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Choices
Guenevere claims that the choice she made (to be with Launcelot, we assume, although she's not very explicit on this point) was made almost arbitrarily. She had no way of judging right from wrong when she made her decision. So how are we to judge her? How can people ever tell what's going to come of their choices?
Guenevere's extended allegory of the red and blue cloths suggests that all choices in the world of the poem are made blindly.
If all choices are made blindly in "The Defence of Guenevere," then the consequences doled out by Providence (or by the courtroom) are arbitrary and unfair.
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