El Cid Epic.ppt
- 1. PART A (The Movie) The hero El Cid’s character through the film PART B (The Poem) Women characters in the poem PART C (The Song)
- 2. El Cid is a brave warrior but not warlike (aggressive). He is discerned for his political acuteness and shows generosity to the defeated rival. This way he wins friendships and alliances. PART A (The Movie)
- 3. El Cid shows courage and self-confidence. He doesn’t hesitate to take responsibility for the take over of a whole city.
- 4. El Cid controls his feelings and forgives (offers life) even to those who offended, betrayed him or pursued his death.
- 5. El Cid is Courageous. He follows his principle. He defends the truth and fairness, even towards the king.
- 6. Disobedience to the king is not triggered by personal ambition. He doesn’t seek the take over of power when he is offered the kingdom of Valencia and remains faithful to the institution of the king of Spain.
- 7. The women in the epic of El Cid, do not have a leading role. Although their presence runs throughout the whole play, and it is decisive for the evolution of the plot. These women are Dona Jimena, the wife of El Cid and his 2 daughters Elvira and Sol. PART B WOMEN CHARACTERS IN THE POEM
- 8. RELATIONSHIPELCID-JIMENA Dona Jimena feels love and admiration for her husband. She is completely loyal and dedicated to him. He is her lover and her ‘’master’’. She is supportive to his decisions and his adventures. She does not complain for staying all by herself, for staying in with her children. She feels agony for his luck and prays for his salvation. A)
- 9. ‘’Dona Jimena (El Cid’s wife) with their two daughters and their nannies comes to say goodbye and bends with tears to kiss her husband’s hands.’’ (59-60)
- 10. Also El Cid treats his wife with respect. He feels love and comfort for her and his daughters. He takes care of them and feels pain about their separation, because when he is exiled, they stay behind in a monastery by order of the king Alfonso. Their separation is part of his punishment and also a way of pressure. B)
- 11. ‘’El Sint with tears hugs his daughters’’ (61) ‘’He expresses his love to his wife’’ (62) ‘’He prays to god to meet again’’ (63)
- 12. And when he conquers Valencia and attempts reconciliation with the king, the first thing that he asks for the king is to allow his loved ones to come close to him. Indeed their release, will be the first step for the reconciliation of the 2 men. C)
- 13. ‘’El Cid welcomes his family. Dona Jimena kneels in front of him’’ 46-347) ‘’El Cid hugs his wife and daughters and his joy is transferred to his soldiers’’ 348) ‘’He welcomes his wife and daughters to Valencia, which he conquered for their sake’’ 49) 50 ‘’He leads them to the highest tower’’
- 14. MARRIAGE The potential grooms, Diego and Ferrando neither love, nor respect El Cid’s daughters. They underestimate them because they are Princes who belong to the upper class and El Cid belongs to the inferior aristocracy. For them, marriage is a way to become rich, as they will be given a large dowry by El Cid. A)
- 15. ‘’Princes Minaya and Fermuez discuss to ask El Cid's daughters for marriage’’ 07) 8) ‘’They announce it to the King’’
- 16. Marriage is an important event for a woman's life. However, the two daughters don't get to decide if they want to get married, nor do their future husbands. These decisions are made by King Alfonso and their father gives his consent. B)
- 17. ‘’The king suggests to Sint the two princes as bridegrooms’’ 451) ‘’Sint replies that he (the king) should decide’’ 453) 456) ‘’The king announces the wedding’’
- 18. THE ABUSE OF WOMEN The two princes are proven to be cowards and are mocked by the companions of El Cid. They feel humiliated and ask to return to their homeland with their wives. On their way, though, they treat them with disrespect and cruelty. They hit them without mercy and they abandon them half-naked and blood-covered, to be eaten by vultures.
- 19. ‘’The 2 princes announce to their wives (El Cid's daughters) that they will abandon them in the mountains for revenge’’ (588- 589)
- 20. ‘’One of the wives ask them to be killed’’ 591) ‘’The Princes hit them with wands’’ (593) ‘’They assume that the women are dead and they leave’’ 597)
- 21. THE REVENGE The women’s abuse is considered the biggest indignity for them, their father, his knights and the king who had arranged their marriage. El Cid seeks satisfaction and starts the revenge of the case from the ‘’Gathering of the Aristocrats’’ and the duels that will end with the defeat and humiliation of the two princes by El Cid’s knights.
- 22. ‘’Two knights with ambassadors, ask from El Cid to marry his two daughters’’ 727) ‘’El Cid requests the King's approval in order to arrange this marriage’’ 28-729) ‘’The King approves’’ 730)
- 23. PART C (THE SONG) Erotokritos is romance in verse written by Vincenzo Cornaro in early 17th century in Crete and remains very popular to this day. It projects the basic ideals of the time bravery, beauty and wisdom.
- 24. We adjusted in the musical setting of Erotokritos three stanzas of the (epic) poem of the El Cid.
- 25. ‘’El Cid hugs and say goodbye to his young daughters and his wife’’ 1) ‘’Dinner was set up in the city to say goodbye to El Cid’’ 64) ‘’On the bridge outside the city several knights, who left their home and property, are waitinh El Cid to follow him’’ 65)