Culture and values of the texts, "Le Morte Darthur" by Malory and "Saint" by Sir Bernard Shaw

Texts are usually appropriations of another text, it is a rendering to a similar idea or theme. The author of a book may have been inspired by another to write their novel. Hence the ideas of the time in which texts were written or the times in which the story is based in can also be transmitted. Le Morte Darthur by Malory, Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw are just a few examples of texts responding …

…and values in which the accounts were affected by and not to the time in which Joan lived in. This belief led to a cultured story not only based on twentieth century values but also those in Joan's era. Le Morte Darthur cultures and values are idealised on aristocratic life. knights would damsels in distress, participate in courtly lover, they were heroic and followed the chivalric traditions all these were valued as heroic, medieval character.