ESSAY: Male-Female Relationships Found in Medieval Ballads There are many medieval ballads that contain male-female relationships. However, the ballads “Edward”, “Bonny Barbara Allen”, and “Mattie Groves” stand out because they all contain atypical male-female relationships. The similarities the three ballads share in their male-female relationships are: 1) there is always a conflict between the male and the female and 2) none of these relationships are representative of the ideal male-female relationship or marriage. Although the male-female relationship …showed first 75 words of 913 total…

…showed last 75 words of 913 total…the aforementioned ballads contain relationships that are representative of an ideal male-female relationship, each of these ballads are effective in portraying the arguments of both parties involved. By doing so, it becomes easier for the reader to distinguish between the rights and wrongs of a relationship and to identify what type of values the people of that time period held or should have held. Bibliography none except the sources from where these ballads were found