Love and honor are simple concepts that many lovers make entirely too complicated for themselves as they tend to veer away from the easy things. When it comes to love, control cannot be the main source of power, because then there is no love (“Love Ethic,” 2024). Many take the love that someone has for them and misuse it to guilt them into believing that anything they do is the right thing. Once many realize, it has already been too late, so the honor that they thought they were receiving was false. This happens often in Marie de France’s lais where one is deceptive in their actions, so the outcome is very different. In Bisclavret he felt hurt by what happened, in Lanval no amount of love stopped him from telling, and in Laustic hurt feelings…show more content… People tend to make these ordinary concepts unnecessarily complicated, which are often the cause of betrayal, conflicting opposites, and subsequent destruction. Betrayal - Bisclavret In the lai Bisclavret, Bisclavret tends to turn into a werewolf from time to time, which leads to him being gone for multiple days at once. He did not let his wife know what was going on, leading her to be anxious because of his disappearance (Gou, 2022). This from the start goes into the deception the wife had felt, which if he had made it easier on himself to let her know what was happening everything that had occurred after this event would have been dismissed. Such acts are a major reason lovers complicate the act of honesty, because they base the issue off their feelings instead of talking the issue out. To further the issue of betrayal, Bisclavret was already wary of telling his wife. When he did tell her, she decided to write a letter to the king that for him to marry her he had to steal the clothes of Bisclavret so he would not return to human form (Gou,…show more content… Although the only reason this happened was because she betrayed the trust of an honest marriage, destroying the love they had between each other. The reaction that he had caused him to kill the nightingale, which is something the wife, loved to hear (Benjamin, 2012). The pain they both had encountered lead to that destruction which also showed the pain they had within themselves connected to the nightingales pain (Benjamin, 2012). Holding on to true feelings resulted in both lovers getting hurt, because the love they had for each other gradually started to change as time went on. Conclusion Some will say that love and honor are not inherent to humanity and the only reason it is said to, is humans make it difficult, that people do not look at the whole of each situation where people are messed up human beings from the start causing the actions of others in the future. However, love and honor is something that can be easy and the people that are deemed to be messed with which causes the others actions it does not seem how the situation started to begin
