Patience

The Gawain Poet · c. 1400 CE · Poem · English · Medieval

A prophet ordered to preach against a great city takes ship in the opposite direction, and the storm that follows leaves the crew drawing lots to find out whose god they have offended. What the man learns inside the fish turns out not to be what he learns afterwards, sitting outside the walls in the heat under a woodbine. The Jonah story is framed as an argument that patience and poverty are the virtues of people given no choice about either.

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Lineage

• retells ↑ The Book of Jonah
  Hebrew scripture · c. 450 BCE · Scripture
• companion to ↑ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  The Gawain Poet · c. 1390 CE · Poem

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• The Book of Jonah
  Hebrew scripture · c. 450 BCE · Scripture

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• Three Tales
  Gustave Flaubert · 1877 CE · Short Story

  43% · 9 shared
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• The Night of the Iguana
  Tennessee Williams · 1961 CE · Play

  43% · 8 shared
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• The Winners
  Julio Cortázar · 1960 CE · Novel

  41% · 9 shared
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• Everyman
  Anonymous · c. 1495 CE · Play

  37% · 10 shared
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• The Dream of the Rood
  Anonymous · c. 750 CE · Poem

  37% · 9 shared
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