Week 13 Reading Notes A: Fairie Queen: Britomart unit

It is kind of sad that there is such an awesome princess who can throw knights from their horses, and yet still her whole mission in life is not to free the oppressed or accomplish amazing tasks like the male knights, but is of course to go find a man she saw in a mirror. I am all for love but why can't she someone along with all these other things? Would she be fine with sitting in her castle if she had not seen this man? Seems like a waste of a heroine. And further more, is this man searching for her as desperately as she is searching for him? Or is he off winning fame and glory doing knightly things? The double standards, as always, are irksome
-I'm definitely at least seeing some more powerful women in this story, but again with the six knights, its because she "has beauty that has no rival". So would knights swear to serve her if she was not pretty?
-Ok so it says further on that even as a child she liked to use weapons and hunt and did not like ladylike things, which is cool and different but again with the lovestruck puppy stuff, it is just so one-dimensional
-Scudamour sounds like a toddler, and would likely be more successful in his knightly efforts if he would stop flinging his armor on the ground and laying face down and throwing tantrums
-I like that Britomart seems to not be interested in material wealth
-So Merlin told her that the brave strong knight would become king and have lots of sons and kings as offspring, but he never said it would be with her. She seems to be putting a lot of faith in a shadow of an image she saw in a mirror

Story source: Stories from the Faerie Queene by Mary Macleod, with drawings by A. G. Walker (1916).

Britomart Redeems Faire Amoret, William Etty, 1833

(Wikipedia)