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From: justin swoish
Date: 11/11/2009
Time: 11:36:56 AM
Remote Name: 139.135.111.143
In the first half of the book it seems as if Malory wants to group the people together so the reader knows the history of what has been told over the years of storytelling. Story telling travels by word of mouth and written out for the people who are able to read. So touching base with the history of the characters is essential to the story telling or the main plot has no backbone. Letting the reader decide on who to look forward to seeing later in the story or who to cheer for during battle helps with a short or long explanation to who the character may be and also develop a relationship with. You don’t want to read a story of some guy that found a sword and he was a great leader and then he died. You want to develop that emotional connection with the character through struggle and triumph. The way Malory write these characters portrays what he thinks of people and maybe would become more like as well. Malory only focuses on the upper-class and makes them your main focused in reading about their life and building feeling for. This also shapes foreshadowing through bloodlines and how to predict that most people don’t change from the ancestors like Arthur and Uther who where father and son and developed identical habits and curses for women whom they knew would be harmful to them in the long run. Le morte d’Arthur without them would be less tolerable because the stories would jest seem to be some guy talking about hundreds of people that you wouldn’t know and have no connection with. I believe that the story needs these even though that sometimes it is hard to stay focused to who you are reading about but it is more of a necessity to have and even more so in the time where these stories where being told or written.