Part 1 of Essay
I. Introduction When Edmund Spenser wrote his romantic epic The Faerie Queene, he intended for it to be an allegory. An allegory is a literary device used to give a literary work two different meanings. One meaning is easily understood, but the second meaning is expressed through a more subtle approach. In a letter to S ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... whose task is to learn a particular virtue by facing, falling before but ultimately discovering how to master, the specific vices which beset it” (Evans 143). The second book portrays the virtue of Temperance through the knight Sir Guyon. The Fairy Queen ordered him to locate and destroy Acrasia's seductive Bower of Bliss. With his companion and guide, the Palmer, Sir Guyon completes his mission successfully, and after his encounters along the way, he becomes the virtue of Temperance. II. Body Section In or ....