Once and Future King
Once and future king by T.H. White and tragic hero
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- Hamartia
- flaw, mistake, or error
- Sir Kay
- Warts foster brother who is spoiled and selfish, but good at heart
- Might is Right
- The concept that the stronger you are, the more privelage you have to do what you want
- Guenever
- Wife to King Arthur but lover of Lancelot. She is torn between the two and causes their final conflict
- Lesson 4, the Ants
- wart becomes an ant and sees that the two ant colonies are about to go to war. they ware doing what they are told no matter what it is and only because they were told to. they are preached nonsense to and fight for corrupt reasons
- Reason for Round Table
- All knight would go out and dispel evil from the world with their "might"
- Hubris
- Pride
- Lesson 6, the Badger
- wart becomes a badger and decides he wants to eat a hedgehog, but after talking to it decides not to. he has a chance at might equals right but he does the right thing. then he learns from the badger that the humans rule the world with tyranny
- Mordred
- Arthurs son with Morgause. Is the downfall of Arthur. Takes over England
- Solution to 1st problem with round table
- Give the knights an objective, send them all on a quest for the holy grail
- King Arthur
- Man that once was wart. He is the ruler of england and his sword is excaliber. his best friend is Lancelot and he believes in Right is Might. Come up with the round table
- Solution to 2nd problem with round table
- King Arthur imposed laws of justice
- 2nd problem with the round table
- Once Galahad found the holy grail, he became perfect and therefore was "lost to the world" along with all the knights with him, so only imperfect knights were left for the round table
- Lesson 3, The Mews
- Merlyn turns wart into a merlin and puts him with the rest of the hunting falcons for the night. they make him stand next to the insane bird named cully until they ring their bells 3 times, and then they call him the king of Merlins
- 1st Problem with the round table
- The knights got rid of all the "bad" knights and started an iner conflict with each other
- Might for Right
- The concept that the stronger you are the more obligated you are to help those that need your help
- Morgause
- Arthurs half sister who seduces Arthur and has Mordred. Mother of Gawaine, Gareth and Agravaine
- Nobility
- of noble birth
- Lesson 1, The Fish
- Wart is turned into a fish and travels the moat with Merlyn. He meets a family of roach fish whose mother is sick. Merlyn heals her even though he doesnt believe that she is sick. Then they meet Mr. P who rules the moat and tells Wart that the only way to rule is with might.
- lesson 5, the Geese
- Wart is a goose and meets another goose named Lyo-lyok. she thinks that warts idea of fighting other geese is crazy and wart leanrs that the geese follow those with experience and dont fight over petty things like boundries
- Edcuation is Expierience
- Merlyns idea that to learn things you must experience them in action
- Final Problem with Round table
- even with the laws of justice, there are some people who do not follow them. Arthurs friend Lancelot was with his wife Guenever, and the lwas of justice said that he must execute his best friend Lancelot, which Mordred exploited and was the end of King Arthur
- Merlyn
- Arthurs tutor who lived in the future and knows what will happen. Arthurs ideas are attributed to him
- lesson 2, the joust
- Merly shows the wart a joust between Sir Pellinore and Sir Grummore. The two men fight in their large heavy suits and have a very silly fight over nothing at all. In the end they are friends and Arthur learns that fighting is silly
- Peripetia
- reversal of fortune
- anagnorisis
- realization tha the reversal of fortune was brought about by the hero's own actions
- Galahad
- Lancelots son with Elaine. He becomes perfect on the search for the holy grail and is "lost to the world"
- Wart
- young boy who is tutered by Merlyn and will one day become king.