tristan and isolde the ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

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Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

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Page 1: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

Tristan and Isolde

The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the

original love triangle

Page 2: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

Tristan

Page 3: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

IsoldeIrish Princess

Page 4: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

King Mark (of Lyonnesse)

Uncle and father figure to

Tristan

In love with Isolde

Page 5: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

Tristan and Isolde(Tristam and Iseult [Yseult])

Page 6: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

Mark loves Isolde and sends Tristan to get her from Ireland

Page 7: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

On the way back to Cornwall, Tristan and

Isolde drink a magic potion

that makes them fall in love

Page 8: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

Mark finds out, imprisons Tristan, and moves Isolde to a leper colony.

Page 9: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

Tristan escapes, rescues Isolde, and is wounded by Mark’s poisoned lance

Page 10: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

Tristan remarries another Isolde

It is an unhappyMarriage becauseHe still loves his true love

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Tristan sends for his true love, Isolde, to help him recover

White sails mean she’s onboard, black sails mean she’s not.

His new wife is jealous and tricks Tristan.

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Tristan dies of heartache because he thinks Isolde abandoned him

Page 13: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

Isolde dies of heartache as a result of Tristan’s death

Page 14: Tristan and Isolde The ultimate love story….a romance, a tragedy, and the original love triangle

Trees growing together from their graves

SYMBOLISM

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The ironic deaths at the end make this story a tragedy

So which of the three love triangles do you like the most?