A Corruption of Values In a day and age where riches could corrupt the humblest of people, ones eternal fate could be determined by a human priest, and there was a code for all to live by that should have maintained absolute peace, there was scheming and betrayal in love and war. Although, we're aware of what it's thought to be like in the middle ages, most of that knowledge can be taken from the …showed first 75 words of 767 total…

…showed last 75 words of 767 total…land by putting him into a situation which assures him death, instead of loving and protecting his stepson. Roland betrays his men, and jeopardizes their lives. When he sees how great in number their enemy army is, he should have called the king for assistance, but he lets his pride and ego, his fatal flaws, take control of him and does not do what is in his heart that he knows to be moral. A