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This 8 page paper analyzes Book Two, Canto 12 of Spenser's Faerie Queen "The Bower of Bliss". Quotes cited from the text. Analysis offers insight into Sir Guyon's actions. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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language, one may be adequately satisfied. Spenser, as a writer, and as those who had come before and after him, chose to make each of his characters representative of some
social problem or fragment of society upon which he felt compelled to comment. Such would be the case in Book Two, Canto twelve where Sir Guyon lays to waste the
evil city called, ironically, The Bower of Bliss. Many in their reading of this particular section of the Faerie Queen find themselves headed in a direction that Spenser, more
than likely, did not intend. On strictly a surface level, one witnesses a seeming reversal of personality of Sir Guyon as he takes a radical stand and even more radical
action against the bower of bliss. The Faerie Queen, overall, is a classic tale of good versus evil. Each book has one moral that it focuses upon with at
least three subplots that seem to become intertwined to reveal the universal truth inherent in the work. In Book Two, for example, the entire book has pointed toward notions of
courtly romance, but the underlying currents may actually be political satire of a sort, as well as depicting certain aspects of faith, Christianity, and the salvation of the soul.
What seems to have caused such great consternation over the years has been why Sir Guyon does what he does. Up unto this point he has seemed fairly logical in
nature, peaceable and chivalrous. As the overall theme of Book Two, or so most experts agree, is that of Temperance, and given that Sir Guyon represents this characteristic most nobly,
it is doubly curious as to his reaction. However, if one breaks down the actual language and description of the bower of bliss then one begins to see what
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