Is Chivalry Dead

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Is Chivalry Dead?!

What do you think of when you hear the word “chivalry”? I can’t speak for everyone but I know most of us, when we hear or think about the word "chivalry," automatically we picture images of such figures as the legendary King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table, Prince Charming, Gawain and The Green Knight, castles, and images of heavily armor knights saving princess or the cliché-ic “damsels in distress”. Though myths and fairytales illustrate this picture of chivalry, this in fact is a result of what the world has come to mean. Originally, the word “chivalry” had a different meaning. During the middle ages, the individuals who lived during this time use chivalry as a “code of conduct”. This “code of conduct” was put in place help the society become better by organizing it. People who lived during the Middle Ages supported the “code of conduct” because they felt it may help control the nation and help it gain more power. With any society, if chaos arises something is put into place for it to be demolished. For example, laws are created to provide a society with some type of order. Therefore, chivalry was created to control a society. “Chivalry wasn’t only to regulate the disorganization within a society but it also provided individuals at the type of the social ladder to be viewed with high esteem, particularly knight”. In order for a knight to make a name for himself or be recognized as honorable, he had to follow the behavioral code of chivalry. In modern society, one might speculate if chivalry has influence other people from across the globe. Although it pretty safe to say that in our society, chivalry has not fully impact us as a society, neither socially or culturally. Therefore providing truth to the saying that chivalry is dead.        In medieval times, power in Europe was dispersed to the people of hierarchy. The people of great nobility, such as the king, had control of people who were viewed as inferior, such as the...
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