I found it interesting how this was not the same fairy stories I remembered. I was expecting cuteness and tiny creatures. The Faerie Queen isn't this cuteness story I know of. It's a little gruesome and the fairies are not tiny sized. Instead, they are human sized (or from what I am understanding).
In class it was said that this was an epic romance. I think you can throw comedy in it. As I read the story out loud, I have these very comical pictures in my head. I can see Archimago with a huge mustache and as he is scheming rubbing his mustache. I can imagine that he has this very menacing laugh. Sansloy to me is just a character who wants to constantly fights and even though he might be the underdog, he believes he can win. I kind of see him as a Chihuahua who constantly barks. He does seem like a worth foe but for some strange reason this is the image I get in my head. The trees remind me of The Wizard of Oz with the talking trees except these trees are depressed and bleed.
Though I think it's very comical, I really do see the romance in it. It's just funny how things turn out with Redcrosse thinking that Una slept with another man which wasn't really Una but someone disguise as Una. Una thinks that she found Redcrosse but in fact it was Archimago disguise as Redcrosse. Redcrosse found someone else to defend, Fidessa who was in fact Duessa who turned the Fradubio and Fraelissa into the talking trees. There are a lot of disguises in this epic. And it just amuses me to see if the main characters will figure out these disguises and how they will do it.
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This post made me laugh as I was reading it... not because I was laughing at the content but because I thought the exact same things when I was reading the Faerie Queen. Especially the whole Archimago rubbing his mustache thing. I, too, pictured fairies as kind of the Tinkerbell image, where they are these tiny little creatures who sprinkle dust on people and make everything better. However, the Faerie Queen and Ariel's presentation in class have kind of squashed my stereotypical classification of fairies. It's funny you mentioned the trees in the Wizard of Oz, for that's the first thing I thought of when the trees were alive in the Faerie Queen. The story is full of irony, trickory, and allegories, leaving much to the imagination, which I think makes it a very interesting read.
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