... 's furious message, Yvain is thrown into madness. In his madness he discards his cloths, resorts to a hermitical life and becomes unrecognizable. In his madness, the crucial values of compassion, strength, honor, courage which define a true knight abandon Yvain. Thus the conflict of madness and sanity demonstrate the crucial elements that make up a great knight. From his madness, Yvain is restored by a magical ... twelfth century ideals. After resolving his conflict between love and duty, Yvain reaches "perfection- in twelfth century ideals. Without his conflicts, he represents the ideal...

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