World Literature

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October 20 , 2008

World Literature

Marie de Frances lais : Is courtly love an empowerment for woman ? Using the Yonec` as an example

Courtly love is never meant to empower women . It institutionalizes women as objects of noble men like kings and princes who have the power to do whatever they want of their women . Courtly love has not elevated women into a higher status where they can live as happily and as freely as they wish . It has instead imprisoned women as they

are forced into marrying men that they do not love at all . In Yonec ' Marie de Francis illustrated how a woman became a victim of courtly love . She had to suffer as she was imprisoned in the tower by his jealous husband Marie de Francis however , reveals in her poem too that women when they become sick and tired and angered of the system and the structure where they have to be enslaved by the whims and caprices of men have the power to go against whatever rule . The lady in Yonec ' betrayed his husband for a handsome man whom she learned to love and even bore him a son . It shows how women can be strong even to disobey the commandments of God not to commit adulterous act . It shows how angry women can be as manipulative in their desire to seek justice for the oppression and for the betrayal that they have suffered . In Yonec , the lady was avenged...