Piers Plowman Blog (prologue & passus 1)

As stated in the Guilty Vicarage, crime stories have specific elements that come together to form a story that focuses on the discovery of truth of a crime the punishment on the criminal. These stories typically have elements such as the detective, victims, witnesses, specific types of societies, suspects, etc. I believe that a crime story is a specific story that contains those specific elements and focuses mostly on discovering the truth of a crime and punishing the enemy. On the other hand, a mystery story is a story that focuses on, again, discovering a truth or uncovering some hidden truth, that does not necessarily have to be a crime. Meanwhile, mystery in the story can involve some sort of sense of mystery in a story that is not the main focus of the story, but instead still contributes to driving the story forward. While there may not be some sort of main truth that the author wants the readers to uncover throughout the story, the author makes the readers try to make their own connections using evidence and details that the author puts out. This sort of mystery can include crimes but can also just be about trying to uncover what the author is truly trying to say by making certain connections.

Piers Plowman is pretty interesting because I never read something like this before and it took me a long time to figure out what some words and sentences meant, and for some sentences, even reading it over and over did not help, which made it extremely difficult to understand. However, from what I did understand, the story has a pretty slow start in which the narrator, who is unnamed, has a dream of meeting a woman that constantly talks about the truth and believing in God. Truth seems to be a huge theme in the story, and there seems to be a lot of talk about the disorder in society and how the rich take advantage of the poor, which I expect to be further discussed in the book. There seems to not have been much action or revelation of any sort of complex situation that has a hidden truth yet, so I do not really see any sort of mystery in the story yet. However, I’m curious to see what will happen next in the story and in the dreams. The dream seems like it is soon leading to some sort of mysterious situation or some strange incident that will require us to make connections and understand what the author is trying to say through this dream. We still don’t know why exactly this story takes place within a dream, and I feel like this fact will be an essential part of the story and will remain mysterious, at least for now.