The Theme Of The Sword In The Stone By T. H. White

Chase P. Miller
Mr. Pfister
English 10-H
5 September 2017
Sword in the Stone Essay The Sword in the Stone by T. H. White has a mystical touch to it and personally interested me. The theme from this story was that you always have to be a good leader. Wart, the main character, is a naive and childish boy who would rather play all day than learn. Wart eventually stumbles across a wizard named Merlyn, who became his tutor. Merlyn lived backwards in time and saw the future to come. As the book reaches its conclusion, Wart becomes the king of England and rules it very well. I found it notable that as Wart developed through the lessons Merlyn taught him, the theme, too, developed. In chapter 5, Merlyn gives Wart his first lesson. It was a hot
Cully, as seeing he has been colonel for many years has been driven to the point of psychotic behavior. Even though he has the military discipline in the Mews, it merely prevents him from lashing out as seen during the final test when Cully warns Wart about himself. He says, “‘Boy!" cried the Colonel in an unearthly voice, "don't come near me, don't come near. Ah, tempt not the foul fiend to his damnation.’ …’No harm, quotha! Ah, go, before it is too late. I feel eternal longings in me’” (White 63). Not only does this show Cully’s lack of self-control but also the Wart’s new lesson. Wart, rather than being scared by Cully, stood next to him the entire time without a care in the world, even when Cully was trying to warn him. The lessons learned in this chapter are the issues with military society, mental quickness, courage, and physical strength. All these things are needed to become a good
In this form, Wart notices that all the ants are treated equally, however, the ants do not have names, rather numerical codes. It is evident that the ants live under some sort of communist lifestyle as they only care about working and nothing else. Wart soon realises that this equality is actually a lack of freedom and individuality. While Wart is walking around, he comes across path with two dead ants. The book says, “At the hollow—again with the strange appearance of aimless purpose—he found two dead ants. They were laid there tidily but yet untidily, as if a very tidy person had taken them to the place, but had forgotten the reason when he got there. They were curled up, and did not seem to be either glad or sorry to be dead. They were there, like a couple of chairs” (White 96). This makes it apparent that the ants do not care if others are alive or not, rather they just go on their way working. Just as Wart realises this, the ants start preparing for war. Wart is magically taking out of the situation by Merlyn. Wart learns from this experience the benefits of individuality and the disadvantages of communist