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    The Chivalric Code in Le Morte d?Arthur      An act of chivalry is described as the qualifications or character of the ideal knight. Knights were expected to uphold this code of conduct. In the English literature Le Morte d?Arthur, French for ?The Death of Arthur?, by Sir Thomas Malory, the characters display acts of chivalry from beginning to end. Though the code of chivalry contains many qualities or acts, nevertheless bravery, loyalty, and courtly love are demonstrated

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    Betrayal in Malory's Le Morte D’Arthur

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    Malory Paper Malory's Le Morte D’Arthur isn't known to be classic just because of Arthur-but rather the themes of family, love, revenge, identity, loyalty and betrayal. As King, Arthur is put in many situations that test the people he surrounds himself with. Therefore, betrayal has become a reoccurring theme. Throughout the novel, people are seen betraying each other. Betrayal has become familiar in a way to the members of the round table, ultimately leading to it's demise. The acts of betrayal

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    Identity in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur It can be difficult to define the unifying themes of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur ; it can seem a tangle of random adventures mired with magic and religion, love and fate. What is the purpose behind all the seemingly similar adventures of so many similar knights? And what is the place that the books of Sir Trystram hold? These books make up the longest section of the work, yet Trystram plays no role in the search for the Holy Grail or

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    Compare and Contrast Film Excalibur to Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur Literary works on the story of King Arthur and his cohorts is a story that had been narrated in several books and even modified in movies which typical illustrates the lives of the Arthurian legends. The story “The Excalibur” cannot be compared with any of the other versions of the Arthurian tales ever in history. Sir Thomas Malory’s version of the Arthurian tale took a French style and name in which some elements

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    Comparing Notions of Piety in The Wakefield Mystery Plays, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Le Morte D'Arthur The monastic lifestyle that Launcelot and his knights adopt after their conversion is one that Margery Kempe might approve of -- doing penance, singing mass, fasting, and remaining abstinent. (MdA, 525) But Launcelot's change of heart is not motivated by the emotions that move Kempe, nor is his attitude towards God the same as can be found in The Book of Margery Kempe and The Wakefield

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    Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte D'Arthur" Sir Thomas Malory took on the legend of Arthur with the purpose of discussing it and in order to have readers gain a more complex understanding of the legendary king and other characters in the story. Heroes like Arthur, Lancelot, and Galahad are focused on achieving personal glory and are unhesitant about embarking on adventurous journeys with the purpose of being successful. These characters experience a series of tests that are intriguing and comical at

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    that he is a chivalrous knight. He then appears in Morte D’Arthur where he is placed in a situation involving the queen where he must put his loyalty to the king on the line. In both stories, Sir Gawain has a healthy relationship with King Arthur. His personality does not change much but there is a definite change in his character in Morte D’Arthur. In Sir Gawain in the green Knight, he is a courteous, heroic and loyal knight. In Morte D’Arthur, he still possesses those characteristics but he makes

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    Important reoccurring themes in Le Morte d’Arthur are adultery, fate, revenge, people hiding their true identity, (unanswered) love, quests and chivalry HIER OOK. In Le Morte d’Arthur adultery is one of the most important themes and Arthur has a lot to do with it. First of all he was born because of adultery between his mother Igraine, who was actually married to the duke of Tintagil, and his father King Uther Pendragon. Secondly he commits adultery himself with his sister, King Lot’s wife. Their

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    journey. Merlin from Le Morte D’Arthur is a supernatural aid who circumlocutory helps the hero by using his abnormal abilities to protect and give advice. Merlyn from from The Once and Future King is also a supernatural aid who uses his anomalistic abilities to protect and give advice, but he directly helps the hero. Both stories involve supernatural aids, but each help the hero in a contradistinctive way. Although Merlin appears as Arthur’s metaphysical aid in both Le Morte D’Arthur and The Once and

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    Sir Thomas Malory’s “Le Morte d’Arthur” tells the tale of King Arthur and his knights of the round table. Each tale of a character contained a lesson to be learned regarding the proper way in which one conducts themselves. Some lessons within Malory’s tales are more straight forward compared to others. Some lessons appear to be basic and straight forward, but after critical thinking, the lesson appears to become more complicated. Malory or a character within the tale will state something to be taken

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