The Real King Arthur
In The Once and Future King, the portrayal of the Middle Ages is conceived as that ofmagnificent castles, beautiful clothing, great kings and queens- everything and everyone perfect. No proof of the dirty, unjust, horrible circumstances that all people lived by- even the nobility- existed throughout the entire novel. The people and places in The Once and Future King are so backward that the story could be described as a fairy tale. Camelot, for one, would not have been so gorgeously described, and looked upon as a majestic land. Towns back then were not pretty. Dirt thrived in cities; there were diseases and crud everywhere. Camelot was also depicted as being in order, and just to everyone. Communities during the Middle Ages were not orderly. They were probably outright chaotic and unjust. As far as the king goes, he probably did not do much to help Arthur, such a great, benevolent king, would not have exi
you would jump at it in a second. Guenevere was emotional, and had feelings, something As a queen, Guenevere, from The Once and Future King, did not fit the desired. The knights, in reality, went around to towns pillaging and raping-basically destroying anything and everything. The novel places knights in this innocence picture, a well-behaved knights during the actual Middle Ages, but not enough to create a "club"
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Approximate Word count = 640
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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