To Be At One's Feet Is To Give Them Everything In Yvain

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Slaying the Red Knight and count, much power and respect goes to Yvain, not his wife. However, Chretien wrote that Yvain “acted as though he whished to sit at [Laudine’s] feet” (321). He tried to sit lower that her in front of Arthur and his entourage. One bows to the king for respect, lowering one’s body to emphasize who is in command...
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Here, a woman is given the respect by Yvain’s lowering of his body to her feet. He almost succeeded “until she raised him up” (321). The specific action is different; bowing verse sitting lower, but the message of height differences shows Yvain’s acknowledgement that Laudine is the one in charge and to do it in front of such a commanding party as King Arthur and his court depicts that Yvain wanted everyone to know who was in charge of him...
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