Imagine a fire in your chest that so violently burns as bottomless and blistering as Satan’s lair only to be caused by a razor-sharp dagger, tacitly resembling love, that pierces skin and bone and finally ends up centered in your heart. I can only imagine that this is the pain that Palamon and his cousin, Arcita, endure as they first set their eyes on Queen Hippolyta’s sister, Emily, as she gracefully paces in …showed first 75 words of 1174 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1174 total…brothers before this unfortunate complication arose. It tears these brave and bold knights apart from each other, but from bad comes some good. The greatest achievement in this tale is that the two knights attain peace with one another at the end of the story. They both receive exactly what they asked for: Palamon gets his wife, and Arcita wins the battle, and knowing this, the tale ends in perfect harmony with a slight twist.