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Faerie Queen
Why must King Arthur be the one to conquer Orgoglio and rescue the Red Cross Knight?
Even during Edmund Spencer's time, the name of King Arthur was the embodiment of British royal values and British traditions of true national faith, law, and justice. Arthur was considered a much-respected British folk hero and the king of better days, long in England's past -- better days that Elizabeth's reign of prosperity would hopefully bring into being again, as she created her own myth of being a fairy queen, the queen who brought Enlightened Protestantism rather than Catholicism to England. Arthur, in the poem, has been given a vision of the queen, and he is in search of her when he steps in to rescue the Red Cross Knight of the Faerie Queen.
Thus Red Cross, fighting for truth and England's Holiness, is armed with faith in Christ, an image of a bloody cross, and the thought of: "That greatest Gloriana to him gaue, / That greatest Glorious Queene of Faerie lond," the Red Cross Knight sets forth to slay the dragon in his fairy queen's name. He is accompanied by a loyal and beautiful woman who represents England's past as well as its up and coming glory, for Una is "descent from Royall lynage came/of ancient Kings and Queenes, that had of yore/Their scepters stretcht from East to Westerne shore." It is she who meets with Arthur and brings him to the rescue of her Knight.
But although he is good and true, the Red Cross night is not perfect, he can be defeated without help from God and the name of Arthur who represents England's great past, and the vision of his queen. Significantly, Arthur's glory and victory over Orgoglio comes not through military might, but through showing the evil giant his shield, which blinds Orgoglio with its goodness, shining like a mirrored diamond of purity and a vision of true faith. The victory of Arthur thus is of right, not simply of might, and a connection between Elizabeth, her Red Knight, and England's glory days of yore and true faith. Arthur's victory shows that England's past was not Catholic, but pre-Catholic, an England of a purer faith that Elizabeth seeks to restore as England's Faerie Queen.
Faerie Queen Edmund Spenser opens, prefaces, and introduces The Faerie Queen with a letter addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh. In this letter, Spenser outlines his intention behind writing the epic poem, "Which For That It Giveth Great Light to The Reader." Spenser writes, "The generall end therefore of all the booke is to fashion a gentleman or noble person in vertuous and gentle discipline." To accomplish this goal, The Faerie Queen
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Rather than inquiring with Una into her motivations or intentions when he discovered her image with another man, Redcrosse flees and abandons her to fend for herself. Una, is upset to find herself alone in a dangerous land, not truly knowing why her knight had left her. Rather that believing in her loyalty and virtue, Redcrosse took the easy way out in the land of great deception and turmoil.
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