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This 3 page paper sees Mordred as the cause of the downfall of the kingdom. Sir Thomas Malory's story Le Morte d'Arthur is examined.
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literature. Sir Thomas Malory, who wrote Le Morte dArthur, was a knight during the War of the Roses (Bryden, 2005). Malory endows Arthur with much prowess and morality (Bryden, 2005).
He is placed on a pedestal. In fact, characterization in the scope of this work is to some extent one dimensional. Characters are good or evil. In real life of
course, people have many good and bad qualities. Many fictional characters do as well. Within the scope of this work, one sees much detail, but it is also true that
the characters do embrace these striking labels of either good or evil to a great extent. Within the context of this work is violence and there is the fall
of the kingdom. A student writing on this subject asks, who is responsible for the downfall of the kingdom? In Malorys version of King Arthurs legend, there is
the idea that Mordred is responsible for the downfall of the kingdom. He is a villain and in some peculiar way fulfills a prophesy. Mordred is inbred and while others
born on May Day are banished, Mordred defies fate and remains. It is not surprising then that he would grow up to be mean and tear down a kingdom. At
least, it goes along with the logic of story-telling where there are ironic twists, villains and treachery. Mordred is evil in the context of this particular version of the
story. That said, there are so many events which occur simultaneously and in succession that it is hard to blame Mordred for everything. Still, he seems to be most culpable.
Of course, as any complicated character has, Mordred has more than one side. Spivack & Staples (1994) for example examine the character and look at him more as a trickster
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