Marie De France: Lanval and Term Paper

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The wife's lie is revealed in "Bisclavet" because the inner humanity of the werewolf does shine through, albeit to another man. "This beast understands, feels like a man," says the king. (p.5) Ultimately, the king's friendship, a relationship forged in the male sphere of the hunt with Bisclavet is more meaningful and lasting than that of the marital bond, borne of a lie of concealment, first on the part of the man, then on the part of the woman. After the full truth is revealed and the werewolf becomes human again: "The king ran to hug him tight;/He kissed him a hundred times that day." (p.9) When he learns that his friend is in fact a man, and also that the truth has set the man free, the king cannot restrain his lover-like affection.

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For the first time in the werewolf's life, the man has honest relationship that allows him to be publicly a man, yet to be open about his wolfish secret. This relationship can reconcile the public and private, but this is an honest relationship that can only exist between men, not between a man and a woman in wedlock. Just, as "Lanval" spirits the couple away to a fairyland to give them public and private honesty and happiness, the werewolf "Bisclavet" remains in the real world but renders marriage itself unnecessary to its narrative dynamic and happy closure.

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