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King Arthur Chivalry

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King Arthur is one of the most famous leaders in our world’s history. No one knows whether or not King Arthur ever existed. Either way, he still was very impactful on our world and continues to influence our world today. Nick Bettis states, “That future generations turned him into legend… That is the real significance of King Arthur. We invented him because we have an inherent need for what he represents. He symbolizes our ideals, which makes the most authentic part of us invested in his legacy.” King Arthur invented the idea of chivalry. Chivalry was a code used by the Knights of the Roundtable that included various qualities that were to be expected in an ideal knight such as wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice. All of the knights lived and died by this code. Many different texts written about King …show more content…

Within this text, King Arthur and his army fight the army of his son, Sir Mordred. At the end of the battle, King Arthur and Sir Mordred are tasked to fight each other. In the end, they kill each other, and Arthur’s sword, Excalibur, is returned to the Lady of the Lake. It would be very hard for a man to fight his own son no matter how evil the son was. King Arthur believed it was his duty to face off with his son. Arthur states, “No, tide me death, tide me life. Now I see him yonder alone, he shall never escape mine hands. For at a better avail shall I never have him.” Arthur was determined to fight Sir Mordred despite the fact that Mordred was his son. Arthur did the right and just thing when he fought his son. Amy Farrell points out, “The chivalric virtues of wisdom, faith, charity, and justice were among the many ideals of the Knights Code of Chivalry in the Middle Ages.” So Arthur was very chivalrous when he fought his son. King Arthur knew it was he duty to fight his son, but it was also the just thing to do. For this reason, Arthur was very chivalric in this

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