sword and the stone

A detailed Summary of sword and the stone

The Sword in the Stone is a book about an adopted child named Wart. He

is of royal blood and does not know this. One day when Wart is in the

forest, he finds a magician named Merlin. Merlin comes home with Wart and

agrees with Sir Ector, Wart's guardian, to become Wart's tutor. Merlin

goes about educating Wart by transforming him into different animals.

Through each transformation Wart experiences different forms of power, each

being a part of how he should rule as king.

The first transformation plunges Wart and Merlin into the castle's

moat as fish. They proceed to meet the largest fish in the moat, who is

the ruler. This fish takes what he wants because of his size. In a speech

about power, he tells Wart that, "Might is right," and might of the body is

greater than might of the mind. Because of the way the fish-king rules, his

subjects obey him out of fear for their lives. Wart experiences this

firsthand when the fish-king tells him to leave. He has grown bored of

Wart, and if Wart does not leave he will eat him. The king uses his size

as his claim to power, therefore his subjects follow him out of fear.

In Wart's next transformation into a hawk, he soars into the castle's

individualism as shown by the ants. A democratically elected leader, whom

falcon, hold her in highest regard because of her age. She applies her

There is a single leader of the ants, and she is the only thinking

since she had not been released once she outlived her usefulness as a

occur when an ant tries with difficulty to organize three cadavers in a

small burial chamber, when a small amount of reasoning would have solved

God's riddle and is awarded control over the animal kingdom. He lives a

power ends once they are back on the ground, where he is only looked upon

subjects have faith in his or her ability to get a job done, and who has

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rule his or her people through might and fear, as does the fisk-king.

Leaders must give great thought to making decisions related to their use of

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