Ivanhoe: The Commentary of History, Religion and Romance
Throughout the history of the Scottish literature, many authors have written pieces of literature that have been significant in the lives of the Scottish people. Sir Walter Scott, a famous Scottish novelist, wrote many plays, novels and short stories in his career as an author and a playwright. Sir Scott wrote one of his finest novels at the height of his career. Ivanhoe was a success for the First Baronet Scott, because of the many themes that characterised the story and also the novel has its elegant blend of history, romance, religious conflicts between Christians and Jews and also creating suspenseful scenes in that story. Scott was inspired writing Ivanhoe for three reasons. First, he was inspired by writing of the medieval history of his native country of Scotland. Second, he conglomerated both history and romance into the story so that readers would be interested in the story so that it could create a romantic feeling. Third, Scott wanted to write Ivanhoe so that readers could learn history in a different way.
Readers were also looking into his influences of writing this novel and also how he did he developed the story of Ivanhoe. Scott influences of writing Ivanhoe were referred back to King Richard's England during the Medieval Ages in which the Anglo-Saxons laboured…show more content… Dr Levin wrote a journal that was divided by three parts which are inheritance as inter text, inheritance as land and inheritance of the blood. Dr Levin pointed out in the journal that inheritance that Rebecca had received from her father that shows that their identity is inflicted by their heritage just because she is a Jew. Furthermore, the fact that she was a Jew all the more reason that prejudice is going to be existed towards her and also to her
