Friday, October 3, 2008

Let Isolde choose her man

All this trouble due to the drinking of a potion. Isolde should have had the right to choose to marry whomever she desires. Her sovereignty is the most important thing a woman can seize and control. Her marriage to King Mark was without love, and if she wanted love with Tristan, so be it if they force themselves through deceit and peril to be with each other. The lustiness that they have with eachother does not make them feel anything else. The same went for handsome Lancelot and the proud Queen Guenivere. So be it if the woman chooses to deceive their husbands if they want to pursue fulfillment with another man. It's her choice. The ladies have their beauty to sway their men to come to them. They don't need trickery or bribery to have a man satisfy them. If the lady truly loves her husband, deceit with another man is not right. Alas though, the ladies Isolde and Guenivere do not love their husbands as much as they do their lovers. They have the power to choose who they love, and what they do with their loves is up to them.

1 comment:

Sir Valven said...

All the trouble was due to the love portion. That is true. However, when its effect ended, their relationship should have ended. Tristan's deceiving his uncle King Mark was not chivalric. My beloved Ragnell, do not forget the humiliation you brought on me in the court because of the mantle. I consider almost all women are unfaithful to their husband because even the ladies at King Arthur's court were unfaithful. You seem to have forgotten that. If all women use their beauty to sway men, I am afraid there will be no faithful woman.