Tuesday, March 30, 2010

King Arthur

King Arthur is the king that is the most well known through out the entire world. Time may have changed the way some people look at how he once was, but most people think of him as the young skinny little boy who pulled the sword from the stone like in T. H. White’s The Once and Future King which after that he grew into a great king protecting excalibur and creating the round table and finding the brave knights to protect the great Camelot. This is the basic story of King Arthur that people have built on to and taken apart. Also like Disney creating the character of wort to be king Arthur and pull the sword from the stone just like T.H. White, but they added more magical things with merlin and the castle.
People don’t see anything wrong with changing this story because everyone always thinks about what could have really happened then and was there a real king Arthur? Or, is it all just a made up fairy tail for kids. No matter, if its real or not or for young or old it is about king Arthur and everyone of the world today knows of him as one of the most important parts of medieval times and one of the things first thought of when you think about the middle ages. This might be a story only told to small children, but it is for you to grow up with and tell more younger children like how you found out about it when you were that same age. This is really a story you believe your entire life without fail to hear again when your older and think about what is and isn’t real in the story and know that the way you thought of it as a child will stay with you forever.
This is what changes the story is by how people think about it as they get older because they are the ones who may tell it differently for there beliefs or like a mother protecting there young child. If people as they grow choose to not believe it then they will change the way they tell it and King Arthur will be changed in the eyes of all people who knew him the old way and the ones who know the new way will stay as long as kids listen to it. Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d' Arthur is the first story to be pulled from when talking about King Arthur to make the story or film your own. In this the old English is still their for the old tone and full effect of where the story of King Arthur really comes from.

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

middle ages

The middle ages were about honor knights kings and castles which all come to play in the stories of King Arthur. In all of the stories he is this weak little boy who pulls the sword out of the stone over all the big strong men who try to pull it out. In some stories his amount of trying ranges from one time to three. He then becomes king of Camelot with the round table and he is searching for men who are brave enough to fulfill the tasks of a knight that is true to his king. Merlin is at Arthur’s side the whole time hinting on the future. He hints to Arthur that the last seat is at the table belongs to a man not born yet. This shows how the middle ages were thought of as such a different age of princesses, but really it was the time when most people were loyal to what ever they belonged to. People thought so much more of what they lived for and why they lived compared to now how so many people take lives for granted. Lives are precious and that’s what most of these people noticed.