Silence: Silence: a Thirteenth-Century French Romance

The generator begins Silence by calling himself Master Heldris of Cornwall and saying his appetency not to have his wrench spread among wealthy people who dont know how to prise it. He refers to them as the kind of people, which efflorescely shows his negative placement toward those who he describes as prize money more than honor, or want to hear everything but do not c argon to commit a man happy with some reward they might wish to give.The phrase at the beginning of the work, or originally I begin to tell my story are repeated 3 times throughout the opening one at the start, one at the center, and one at the end right before the author starts carnal knowledge the story. This, together with strong words such as command, signal, repeatedly reminds the readers of the generators demand to preserve his work and of his racy abuse toward devouring(a) people. The writers strong feeling against avaricious men is expressed clearly I feel tremendously compelled, stung, compul sive into talking about this, and It bothers me terribly.Several different negative words and phrases are also used to depict those people throughout the text greedy, nasty, petty, fools, intoxicated with Avarice, those hateful men. He tells problems relating to those people from the perspective of a poet serve them well, as if they were your father and then you will be close to welcome, judge a fine minstrel, well-received, or very bad cheer and a sour face, thats what youll invariably get from them when you ask for something. The bitterness in each sentence and the clear descriptions shows that the writer seems to have experienced those problems himself.He disgusts greedy people and views them as cockeyed creatures that have a dreadful life as they try to potbelly up wealth and merely panic-struck of losing it a man afraid is not at peace he is miserable and ill at ease. Wealth only makes a man mean-spirited and makes him toil without profit. All he does is soil himself Gre edy men rob world of all enjoyousnessment, and lost their trust in everyone, even their own wives he doesnt want her spend any of it, for one missing penny would ruin the perfection of those kibibytes marks he lost sleep over.The writer emphasizes that owning property does not make life easier nor brings one any joy and festivity if one do not know how to use and shell out it wisely lost sleep, ill, miserable, stingy. Capitalizing Avarice, the writer refer to Avarice as a dangerous goddess who traps fools in her maze of wealth, let them honor her as their sovereign lady and wet draw, but betrays them, leaves them drunk and intoxicated and driven to disgrace themselves. While hating those fools, the writer is seriously concerned and cry O greedy people, alas las . He repeatedly refer to the locked away wealth as disgrace, overawe, and even a dirty substance gook. Comparing groundless wealth and dung, he further devalues property at least dung enriches the soils, while greedy men abuse this earthy life and cover their courts with shame forever. Dung is often referred to as dirty and worthless, yet it has a function that benefits the planet, while wealth, often meetd to luxuriousness and enjoyment, incomplete brings comfort to its owner nor influence the world positively at all.Several comparisons are also used near the end of the opening to address the same point assets are worth less than manure just as wheat is worth more than weeds, rose more than daisy, goshawk more than falcon more than buzzard, good wine than stagnant water, bittern than magpie, and most of all honest meagerness is of greater worth than a thousand marks without joys and festivity. The comparisons start from small plants to birds to the chief(prenominal) subjects honest poverty versus useless wealth.This proves that wealth and greed are inferior and shameful, while praises munificence as superior and honorable. At the end of the opening, after all the hatred has been expres sed, the writer says he now can begin his story without a lot of fuss and bother. Since the overall theme of the story relate to property and the problems relating to the right to own it, it appears that the writer does not just exclusively tell us his feeling toward greed and wealth but his main goal is to prepare us with a basic background of the story.The innovation from the opening to the story is thus smoother. The story begins with the description of King Evan as a wise king who maintained peace in his write down and apply strict rules to control his people. What King Evan has is wealth, power and respect so obviously troubles are unavoidable. This obviously connects to the theme mentioned in the opening, therefore, readers can follow up with the story more easily.