Okay, can we agree that the parents be fuckin’ up here? Crazy.

Okay, can we agree that the parents be fuckin’ up here? Crazy.

            Okay, when I was reading this, to say the least, INTERESTING story Emare I thought I was reading a child’s mentality, within a grown man’s body trying to pretend to be an adult and serve out the most ridiculous punishment known to man. And all was because he daughter, I repeat, his DAUGHTER refused to marry him?!?!? It is one thing to send your disobedient child to their rooms, or even taking away their cell phones or something, but no; “No food or water! No money, and here’s a boat. Sail away from me at once!!!!” Great parenting there buddy. Don’t ground her or anything.

 

            And now we have this mother-in-law to Emare that has me really irritated. Basically acting completely corner-working maiden-like, enticing the messenger with her clad self, and then changing the letter after their activities telling her own son that his wife gave birth to a monster, really unnecessary. Unfortunately for me and the way my brain works, all I could picture was Rapunzel’s fake mother, and her song “Mother Knows Best” kept running through my head. Welp, can never watch that movie again. No sir-e-Bob.

            Personally, I have never read a tale such as this really, especially with an incest motive by one character, weird. But one thing that I can sit back and appreciate in this tale is the newness in itself. I did not really see too many connections to what we have been reading to our ideals of medieval romance, with the exception of seeing a beautiful maiden and an almost immediate proposal, and the devastation that came to the rejection. But again, the incest motive was quite new. This was the first tale I found myself almost equally frustrated with having to read Middle English, simply because I could not understand the actions taken by these people. But hey, still kept me interested right? Right. Good.