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Most Real Character In Mists Of Avalon
1,078 wordsDevotion, Love, Despair and Betrayal The Mists of Avalon throws the throbbing pulse of femininity into the reader's face. It expels a truth which can be felt through every sentence, paragraph and chapter. It is a grouping of heartwarming characters, horrifying plot twists and several tragedies surrounding many different themes. The Mists of Avalon becomes a legend seen through new eyes, with details, majestic language, and haunting foreshadowing that hold the reader through its more than 800 pag...
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King Arthur And The Legends
1,686 wordsThe Legend of King Arthur - The Origins and Different Interpretations of the Legend Today - There are countless versions of the legend of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. Most English versions are based on Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, but where did these tales originate, and what different interpretations are there today This essay seeks to examine the roots and different renditions of the various legends circulating today. The first section deals with the origins of the...
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Arthur's History As Geoffrey Ashe
1,914 wordsSearch for Arthur From the beginnings of the English Language there have been legends of great heroes. From the first settlements of Britain come stories rooted in ancient Celtic and Germanic imagination. Out of these stories, Arthur is undoubtedly the most preeminent. Interest in the legends of King Arthur and all things Arthurian, ie. Camelot, Avalon, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, the knights of the Round Table, etc., has prevailed into modern times, and is still the subject of numerous novels ...
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King Arthur In Legend And History
1,431 wordsKing Arthur is the greatest of British literary heroes, although little is known about the real person. Little real historical information is left, only texts, chronicles, verses, myths, fragments of epic poems, inscriptions, symbols, graven images and graffiti. Although these writings can be interesting literature, they lack factual evidence and are obscure in details. It is not even possible to say that a real Arthur even existed, for the records of his existence go back to the fifth, sixth an...
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Crystal Cave Merlin
1,367 wordsMerlin is a popular character when it comes to the stories of King Arthur and other stories dealing with the Arthurian age. In most of the stories written about him they refer to him as the magician, kingmaker, and prophet. We also know him as the one that takes care of Arthur from birth, who set him on the throne, who established him there in the early days of his reign as king. While most books agree that he knew King Arthur and watched over him from birth, what was he really, was he a magicia...
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King Arthur's Magical Powers
1,982 wordsThe Arthurian Legends are a cycle of stories that has been shaped and passed down through over fourteen hundred years of English history. The legend of King Arthur tells of the adventures of an early king of Britain and the knights and ladies who made up his royal court at Camelot. It tells of a world filled with warriors armed with lance, sword, and armor. It speaks of jousts, tournaments, wizards, falconry, enchantresses, damsels in distress, wars, quests, and the code of chivalry. It is a leg...
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Sword Belonging To King Arthur
731 wordsExcalibur Excalibur: In Arthurian legend, the sword belonging to King Arthur. The sword with jeweled hilt and magic powers, of King Arthur of the Britons. One legend says the Lady of The Lake gave it to him. Another says it is the sword fixed into the miraculous stone, to be removed only by the man that would become King. When Arthur was a young boy, he drew the sword from the stone, though all others had failed. When he died Excalibur was thrown into the lake, and a mysterious hand rose to gras...
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King Arthur
1,694 wordsTales Of King Arthur Since the romanticizing of the Arthurian legends by Geoffery of Monmouth, the historian, during the twelfth century, the legendary 'king of England' has been the source of inspiration for kings, poets, artists and dreamers alike. The most famous work is probably Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, completed around 1470, and published in many abridged and complete versions. Malory's work contains in one the legend that had been continually added to over the years by many d...
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Monty Python And The Holy Grail
1,299 words"Monty Python and the Holy Grail" is a satiric comedy about the quest of King Arthur. The movie starts out with Arthur, King of the Britons, looking for knights to sit with him at Camelot. He finds many knights including Sir Galahad the pure, Sir Lancelot the brave, the quiet Sir Bedevere, and Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Lancelot. Through satire and parody of certain events in history (witch trials, the black plague) they find Camelot, but after literally a quick song and dance they ...
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Connecticut Yankee In King
1,085 wordsA Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Hank Morgan, a Connecticut Yankee working in a munitions factory near Hartford, is tapped on the head by a crowbar during a quarrel with a fellow worker. He awakens in the early part of the sixth century, A.D. Captured by the knight Sir Kay, he is taken to Camelot, King Arthur's court, where the knights of the realm gather around the "Table Round". The Yankee is amazed to here each knight exaggerate the tale of his own exploits in his quest for the Hol...
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Once And Future King By T.H. White
1,146 wordsThe Once and Future King The legend of King Arthur is a tale as timeless as any other found in literature today. Introduced to us by Sir Thomas Malory during the fifteenth century in Morte d' Arthur, it was the first complete tale of Arthur's life. Countless portrayals followed for any reader interested in the tale of the boy who was destined to become King. The Once and Future King by T.H. White is certainly the most popular representation of the immortal legend of King Arthur. It is similar to...
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Legend Of King Arthur
1,740 wordsThe Mists of Avalon: The Women Behind King Arthur Kate Wrigley period 3 The Mists of Avalon, by Marion Zimmer Bradley, is not only an example of a Medieval Romance, but also tells the story of the women who stood behind King Arthur during his infamous reign in the Middle Ages. This novel explains the reasoning and decisions that Arthur made in the women's perspective. The Mists of Avalon is a twist on the Arthurian tales as told by the four women instrumental to the story: Gwenhwyfar, his wife; ...
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Frodo And King Arthur
2,586 wordsA Medieval Contest In comparing and contrasting the Arthurian Legends and J.R.R. Tolkien's book The Fellowship of the Ring, it is almost like a medieval contest between the two with many of the similarities coming from the customs of the Middle Ages. A look at the make up of the groups involved, the moral code, the protagonist, the antagonist, the use of supernatural elements and the knightly quest involved in each book shows how alike they are but yet different. The Arthurian Legends revolve ar...
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Time Travel Paradoxes In Conneticut Yankee Mark
821 wordsTime Travel Paradoxes in Conneticut Yankee Mark Twain's Conneticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court is a book about time travel. It was written 1989 which was before science as we now know it, which tells us that time travel is not possible because of paradoxes. This is still a good book that has many good things to say about America versus England, proving that the American way is superior. America in the day, had just won it's independence and was trying to establish it's own identity from England...
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Idylls Of The King
502 wordsThe two texts, related to the Arthurian mythology, appear as not having much in common, if were to compare their informational properties. "Idylls of the King" is clearly a poetic piece, while "The Death of King Arthur " is a fine example of medieval prose. Nevertheless, one of the things that they have in common, is an unusual amount of tropology, found in almost every sentence. Back in Medieval times, the English language used to be more rich, from the linguistic point of view. This is one of ...
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Arthur About Lancelot's And Guinevere's Relationship
541 wordsThe uglier the truth the truer the friend is a statement that has been echoed throughout the history of time. In "Camelot", King Arthur experienced this quotation first hand. Even though "Camelot" is a fictional movie, the same situation that befell King Arthur really occurs in real life to everyday people. Just by looking at Pellinore, you would not think that he was a trustworthy man. Dirty, hair uncombed, dingy clothes are all words that could be used to describe Pellinore's appearance. But a...
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Legends Of King Arthur In Many Ways
515 wordsIndiana Jones Epic versus King Arthur Legends Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is a thrilling, modern-day adventure of a search for the Holy Grail. As a remake of many Medieval stories, several of the characters reflect upon the characters in King Arthur stories. With the ongoing chivalry theme of "Might for Right", Indiana struggles to unveil the secrets of the Holy Grail, and to protect it from theft by evil forces. The characters in this movie were based on those in the legends of King Arth...
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King Arthur
1,508 words"Fairy Tale" 10-12 year olds King Arthur lay badly wounded. All around him his knights were falling to the ground, he could hear the noise of battle, he knew it was all over, would he die or would he live to fight another day King Arthur's wound was deep. He knew it was just a matter of time before he died. Then, out of nowhere came the bold Sir Bedivere, the only knight that had survived the brutal battle, lifted him off the ground, carried him to a church near the battlefield, and rested him o...
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Mention Of King Arthur In Gilda's Writings
1,619 wordsFact To understand Arthur one must know what the world was like during and before the sixth century. In 400 BC the Celts migrated to Britain. They were able to overcome the natives of Britain because of their knowledge of iron tools, which the natives of Britain lacked. The Celts quickly spread their beliefs throughout England and Ireland. The Celts' government consisted of a collection of tribes, each with a king and a queen. One of the most important classes in Celtic life was the druids. The ...
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Faith In King Arthur And His Cause
761 wordsOn a beautiful fall afternoon a man decided to take his dog on a walk. They started to hike down a path deep into a forest. Suddenly, the path turned a corner and into a huge black bear. The man froze with fear and with his paw the bear struck the man to the ground. At this, the 70 pound dog charged at the massive bear and again the bear rose his mighty paw and knocked the dog against a tree and unconscious. After about an hour, the dog woke to find his owner lying dead in a pile of dried up lea...
