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Analyzing The Story 'Back To Life In The King Must Die'

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Alivia Roberts
Mr. Jones
10th Honors Literature 5th Period
26 August 2016
Back to Life in A New Way One of Mary Renault’s goals in The King Must Die was to make the ancient myths within the book relevant today. Renault makes it relevant today by bringing the story of Theseus back to life. Renault attempts to bring the story back to life by showing maturation, the search for Theseus’s identity, and making alterations to the original myth of Theseus to help the reader and the modern world connect with him and the book more. Theseus matured by realizing that moira is your ending: “Moira?... The finished shape of our fate, the line drawn round it. It is the task the gods allot us, and the share of glory they allow; the limits we must not pass;
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