Chivalry in Marie de France
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is meant to show the futility of setting unreasonable goals. It is an attempt to warn the men that their present system would ultimately leave them unfulfilled. Her use of a woman to represent the voice of reason is quite symbolic. Perhaps it was a call to arms for women to use their sense to try and break the cycle because the behavior was so ingrained in the psyche of the men of the time.
is meant to show the futility of setting unreasonable goals. It is an attempt to warn the men that their present system would ultimately leave them unfulfilled. Her use of a woman to represent the voice of reason is quite symbolic. Perhaps it was a call to arms for women to use their sense to try and break the cycle because the behavior was so ingrained in the psyche of the men of the time.