The Way Women Are Seen In The Arthurian Legend Today women are treated equal to men, but was that the case centuries ago? In King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Roger L. Green, women are viewed as cheaters, liars, and destructive. Arthur the best king ever to have rule Britain, but that all changes when his beautiful wife Queen Guinevere does something unremarkable, she is cheating on him with his best friend and best Knight Sir Lancelot.
“Sir Launcelot, I see and feel daily that your love for me grows less, and you ride ever to help damsels and gentlewomen. Have you perhaps found one of them who is dearer to your heart than I am?”
“Ah, madam,” Sir Launcelot sadly, “I love you only and no other women in all the world…” (p. 292).
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Arthur is getting cheated on but he also is getting lied to also, his love with Guinevere is real on his side but is it real for her?
“In great sadness Sir Launcelot took his horse and rode away from Camelot, far into the forest of mid Britain”...” Queen Guinevere was sorry and wished very much for Launcelot to return. However, she could not show this to anyone, so instead she called her ten Knights of the Round Table and told them that she would ride a-maying with them into the woods and fields of Camelot…”(p. p. 292-293)
This shows that her feelings for Launcelot are much stronger than her feelings for Arthur, thus lying to Arthur and his kingdom about her love for