Tristan

Tristan

Gottfried von Strassburg

                The first section of Tristan is the prologue. I made many connections to this paragraph. When I read it, it was basically talking about how you have to know one thing in order to know the opposite. If you never experience sorrow than you have never really experienced love because they go hand in hand, at least one time in every one’s life. I connected the song Big Yellow Taxi, it talks about you don’t know what you have until it’s gone. I think many people take advantage of what they have, love is included in that. I also thought of the relationship between good and evil. When I was little and I saw someone do something horrible on the news I would ask my mom why God made such bad people, and she would always tell me it is because it gives everyone a reason to become better people, and that good defeats evil any day. Which brings me to the next section, enduring sorrow for the sake of love.  People do so much for love. Every love story or movie ever made is based around this. People go through hell just to be with someone. Although that person doesn’t seem that different to anyone else, to that person that is all they need to life. Just being with them is enough and nothing can between the two.

I don’t remember what section made me think about this, but I think it talked about how people sometimes hide they way they really feel around the people they love. I have never personally experienced this but I feel like that’s one of the reasons these relationships that seem so perfect at the beginning never work out. People change they way are to impress the other and then when they are far enough into the relationship they start to loosen up and show their true colors.  Then what, they are no longer that person their partner fell in love with. For instance, my manager told her boyfriend 6 years ago that she loved the same football team as he did so they could have something in common, and he really like that about her. She really doesn’t like football that much but now they are married and she always complains to us about having to watch all the games! That ridiculous!

                I really liked this article even though I didn’t really understand the whole last page because It was really random, not to mention I was really tired and it is hard to read anything at that point. I thought it was very interesting and realistic.