Reading Notes: Fairie Queen - Britomart Part B

From Stories from the Faerie Queene by Mary Macleod

Part B

• More visual/setting description than a lot of previous stories
• Nonsense plot like most other stories
• Personified traits (sins? virtues? temptations?)
• Loving the woman-rescuing-woman plot (even though rescuer is disguised as a man)
• Golden hair, small waist referred to as beautiful
• "Wicked hand" 
• Seriously low suspense. 
• Story within a story!
• Female friendship regarded as normal and desirable

Knight by Antonino SCIMECA via Flickr

• "Grown great from small seeds" alliteration!
• Hidden identity --> mistaken identities 
• Women are to be beautiful and faithful, men should be protective. 
• How did Britomart get so good at fighting? What?
• Love the multiple names. Britomart is herself, "the princess," "the stranger knight" etc
• Story titles reveal everything about the story. 
• So many adjectives
• Not a lot of actual dialogue. More "he explained that..."
• Ending hints at another story