Repetition

Friends, comrades, fellow students... I think we can all agree that after taking this class, we have a very good, well thought out idea on love. From the first piece we read (Courtly Love from Andres Capellanus) to the most recent piece (Sir Orfeo), we can conclude that the middle ages were a time period full of horny, love-crazy bastards.

However, what I have been noticing in these past two stories, is that the characters and settings are Greek-based. Now, I may be the only person who thinks of this, but love is similar in every time period... except the Greeks and Romans. Those were some crazy people lol (insert emoji here)

Now to the story! I thought of this as a repetitive piece, like the other copious amount of stories we have read. Women gets kidnapped by stranger, guy gets pissed, epic adventure, she gets saved by guy, and they live happily ever after. Half way through, I could come up with the ending in my head, and I was right. As the famous rapper OG Maco would say, "Bitch, you guessed it Hwah, you was right."

What pissed me off the most, and I don't know why, were the fairies. I mean C'MON Man! You would think fairies would be these nice, mystical people who spread happiness with a flick and swish of a wand (Hah! Harry Potter reference). But NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!! These little turds end up kidnapping the queen and many others, and hide them in a castle. When Sir Orfeo is granted access, I was thinking a huge fight was going to happen, not him playing his harp to the fairy king. The more I think about it, however, Sir Orfeo has the talent. As a child, he was given the gift of music, so he can play the hell out of a harp. We could call Sir Orfeo the Eric Clapton of harps.

But, again, after finishing this, I wasn't really pleased. The stories are getting so similar, that I really haven't been hooked by any plot line. If this was Metacritic, I would give this a solid 47 for not being original.