How Do You Invade My Mind Every Night? Essay

We first see Merlin awaiting a scrawny, young fellow about twelve years old; Arthur. Being the clumsy little thing he apparently is, Arthur found himself being chased by an angry Kay who wanted his arrow when it flew into a dark forest by Arthur's fault. When Merlin is proving his magic abilities to Arthur, they transform into many types of animals where Arthur becomes worried and fragile. Through this, it is understood that Arthur is clumsy, scrawny, and rather weak. However, Geoffrey of Monmouth states that Arthur was fifteen years of age when found and he was of outstanding courage and generosity, and his inborn goodness gave him such grace that he was loved by almost all the people. Perhaps for a more understood plot, Arthur’s character did not match the more reliable account of Arthur's

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Instead of pondering Mithian’s offer of sex, Arthur’s thoughts turned to Guinevere, as they often did during times of stress and tumult. A part of him hated her for not being there with him right now, while another part was satisfied with her banishment.

“Well, I’m not sure. You’ll have to see. You will have to tell your son and grandsons the story so they know about the curse.” I said.

“It’s all right,” came a response from the tree line, the voice sounding familiar. A thin man stepped from the woods: Merlin. “It’s only me. Mind if I have a seat?”

“Since you’ve invited yourself along, you might tell me why this Emmett is following you.”

The legend of Queen Guinevere is one of deep love and heavy heartbreak. It always ends in betrayal and death. However, the love story within is one of greatest told. She was married to King Arthur of Britain (“Guinevere.” Compton’s). However, she was not in love with him. She loved someone else named Sir Lancelot. He was King Arthur’s closest knight (“Guinevere.”

Five days after Arthur had told Guinevere he still loved her and wanted her has his wife, yet she still hadn’t told him how she felt, Arthur felt like tearing his hair out with worry. There was only one person who could handle the king while he was in such distress – Merlin.

    In all the long history of literature, some fictional characters have loomed above others, written about again and again by various authors of various eras. Arthurian literature is one area of fiction that has always been popular for writers to recreate in new versions, and one of the most intriguing characters of all Arthurian literature is Merlin, the magician/ prophet who aids Arthur early in his reign. As the Arthurian saga develops, so does Merlin, changing from an aloof, druidical character into a more human, magical being, though always retaining some traces of his Welsh origins.

The high priestess was nowhere to be seen. The once noble and beautiful woman, someone he had denied help and compassion, consigned herself to darkness for nearly three years now; insanity and hate etched in her mind and heart. Merlin felt partly responsible for her cruel deal of fate. But still, he couldn 't ignore her choice to walk this path either.

Merlin was the one responsible for the birth of King Arthur. Uther Pendragon, father of Arthur, was at a party when he met the beautiful Igraine. Igraine was married at the moment, but Merlin helped Uther look like Gorlois for the night to hook up with her for the night. The only thing Merlin asked for was to be the keeper of the baby. “Merlin took the child to a priest, who baptized him with the name of Arthur, and thence to Sir Ector, whose wife fed him at her breast. (Malory 907)”

Merlin, Arthurs advisor, prophet and magician and the best friend of King Arthur. He is also a man of mystery. He wore many hats since he was a wizard or sorcerer. He was a young boy with no father. He was full on knowledge since he had learned a lot about life a young age because he had no parents his appearance was like an old wise man who would give anyone his wisdom for successive British kings. He was also very much attracted towards women since he was full of lust for beautiful bodies who held him in fear and contempt. Merlin also knew how to talk to animals when He had fled into the forests which is one of the reasons he was known as the wild man of the woods. He was the last of his kind druid the Celtic shaman, priest of nature and

He is always trying to protect his loved ones, and goes against his emotions to defeat his spiritual mother, queen mab. Merlin is a wizard in training but is still able to use his powers. When he does have the ability to use them, or has prophetic visions, he is able to make wise choices as to what to use them for, such as saving Nimue, or using his vision of the dragons to know who is next in line for the throne, rather that using his powers for evil and the upkeep of the old ways. Merlin is also a protective person. In the movie, the adulterous lover of Lancelot was being burned at the stake for treason.

If the name of King Arthur is mentioned, I suppose what comes to mind is not so much one person as a whole array of characters and themes, a montage so to speak. Of course we do think first of the King, the magnificent monarch of a glorified or idealized medieval realm. But we think also of his Queen, of the fair and wayward Guinevere, we think of his enchanter, Merlin, who presided over his birth, who set him on the throne, who established him there in the early and traveled days of his reign. There were the knights of the Round Table, vowed to the highest ideals of chivalry, and the greatest of them, Sir Lancelot, who, of course, has a tragic love affair with the Queen. There is another great love story, that of Tristan

    His emotions get the best of him. When Merlin told him that he shouldn’t love Guinevere because she will bring the end to Arthur’s kingdom and then she did (p.46). He always lets his feelings take charge of his decisions even though he shouldn’t be letting them overcome the decision of his people and his court. (...) “King Leodegraunce, who had a beautiful daughter called Guinevere; and Arthur loved Guinevere the moment he saw her, and for thinking of her could hardly rest or eat when he came home to Camelot.(...) ‘A man of your bounty and nobleness should not be without a wife, nor should the realm of Logres lack a queen... But tell me now is there any princess whom you love more than another?’ ‘Yes indeed there is,’ said Arthur. ‘I love Guinevere, King Leodegraunce’s daughter. And she is the fairest, sweetest, loveliest, and purest maiden in all the world. Her will I wed, or die a bachelor!’ ‘Certainly she is among the fairest,’ said Merlin. ‘Yet I would that you loved another; for by her very beauty shall come the end of Logres’ (...). Even though Merlin warns Arthur about the danger of him marrying Guinevere and Arthur refuses to listen to his advisor and this decision did bring the end to the realm of Logres.