Essay On Fate In I Am Mordred

Morgause pays minimal attention to her sons while also using their devotion against them. Nevertheless, the Orkney boys are willing to spend their lives fighting against the government of England, specifically Arthur. All of their lives Morgause has drilled into their minds what she wants them to believe, especially the fact that her words are always true. A story that she tells them often is the reason King Lot, the boys’ father, has gone away to fight against the Pendragons. She explains the lineage of Arthur, and that it is the Orkney family’s obligation to get revenge. Therefore, when the boys hear her tell her “favorite story” (210), they consequently accept it as truth without a second thought. For no other reason except that she once told them to hate the Pendragons, they are willing to lose their father and spend their entire lives “avenging their

The most widely accepted myth says that Arthur wins acknowledgement as king by pulling a sword from a stone, after which Merlin reveals Arthur’s true parentage. Despite his young age, Arthur proves to be an able warrior and a noble king and manages to push the Saxon invaders out of Britain. Arthur possessed the sword Excalibur, which was given to him by the inscrutable Lady of the Lake. Arthur surrounded himself with loyal followers that became known as the Knights of the Round Table. Like every good legend, Arthur had a nemesis, his sister Morgan le Fay. Morgan le Fay is usually an evil sorceress who spends her time attempting to steal Arthur’s throne for her and her lover. Mordred, or Modred, is another enemy of Arthur’s. Mordred is either Arthur’s son or nephew by his sister Morgawse. Mordred seizes Arthur’s throne whilst he is away and in ultimately slain by Arthur, but not before fatally wounding the king. Arthur is then said to have retreated to Avalon, where he waits to once again take his place as king, earning him the title the Once and Future King.

Mordred was King Arthurs son by his half sister, Morgause. The incest was unintentional and unknowing but it made King Arthur think Mordred as a nemesis. He persuades the Queen Guinevere into an affair and usurps the throne. Mordred made peace with the Saxon’s who were very hated. King Arthur killed Mordred by the river camel in cornwall.

Both of these people he serves before adopting his real position under Arthur. Almost ironically, his first task in this position is to make it so that Arthur is an illegitimate son as well. Although Merlin is recognized by his father, and has a strong de facto claim to the throne, he not only has no desire to take the throne, he also has been chosen for his assignment as sourcerer. While Merlin himself gave up his claims to the throne, he spends the next portion of his life solidifying Arthur’s claims, until he is recognized as

Grant Wiggins is very conflicted and confused about many aspects of his life when he comes back to his home town. Despite his reluctance, he is eventually forced to overcome his defeatist attitude and accept the sense of responsibility that Tante Lou and Miss Emma are trying to instill in him. Grant is also haunted by his past having grown up in a very racist small town which he could never find a way to deal with.

Keeping a person alive by excessive treatment might devastate the family and make the dying suffer tremendously in the end. “Advance medical technology that seems to one person a godsend, extending life, may seem to another a curse that only prolong dying. Dignity can be devalued amid technology focused solely on the biological organism.”

Suicide is a horrible tragedy and should never have to happen, but unfortunately, some people think there are no other options. In “Romeo and Juliet” by Shakespeare, the main characters, Romeo and Juliet, take their own lives. They decide to do this because they feel the only way out of their current situation is to kill themselves. They were so desperate that it got to the point where they couldn’t handle the pressure. Although readers agree on how they died, an argument occurs when this question is brought up. What pushed Romeo and Juliet past the breaking point that eventually led to their desperate actions? Some readers blame internal forces such and immaturity and impulsive behavior, while others

Ideally, a king has an old look, a great amount of power, and naturally rules his domain with an iron fist in literature. In the two works, Le Morte d'Arthur and First Knight see two different versions of how king Arthur is portrayed. Yet the honor and respect that a king should have remains undisturbed, much like how both are products of their time. First Knight is told as a modern retelling of the legend and Le Morte d'Arthur is a minorly altered, much older work. While the depictions of king Arthur are seen as the paramount backbone for arthurian times, these two works have also proven to exhibit differences and similarities, illustrate Arthur’s figure in character, and serve as preservation of the time period.

The film King Arthur differs in a great propensity with the traditional Arthurian tale. The elements which represent the medieval society and which forms the key aspect of the traditional tale, have not been included. The Holy Grail, a vital motif that is persistent in the traditional tale of King Arthur is dropped from the cinematic representation of the tale. The film differs from the tale on multitudinous accounts, for instance there is an absence of the love affair between Lancelot and Guinevere in the movie. Moreover, the film chooses to not include Camelot, Avalon and Mordred. Important characters like Mordred, the archetypical villain in the traditional tale of King Arthur is not ascribed to any significance in the film. The character of Guinevere is indispensable in the Arthurian legend as well as in the movie. However, the very characteristic of Guinevere is represented in a dynamically polar opposite fashion in both the traditional tale of King Arthur and the movie. Contrary to the ancient tale, Guinevere is no damsel in distress in the movie. The representation of Guinevere in the movie as a warrior queen who partakes in the war along with King Arthur is emblematic as it does not depict the character of a woman in the light of the gender typicality. It is an important alteration that the movie chooses to make from the traditional tale.

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During the years that King Arthur ruled over England, his reign is always remembered as a time of peace, a golden age, a great era, and a glorious time. However, this all comes to a halt, when two of Arthur’s most noble knights bring an affair into the open, causing his round table and kingdom to fall and bringing Arthur to his death. Written by Sir Thomas Malory in the latter half of the 15th century, books 20 and 21 of Morte D’Arthur (Death of Arthur) describe how over time, the tragic hero, King Arthur slowly loses control over his kingdom due to his ignorance, leading to a few errors in judgement that inevitably lead him to his own demise and to the passing of the great era that was the reign of the legendary King Arthur. King Arthur is a tragic hero due to his ignorance, overly trusting manner, and the careless mistakes that he makes during his time as king.

That has been a world-wide that relates to everyone's everyday life, so it is interesting to see that nearly 600 years later, things are similar from the past. Mordred’s childhood is a clear indicator of the person that he eventually became. As a newborn, King Arthur sent Mordred off on a ship to be taken away forever because he found out that Mordred was the product of an incestuous affair. Ironically, the ship crashed and Mordred floated ashore and was found by two fisherman and taken care of by a good man until he was 14. Mordred grew up wanting to get revenge on his illegitimate Father, King Arthur which led to many of his afflictions.

Since Mordred’s fate plays such a vital role in so many of the other characters in the story’s destiny many of them felt as if he would be better off dead, including his own father King Arthur. “WHEN I WAS A BABY, MY FATHER TRIED TO KILL ME”(Springer 1), “So he took all the boy babies in the kingdom, forty boys babies in all, and he put them all in a boat and gave them to the sea. And all those babies starved or died of cold or were drowned-except one” (Springer 80).. In an effort to escape his fate King Arthur did the unthinkable and tried to kill his son. “Because I am Mordred, my father placed me naked in a coracle- a frail cockshell of a boat-and cast me adrift on the sea” (Springer 1). These actions show how fate can change someone and make them do things that they really do not want to do. The only reason the king acted this way is because of a prophecy his adviser Merlin gave him. In Merlin's prophecy Mordred would kill the king at the age of 17. Since King Arthur sent the forty babies out to sea everyone thought Mordred had died and since they believed that it came as a surprise to them when Nyneve took him to his mother to the castle in Lothian. Mordred’s return brought worry and the people in the kingdom had started to believe that fate will once find it’s way to get to their beloved King Arthur once again.

Both the King and the Lord keep their responsibilities and show their principles. In the book Morte D’Arthur Sir Malory wrote, “The the king got his spear in both his hands and ran towards Sir Mordred, crying and saying, “Traitor, now thy deathday has come!”” (Malory 189). During the time of King Arthur killing rebels would be considered the duty of a king. Also he shows the principle of keeping his kingdom intact with his citizens from falling into slavery, which would have inevitably happened if Sir Mordred had taken rule of the realm of Arthur.

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