7.) The King spent that night with Ygerna and satisfied his desire by making lov

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7.) The King spent that night with Ygerna and satisfied his desire by making love with her. He had deceived her by the disguise which he had taken. He had deceived her, too, by the lying things that he said to her, things which he planned with great skill. He said that he had come out secretly from his besieged encampment so that he might make sure that all was well with her, whom he loved so dearly, and with his castle, too. She naturally believed all that he said and refused him nothing that he asked. That night she conceived Arthur, the most famous of men, who subsequently won great renown by his outstanding bravery.

A.) This passage illustrates the sordid roots Arthur had to overcome in order to spin his reputation as a great king.

B.) This passage illustrates Ygerna’s cunningness in secretly establishing a line of female warrior-rulers to combat Arthur’s men.

C.) This passage illustrates Geoffrey’s attempt to whitewash sexual aggression so that it becomes unclear whether a rape occurred or not.

D.) Both A and C.

E). None of the Above.

Explanation / Answer

A) In his writing “History of Animals”, Aristotle stated that there was a close relationship between the waning of the moon and women’s monthly menstrual periods. He said that because of this, wiseacres or foolish know-it-alls say the moon is feminine. 21 In his “Generation of Animals”, Aristotle wrote: “The period is not accurately defined in women, but tends to return during the waning of the moon”. Aristotle tried to give some scientific credibility to his nonsense about the moon’s effects on women’s periods by linking it to the equally ridiculous popular Greek medical theory taught by Hippocrates and others about heat, coldness, moistness and dryness in human bodies: “Also the fact that menstruation occurs in the course of nature rather when the month is waning is due to the same causes. For this time of the month is colder and moister because of the waning and failure of the moon; as the sun makes winter and summer in the year as a whole, so does the moon in the month. This is not due to the turning of the moon, but it grows warmer as the light increases and colder as it wanes.

ANSWER WILL BE (A) and (C)

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