When Edmund Spenser wrote his romantic epic The Faerie Queene, he intended for it to be an allegory. An allegory is a literary device used to give a literary work two different meanings. One ... letter to Sir Walter Raleigh, Edmund Spenser wrote, "Sir knowing how doubtfully all Allegories may be construed, and this booke of mine, which I have entituled the Faery Queene, being a continued Allegory, or dark conceit..." (514). In the letter, he is explaining to the readers that it is an allegory, so that they will look ... symbolize one virtue. Then combined as a whole, they would represent a ...

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... Spenser's time. Usually portrayed as helpless and fragile, the females were hidden in the background and only provided humorous relief. In "The Faerie Queene" there are few female characters, the males take the lead. Within the first canto it is evident that the lead female character will be the inner voice that the ... let go they stay in the castle to let Redcross and Arthur regain some strength which was lost during the battle previously had. Spenser fills The Faerie Queene with numerous accounts of religious ideologies. Redcross is Saint George, Una as the Christian truth which must ...

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• Grade Level: High School