The Once And Future King Character Analysis

Expectations from your parents, your peers, and others influence the person you are and the person you become. In this short story “The Palace Thief”, expectations play a very important role. In Ethan Canin’s short story, he develops 2 protagonists, Sedgewick and Hundert. Hundert is a history teacher at St Benedict's and Sedgewick is one of his students. Hunderts expectations influence Sedgewick in many ways as well as Sedgewick's father, the senator. Expectations as a child define who you will become as an adult. Hundert and the senators expectations for Sedgewick as a child interfere with who he is as an adult.

The Palace Thief, a short story written by Ethan Canin, explains the bond through the narrator communications. The interactions with the characters demonstrate the character's personalities, experiences and the family shapes of individuals selfhood. The narrator of the story mainly focuses on the twist of an individual character. In this essay, I'm going to go over the relationships and correlations of characters William Hundert (Mr. Hundert), the three-year teacher at St. Benedict Academy, Charles Ellebry, who went against Mr. Hundert for teaching duties, Sedgewick Bell, who was a very clever student, and Senator Bell, who was a powerful demagogue.

The Palace Thief is a story of many emotional, mental, and social changes. Between student and teacher (Mr.Hundert & Sedwick), teacher and parent (Mr. Hundert & Senator Bell), and two teachers (Mr. Hundert & Mr. Ellerbe). We will dive into the changes and what caused these changes in this essay. First we’ll examine the first Mr. Hundert and Sedgewick Bell. This teacher and student had many ups and downs in their experiences. Let’s see what they were.

He is scared by the pressures of power and is intimidated based off his past experiences. Earlier in the novel, while talking to the badger he says, “I should have liked to go to war” (White 187). Through his experiences with Merlin, he now believes that ruling in a noble way is more important than intimidating the people one rules over. He adapts the mind set and ideals of his teacher, Merlin. Merlin consistently believes that jousting and tilting are foolish and childish. He passes his ideals on to Wart through showing him how foolish it is to joust when he takes Wart to see King Pellinore and Sir Grummore fight for no reason. He shows Wart that bravery isn't what he was traditionally taught and bravery is really shown when one has knowledge and a just mind-set. White develops this motif through the theme that power corrupts and one must rule with equality and bravery in order to be a strong leader. This theme is explored and embodied through Merlin and his teachings. Through Merlin, Wart learns what it means to be a capable and knowledgable leader. With his strong militaristic background and intellectual experiences, Arthur is given potential to be a wise

12. Morgan Le Fay, the Queen of the fairies, has kidnapped 3 people (Wat, Dog Boy, Friar Tuck). Robin Wood needs Kay and Warts help so get them back. What everyone else does not know except for Morgan Le Fay and Merlyn, is that Morgan is after Wart. They are both brother and sister from two different men (Uther and Duke). Morgan’s mother becomes pregnant from Uther and Merlyn takes Wart and gives him to Sir Ector, which makes Wart an orphan. *. Morgan looks as if she is furious about Uther sleeping with her mother, but she is actually mad at Wart for being born. The reason why Morgan has captured the 3 people is so that she can lure Wart in. With Robin Wood being in the chapter, he is known for stealing from the rich and giving to the poor, rarely misses in archery,is known for splitting his arrow in half with his own arrow, and he killed the sheriffs of Nottingham. Robin Wood is

In early medieval European society, whatever might does is considered right. People with strength and power use it as justification for their actions. From the Wart’s childhood experiences with the great pike, the combative ants, the friendly geese, and the intelligent badger, he learns alternatives to the perception that might equals right. By viewing the world from different perspectives, Wart is better able to judge the relationship between might and right. Since he has experienced life from many different points of view, it allows him to grow up into a fair and just ruler.

The Once and Future King “The Once and Future King” was an interesting book to say the least. “You mean a quest for a tutor” (White 11). One must wonder what this may mean? There are many themes one noticed throughout the novel. A portion of themes present in the novel were learning, pursuit, time, and adventure.

For the last interview, I thought I would keep the questions short and sweet. I asked a series of ten questions, five in which are simple yes and no questions. The first question referred back to unit eleven and is actually the first question asked about The Once and Future King. The question I asked was what traits and/or characteristics do you posses that are important for the exercise of leadership? This question caught my eye because as a leader it is good to ask yourself evaluating question such as this one to continue developing as a leader. Peggy answered by saying, “Most important characteristics are motivation and persistence. Keeping staff motivated by remaining positive to me is key.” The next question is also based off of the

“The Wart walked up to the great sword for the third time. He put out his right arm softly and drew it out as gently from a scabbard.” (198). The Wart, a nickname for soon to be King Arthur was a modest, curious, young boy who was into adventure. Once the Wart was crowned king, he was named King Arthur. King Arthur grew from a timid boy to become a strong ruler with the help of his tutor Merlyn. The theme of might and right that recurred several times was based on Arthur. The Wart was always good-hearted both young and old, but when he pulled the sword from the stone he had to apply all his lessons and morals to his rule. T.H. White uses might and right to prove that Arthur is exceptional for his devotion and belief in Merlyn’s ideas. Instead,

When Arthur ventures into Merlyn's ant farm, he discovers a culture that fight blindly without knowing what they are actually fighting for. Arthur observes that, “The horrible armies were on the point of joining battle, to dispute the imaginary boundary between their glass trays when Merlyn came to the rescue” (White 130). Arthur learns in his experience with the Ants that war is his ear is fought for almost completely pointless purposes. The great battles that the Lords boast about are pure massacre; the nobles and lords order the soldiers from a safe area as the soldiers do all the fighting and dying for the “cause”. Merlyn later explains to Arthur that, “There is one fairly good reason for fighting - and that is, if the other man starts it. You see, wars are a great wickedness, perhaps the greatest wickedness of a wicked species. They are so wicked that they must not be allowed. When you can be perfectly certain that the other man started them, then is the time when you might have a sort of duty to stop them” (White ). This bit of wisdom from Merlyn imbues a sense of morals into Arthur that he uses to influence his future wars and

All books and plays provide readers with important lessons. In the play Inherit the Wind, the playwrights, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, are able to use different elements to present the theme. Some of the most important elements used are characters and ideas. Rachel Brown, the Butler’s Law and Matthew Harrison Brady are some of the characters and ideas that help to reveal a theme of the play that appearance can be deceptive, and therefore one must look beyond the surface of things to seek for the truth.

Merlyn offers to return to the castle to serve as a tutor for The Wart and Kay. He teaches The Wart primarily by transforming him into different animals. Through these transformations, The Wart broadens his worldview, as well as learns the history of the world around him. Over the duration of The Wart’s scholarship, he undergoes a process of maturation. Six years pass, and both The Wart and Kay are of age to assume their societal position.

The main character is judged only by his connection with a gang instead of an individual. when a young couple see Andy on the sidewalk in the dark alley a boy named Freddie rushed him to him to help him. " He's a royal"he said, it shows that instead of knowing his name, they see him as "just" a gang member. just by reading his jacket that's read ROYAL, they knew to not to get involved and decided to run away.

The Last Kingdom, written by Bernard Cornwell, is a novel following a young Anglo-Saxon boy named Uhtred through his journey of growing up as a dane after being taken in a battle. When Uhtred is seven years old Danes come to where he lives,Bebbanburg, and kill his brother. Since he is next in line to own and rule Bebbanburg, his father takes him into battle against the danes. However, when Uhtred sees the man that killed his brother, he charges into battle and meets someone that would shape him into being the man he will become. After his father is killed in the battle, the man who killed his brothers takes him back and raises him as a son due to his courageous behaviors at the battle. The influence the Danish culture had on Uhtred at such a young age is more than prevalent through his actions and thoughts in the book. Although he was born and Anglo-Saxon, Uhtred displays traits of a Dane.

Facts are defined as a thing that is indisputably the case. With this definition, the facts of King Lear are as follows: it is a tragedy. The events that ultimately lead to end of many lives are riddled with lies and deceptions for personal gain. Although lying lead to their demise the sense of self betterment isn't one that should necessarily be looked upon negatively.