It's cool seeing how many parallels are drawn between this book and Christianity, for example, when we talked about how Roland refuses 3 times to blow the horn and call the other soldiers back into the pass so they won't die. This is written to resemble how in the New Testament Peter denies Christ three times. Also, there's Charlemagne's 12 men, and the 12 Saracens that are specially selected and all die in the order they were chosen in the first place. Then there was also where Charlemagne hangs 30 innocent people, which is symbolism for when Judas betrays Jesus for 30 pieces of silver, then tries to give it back, and ends up going out and hanging himself.....
We also brought to attention the comparison of Roland to Achilles. They both are considered the heroes of their story, but at the same time have that tragic flaw that just screws everything up for them. For Achilles, it was his anger, and for Roland, it was his pride.
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