The Faerie Queene | Themes
Duty and Responsibility
Throughout the The Faerie Queene, Spenser emphasizes the importance of performing one's duty and accepting responsibility to complete the quest. Several heroic figures emerge during the course of the poem and each is given a question to undertake, a monster or demon to extinguish. Each time, the hero must overcome disadvantage and hurdles to succeed, but the importance of the quest is always the overriding concern. Although the Red Cross Knight must fight several demons and overcome despair, he always continues on the quest to rescue the King...
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- The Faerie Queene: Edmund Spenser Biography
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The Faerie Queene: Summary and Analysis
- Summary and Analysis: Introduction and Book I, Cantos i-iv
- Summary and Analysis: Book I, Cantos v-viii
- Summary and Analysis: Book I, Cantos ix-xii
- Summary and Analysis: Book II, Cantos i-vi
- Summary and Analysis: Book II, Cantos vii-xii
- Summary and Analysis: Book III, Prologue-Canto vi
- Summary and Analysis: Book III, Cantos vii-xii
- Summary and Analysis: Book IV, Proem-Canto vi
- Summary and Analysis: Book IV, Cantos vii-xii
- Summary and Analysis: Book V, Proem-Canto vi
- Summary and Analysis: Book V, Cantos vii-xii
- Summary and Analysis: Book VI, Proem-Canto vi
- Summary and Analysis: Book VI, Cantos vii-xii
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- Questions and Answers: Introduction and Book I, Cantos i-iv
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- Questions and Answers: Book II, Cantos vii-xii
- Questions and Answers: Book III, Prologue-Canto vi
- Questions and Answers: Book III, Cantos vii-xii
- Questions and Answers Book VI, Proem-Canto vi
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