Sir walter scott (1771-1832)

Hacia la escritura creativa 
Tarea 
The chivalric ideal coloured the whole notion of what it was to be a "gentleman", someone who 
was loyal to King (or Queen) and country, who treated women with reverence, who preferred 
death to dishonour and stood up for truth and fair play. These ideals continued into the 20th-
century and even the popular magazine Punch described the qualities of a good sportsman thus:
"He is one who has not merely braced his muscles and developed his endurance by the exercise 
of some great sport, but has...learnt to control his anger, to be considerate to his fellow men...to 

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bear aloft a cheerful countenance under disappointment, and never own himself defeated until 
the last breath is out of his body."
In 1908 when Robert Baden-Powell founded the Boy Scouts Movement he recommended scouts 
to read Ivanhoe.
War time propaganda has also pretended that war was a glorious adventure.
Discuss the use of the chivalric ideal in modern times. How many more wars shall we have to 
fight to prove this a fiction?
En otros tiempos 
Tarea 
Discuss the following quotation.
"One ought never to assume that the structure of Orientalism is nothing more than a structure of 
lies or of myths which, were the truth about them to be told, would simply blow away. I myself 
believe Orientalism is more particularly valuable as a sign of European-Atlantic power over the 
Orient that is a veridic discourse about the Orient (which is what, in its academic or scholarly 
form, it claims to be." (Said Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978: 6)
What exactly are the functions of the Tartanry representations, beyond presenting some 
mythological past?(Tartanry = representations of Scottish traditions and culture). 
Notice that identity seems to exist only at a symbolic level.