Hamlet: Chivalry It would be obvious to say that society changes over the years. Yet as the years grow farther apart we tend to forget how those before us lived their lives. These historic ways of life are thankfully preserved in literary works put down and documented centuries before us. The goal of this paper is to examine the extinct life style of chivalry and show how it relates to William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Specifically The final act and scene. As I began researching chivalry I found that there was a lot more to it than draping my cape over a puddle for a lady. It actually began not as a way to conduct ones life but rather as a social and economic class. The word chivalry has its roots in the middle French word for horseman, chevalier. Chivalry as defined in Webster's Ninth Collegiate Dictionary means "mounted men-at-arms." Chevalier also gave birth to a ....

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