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LOYALTY

As time progresses certain values such as chivalry, bravery and honor appears to have lost cultural importance. Today men are so concentrated on the self, that these values scarcely exist. In medieval times such virtues as loyalty held a much higher place on a man’s list of priorities.
In medieval times, if a person was serious about helping or serving a leader they pledged allegiance to him. This pledge was essentially an oath or promise to that person to stay loyal till death. In the beginning of Everyman by Anonymous after Everyman discovered that he must make a pilgrimage he encountered another character, Fellowship. Fellowship made a pledge, promising to stay loyal when he said, “My true friend show to me your mind; I will not forsake thee to my life’s end”(212-213). Fellowship made this promise intending to keep it even if it required sacrificing his life.
Promises and pledges held a much greater significance in medieval times than they do by today’s standards.......

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