Meleagant's Daddy Issues

My father and all of the people in the Kingdom of Logres think I am evil. However, my father has made me evil, because he never cared for me as a father should.  The king is truely evil for never noticing all of the things I do to please him. He is a fool!

Years before I captured Queen Guinevere, I would try to prove myself to my father by battling the most skilled knights in the kingdom and courting only the loveliest ladies in court. My distant father never noticed the things that I did to prove to him that I would be a great king one day.

Now, I hate my father, and I will do everything I can to go against his wishes. When I captured the queen, I thought my father would finally respect me, but he continues to doubt me and favors another knight who has come to take the lovey queen away from me. How could a father refuse to be loyal to his son? My father wants me to return the queen to the knight, but I would rather die in battle before she is returned.

During the battle, I fight furiously to prove to my father that I am a better warrior than Lancelot. However, I overhear my father begging the queen to restrain Lancelot, and I am deeply embarrassed. When Lancelot stops fighting, I continue to fight to ease my humiliation. After my father begs, I put down my sword and stop fighting regretfully.  In this moment, I feel nothing but shame. I have lost the queen! However, Lancelot agrees to battle me again which brings me joy. Until the day we fight again, I will practice my skills so that I can win back my pride and the respect of my father.

The Knight and the Hair

"He was willing for her to have the comb, but first he removed the hair, being careful not to break a single strand. Never will the eye of a man see anything so highly honored as those strands, which he began to adore, touching them a hundred thousand times to his eyes, his mouth, his forehead and his cheeks. He placed the strands on his breast near his heart, between his chemise and his skin. He would not have traded them for a card loaded with emeralds and carbuncles; more did he fear that ulcers or anything other disease could afflict him; he had no use for magic potions mixed with pearls, nor for drugs against pleurisy, nor for theriaca, nor even for prayers to St. Martin and St. James! He placed so much faith in these strands of hair that he felt no need for any other aid." (Lacy, Norris, Wilhelm, 128)


Although I do not know much about King Arthur literature, I chose this quote because the relationship between Lancelot and Guinevere seems integral for the legend. It seems like the feelings shared between the two, and with Arthur in the mix, could make life extremely complicated as a knight of the round table. Does this cause problems between the three throughout the collective narrative? I also chose this because of the intense nature of Lancelot's feelings. Doing all that with just some hair.....it almost seems as if Lancelot is mentally unstable. That he is not only in love with the King's wife, but is completely and utterly obsessed with her. What gives Lance? This is bad for business bro.


cite:
Lacy, Norris J., and James J. Wilhelm. The Romance of Arthur an Anthology of Medieval Texts in                                          Translation. Routledge, 2013.

Bon Jovi=The Knight of the Cart

I felt that the quest to find the find queen was mostly The Knight of the Cart hoping and praying that they would make it and eventually get there. This song reminded me of that while reading.