An Analysis Of La Chanson De Roland's Bramimonde

La Chanson de Roland‘s Bramimonde *:

Islam begins to be manifested in the Western literature approximately between 1100 and 1400, and it’s through this literature that the Muslim woman enters the Western imagination. Bramimonde is one of the most prominent Western representations of the Arab Muslim women in the Middle Ages. Although she was the queen, she was depicted as an overbearing and a loquacious woman, who possesses a distinctive voice and can control it according to the situation. “Her voice can be bitter: O Saragossa, today you 've been despoiled... (Laisse 188). It can be stingingly caustic: He needn 't go so far! (196) .It can be whining: I 've been doomed to wretchedness! (201)……. She cries out in a piercing voice... (188). She screams out shrilly... (264)” (mohja). One can assure that one of Bramimonde’s powers lies in her voice. It is resonant, clear, and

In this context, Jane Chance says “queens without religious sanctity who behaved unconventionally are marked as immoral or diabolic (53).”(mohja).Thus, Bramimonde 's “assertive” speech in front of the envoys is shaded with disloyalty to her king and husband . Although she is Saracen*, she is similar to the Christian European woman , and so being a Muslim women does not give her a privilege as not to be treated under the same norms and rules , which are applied to the Christian European woman , even if her husband is a tormentor Muslim. “It is the wrongness, not the difference, of Bramimonde and the Saracens that has been emphasized in Roland.”(MOHJA). In this way, Bramimonde 's bad manners are not harmful to the “good Christian society”, but to the “wrong” Muslim society. Besides, her bad manners prepare her for the theme of