Guinevere

different love triangles with compelling stories that you wouldn’t normally come across in a real life situation. Three situations in which this occurs are with Uther Pendragon, Igraine, and Gorlois; Lancelot, King Arthur, and Guinevere; and Lancelot, Morgaine, and Guinevere. These love triangles all have a captivating story that reveals a positive aspect and also a tragedy that contributes to the Arthurian Legend in some way, shape, or form. The first three characters that go through this…

The Arthurian legend is mainly known for the love triangles. One of the most well known and famous love triangles is among King Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot. In a lot of love triangles, there is always a tragedy. The tragedy could be a death of a member in the triangle or pain from a heartbreak. There are many versions of love triangles with different variations of a certain tragedy, however, a lot of the time, there is a tragedy in love triangles. In the Arthurian legend, one of many famous…

power. In Lancelot, Guinevere is in a position of power over Lancelot because she is the queen, but also because she has sexual power over him. This power cannot be seen as Guinevere having…

he explains the complicated relationships between The relationship among Arthur, Guinevere, and Lancelot is an example of an unhealthy relationship that ends in tragedy. In the novel The Once and Future King by T.H. White, Arthur is the king of Britain and is married to Guinevere, the love of his life. While Lancelot is one of the most trusted knights in the land, however, he still has a love affair with Guinevere, despite the fact that she is married to Arthur as the narrator relates:…

In both Sir Gawain & The Green knight and Lanval the authors use Lady Bertilak and Queen Guinevere to bring up the question of how both lanval and Gawain are knights because if they where knights they should be courting, flirting and crossing boundary’s and how this reflects on there trothed and keeping their word as antithetical to acting virtuously. In Sir Gawain and The Green Knight, The lady Bertilak goes to Gawain room and asks him to sleep with her; this is crucial because in being a good…

In Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur, the fall of Camelot seems most accredited to the sin of Lancelot and Guinevere. Indeed, I myself, upon completing reading this piece, could feel no sympathy toward these two characters. They should have realized that if their sin were discovered, it would bring about grave consequences to those around them. However as I continued thinking about this story, I realized that while they are a major part of what causes Camelot to fall, the other part of the fault…

What good is love if it kills you? In Lancelot: or the Knight of the Cart, Lancelot embarks on a quest in which his knighthood is put to the ultimate test in order to save his lover Guinevere. Even though she is married to King Author, who was accidentally tricked into giving her away to Meleagant as a prisoner of war. It appears as though Lancelot is the only one who can save her, which he does. Some argue this love triangle was created as a celebration of love, because to be so in love with…

She was a very beautiful lady. King Arthur had a great romance with Guinevere. Guinevere, was the queen consort of King Arthur in the Arthurian Legend. In medieval romances, one of the most prominent story arcs is her love affair with Arthur's chief knight Sir Lancelot. Other Characters in Arthurian Legend. King Arthur & The Knights…

author of Lanval creates an interesting dynamic when considering how the female voice is integrated in their stories when done by a woman. Comparatively, the speakers for The Wife’s Lament and Queen Guinevere are quite different, yet similarities can be found in their…

“… I woot not how it was,” said the King, “but as it is said, Sit Lancelot slew them in the thickest of the press and knew them not. And therefore let us shape a remedy for to revenge their deaths.” (Morte Darthur pg. 337, second to last paragraph) This quote is a prime example of how Arthur and his his peers, portrayed by Malory, may not have been the most Christianly of people. Arthur and his Court are supposedly Christian, as the tale usually goes. Arthur is known as “the most Christian King…