Perceval day 1

1. It seems Chretien is sending us down a path of nobility and honor. He is pretty much dedicating the story to this Count Philip who can do no wrong and is a great crusader. This shows that we are about to embark on a virtuous journey for things as justice and loyalty. It doesn't really seem like a romance in a literal sense since there is no mention of a woman in this prologue. It seems just about the quest and the heroic knights of the times.

2. Perceval seems as such a naive young person the way he is always asking questions in return to a question. It shows the way that knights dress themselves and how they look but Perceval is never told about what they do. He falls in awe to how the knights look and the shields and lances and armor that he instantly wants to be a knight. He knows nothing about all the fighting and competing that comes with knighthood. I think this is because it's about a great knight who growing up never even knew what a knight was and that anyone can become a great knight.

3. Perceval's mother tried to warn him in how the life of a knight can be dangerous and how bad te times are. She tells a story of her husband and two other sons who died and she has now been living a life of grief and Perceval is all she has left. Perceval though was just too intent on being a knight and doesn't really pay his mother no mind at all. Even when he looks back and sees her lying on the ground he doesn't go back to see what is wrong or anything he just carries on to find King Arthur.