Idylls of the King: the Holy Grail

Chivalry, Feudalism, Religion, and The Absurd are all important themes in Arthurian tales. All Arthurian tales have these themes and they are important to the story. Provide these stories a satire twist, and now the themes can misshapen. With Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight these movies and stories make it so that there are differences and similarities in these. These important themes make it so their are differences in these important movie and stories.

The Sword in the Stone of the Arthurian Legend King Arthur and the knights of the round table belong to a long line of books and stories of the Arthurian legend. Merlin, Lancelot, The lady of the lake, King Arthur, and Excaliber are all very important in the Arthurian legend. In this essay we will talk about King Arthur, the knights of the round table, and Merlin in the famous story, The sword in the stone.

King Arthur was an ideal person to many people during the medieval time period. He was brave, fair, fearless, supernatural, and honorable. These characteristics made King Arthur a legendary person. Many stories of the King Arthur legend exist today. These stories have many similarities and differences such as in Morte d'Arthur and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In both stories, the author's use the code of chivalry and fantasy, but one author decides to let King Arthur die and the other does not.

The struggle between Christianity and the religion of In the beliefs of Avalon, the Goddess was not male as God was believed to be, and the followers of

Not only does Lancelot’s affair with Guinevere cause him a great deal of suffering, it wreaks havoc on the lives of many other men as well. For instance, their affair brings tragedy to Sir Gawain and his family. Lancelot kills Gawain’s innocent brothers, Sir Gaheris and Sir Gareth, while rescuing the queen from being executed for adultery. Sir Gawain consequently instigates a blood feud against Lancelot that will eventually lead to his own death. King Arthur and his

In the novel, Grendel by John Gardener, Grendel is a human-like creature capable of rational thought as well as feeling emotions. Early on in the story Gardener depicts Grendel as being very observant, critical and somewhat spiteful of the world around him. He describes himself as a murderous monster who smells of death and crouches in the shadows. Grendel watches the humans from the shadows of the trees and at first it seems as though they are the real monsters, slaughtering and pillaging all for the sake of their leaders and for power. This light that the humans are put in gives Grendel a certain charisma about him, making him seem like the one to side with in this novel. Later in the story, however, things change. Grendel seeks out the

he said that he would try but that he wasn't sure. The next day Lancelot rode away to search for the abbey in which he found in less than two hours. The noblewoman then welcomed Lancelot, let him to her chamber to give him a long gown to wear. Lancelot then met King Bagdemagus and asked him who were the three nights of the Round Table he was going to fight. Lancelot told the king to bring his most trustworthy knights in plain armor so that the three knights of the Round Table couldn't recognize him. When the battle begun the King lost twelve knights and the king of North Galys lost six knights. Lancelot then galloped onto the field with his first spear and unhorsed five of the king of North Galys's knights breaking the backs of four of them and with his next spear he wounded the King deeply in the thigh. Sir Madore then galloped onto the field to challenge Lancelot but he tumbled from his horse and broke his shoulder, Sir Modred then challenge Lancelot and he was sent spinning over his horse's tail and he landed headfirst and nearly broke his neck, lastly Sir Gahalantyne tried at first he encountered Lancelot but they both broke their spears so they drew out their swords Lancelot struck his opponent a blow on the helmet

Monty Python is a story about King Arthur and his Knights quest to find the Holy Grail. In the story there is many things to be overcame.

In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Gawain courageously steps up to play the green knight’s game. The green knight clearly lays out the terms of the game to Sir Gawain: Sir Gawain can give the green knight any blow with any weapon and a year later the green knight will return the same blow. A year passes and Sir Gawain boldly puts on his armor and embarks on his journey to receive his return blow. After traveling for months, Sir Gawain stumbles upon a castle where he is graciously welcomed. The significant change in clothing of Sir Gawain from armor to soft clothing suggests a failure to the expectations placed upon him by his pentangle and allegiance to Camelot.

In the novel Grendel, the dragon is a recurring symbol, and briefly a physical character, that shows, and thus emphasizes, the pointless monotony of the world and its meaninglessness.

C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe: Compared to The Bible C.S. Lewis wrote The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe because he wanted to write a children’s book “as a gift for his godchild” (Palmer). It began for him with a series of pictures that came into

“Yes, you there, that man er—young man I spoke to earlier,” she shrilled, clumsily trotting across the street. “Yes, you,” she panted, grasping hold of her centered, skirt slit and swiftly darting across the grass. “Oh it’s wet, the grass is moist,” she wailed. “Yes, you there,” she said again, pointing at me, nearing closer and clamoring up the porch steps. “Oh look, those are some beautiful, Ah—deadly roses!” she squawked, “I think they just made a ladder in my favorite tights.” Her face looked like it was going to sob again, but briskly, she straightened her stance and blew out a sharp breath. “I know,” she said breathlessly, “you're probably wondering what this horrendous woman is is doing in front of you and—oh my god, is this street full of supermodels!” her eyes shifted distractedly, gawking at Gemma. “You look like an angel. Your light, champagne blond hair is so gorgeous, and you're so lean and perfect—how tall are you? She quizzed Gemma.

On this day I had to fight. Those who knew that I was here to fight the beast did not believe that I could defeat him. I had boasted that I could defeat him for I am a well known fighter. I believed that I could conquer him with my bare hands, seeing as nothing else could hurt him. Everyone who has attempted to attack the beast has lost and lost horribly. Tonight is the night that he chose to attack. Grendel tore through the doors and devoured one of the men. He tore threw him like it was nothing he had not done a million times. I knew that he was a beast and I knew that he had murdered, but this was worse than anything my mind could conjour up. He intended for me to be his next victim. I though, had other plans. With every ounce of strength

Arthurian Literature: The Evolution of 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.

He is tested at various stages in his voyage, such as by the damsel who requires him to sleep with her if he wants hospitality. Lancelot agrees only after pleading with her not to make him sleep with her. He did this not because the girl was unattractive for he states, "Many men would have thanked her five hundred times for such an offer." He agrees to this act only because he believes that he needs the lodging to rest himself so he can dutifully continue his quest for Guinevere. Yet, Lancelot does not even look at her when she is naked; his lack of interest causes the damsel to relinquish him from his promise. He stays perfectly loyal and faithful to his queen.