THE LADY OF SHALOTT PATIENCE AND CARING

“The Lady of Shallot” is a story where we can relate two important values to the story. These two values are called patience and caring. Throughout the story we can notice that the lady of shallot’s character has the value of patience throughout the story, until a specific part where she loses this value; she doesn’t show that she is caring. The character who at some point of the story showed care for me was sir Lancelot. Before continuing with the reasons why i believe this, it is important that the definition of these two values must be left clear. Patience is the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed. It includes staying calm through stressful moments as well. While the value of caring is when you show or feel concern, worry or kindness towards someone or something. Now to go back to the reasons why i said the lady of shallot was a patient woman is because she was imprisoned somewhere far away, in an island named Shallot, near Camelot; where she could not do nothing else rather than weave her magical web. She could not communicate through the outside world or the mysterious curse she had would get activated. The only way for her to see what was going on outside her small world was by a mirror that reflected everything. She could not look directly into the real life world. It’s true that she did not know what exactly the curse was but she knew that the consequences were not good. She risked all of her life when a man named sir Lancelot passed by. And this is the part why i believe she did not care about herself enough since she did not think through her actions. This man, captivated her eye and attention immediately, she described him as if he were from another universe and that she had to see him in real life and experience what it would be or feel like, which is what lead her in to looking directly into Camelot. She noticed that the curse, at that exact moment was activated, since the mirror broke and the magic web just flew around. She did not care about herself enough since she kept going on her way and got on a boat, and rowed down the river of Shallot to get to Camelot on her own with a long white dress knowing that there would be consequences to what she had just done.  The weather was horrible that day, it was so stormy and windy that her blood just froze cold out of nowhere. She lied there dead on her boat and that called the attention of sir Lancelot. He showed a little bit of care when he ran over there to see what had happened and saw the lady of Shallot lying there frozen cold with not a move. He said she had a beautiful face at that very moment.