1. When I first began reading this piece of work I knew I was going to enjoy it! The reason for this was because it reminded me of Romeo and Juliet! I also realized that this story was told in the third person through an unknown person as the narrator. I also realized that towards the middle it got a bit confusing for me that sometimes I had to take a minute and go back to assure I understood everything.
Consequently, common trends tend to exist as a result of this cyclical nature, establishing archetypes in various ideologies, literatures, and movements. One such movement utilizing an archetypical structure is orchestrated by King Arthur in the novel, The Once and Future King, written by T. H. White. In
The novel The Once and Future King by T. H. White features a character named Merlyn, who is a wizard and also a mentor for the Wart. He teaches Wart skills that are important for a ruler to have by turning him into different animals and sending him on adventures. During his adventures he learns numerous lessons from the different animals. White uses the ants and the pike in order to critique World War Two and totalitarianism and reach the overall message that humanity has become greedy, malevolent and barbaric. The rise of a totalitarian leader is exemplified in the moat and
In T. H. White’s The Once and Future King (1958), Wart is the adopted son of Sir Ector. He has a brother named Kay, who is the heir of the kingdom. They used to have a tutor but they lost her because she went crazy. One day, when Kay and Wart were hawking, they discovered a wizard named Merlyn who became their new tutor.
During the first two books of T.H. White’s “The Once and Future King”, the lives of Arthur, Lancelot, and Guenever are drawn out for the audience, everything in order and the friendship between them strong and faithful. By the fourth book, the relationship between these three characters has become severely broken, the Author vividly illustrating their lives of sin, adultery, and hypocrisy that none of them can recover from, the Kingdom’s downfall set into motion. As Lancelot and Guenever continue to do wrong, Arthur must make the difficult decision of going against the two people he loves most. Honoring his new set of laws and expelling justice is the only route he can take. Arthur continuously struggles to deal with harming his friends when they have been proven guilty, being bound by
There are good and bad relationships, and both work to form lives. Relationships are a major piece of people's lives, they help them develop. However, there are always changes that lead to shaping someone's life. Henry from Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet by Jamie Ford, has numerous relationships. When he was growing up, he had a close relationship with his friend Keiko.
Once upon a time in a century not too long ago, character was considered
In Terry Alford’s novel “Prince Among Slaves” there were many people that strived to bring Ibrahima back to Africa, during this time he also worked to free his children. The role of letter writing had an impact on the course of the book and each person connected the direction of Ibrahima’s journey. A former prince, Abd al-Rahman Ibrahima, was captured through an ambush due to his lost to the Hebohs and is now a slave (23).
Bruce Lee once said, “Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.” And in Merlyn’s interpretation, knowledge is everything. In T.H. White’s magical book, The Once and Future King, Arthur, the soon to be king, and Merlyn, his magical tutor, go on numerous adventures as other creatures. Arthur’s education, taught by Merlyn, focuses on Might and Right . Some of the ways Merlyn teaches Arthur Might and Right is by transforming both of them into different animals.
Man may have invented, may have adapted, but he is still as savage as the day he came to be. He lives off of stealing, and adapts to look innocent, he is a plague contaminating a world of innocence. Throughout the ages, man has ruled over others. For example, Ivan the terrible, who decided to ransack and slaughter a whole town, named Novgorod, out of a mistrust of the citizens. This is not evident only throughout history, but even in books written by man himself.
Tracing the origin of the word cool is a journey eastward to two places, one of which is Europe. Going back to Old English, cool’s cognates come from German and Dutch backgrounds as the familiar adjective to describe weather, which dates back to the ninth century (Harper). Temperature metaphors begin to emerge while the tenth century progresses, and by the sixteenth century cool evolves into an adjective to describe a person’s demeanor, suggesting calmness and rationality (Vuolo). An example of this is in the stage play A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Shakespeare, where the character, Theseus, says, “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends.” As centuries
Henry’s temper is hard for him to control because he is sometimes faced with situations when he cannot distinguish between King Henry and friend Henry. This duality, paired with the duality that is being a king is an obvious cause for confusion and rage. Henry had such a strong bond with his old friends, that when his new friends were so quick to betray him he was deeply hurt. Another time Henry exhibits incomplete control of his temper is during the battle of Agincourt. Throughout the battle, Henry’s soldiers have taken many French soldiers prisoner and seem to have the advantage.
There are many things a king needs to be great. A king needs to be well-liked by his subjects to prevent being overthrown. Kings also need confidence, and substantial knowledge of the land and of the people he rules. Being well-liked and having conviction and knowledge are very important, but most of all, a king needs to be levelheaded. In order to call the important shots that impact an entire nation, a king needs a thorough thought process to reach the proper decision.
Honor and Expediency in Oroonoko the Royal Slave Julius Caesar once said: “I love the name of honor, more than I fear death”. In her book- Oroonoko, or the Royal Slave, Aphra Behn offered Oroonoko the highest quality of character in her mind: honor. Honor, defined as “high moral standards of behavior” or “a person of superior standing whose worth brings respect”. As Honor becomes an ideology, it controls one’s thought, behavior, and actions.
“Something is rotten in the state of Denmark” (I.v.90). Hamlet is about a young prince who is mourning the loss of his father. He then tries to seek revenge on his uncle Claudius because he poisoned his father. Throughout the play Hamlet’s behavior starts to change which causes him to become mad. The theory about all this is a Psychological Approach.
