ipl-logo

Personality Traits In Heywood Broun's The Fifty-First Dragon

1267 Words6 Pages
bulb-icon

Recommended: Positive and negative effects personality can have on sports performance

In Heywood Broun’s “The Fifty-First Dragon,” local coward Gawaine le Cœur-Hardy evolves to an influential knight through the use of an enchanted word. Sword in hand, he traverses the land cleaving heads off of numerous dragons. Although most can’t relate to Gawaine’s achievements, slaying dragons doesn’t make one invincible to personality faults. Throughout all of this, I could find three personality traits that I could relate to, in agreeable or disagreeable ways. Gawaine and I may share similar traits such as laziness and forgetfulness, however, we contrast greatly with our athletic abilities. Comparatively, Gawaine le Cœur-Hardy and I can both find similarities when it comes to laziness. He’s afraid of getting hurt, so he refuses to …show more content…

After slaying fifty dragons, this promise proves to be false as he finds out that he’s perfectly capable of slaying dragons without chanting “Rumplesnitz”. Soon, Gawaine reverts to his shiftless ways, locking himself in his room. Not even the constant pressure to resume the slaying of dragons from the Headmaster and the Assistant Professor could cure him of his cowardliness. Instead, he reverted back to his lazy self, which eventually resulted in him ending up in the stomach of the fifty-first dragon he encountered. My laziness doesn’t stem from the fear of being gobbled up by a dragon. My laziness stems from my grand ability to procrastinate. I have several tales of pushing tasks to the last, conclusive, definitive moment, the most popular being my several attempts at taking online classes. If it technically doesn't have a due date, then I won’t do it right away. With online classes, most of the assignments aren’t due until the class itself ends. Meaning that I will most likely not due the assignments until a week before the class ends. Whether it be German, Business Law, or Human Relations; It always ends the same way, staying up til 6 in the morning, turning in assignments by the pallet. Time and time again I tell myself that next

Show More
Related
856 Words | 4 Pages

In the novel Gentlehands, by Marijane Meaker the protagonist, Buddy Boyle is depicted as a typical 16-year-old. Buddy comes from a working class family and holds a job at the local soda shop. During the summer he reconnects with his rich, reclusive grandfather behind his parent's backs. In addition, he finds summer love with a socialite Skye Pennington, who his parents disapprove of. Over the course of the novel Buddy transforms from an insecure teen to someone who is beginning to see the world for what it really is.

Read More
1194 Words | 5 Pages

issues that I’ve identified (anger, confidence, and cultural background). I will be focusing my analysis on how Bobby controls and/or changes his thoughts, actions, or behaviors during throughout the story. Introduction Performance on the field and internal issues can be interrelated. The character Bobby Boucher (a “slow minded” football player) from the movie, The Waterboy, perfectly displays how he uses his personal issues (demons) to fuel his performance on the field. Demonstrating how an athlete’s performance on the field can often be associated with their internal conflicts which they release on the field.

Read More
930 Words | 4 Pages

Hi, Anna I’m really happy that you had a once of a life time chance to go on tour with Rihanna as her makeup artist. But, since you had to drop out of English 1302 I remembered you made me promise to keep you up to date with what we are learning. With never wanting to break a promise, I’m deciding to write to you today to teach you about a new subject we are learning. This subject is about how to analyze an argument and, I going to be using Charles Schwertner editorial called “Tuition Deregulation is Falling Texas Students”. Schwertner published this article in December 7, 2014 on TribTalk.org in order to reach out to students, business man, and the general people of Texas.

Read More
863 Words | 4 Pages

Gawain fails in that he displays his natural human weakness to flee from adversity on the first stroke, and displays his will to live up to his virtues and strong character in the second and third strokes. Yet this scene proves that no matter how hard Gawain (or anyone for that matter) tries, they will always remain human and thus will never ever be able to be absolutely perfect in anything that they do and will inevitably make many mistakes as they struggle for

Read More
621 Words | 3 Pages

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight the theme is based on integrity, all of which is categorized in a romance. Knights are judged by their behavior and also by the code of chivalry. In this poem, King Arthur and his knights are challenged. The chivalry of King Arthur’s court is challenged by the Green Knight” however, in embarrassment of his fellow men King Arthur takes on the challenge himself only for Sir Gawain, his nephew, to take him on instead as he claims he has nothing to lose. To put it differently, Gawain’s integrity was challenged.

Read More
523 Words | 3 Pages

“Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be” (Card 40). The novel Ender’s Game is written by Orson Scott Card. The most important characters of Ender’s Game were Andrew Wiggin (Ender Wiggin), Colonel Graff, Peter Wiggin and the Buggers.

Read More
718 Words | 3 Pages

In response to the taunting of the Green Knight, Sir Gawain says, "I shied once: no more. You have my word," (272-273). Gawain, like all natural man, shied away once from the Knight's sword as a defensive reflex, but he quickly shakes off any cowardice and announces to the Green Knight that he was caught in a moment of doubt. From there he goes to say that he ultimately is no coward, but rather a noble and courageous knight of the roundtable who is devoted and loyal to King Arthur. He is more than willing and prepared to take what is coming and preserve the honor of his people, as well as his own.

Read More
998 Words | 4 Pages

The ideals of Christian morality and knightly qualities are represented by Gawain’s gold, star-shaped pentangle. The five knightly virtues that Sir Gawain expresses are: generosity, chastity, friendship, piety, and courtesy. From the beginning of the poem, Sir Gawain portrays his generosity by agreeing to cut the Green Knight’s head with an axe. He makes this decision after King Arthur fails to do so (Cathell, 2014).

Read More
686 Words | 3 Pages

Gawain’s values as a knight are in conflict, because he needs to be polite to the Lady, but he is also loyal to the Lord. Gawain ultimately fails

Read More
346 Words | 2 Pages

Sir Gawain fails himself in this story because he goes against his own virtues for a selfish reason. Sir Gawain’s virtues are to be a chivalric knight, and to be one of good character. For Sir Gawain to be a chivalric knight he has to follow a chivalric code. This code is also known as the seven knightly virtues; which are courage, justice, mercy, generosity, faith, nobility, and hope.

Read More
494 Words | 2 Pages

If I knew that I would be away from home all day at a marching band competition on Saturday, then I would need to schedule time during the week and Sunday to work on projects or studying for tests. I could no longer procrastinate until the last minute, or I would end up getting only one or two hours of sleep. Because of marching band, I changed my habits of procrastination and transformed into a schedule-oriented

Read More
858 Words | 4 Pages

People are likely to procrastinate in their daily routine. III.Procrastination is an act of needlessly putting off tasks to the point of experiencing subjective discomfort” (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984, p.503) A. According to Van Eerde, 2003 Procrastination can be defined as a person intentionally delaying completing a task due to people having differing perceptions regarding delaying work. B. The reason procrastinators gave when they are procrastinating is that they have another important tasks to do.

Read More
984 Words | 4 Pages

People often put off important tasks, whether it’s something easy or challenging, until the last minute. It’s not something to be proud of, but it’s not something that one can easily overcome. As most know, procrastination, according to the online Cambridge Dictionary, is the act of delaying something that must be done, often because it is unpleasant or boring. Although many dawdle due to psychological factors, more people, especially students, now find themselves being drawn to ongoing distractions from advancing technology and easy access to social media platforms that are affecting GPAs, sleep patterns, and general health. Technology was initially developed to help individuals to be more efficient with their tasks.

Read More
1445 Words | 6 Pages

Why not you? It is a disease that has eaten wide and deep into our moral standard which requires immediate and diligent actions. It is not our fault but, nonetheless, we still have to deal with it. Procrastination has its personal price; it makes us miss, lose and suffer.

Read More
1595 Words | 7 Pages

My concept of procrastination was that mine wasn’t all that bad, that I didn’t procrastinate that much. So that meant in my mind that deadlines weren’t that big of a thing to worry about. I would get the work done in time for it even if the work was thrown together last minute. Time also seems to become a less intimidating thing.

Read More

More about Personality Traits In Heywood Broun's The Fifty-First Dragon

Related Topics

Open Document