Science Essays

Science Essays Science Paper Science Paper In T.H. Whites The Once and Future King, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table did not achieve perfection. Merlin had given Arthur the idea of the round table so that he could expand, and build off of it. Arthur used the table to try and harness might to make it work for right. The problem with this is that it cannot be accomplished. By using might, you can only wipe out the bad parts of a system, and then you are left with just might. This is what King Arthur is left with and this is what eventually brings down the Round Table. Once the Knights of the Round Table had literally killed off all of the bad knights and everything was good and fair, they had nothing else to do. Knights have a given tendency to fight and if they have nothing good to fight for, they start to fight amongst themselves. This happens to the Knights of the Round Table. The knights started to kill each other, creating more feuds and more reasons to fight their fellow knights. Perfection and how the Kni ghts of the Round Table did not achieve it are at the core of this novel. Arthur, how he was brought up and how his upbringing influenced his Round Table. Further to prove that the Table achieving perfection was not possible. This lack of perfection ultimately affects England in both negative and positive ways. The definition of perfection is freedom from fault or defect, or an unsurpassable degree of accuracy or excellence (m-w.com). The Knights of the Round Table cannot achieve perfection because every human, including knights, have faults and defects. The only perfect being is God and he is the essence of perfection and cannot be surpassed. The Knights of the Round Table comes very close to the mark of perfection but cannot reach it. For when they reached the top of their excellency, the natural tendency to fight brought the knights crashing down upon each other.