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    King Arthur’s Quest In this classic tale that is most known for it’s strength and heroism‚ King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table is an epic adventure that is told to individuals of all ages. Written by Roger Lancelyn Green‚ King Arthur And His Knights Of The Round Table was originally written for children but is enjoyed by everyone. The story is based on the chosen one‚ (King Arthur) along with the adventurous battles that he and the Knights of the Round Table face in

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    Arthur’s holiest knight and the one destined to be the grail seeker. His genealogy reflects this and he is descended from King David. As a part of that lineage he is also one of Arthur’s most honorable knights which allows him to see the grail. Galahads father was Lancelot and his mother was Elaine of Benwick/Banioc. From Lancelot’s mother’s side he is a descendent of King David of the bible. (Joe) His lineage changes based on which work one is reading. In pre vulgate works he is rarely‚ and Percival

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    admired people of your land. People want to be like you and look up to you. You have all these great characteristics that make people adore you. But what happens when these great characteristics lead to your downfall? It happened both to Achilles and King Arthur. Decisions between fate and free will‚ their ambitions to be the best‚ and their admiral personas mount up and finally crash down on them. Your fate has already been decided for you‚ but what if you could change it? Would you choose to or keep

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    In Thomas Mallory’s King Arthur‚ he emphasizes the values of the people in this time period. He does this through characters and through conflicts that occur in the story. Throughout the story‚ Mallory gives the readers a better understanding of how the people viewed kings and their expectations of how the nobility should act. Not only that‚ but also the different beliefs and customs of the time period. Values that Mallory emphasizes many times throughout the epic is the value of humility and mercy

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    In the tale Le Morte d’Arthur written by Sir Thomas Malory‚ King Arthur is ruler over a utopian city called Camelot. This excerpt reveals King Arthur’s loyalty‚ generosity‚ and his resourcefulness. These traits are what makes King Arthur and great king and are still needed and applicable for our leaders today. After King Arthur discovers that Sir Ector is not his biological father and that he is the rightful heir to the throne‚ he does not hesitate to acknowledge that Sir Ector is his true father

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    legend‚ Chretien describes Lancelot as a major important character in Arthurian romances. Chretien takes his audiences to the psychology of love that deals with Lancelot’s tests and trials that will lead him to be a loyal adulterer. In Lancelot‚ or the King of the Cart shows the risks of secret love between the Lancelot and the Queen contrasted with the benefits that also inspire others. On his journey saving Queen Guinevere‚ Lancelot’s quest founded on his love for the Queen. Lancelot is successful on

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    The story of King Arthur is one that has been told for generation in many different ways two telling are the book The Acts of King Arthur And His Noble Knights by John Steinbeck and King Arthur directed by Antoine Fuqua. In the Steinbeck version Arthur is the king of England and the son of King Uther Pendragon and Lady Igraine. Due to a deal Uther made with Merlin‚ a wizard‚ Arthur was raised by Sir Ector as though he is his own son. Later on Uther passed away from an illness and lords began to

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    Women’s view of Chivalry in King Arthur’s Court King Arthur’s court is often presented as home to noble knights; however it may also be found that opposing views exist of how Knights of the Roundtable carried themselves‚ such as presented in Marie de France’s Lanval and Chaucer’s Wife of Bath‚ where one knight is being mistreated by his fellow brothers-in-arms and another knight is simply a rapist. These authors question the nobility of the knights as well as of the ladies and through their literary

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    Merlin had become an expert at concealing his feelings. However‚ today‚ at Arthur and Guinevere’s wedding‚ it grew difficult to suppress the pain and yearning that gnawed at his insides. It was a foregone conclusion that Arthur would wed Guinevere‚ and Merlin had accepted their inevitable union long ago. Why‚ then‚ had the pain grown so intolerable? Perhaps it was the finality of it all‚ the fact that Arthur and Guinevere would share a name and a bed and be linked by an irrevocable bond from this

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    legend How did Arthur become king? Arthur was the son of king Urthur and his father had sent him to a secret place and no one knew that he was next to become king. Merlin the wizard feared when King Urthur died he did not know what to do. Merlin had cast the sword into the stone that had gold engraving that said‚" Whoso pulleth out this sword out of this stone is the right wise born King of all England." All the greatest people tried to pull out the sword but it did not come out. Arthur had pulled the

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