Faerie Queene Question and Answer

 Faerie Queene:

Broad Question:

1.      Evaluate the Faerie queene book 1 as a moral allegory? Complete

2. comment on the major themes of Faerie queene book 1?

Answer:  Fairy Queen is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.  In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and Reformation elements. Though the use of the elements, the epic poet presents the different type of allegory.  As a result in the epic poem, the epic poet has presented religious, political and spiritual allegory. The major themes of Faerie Queene are love, religion, politics, morality and ethics, Justice and judgment, appearances and loyalty.  Now I make my comment on major themes of Faerie Queene in bellow:

Love: If there's one thing that unites this otherwise massive, unwieldy poem it's love. Whether good or bad, female or male, knight or monster chances are that love, romance, or sexual desire plays an important role in every character's actions and identity. Spenser really wants us to think about how we distinguish between true, life-long love and infatuation and inconsequential little crushes. Almost every happily ended storyline in the poem ends with an engagement. In the world of The Faerie Queen, all you need is love.

Religion: Spenser's The Faerie Queene was written at a time when religious affiliation was seriously important. Religion informs almost every aspect of The Faerie Queene, from the motivations of the main characters to the representation of villains… many villains embody some stereotype of other religions.

 Politics: The Faerie Queene was written during the Reformation, a time of religious and political controversy. After taking the throne following the death of her half-sister Mary, Elizabeth changed the official religion of the nation to Protestantism.[6] The plot of book one is similar to Foxe's Book of Martyrs, which was about the persecution of the Protestants and how Catholic rule was unjust.[7] Spenser includes the controversy of Elizabethan church reform within the epic. Gloriana has godly English knights destroy Catholic continental power in Books I and V.[8] Spenser also endows many of his villains with "the worst of what Protestants considered a superstitious Catholic reliance on deceptive images".[9]

Justice and judgment: Justice is the explicit theme of Book V of the The Faerie Queene, but it's a topic that is significant throughout the poem. Judgment in particular is constantly used (and abused!) when characters face challenging, confusing, and potentially dangerous situations. Since we also know that appearances can be deceiving in The Faerie Queene, judgment is also an essential tool to differentiate between the good and the bad, and the true and the false.

Appearances: Appearances are tricky in The Faerie Queene. There are a bunch of artificial objects (and even artificial people, like the False Florimell) floating around. This shows us that becoming overly attached to what you see, instead of what you know or believe, can often lead down a path that is no kind of good. But just to keep us on our toes, Spenser throws in some instances where appearances aren't deceiving. The magic mirror of Merlin, for example, that shows Britomart the face of her destined love, Arthegall. Appearances are tricky in this book… because they aren't always tricky.

Loyalty: Loyalty is a particularly important concept in the universe of The Faerie Queene because it doesn't only govern relationships between lovers, or between knights who already know each other. It also governs the bond formed between knights who have just met and don't know each other at all. We can usually immediately figure out if a knight is a "good guy" because he immediately assumes a knightly loyalty toward all well-intentioned knights.

3. Character analysis: Red cross knight, Lady una, Archimage and Duessa

Answer:  Red Cross Knight:  Hero of Book 1. Introduced in the first canto of the poem, he bears the emblem of Saint George, patron saint of  England; a red cross on a white background is still the flag of England. The Redcross Knight is declared the real Saint George in  Canto X. He also learns that he is of English ancestry, having been stolen by a Fay and raised in Faerieland. In the climactic battle of Book 1, Redcrosse slays the dragon that has laid waste to Eden. He marries Una at the end of  Book 1, but brief appearances in Books 2 and 3 show him still questing through the world.

Lady una: Una, the personification of the " True Church". She travels with the Redcross Knight(who represents ENgland), Whom she has recruited to save her parents' castle from a dragon. She aslo defeats Duessa, who represents the "false""(Catholic) church and the person of Mary, Queen of Scots, in a trial reminiscent of that which ended in Mary's beheading. Una is also representative of Truth.

Archimago: Archimago, an evil sorcerer who is sent to stop the knights in the service of the Faerie Queene. Of the Knights, Archimago hates Redcrosse most of all, hence he is symbolically the nemesis of England.

Duessa: Duessa is "duplicity," the opposite of Una ("Truth"). She is first seen as paramour to the evil knight Sansfoy ("Faithlessness") and lies about her identity to Redcrosse in an attempt to seduce him. She eventually succeeds in winning Redcrosse's favor and dragging him into Orgoglio's dungeon, but her efforts are undone by the intervention of Una and Prince Arthur.

Duessa appears later in the epic as part of the negative tetrad of Blandamour, Paridell, Ate and herself. She is put on trial and executed in Book 5.

4. Analyze the major figure of speech in Faerie queene? Or Discuss the faerie queene is an allegory. (same as penser’s treatment of good and evil..)

6. The description of major battles Red cross knight and The dragon,Red cross knight and Orgoglo? Ok done Same as penser’s treatment of good and evil.

7. short notes on: House of holiness, house of pride, The three heathen knight sansfoy, sansjoy and sanslaw.

House of Holiness:  Fairy Queen is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.  In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and Reformation elements. Though the use of the elements, the epic poet presents the different type of allegory.  

The House of Holiness is the virtuous counterpart to the House of Pride. It is accessed by a narrow path (cf. Matthew 7:13); the porter is Humility, and the mistress of the House is Dame Caelia, which means “heavenly.” Whereas the House of Pride was the abode of the seven deadly sins, the House of Holiness shelter’s Dame Caelia’s daughters, whose names mean “Faith,” “hope,” and “charity” (the three highest virtues as recorded in 1 Corinthians 13). The House of Holiness is managed by Caelia, who has three daughters: Fidelia, Speranza, Charissa.

House of pride:   Fairy Queen is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.  In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and Reformation elements. Though the use of the elements, the epic poet presents the different type of allegory.  

A porter, Idleness, leads Redcrosse along a broad path to the House of Pride, a direct reference to Matthew 7:13 (“broad is the way that leads to destruction“). Lucifera, mistress of the House of Pride, is the chief of the seven deadly sins (Pride, Sloth, Gluttony, Lechery, Avarice, Envy, and Wrath).. Her name is a feminization of Lucifer, a name for Satan in Christian theology. Satan is said to have committed the sin of pride when he saw himself as better than his Creator. Similarly, Lucifera as pride is Redcrosse’s gateway into the other sins; if Redcrosse is more prone to any sin than others are, it is his pride in his personal power. Allegorically, we see how an individual’s holiness can become dangerously like pride if it is focused on the self rather than on God.

The three heathen knight sansfoy, sansjoy and sansloy: These troublesome brothers in Book 1 are seriously lacking. Their names literally mean "without faith" (Sansfoy), "without joy" (Sansjoy), and "without law" (Sansloy), so it's no wonder they aren't the most fulfilled trio you've ever met. In the text they're identified as "Saracens," which is a term usually applied to Muslims, but could mean anyone in general who didn't believe in Christianity (and during Spenser's time, people were not particularly tolerant of this). Because these brothers aren't Christians, Spenser imagines that they therefore must be lacking, lacking the true faith, and the joy and rules that come with in. Without these three qualities, the brothers play by their own rules, chasing women and fighting with knights. For Redcrosse, their main antagonist, grappling with these brothers represents a confrontation with religious doubt.

1. We can die by it, if not live by love,        

  And if unfit for tomb or hearse    

  Our legend be, it will be fit for verse;

Answer:  These line have been taken from the poem “The Canonization” by John Donne. The Canonization By John Donne is a metaphysical poet where the poet tags himself as a lover.

In the third stanza, the speaker reacts to apparent name-calling on the part of the outsider, insisting that he and his beloved are “flies” (in the diction of his age, moths or butterflies) or “tapers” (candles), which gain fullness of life even as they consume themselves. (Renaissance English poets commonly employed the word “die” as a sexual pun, based on the folk belief that each orgasm shortened one’s life by a day.) Likening the physically and spiritually united lovers to the phoenix, a mythical bird that was thought to erupt into flame and then be resurrected from its own ashes, the speaker claims that they are proven “mysterious” (in the spiritual sense) by this ideal love. This constitutes the climax or turning point of this small drama.

2. So let us melt, and make no noise,

    No tear-floods, nor sigh-tempests move;

   'Twere profanation of our joys

    To tell the laity our love.

Answer: These line have been taken from the poem “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne.  Forbidding Mourning” begins with an image of death and mourning. In the poem  of second stanza use of the word “melt” in the first line evokes an image of warmth and of gradual motion rather than the more explosive “tear-floods” and “sigh-tempests”. These comparisons both take two things often related to mourning and sadness (tears and sighs) and turn them into stormy, grandiose expressions which seem unrealistic when examined through the lens of what a normal human can accomplish. No human can create a flood with their eyes or a storm with their breath. The following two lines, “’Twere profanation of our joys/To tell the laity of our love” use several words which begin the process of elevating the speaker’s love to sacredness. The speaker uses the word profanation, a word which typically means the desecration of something sacred or the degradation of anything worthy of veneration. In this case, their “joys” are the thing which would be defiled, a sentiment which elevates their love beyond the human sphere. The speaker also uses “laity”, which refers to anyone who is not a clergyman. In this way, it would be defilement of their joys to speak of their love as anything but holy.

3.      Our Two soules therefore which are one

Through I must goe, endure not yet

A breach but an expansion

Like gold to ayery thinnesse beate

Answer: These line have been taken from the poem “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne.  Forbidding Mourning” begins with an image of death and mourning.  This poem is typical of Donne's work in that it is set on a particular dramatic occasion. The speaker, a man about to take a long journry, says goodbye("Valediction") to the woman he loves, telling her not to cry or feel sad("Forbidding mourning").

 Now we are hot and heavy with Donne's theology. He is practically quoting the Old Testament book of Genesis here, which establishes marriage as making two individuals into one unit. Like any good metaphysical poet, Donne doesn't shy away from a paradox. He deliberately uses the  The poet considering there parting not as breach rather as expansion because the souls are compared to a lump of gold beaten thinner than paper. Their separation does not resemble a division, but instead an expansion into a thin golden foil.

4.      Such wilt thoy be to mee who must

Like Thother foot, obliquely runne

Thy firmnes makes my circle just

And makes me end where I begunne

Answer: These line have been taken from the poem “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” by John Donne.  Forbidding Mourning” begins with an image of death and mourning.  This poem is typical of Donne's work in that it is set on a particular dramatic occasion. The speaker, a man about to take a long journry, says goodbye("Valediction") to the woman he loves, telling her not to cry or feel sad("Forbidding mourning").

 The end of the poem spells out the metaphor and winds down the poem with more praise for his wife. Line thirty-three connects the fixed foot firmly with his wife. This stanza is similar to what is called the 'turn' in a sonnet (Donne wrote lots and lots of those). Everything before the turn is metaphorical and convoluted, but now at the end he makes everything plain. Of course Donne means that the center foot makes a circle accurate and perfectly round, but "just" also carries with it a legal or even moral connotation. It's possible that Donne is saying that the faithfulness of his wife will keep him from straying while he is away.  

The last line has a nice ring of finality to it. We've really come full circle. Seriously though, this line is Donne's final promise, his final reason why they shouldn't mourn at his parting: if they are both firm and strong, he will be back soon enough—right where he belongs.

1. The Description of major battles Red Cross Knight and Dragon?

Answer:  Fairy Queen is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.  In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and Reformation elements. Though the use of the elements, the epic poet presents the different type of allegory.  As a result in the epic poem, the epic poet has presented religious, political and spiritual allegory.

     From the history of the Epic we come to know that Una is a daughter of a king whose country has been ruined by a dragon. Her life is also under threat. So,  his daughter Una comes to Queen Gluriana to seek help and her father's Kingdom.  As result, Queen Gluriana employees The Red Cross night to saved the ruined Kingdom.

   Upon entering Una’s country, the pair see a huge dragon and a high tower that holds captive Una’s parents. Red Cross and the dragon immediately begin their fight, which lasts an entire day. Finally, Red Cross is able to injure the dragon, but, in return, the dragon breathes fire on Red Cross, burning him in his armor and causing him to fall into a spring. Believing he is victorious, the dragon rests as night falls. Una prays all night for the recovery of Red Cross, and, in the morning, Red Cross rises from the spring with his strength restored. Another day of fierce fighting follows, which again causes injury to both the dragon and to Red Cross. As the day ends, the wounded Red Cross falls at the foot of a blessed tree, whose stream of balm restores the knight for yet another day of fighting. On the third day, the dragon approaches Red Cross with open jaws, intending to eat the knight and to end the battle. Red Cross, though, pierces the throat of the dragon, finally killing the beast. Una steps forward to thank God and the brave knight for a great victory.

     With the dragon killed, the land is freed from its captivity and, rejoicing, the inhabitants honor Red Cross as their hero. Thus the encounter between the Red Cross Knight and The Dragon presents the allegorical significance of the Epic poem.

2.                  Battle between Red Cross Knight and Orgoglio.

Answer: Fairy Queen is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.  In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and Reformation elements. Though the use of the elements, the epic poet presents the different type of allegory.  As a result in the epic poem, the epic poet has presented religious, political and spiritual allegory.

     From the history of the Epic we come to know that Una is a daughter of a king whose country has been ruined by a dragon. Her life is also under threat. So,  his daughter Una comes to Queen Gluriana to seek help and her father's Kingdom.  As result, Gloriana, the Faerie Queene, sent Redcrosse to kill the dragon and free her parents, but that brave knight now lies captive to a giant. Because The giant Orgoglio overpowers Redcrosse, puts him in prison, and takes Duessa as his mistress. Arthur swears to free Redcrosse and goes with them to the gate of the giant's castle. There, he blows his great horn, summoning out Orgoglio; Duessa follows, riding on a seven-headed beast. The giant attacks, and misses with his first blow; Arthur then hacks off his arm. Meanwhile, the squire tries to hold off the seven-headed beast, but he is drugged by Duessa and nearly killed. Arthur, furious, cuts off one of the heads of the beast. But Orgoglio knocks him down from behind and would have killed him had not Arthur unveiled his shield, which blinded both beast and giant. Now the knight brings the giant to the ground and chops off his head. Seeing Arthur victorious, Una runs into the castle and finds the dungeon where her knight lies. Redcrosse has been weakened almost unto death, and he must be helped out by Una and Arthur. Once outside, they take Duessa and strip her, so that Redcrosse can see that she is truly a witch. Then, they leave her to flee into the woods as they rest in the castle, victorious.

3. Analyze the major figure of Speech in Faerie Queene?( symbol, personification, imagery, epic simile, metaphor)

Answer: Faire Queene is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.  In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and Reformation elements. Though the use of the elements, the epic poet presents the different type of allegory.  As a result in the epic poem, the epic poet has presented religious, political and spiritual allegory.

    From the history of the Epic we have found the following figure of Speech:

·         Allegory: each leading character in the twelve projected books was to embody one virtue or quality, taken together, they would characterize a truly noble person.

·         Spenserianstanza: Spensor Introduce spenserianstanza in Fairee Quinee. spenserianstanza is a nine-line stanza consisting of eight iambic.

·         Symbol: Spenser employs name symbolism throughout his work to convey what a character is intended to represent. The name Fidessa means “faith”, suggesting that Fidessa is meant to represent faith.

·         Personification allegory: The Faerie Queene is called a personification allegory because each character represents something in Spenser's anti-Catholic, pro-Church of England theme.

·         Canto: The Faerie Queene is divided into cantos, which is a form of writing that divides the text into smaller portions than you would find in a chapter.

·         Eclogue: An eclogue is poem written in classical style dealing with pastoral subjects.

·         Pastoral Poetry: Presents an idealized view of life, rather than a realist's point of view.

·         National Epic: An epic that tries to capture the essence of the country of its origin.

·         Simile: In The Faerie Queene, Spenser remains true to this tradition. Epic similes, also called Homeric simile, are a third textual epic convention. There are many examples of this convention in The Faerie Queene. For example, comparing Error's defiling 'quality' to the flooding of the Nile and the mudd it leaves,  “As when old father Nilus gins to swell/With timely pride above the Aegyptian vale,/His fattie waves do fertile slime outwell,/And overflow each plaine and lowly dale:/But when his later spring gins to avale,/Huge heapes of mudd he leaves,”

      Spencer has been introduced a lot of different types of figure of speech in his famous epic The Faerie Queene. Here there is the significance of the Epic.

Fight between Red cross knight and Orgoglio

Answer:  In the epic poem Faerie Queen by Edmund Spenser a dreadful and fiery fight takes place  in canto 7 between Red cross knight and the giant orgoglio. when the duessa shouts the knight sees a horrible creature who is coming toward them. The giant is so huge that he seems to touch the sky. The giant body is full of wind and also full of sinful thoughts and feelings. When he finds the knight he attacks the knight very aggressively. The knight has no option but has to fight with that monster creature. As the knight becomes weak by having the water of the spring. Therefore, he cannot fight strongly against the powerful prodigy. For that reason, the giant easily defects the Red cross knight and when He is going to kill the red cross knight. Then duessa cries out and tells not to kill him on that occasion. The giant orgoglio  accepts duessa’s request and takes her as his miss-tress and also imprisons the Red cross knight in his dungeon for further physical and mental tortures.

 This is how the battle ends. But the significance of battle is that the Red cross night loses his physical and moral strength by drinking poison water from spring, and having sex with the witches duessa. By commuting these sins the holiness actually defects with the hand of a giant orgoglio.

·         Explain : Book-1 Canto 3, Stanza 31:

 Much like, as when the beaten marinere,

 That long hath wandred in the Ocean wide,

 Oft soust in swelling Tethys saltish teare,

 And long time hauing tand his tawney hide

 With blustring breath of heauen, that none can
bide,

 And scorching flames of fierce Orions hound,

 Soone as the port from farre he has espide,

 His chearefull whistle merrily doth sound,

 And Nereus crownes with cups; his mates him
pledg a-round.

Answer: These Stanza have been taken
from Book 1 canto 3 of the poem “The Fairy Queen” by Edmund Spenser. It
 is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.
In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and
Reformation elements.

 From the stanza of  Book 1 canto 3 of the poem we come to know that Una's love for the Red Cross Knight is also remarkable. She loves him deeply.  All this while the Lady Una, lonely and forsaken, was roaming in search of her lost Knight. But  When Una suddenly sees what she thinks is the banner of Redcrosse, she's overjoyed and rides to him, asking him where he's been and telling him how happy she is to finally see him. Archimago, pretending to be Redcrosse, says he would never leave her and that he had only left to go on a quest that is now over.

   For her Knight she does not have any ill will or jealousy; she has no words of reproach of indignation, of cold reserve. On the other hand, meeting her Knight she exclaims with great joy. Whenever she talks of the Red Cross Knight, she speaks endearingly of him.

Book-1
canto 10, stanza-57

 Faire knight (quoth he) Hierusalem that is,

The new Hierusalem, that God has built

For those to dwell in, that are chosen his,

His chosen people purg'd from sinfull guilt,

With pretious bloud, which cruelly was spilt

On cursed tree, of that unspotted lam,

That for the sinnes of all the world was kilt:

Now are they Saints all in
that Citie sam,

More
deare unto their God, then younglings to their dam.

 Answer: These Stanza have been
taken from Book 1 canto 3 of the poem “The Fairy Queen” by Edmund Spenser. It
 is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.
In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and
Reformation elements.

   From the stanza of  Book 1 canto 10 of the poem we come to know  

Q. Discuss the faerie queene is an allegory.

Or , Describe the moral and spiritual allegory.

Or, What pictorial quality do you find in Fairy Queen.

Or, Spenser’s treatment of good and evil.

Or Who is monster error? Describe the importance of the fight between the monster error and Red Cross night.

Answer: Fairy Queen is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.  In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and Reformation elements. Though the use of the elements, the epic poet presents the different type of allegory.  As a result in the epic poem, the epic poet has presented religious, political and spiritual allegory.

    From the history, we come to know that the Roman Catholic Church becomes the main centre of the whole  world.

      In the middle age, the influence of the church is very dangerous Getting excessive opportunity the priests  are engaged in corruption. Because of the corruption the  people are aware of it and they wanted to reform the church. At this time, Martin luther King wants to reform the church.

    From the history of the Epic we come to know that Una is a daughter of a king whose country has been ruined by a dragon. Her life is also under threat. So,  his daughter Una comes to Queen Gluriana to seek help and her father's Kingdom.  As result, Queen Gluriana employees The Red Cross night to saved the ruined Kingdom. Next, Una and Red Cross night set to a journey. They go through a wood. Suddenly, there start a stormy atmosphere and heavy rain. Actually, the wood is so deep that they do not see anything as the poem:

" led with delight, they thus beguile the way,

until the blustering storm is overblowne".

At one stage, the storm winds up and they again start their journey. At this time, they are lost. At last, they go near a cave. But the night is not afraid of it. He says that man's purity saves him from his danger. Actually, it is the cave of the monster error that is a horrible creature. When the night pose into the inside part of the cave he notices a wonderful creature. Actually the wonderful creature has to face a women and its part is like a Serpent. The horrible creature has creature has lot of young ones. When the light of the shield falls upon the eyes of the young ones, they enter into the inside part of the Monster erro. As the poet describe:

" Soone as that uncouth light upon them shone,

Into her mouth they crept, and suddain all were gone."

Next, The Monster error comes at the cave and it becomes very angry. All this time Jesus Christ and to pray to him. Then the Knight impose all of his strength and is able to free one of his hands. The knight presses the thought of the monster and it begins to vomit. Actually its vomit consists of books and papers. It also consists of frogs and toads. They are blind and have no eyes. As the poet presents:

    " Her vomit full of books and papers was, With loothly frogs and toads, which eyes did lacke."

At last, the night is able to cut off the monster head and finally kills it. In this way, Spencer has used the allegory and significance in the epic.

  Though the description of the Epic poem, Spencer has been able to preset the Reformation elements, the Renaissance element and political elements at the same time. Here there is the significance of the Epic.

   Or

Thus the encounter between the Red Cross Knight and The Monster error presents the allegorical significance of the Epic poem.

·         Story of Fradubio’s

Fairy Queen is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.  In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and Reformation elements. Though the use of the elements, the epic poet presents the different type of allegory.  As a result in the epic poem, the epic poet has presented religious, political and spiritual allegory.

      From the history of the Epic we come to know that Fidessa, a young and beautiful maiden. Duessa is accompanied by Sansfoy, whom Red Cross kills in a fierce fight. Duessa and Red Cross then rest under a pair of trees. To Red Cross’s surprise, one of the trees begins to speak, describing how it was once a young knight named Fradubio who was traveling with his fair Fraelissa. Fradubio explains how he met a beautiful maiden, was enamored of her, and fought for her hand. The beautiful maiden then turned Fraelissa into a tree to end Fradubio’s love for Fraelissa, and later, after Fradubio saw his new love bathing and realized that she was actually an old and loathsome witch (Duessa), Fradubio himself is turned into a tree by the witch. Red Cross fails to understand the warning, and he and Duessa soon continue their journey.

* How did Archimago manage separate Red cross and Lady una.

Answer: Fairy Queen is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.  In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and Reformation elements. Though the use of the elements, the epic poet presents the different type of allegory.  As a result in the epic poem, the epic poet has presented religious, political and spiritual allegory.

    Archimago is a sorcerer in The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. In the narrative, he is continually engaged in deceitful magic’s, as when he makes a false Una to tempt the Red-Cross Knight into lust, and when this fails, conjures another image, of a squire, to deceive the knight into believing that Una was false to him. When Red Cross He and his lady Una travel together as he fights the dragon Errour, then separate as the wizard Archimago tricks the Red Crosse Knight in a dream to think that Una is unchaste. After he leaves, the Red Crosse Knight meets Duessa, who feigns distress in order to entrap him.

·         Battle between sansfoy with Red cross knight

Answer:  Fairy Queen is famous epic of Edmund Spenser.  In the epic, the Epic poet craftily presents The Renaissance and Reformation elements. Though the use of the elements, the epic poet presents the different type of allegory.  As a result in the epic poem, the epic poet has presented religious, political and spiritual allegory.

   Distraught, Red Cross leaves alone the next morning and soon meets the old witch Duessa, disguised as Fidessa, a young and beautiful maiden. Duessa is accompanied by Sansfoy, whom Red Cross kills in a fierce fight.