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In T.H. White's The Once and Future King, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table did not achieve perfection. Merlin had given Arthur the idea of the round table so that he could expand, and build off of it. Arthur used the table to try and harness might to make it work for right. The problem with this is that it cannot be accomplished. By using might, you can only wipe out the bad parts of a system, and then you are left with just might. This is what King Arthur is left with and this is what eventually brings down the Round Table. Once the Knights of the Round Table had literally killed off all of the bad knights and everything was good and fair, they had nothing else to do. Knights have a given tendency to fight and if they have nothing good to fight for, they start to fight amongst themselves. This happens to the Knights of the Round Table. The knights started to kill each other, creating more feuds and more reasons to fight their fellow knights. Perfection and how the Knights of the Round Table did not achieve it are at the core of this novel. Arthur, how he was brought up and how his upbringing influenced his Round Table. Further to prove that the Table achieving perfection was
The Knights of the Round Table cannot achieve perfection because every human, including knights, have faults and defects. In the end Arthur realizes his mistake, you cannot use might for right. But I shall send him a gift shall please him much more, for I shall give him the table round, the witch Uther, his father gave me, and when it is full complete, there is and hundred knights and fifty. Was never king neither knights did better since God made the world' " (Malory 69). They then had nothing to do except fight amongst themselves. Merlin had the gift of prophecy and knew that if this marriage took place much unhappiness would come of it. " (Malory 45)Arthur's marriage would have been a good one if not that there was no romance involved. " (White, The Book of Merlyn)This proves that Merlin would have liked Arthur to build on these ideas and that is where he failed. So the knights fought amongst themselves. Arthur ask, " 'Why can't you harness Might so that it works for Right?' "(White 254). Arthur took a wife, Guenever, when he became King.
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