English Literature to 1800: Fall of Camelot

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Based on what you've read of Malory, who or what is responsible for the fall of Camelot and the destruction of Arthur's court?

At 2:21 PM, Unknown said...: there many reasons that camelot eventually fell, first was the existence of morgan Lefay who conceived arthur's child, and arthur for sleeping with her, second is the love afair between guinevere and lancelot, third is the fact that merlin decided not to save everyone's lives and kill mordred himself or lancelot, as well as letting arthur sleep with his half sister, after all he warned arthur that guinevere would be his downfall, so he obviously knew of the love affair that would eventually happen, fourth is that arthur tried to kill all the children including mordred which if he hadn't done then mordred would not try to steal arthur's throne out of hatred and lust for power, and then we all must stop blaming arthur for making irrational decisions what if you were him, it is easy to say all these things when you see someone else do something stupid but how would you have reacted if you saw ypur kingdom falling apart, you would have panicked. but truth is most of this is arthur's fault beacause for one he did not listen to merlin, he tried to kill all the children so he could keep his throne and he as well slept with his sister.