaping onto his fairy mistress's horse rewrites the ending she had intended, that is, the separation she had imposed after he broke her interdiction (she is not consulted about his desire to ride off with her)" Ma'am you must be a magician because from where did you produce this inane idea that she didn't consent or intend to carry him off??? If she didn't intend for him to ride off with her she darn well wouldn't have let him get on the horse! I swear critical theory rots people's brains
#lanval#marie de france#you've hallucinated motivations for the characters to make your all-or-nothing thesis work#in your attempt to prove your feminist crit theory cred you've made up oppression that doesn't exist#she would 100% not have rode off into the sunset with him if she didn't want to#it's her horse not his#Marie literally even explicitly says that he's riding behind her
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