The Faerie Queene

Poetry | Edmund Spenser

How Were the Red Cross Knight and Una Entrapped by Archimago?

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How were the Red Cross Knight and Una entrapped by Archimago In The Faerie Queene Book Canto Archimago tricks both the Red Cross Knight and Lady Una He uses lies black magic and false appearance to trap them He pretends like a holy man but is actually an evil sorcerer His main goal is to separate the Red Cross Knight Holiness from Lady Una Truth Archimago Pretends to Be Holy Archimago appears suddenly in the forest where Red Cross Knight and Lady Una are traveling He looks like a pious man He wears long black clothes carries a book of prayers and walks with eyes looking down He pretends to pray and repent all the time And all the way he prayed as he went This makes Red Cross Knight and Una trust him He invites them to rest in his small house The house looks holy from the outside

But it is actually full of evil books and magic tools The Magic Spell and Evil Plan That night while the Knight and Una are sleeping Archimago begins his evil plan He opens his magic books He performs black magic to call two evil spirits He uses these spirits to create a lustful dream for the knight and a fake Una As Spenser writes He seekes out mighty charmes to trouble sleepy mindes Archimago sends the lustful dream into the knight s head and makes him see Lady Una behaving in a shameful way The second spirit is changed into a false Una The Knight Believes the Lie Archimago s evil plan works The knight wakes up from the lustful dream He sees the fake Una trying to seduce him He becomes very angry He thinks Lady Una is not pure Without asking her anything he leaves her alone in the forest In short Archimago traps them using false appearance and lies This shows how falsehood can break trust even between good people

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