Jeschute

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In Wolfram von Eschenbach's epic Parzival, Jeschute is the wife of Duke Orilus de Lâlânt .

characterization

In contrast to the old French model Perceval des Chrétien de Troyes , Jeschute is no longer just a nameless secondary character. Wolfram makes her identity explicit: the reader learns that she is married to Duke Orilus de Lâlânt and of royal descent. In addition, Wolfram makes her sister Erecs and thus creates an intertextual connection to Hartmann's Erec. Jeschute becomes the victim of violence in several ways: on the one hand by the inexperienced Parzival, on the other hand out of jealousy by her husband.

For Parzival, the figure of Jeschute primarily serves to illustrate his inner development from an uneducated youth to a compassionate man. Jeschute is the first woman Parzival meets after leaving his mother Herzeloyde. Since he followed Herzeloyde's advice verbatim due to his lack of courtly upbringing, he rudely stole Jeschute's ring, a brooch and two kisses. Only a year later did he come to the Trevrizent hermitage to see that his behavior was wrong.

Although Jeschute is completely dissolved after Parzival's attack, the question of innocence does not arise for her husband Orilus. Without hesitation, he concludes that his wife has cheated on him and resigns bed and table sharing and his duty of care until the deed is atoned for.

Even after his defeat in the fight against Parzival, Orilus cannot forgive Jeschute. This only happens when Parzival invokes Jeschute's innocence in the hermitage. Only here can trust between the couple be restored: Orilus realizes that on the one hand he had neglected his duty to huote towards his wife when he left her alone during Parzival's attack, and on the other hand that his behavior towards his wife was wrong.

During these two conflict situations, Jeschute accepts her fate, but clearly points out that she has been wronged and in a dispute with Orilus tries to convince Orilus of another solution to the problem, with the help of a cleansing oath.

Wolfram's direction of sympathy goes in favor of Jeschute: the narrator repeatedly emphasizes her innocence and consistently writes from the perspective of the victim. Even after the actual Jeschute plot has ended, Wolfram keeps referring to the wrongly punished Jeschute.

By designing the Jeschute-Parzival and the Jeschute-Orilus plot, Wolfram opens up several discourses: On the one hand, he explicitly describes the case of violence against women within a marriage. In addition, he addresses the connections between love and violence as well as love and chivalry and the associated potential for violence.

literature

  • Friedrich Michael Dimpel, 'er solts et hân gediuhet nider'. Judgmental narration in the organ plot of Wolfram's 'Parzival' . In: Euphorion 105, 2011, pp. 251-281
  • Sonja Emmerling, Gender Relations in the Gawan Books of Parzival , Tübingen 2003.
  • Ulrich Ernst, love and violence in the Parzival Wolframs von Eschenbach , in: Chevaliers errants, demoiselles et l'Autre. Courtly and courtly literature in the European Middle Ages. Festschrift for Xenja von Ertzdorff , ed. Von Trude Ehlert, Göppingen 1998, pp. 215–243.
  • Elisabeth Lienert, On the discursiveness of violence in Wolfram's “Parzival”. In: Wolfgang Haubrichs u. a. (Ed.): Wolfram von Eschenbach - Balances and Perspectives , Eichstätter Colloquium, Berlin 2002, pp. 223–245.
  • Robert Scheuble, manhood, vrouwen master. Male socialization and forms of violence against women in the Nibelungenlied and in Wolframs von Eschenbach Parzival , Frankfurt am Main 2005.

Jeschute in other seals

The curious and treacherous maid in Thomas Mann's novel The Chosen One is also called Jeschute,