Thomas Mallory and T. H. White were authors of the same subject. In spite of
this fact, there were many differences between their works. Malory's Morte d' Arthur was
a negative work that was very negative in his descriptive aspects. While, T. H. White
was more positive and upbeat with his descriptions in The Book of Merlin.
Malory used and showed many negative events throughout Morte d' Arthur. He
also, used negative words to describe the events that took place in his works. For
example, when most of the soldiers died, "the thieves would rob the dead knights of their
bodies" (172). This type of action was very disrespectful to those who died in the battle.
More of Malory's negative details was exhibited when "Sir Bedivere would not throw the
Excalibur into the water" (173). Malory used words like "traitor" and "betrayed" to give
Sir Bedivere this negative image, because he did not follow orders, of his king, which
was very disrespectful. Keep in mind that when he wrote this story that a lengthy and
dangerous war was going on in England and many of these happenings in Malory's story
was fact in on the warfront in Europe.
Not only did Malory use negative events and phrases, but also a great description
of blood and gore. In fact, his description was the most detailed aspect in Morte d'
Arthur. Such as when the battle between Sir Mordred and King Arthur took place he
says, " that pierced the helmet and the casing of the brain" (172) Instead of just saying
that the sword hit the helmet, he goes into great detail to describe the battle between the
two. Another grotesque description is when Sir Lucan died it was described as, " his guts
fell out of his body...he lay foaming at the mouth and part of his guts lay on his feet"
(172). Sir Lucan's death went into great grotesque description, there was nothing light-
hearted about it. After the fight was over with, Malory used
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