The Sword In The Stone Character Analysis

In Wart’s heroic journey, Wart faces many challenges building his internal traits leading him up to become the sum of all his power and obtain the throne of England. In the fantasy novel “The Sword In The Stone” by T.H. White, Wart journeys to help himself unlock his potential with the wizard Merlyn jumping from a knight’s squire up through many ranks to the top of the feudal hierarchy within days. Although this unlikely fellow became king, there are still qualities not completely touched and the few that have excelled to higher levels that causes courage rise to be Wart’s most developed trait while leaving respect trailing behind.
Wart in the book develops courage the most due to his drastic improvement due to the bravery he can muster to perform the tasks requiring the trait. This was due to Wart being “so keen on it” (17),

Near the start of the novel, Wart approaches a knight named King Pellinore in the forest and thinks that “it would be” ( 23) when he is told that hunting the Questing Beast boring while Wart has never heard of the King nor the Beast. Wart does show excelled skills in respecting this person and trying to soothe his pain of the loneliness and sense of failure that envelops him. This leaves potential room for Wart to improve later on through his lessons and to become a confident speaker and further responsive when prompted to do so. Although, Wart received a chance near the end of the book to improve on his respect when Sir Ector kneeled to him, he took it for himself because “it [broke] my heart” (207). This time, Wart didn’t take the safest route and took the opportunity for his own needs as to feed his ambition as every person does to compose them to feel exceptional occasionally before others. Also, he repeated the scene with King Pellinore just trying to adjust person to feel better versus adding sympathetic