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    Death In Morte Darthur

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    One of the hardest elements to execute in storytelling is writing a character's death. It may be common for an author to kill the villain in a story or possibly even a minor character, but ending the life of a major character can serve to either enhance a story or possibly even ruin it. The line between a well-written character death and a poorly written character death is thin, but while it is easy to kill your characters, it is not always easy to write the consequences that follow a…

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    the good side, we have a lot of knight and specially, we have Merlin, the great wizard. So that why we have more character to make the book more awesome. Morgan Le Fay is the evil queen who try to murder king Arthur. She tried to steel the great Excalibur sword. She is a two face queen, when she meet Arthur, she pretend to be a nice queen but her real face is evil face. The did not only talk about Arthur, they also talk the knight of round table. Merlin is the great wizard who help Arthur to be…

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    Humans all have some type of code that one must follow to be the “ideal person.” One code is the code of chivalry. What is chivalry? Chivalry is defined as a medieval system that knights follow. This system includes a religious, moral and social code. Knights were expected to be courageous, courteous, show great amounts of honor, as well as fight for justice, and be ready to help the weak to be seen as “the ideal knight.” One example of a legend where this code of chivalry is exposed is King…

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    Quattrucci 1 Christopher Reeve, an actor who portrayed Superman on the big screen, once said, “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles”. Through his life, Christopher Reeve suffered greatly after a tragic accident and endured great struggle afterward. Ironically, he played an almost immortal character, Superman who was a terrific hero to the world. Much like Christopher Reeve along with his character of Superman, Roy…

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    british to succeed during the battle of the Saxon. King Arthur made a system of Knights of the Round Table to give an oath and make rules.King Arthur was the one who invited the knight Lancelot and added him to The Round Table. The Excalibur was a sword that King Arthur pulled out the stone.Chivalry is a system of Knights of the Round Table to give an oath and make rules.King Arthur sends his knights to prove if they are worthy to do the quest that King Arthur sends them…

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    haze. This is symbolism of paganism and nature. We see this same thing when we read about Gawain and the Green Knight. Nature is displayed as a very powerful force that does not involve itself with man’s laws. Of course, the sword spoken about is Excalibur, the sword of power, and since it is glowing green it is symbolizing that nature is the power and that women is giving it Merlin. As spoken of before, Christians believe that power comes from God, not nature or people, so why would Arthur…

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    king; before King Arthur became king, it was clear there needed to be a leader. King Arthur has many character traits of a classical hero and a modern hero. As proven in the stories of “Sir Gawain and The Green Knight”, from “Morte d’ Arthur”, and “Excalibur”, Arthur, was of royal birth and said to be a hero that had many great feats. He went into extremely dangerous situations, that he ended up losing most of his men in. A classical hero is one who is on royal birth and takes on extraordinary…

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    King Arthur Hero

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    determination, was after Arthur had a dream about dying! He is still willing to face death head first for the bettering of his country. An even better example is when is story began. “It was said that the person who succeeded in pulling the magical sword Excalibur from the stone that held it would be the next king.”…

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    Merlin and the lady of the like helped King Arthur become the hero and continuing legend he is today. King Arthurs right hand man Merlin helped king Arthur by helping discover the first Excalibur. After many years of searching Merlin took King Arthur to the lady of the lake, and she then gave King Arthur the real Excalibur. King Arthur was said to have the same or a little bit different than the rest of the knights. King Arthur’s chivalry was invincible strength, valor, justice, modesty,…

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    King Arthur Research Paper

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    two swords; Excalibur and Caliburn? Throughout the world, Arthurian legends have made a tremendous…

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