Quests In The Angel And The Sword

Quests are often known as journeys or adventures that change a person's perspective on life. Mentally the person changes into a quick problem solver as they gain knowledge during their quest. Quests are often used to given to let a person prove themselves as worthy of a high position or can be used to help a person solve a problem. Quests have a great physical demand that requires someone of strength who can face weariness and starvation. Once the quest is done there is a sense of accomplishment which can provide confidence and knowledge that can be used in other quests. Quests are so well known that they get generalized. Now in The Angel and The Sword by Cecelia Holland and in The Squire's Tale by Gerald Morris a quest is used to develop characters who would otherwise not be noted in these novels.
The quests highlight the strengths and weaknesses of each character and how the characters develop into strong people. The Angel and the Sword is a fictional novel about a young princess finding her way to freedom from the people she had once trusted. The novel describes how she puts her kingdom before herself in a quest for relief for her people. This novel shows how the secrets and lies can be an emotional stressor as well as a dealbreaker. The second novel The
During her quest she realized that becoming a man was not as easy as it seemed, she could not always save everyone. “ She could not see anything now, save the mass of men fighting on the bridge. Her heart hammered. She ran back to the palace a little, trying to see better. The noise hurt her ears: the crowd on the common was shrieking and men on the bridge howled like a pack of dogs, and she heard the clang of iron; she saw a man fall of the bridge, and then another, and the river carry them down.” (Holland, The Angel and The Sword page