In this essay I am going to compare and contrast the concepts of hostility, love and the source of power (God in the Song of Roland and magic in the Tempest) in the books of "Song of Roland" and "Tempest".
"Song of Roland" is a book of war between two religions: Christianity and Islam. The hostility comes from different religions. Christians are Franks and Saracens are Muslim. Christians see Muslims as evil and enemy because of their religions. It is shown in the poem as Saracens a mirror image of the Christians, socially and religiously, The Moslems become the evil mirror image of the Chr…
