I really did enjoy the Faerie Queen
unit about Britomart’s quest to find her love. I liked the play on gender and
the Britomart’s character. She had both feminine and masculine attributes to
her. My favorite story was in the first half of the reading where Britomart
saves a Knight from being attacked by six other knights in honor of their
queen. The queen, more commonly known as the Lady of Delight, is a narcissistic
character and actually falls for Britomart’s looks and strength. Then she
discovers that Britomart is actually a female. I found it all very funny and
entertaining. As for least favorite stories, I cannot really think of one. I felt
that the stories of this unit were pretty good all around. As for background
information, I felt that the plots and writing was very straightforward. I liked
how you offered the prose version over the poetry version. This made reading it
much easier to understand and I could read through it faster without worrying
whether or not I misunderstood the reading. However, I do wish there were some vocabulary
links or notes with certain terms like squire. Although, it is very easy to
look up a word on Google, I always think it is a nice touch when you link a
word in the reading or offer more links if we are interested in a certain
topic. The overview was a good description of the reading and got me interested
in the reading. I knew that I wanted to read this unit from the beginning of
the semester and it met my personal expectations. I thought it was a great
story! I am somewhat familiar with Shakespearian plays, but I am not as
familiar with Arthurian writing so I liked how this unit was a mixture of the
two. It gave me great insight on the writing and culture from those days. I think it's a great unit and people should give it a try!
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