“The boy thought that there was something wrong with him. Night and day he brooded over his ugliness, his malfeasance. His hideously twisted visage was a sure sign to him that deep in his inner self he was an evil person. Lancelot wanted to be a knight because he felt that he was a depraved, lubricious soul. Lancelot’s childhood was spent sequestered, training to be a knight in order to escape from his ugliness and give him something to be proud of. White’s novel The Once And Future King, Lancelot was truly the most human character of them all. Although held up to almost godlike stature in T.H. And the twilight years of his life were spent in remorse for the bad things he had done. Lancelot’s adulthood was spent trying to overcompensate for this ugliness by performing Herculean feats and good deeds.
His childhood was spent in seclusion, training for a job desired only to escape the hellish life that his hideous face would otherwise hold in store for him. He thrust the end of his beard into his mouth, stared tragically into the fire, and began to munch it fiercely.Sir Lancelot’s intense desire to perform heroic deeds was brought on by his lack of confidence and insecurity. "Well, anyway," he said, "suppose they did not let you stand against all the evil in the world?" "I don't think that is an answer at all," replied the Wart, justly. Suppose you wait till you are grown up and know the reason?"
"Why do people not think, when they are grown up, as I do when I am young?" "Wouldn't you? Wait till it happens and see." "That would be extremely presumptuous of you," said Merlyn, "and you would be conquered, and you would suffer for it." “If I were to be made a knight," said the Wart, staring dreamily into the fire, "I should insist on doing my vigil by myself, as Hob does with his hawks, and I should pray to God to let me encounter all the evil in the world in my own person, so that if I conquered there would be none left, and, if I were defeated, I would be the one to suffer for it."
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