Comparing Obsession In The Once And Future King

Due to the similarities between love and obsession, the two are often confused. People often believe that a relationship which is really based on obsession is based on love. Both seem to have the same kind and caring feelings and actions, however, they are very different. Obsession will always end disastrously for one person involved, and often for both people. Unfortunately, it is often not until the relationship becomes an actively negative force that the obsession can be seen, allowing a lot of damage to be done in what is supposed to be a positive interaction. This difference is very relevant to the relationships of characters such as Gwen and Lance, Elaine, Agravaine, and more. Throughout The Once and Future King, T.H. White shows the …show more content…
These unhealthy emotions are normal in moderation, as any relationship will involve negative emotions at some time. However, when they are more common than not, and begin to affect the people at either end of those emotions in their daily life, the relationship is obsession instead of love. These emotions are often based on a skewed sense of reality, which is what makes them so strong and so harmful because logic can not be applied to emotions based on something which isn’t real. This is the case with Sir Meliogrance, and his “appreciation” of Guenever.”He was beside himself with rage and jealousy, believing himself deceived. He has been assuming, since his own enterprise had gone agley, that the Queen was a pure woman; and that he, in seeking to enjoy her, was in the wrong. Now he saw that all the time she had been cheating him, only pretending to be too virtuous to love him, and meanwhile sporting with her wounded knights under his very nose.” (White 510). Sir Meliogrance’s own false reality is what causes him to become obsessed with Guenever, and it also what leads him to become so angered and jealous by the idea that what he had