Sir Ector

factor that was there is that he is not of noble birth. Near the end of the movie, we see William’s father working in a shabby house. Nevertheless, William was able to take the opportunity and become a knight when the knight he was studying under, Sir Ector, dies…

each other, but lead to the death of King Arthur. The very first person that lead the pack of people who not only betrayed Arthur, but leads to his death, was Guinevere. Guinevere starts it all by getting into an affair with Arthur's greatest knight, Sir Lancelot. During a discussion in The Once and Future King, Arthur receives a letter from Lancelot’s father asking for help against…

King Arthur and Spiderman are two fictitious characters that are both similar, and dissimilar to each other. In an excerpt from Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, he writes about monomyth, which is a twelve step process that is divided into four sections. This represents a continuous cycle that the character in the story must go through in order to complete their journey. King Arthur and Spiderman follow the cycle of the Heroes Journey by events in their lives made parallel to the…

Shanaz Shakur Ms. Churchill English Honors 2, Period 0 21 September 2016 Essential Motifs in The Once and Future King Other than for the purpose of storytelling and entertainment, people read books to learn life lessons and understand morals and values. People read stories and take into account what the characters learn, and apply those lessons to their own lives. In The Once and Future King, T. H. White teaches us three major themes; that while the justice system gives people a chance of being…

Heroics and Stoics Stoic ideas have been around for centuries. The ideas have flooded many legends about heroes and serve as a great source in which people should strive to live their lives. The ideas not only give ways to be a better person individually by taking responsibility for one’s own actions, but they also provide a framework on how to be a better addition to society. Stoicism was founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC. “The philosophy asserts that virtue (such…