Le Morte d'Arthur

Hundreds of miles to the north, a grey overcast obscured Sol's light. An early chill billowed through the craggy gauntlet and into the box canyon. Crows and pickpockets eyed the deceased knights and other soldiers for their armor, weapons and other valuables. For that reason, the surviving knights desperately sought to account for all royal and the highest ranking nobles. Out of due respect and the kingdoms in question's security, possessions and especially royal seals had to be in hand.…

In both First Knight and Excalibur the movies, they both display King Arthur as a magnificent man, who is courageous, witty, and does what is right, but both movies very from the beginning to the end. The opening scenes of the movies are dramatically different. In the movie the First night, King Arthur is an older gentleman who does not appear in the movie until Lady Guinevere of Leones comes to meet him. Before she meets him in the well know city of Camelot, she has villagers come to her after…

orders of chivalry that were founded in Europe during the later Middle Ages” ("Round Table"). Also considered in the article is the sole creator of chivalry and the importance in the 1400s, “In the late 15th century, when Sir Thomas Malory wrote his Le Morte Darthur, the notion of chivalry was inseparable from that of a great military brotherhood established in the household of some great prince” ("Round Table"). Based on the actions of knights, the British follow the code of chivalry even…

The legend of Merlin displays distinctive themes and interests from The Life of Merlin and Merlin and Vivien although they both tell the same story. The Life of Merlin gave him qualities of a humble man. The source provided descriptive details of Merlin’s upcomings of a great sorcerer. In the text Monmouth wrote Merlin to be a wise man who saw no good in having riches. Merlin and Vivien has the same concept of who Merlin is and how he came to be. Gaster gave Heroic symbolism to Merlin in…

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Gawain is described as a perfect embodiment of Solomon’s Pentangle. Before Sir Gawain rides off to receive the Green Knight’s blow, he has the Pentangle painted onto his shield. All five points of the pentangle on Sir Gawain’s shield symbolize a virtue of a perfect knight. They are the Five senses/wits, the five fingers, the five wounds of Christ, the five joys of Mary, and the 5 virtues; generosity, sociability, courtesy, piety and purity. Many critics…

According to his wife Queenie, in a very brusque claim, she returned home from the country club and began preparing for the arrival of friends who would be joining in a few minutes. She then claims that Arthur fell coming down the stairs to get another drink. The hit on the head he took from the fall supposedly killed him. This is a very brusque claim, while you should be very opulent in your claim. She decided to procrastinate instead of calling emergency services, which consequently led her…

Literary Device in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Literary devices are linguistic techniques that are used to produce specific effects on a story. There are several different literary devices, with most widely known examples being similes and metaphors, and all good literature includes examples of literary devices. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a tale about an honorable knight who courageously stands up for his king, even though he risks his life in doing so. There are countless examples…

In “Sir Gawain and The Green Knight,” the author uses symbols throughout the poem to show how the challenges Gawain must face helps him to grow as a hero. In the beginning of the poem, gawain feels unworthy of being a knight and declares that he is “the weakest..and [that] the loss of [his] life would be the least of any.” (line 128-129) Gawain’s negative thoughts about himself leads him to embark on a quest to prove to himself his worth and represent honor. In the eyes of gawain the green…

Arthur: Fact or Fiction? King Arthur lived around the time of approximately 400 A.D., a time in which stories were blurred and details changed. Like many other books centered around the Arthurian Legend, The Once and Future King, by T.H. White, contains many inaccurate details. These inaccuracies are due to the story’s long history and constant retellings. The true story is still there, but it has been covered by a couple hundred years worth of exaggeration. This has turned the history into the…

Alfred, Lord Tennyson characterizes King Arthur as an archetype of Christ throughout Idylls of the King. Through Tennyson’s plot development and his use of language, he successfully showed King Arthur as an example of Christ. King Arthur’s actions to his knights resembled the actions and decisions of Christ. In the story “Gareth and Lynette”, King Arthur chooses his newest knight, Gareth, to go on the quest with Lynette (Tennyson 44). Lynette asked for King Arthur’s greatest knight he had,…