Concept in Definition ABC
Miscellanea / / July 04, 2021
By Florencia Ucha, in May. 2011
A feat is he set of feats carried out by a character, or failing that by a people, usually in order of to achieve an important objective and in which a large part of the society.
Deeds carried out by individuals or groups in favor of a laudable mission: the independence of a nation or a Revolution that changes the current status quo
They are usually the adverse scenarios conquered, which a priori turned out to be very difficult to obtain a victory, those that normally determine that a situation or an event, after that triumph, be considered as a feat.
Although the word is used to describe these heroic acts in which a laudable and important objective is achieved, such is the case of the liberation of a people or the declaration of independence, among others, synonyms such as feat, feat, adventure or heroism are also often used.
Achievement that an individual achieves
But we must also say that the use of this word is not reduced to a context of struggle politics
And so it is that it is often used in popular language when it is wanted to account for the enormous achievement achieved by an individual, an organization, a company, science, among others.“Beating the English away team and with the entire public against it, was a real feat on the part of the Argentine team.”
The deeds, whatever their context, cause, motivation, they are always events worthy of being celebrated and highlighted by the available means.
Celebrated and remembered with special dates
Its so relevant characteristics, extraordinary by the way, make the feat to be remembered through the years and centuries, and become an unforgettable event, historical, even for which an annual calendar date is usually allocated to remember and celebrate it, such is the case of the declaration of the independence of some country, or a Revolution important, the independence of Argentina declared in 1816, or the French Revolution occurred in the year 1789, respectively.
Even in the case of dates such as the French Revolution, the feats and consequences that it implied were of such magnitude that their memory does not It only concerns France but has spread throughout the world, being an event that is remembered and celebrated in the rest of Europe and the world.
Medicine and science also have their own feats
In the aforementioned case of science and also medicine, there are many deeds that various men have starred in, who just after their inventions and discoveries produced a before and after in those contexts, unforgettable and that changed the lives of thousands of people who inhabit this planet.
Consider surgical operations such as bypass, which lengthened the lives of thousands of patients suffering from coronary and heart problems. heart, or some scientific advances such as the one introduced by the Curie couple in matters of Radioactivity, which would later lead to the app of the same to treat serious diseases such as cancer.
Cantar de gesta: epic written and widely used in the Middle Ages
On your side, the singing of deed is the name from which the epic written during the Middle Ages, or failing that to that extensive literary manifestation that belongs to the gender epic and in which the various feats of a hero who as such represented those virtues that in medieval peoples or communities were considered ideals or models.
It was quite common that between centuries XI and XII, the minstrels, spread them orally as a consequence of the illiteracy that prevailed in the society of that time. They used to have a length that varied between two thousand and twenty thousand verses, although the most regular thing was that they did not exceed four thousand verses. Many times, the deed song in question had to be read by the minstrel in several days due to the length we mentioned.
The Song of Mine Cid it is an example of singing deed; it recounts the heroic feats carried out by the Castilian knight Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, El Cid, with the mission of recovering the confidence of King Alfonso VI who had opportunely exiled him from Castile. There are no references regarding its author.
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