The concept that Abraham is demonstrating is Code switching. Code switching involves adjusting one's style of speech, appearance, behavior, or expression in ways that will optimize the comfort of others in exchange for fair treatment, quality service, and employment opportunities.
Simply put, code switching when someone changes their language based on who they are with, typically to fit in better with a different group.
1.The knight has stolen the virtue of a maiden. To live, he must answer the question, "what is the thing that most women desire?" He has a year and a day to find the answer.
2. In exchange for the correct answer to the queen's question, the knight will do whatever the old women asks of him. To fulfill the bargain, he marries her, because that is her demand.
3.He says she is old, plain, poor, and low bred, meaning not of "gentle birth" or nobility.
4.She says he can choose to have old, ugly, but loyal until she dies or he can have her young and pretty and take his chances of her loyalty.
5.She transforms her self into a young and lovely women.
