Analysis

The chosen passage for this exhibition is from Mari de France Bisclavret (Bruckner). Mari de France was a poet who lived during the late 12th century in England. Many of her poems consisted of fables and the lives of saints and have helped increase the scope of Aruthian folklore. Bisclavret is the story a werewolf knight, Bisclavret, who was a victim of his wife's treachery and infidelity as she kept the poor knight in his wolf from against his will, only after being aided by King Arthur does Bisclavret return to mortal from and his wife is punished for her cruelty. The story is a prime example of how the concept of the werewolf is treated more humanely than modern interpretations through the story's sympathetic nature, as well as describing Bisclavret transformation and lupine form as almost a mundane affair. Simply stated that Bisclavret wolf form is a wolf and that without his clothes he transforms into the lupine animal.