Names_In_Tristan

Names In Tristan Gottfried Von Strassburg makes the story really interesting by making the characters’ names according to their positions in the story and their characteristics. There is a pattern to which Strassburg works with. This makes it very simple to understand who stand on which side of the scheme. However there are different patterns as to how the loved ones and the enemies are named due to diverse ways of naming each group. Strassburg makes a great intention by categorizing the characters in the story. Strassburg was very particular in choosing the names of Tristan’s fathers, enemies and lovers. The two fathers of Tristan both have similar names, which start with the letter ‘R’. It is also very compelling that Tristan’s enemies, Morald, Morgan, Melot, and Menjodoc’s names all start with the letter ‘M’. There is also the case of all of Tristan’s lovers names are Isolde. I personally like the idea of approaching the name like he does because it helps the audience to know a little bit more about the characteristics of the person as they read and personally it helped me to characterize them by name. Tristan has two fathers who are Rivalin, and Ruel. Out of the tristan, names, isolde, tristan’s, very, both, two, same, rivalin, parent, name, king, enemies, because, uncle, strassburg, ruel, morgan, good, foster, fathers, father, even, different, though, story, one, mark, makes, lovers, loved, killed, characters, characteristics, biological,