ENGB31 Lecture Notes - Gareth, Gingalain, Bors
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The lady of the lake in the old legends is the church (n. 16) Camelot, a city of shadowy palaces, is everywhere symbolic of the gradual growth of human beliefs and institutions, and of the spiritual development of man. I hate to be tied down to say, this means that," because the thought within. Coming of arthur exploits legendary status of king arthur to ask questions about evidence and truth. The holy grail investigates the subjectiveness of experience: percivale"s sister gawain, deafer, said the blameless king, Hope not to ake thyself by idle vows, Being too blind to have desire to see. (866-9) No way better to be a gawain than being percivale"s siter: the entwinement of the worldly and the spiritual: compare malory. This chance of noble deeds will come and go. Ah, galahad, galahad, said the king, for such. As thou art the vision, not for these (293-4)
