Final Section

1) Yseut's oath spoken with a forked tongue is an understatement. She applies reasoning that is an extreme stretch of the truth to appease the lord and his followers. Although she is not lying by saying the only two men that have been between my thighs are King Mark and the "leper" she decides to leave out the major fact that the leper is actually Tristan disguised in order to be present at her oath. I feel that the oath only solidifies Yseut's actually personality as a conniving woman willing to do whatever it takes to keep herself safe, and to save face. It also gives another example of the author's unreasonable need to provide a scapegoat for the two lovers.
2) The murders of the barons may have been well approved by the readers and characters alike, however they are not justified. The barons never lied in their accusations and furthermore they were unarmed and not ready for deaths that were bestowed upon them. I feel that these murders do give some respectability to the love potion, or in reality the overwhelming love that they have because both characters will do whatever they can to stay together, now through two broken marriages and false characters like beggars and lepers. Their final deaths seemed to fit in their story with falsehood and trickery finally ending Tristan's life.