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The Crowning of Arthur: Symbolism

1. What are some of the symbols in the story?


The round table and the sword.

2. Are there any objects which seem to have a symbolic meaning? What are their meanings?


Arthur's sword symbolize the king. Sword means to cut so it would represent strength, power, protection, honor, and confidence. Those is the qualities of being a king. 

3. Do any people act as symbols in the story? What do they represent?

Arthur, he represent honor, power, talent, and the qualities of being a new king.


4. Do aspects of the story's setting seem symbolic? In what way?


The palace, it symbolizes that the story take place during an ancient time, which during that time they had a war. 

5. Is one symbol used throughout the story or do the symbols change?

Only one symbol is used throughout the story.

The Crowning of Arthur: Tone Question

1. What is the author's attitude towards actions or events?

The author tried to make us excited during Arthur pulling the sword up, whether he could pulled it out or not. Then the author made us happy because Arthur pulled the sword out successfully and was crowned a king.

2. Is the story humorous or tragic or frightening? Does the author want you to laugh or cry, to feel happy or sad, to experience anger or fear?

The story is a story that made the reader happy it is not funny or sad or scary. The author want us to feel happy about Arthur being a new king.

3. What is the author's attitude toward characters or the narrator? Does the author like or dislike, trust or mistrust the characters or the narrator?

The author like the characters and trust the character. As seen from the part which Arthur pulled the sword up and was crowned a new king.

The Crowning of Arthur: Imagery Questionaires

1. What scenes, moments, descriptive passages, phrases, or words stand out in your reading of the story?
The scene when Arthur pulled out the sword successfully, this constributes me that Arthur is now a new king and I'm happy with him.

2. Did a particular image make you feel happy, or frightened, or disturbed, or angry? Why?
The scene makes me happy because if theres no king it would be a jeopardy and chaos. People would be selfish competing to get the title of king. So I feel happy that the problem is resolved.

3. Which of your five senses did this image appeal to? What do you associate with this image, and why? What do you think the author wants you to feel about a certain image?
The picture is in the book in ...page. The image show me that Arthur is pulling the sword out of the stone. This picture contributes me that he is powerful and full with spirit just like God is helping him to be a new king.
4. How do you think your reactions to the imagery in the story contribute to the overall meaning of the story?
It makes me excited that he would pulled out the sword successfully or not, it makes me cheer on Arthur side.

The Crowning of Arthur: Point of View Questionaires

1. What point of view does the story use? Is the story told form a first-person perspective, in which the narrator is one of the characters in the story, and refers to himself or herself as "I"? Or is the story told from a third-person perspective, in which the narrator is not one of the characters in the story or may not participate in the events of the story?

The story is a third-person perspective view because in the story there is no the word I or you in the story and the story is like a parable which was told like a make story, a fiction, so it is the third- person perspective.

2. What are the advantages of the chosen point of view? Does it furnish any clues as to the purpose of the story?
The advantages are that the story could be told in fiction story and he could told many events at once.

3. Is the narrator reliable or unreliable? Does he/she have a limited knowledge or understanding of characters and events in the story? Does the narrator know almost everything about one character or every character, including inner thoughts?
I think that the narrator is reliable. He does hve a complete understanding of the story and explain the event clearly. He also explain the role of the character well and explain the character thought by action which is good. As a reader I find that this story is very easy because the narrator wrote the story with good explanation so I get full understanding.
4. Does the author use point of view primarily to reveal or conceal? Does he ever unfairly withhold important information known to the focal character?
The author use the point of view to reveal, he doesn't withhold the any information because in the story I read there is not secret.

The Crowning of Arthur: Characters Questionaires

1. Who is/are the main character(s) in the story? What does the main character look like?
The main characters were King Uther as a father, Igraine as a mother, and Arthur as a son. The sub-character are Sir Ector as a person who take care of Arthur when he was young, Merlin an unknown guy who guide King Uther toward marriage. King Uther probably look like a normal king with yellow hair and beard. Igraine as the story mentioned she is a beautiful and gentle women. Arthur, the son, surely looked like a combination of Igraine and King Uther, he is a mature guy with a good shape and yellow hair like his father.


2. Describe the main character's situation. Where does he/she live? Does he/she live? Does he/she live alone with others? What does the main character do for a living, or is he/she dependent on others for support?
King Uther is a king so he live in a palace at Britain, Igraine is a women who live in Tintagil but when she married King Uther she move to his palace at Britain. Arthur live in Sir Ector home at Britain, Arthur does not do any job because he was in the care of Sir Ector family entrusted by the king.

3. What are some of the chief characteristics (personality traits) of the character? How are these characteristics revealed in the story? How does the main character interact with other characters? Note the degree of complexity of his/her behavior, thought, and feelings; their appearances, their habits, mannerisms, speech, attitudes, and values. What is the main character's attitude towards his/her life? Is he/she happy or sad, content or discontented? Why?
King Uther, as the story mentioned he falled in love with Igraine which was the Duke wife this represent that he is a selfish guy because as a King he would want anything. Igraine, the wife of the Duke, when the Duke died she married King Uther this represent that she is not faithful to her husband who passed away. Arthur, the son, sure is a good guy because when his brother told him that he have no sword, Arthur rushed to find the sword and with his strength pulled the sword out of the stone.

4. What sort of conflict is the character facing? How is this conflict revealed? Is it resolved? If so, how? The conflict is that there is no one to be the king when the previous king passed away. The tournament of pulling the sword was then created to find who would be the right king. The problem is resolved when Arthur pull out the sword which was stuck in the stone and was made a new king.

5. Is any character a developing character? If so, is his change a large or a small one? Is it a plausible change for him? Is he sufficiently motivated? Is the change given sufficient time?

King Uther and Igraine was not a developing character. But Arthur is, by pulling the sword he was made the King and this is a large change to the status of Arthur class. From a medium class to the most powerful class.

The Crowning of Arthur: Setting

1. Place: the geographical location of the story - a country or a city, a large city or a small village, indoors or outdoors, or both.
The story "The Crowning of Arthur" take place in Great Britain, England. 
Setting:
 -Great Britain: the place where King Uther lives.
 -Tintagil: the place where Igraine lives.

2. Time: the period in history, the season of the year, the day of the month, and/or the the hour of the day in which the events of the story occur.

This story take place in 500 A.D., Medieval Period. The season of the year or the date of the month is unknown.

3. Social environment: the location of characters and events in a particular society and/or a particular social class (lower, middle, or upper class)

The story mostly is about upper class, the king's class. But there is some part in which Arthur was adopted by an upper-middle class family, Sir Ector family. But mostly the story take place as an upper class level.

The Crowning of Arthur: Question

1.What is the story about? What are the main events in the story, and how are they related to each other?

The story is about Arthur,how he was born, taken care of, and how did he pulled the sword out. The main events is probably the tournament, in which one's must pulled the sword out to be the king, and Arthur did and become the king.

2. Are the main events of the story arranged chronologically, or are they arranged in another way?
It is arranged chronologically(in order), because the story starts from the past in which King Uther likes Igraine and they both have a son. Later, when the Arthur,the son, was grown he pulled out the sword and was crowned the king.

3. How is the story narrated? Are flashbacks, summaries, stories within the story used?

The story "The Crowning of Arthur" was basically a summarize version of "Le Morte d' Arthur", the book basically contained far more pages the story "The Crowning of Arthur". There's no flashback.

4. Is the plot fast-paced or slow-paced?
It is fast-paced because the story itself comes from Le Morte d' Arthur as I mentioned, so this summarized version needs to be compressed and so it is a fast-paced.

5. How do the thoughts, behaviors, and actions of characters move the plot forward?

The thoughts of King Uther is probably the one moving the plot forward, the liking that he have to Igraine. The next thought is that the king let Merlin take the child away as a reward. The last is probably the thought of having a tournament of pulling a sword to be the king of Britain.

6. What are the conflicts in the plot? Are they physical, intellectual, moral, or emotional? Are they resolved? How are they resolved? Is the main conflict between good and evil sharply differentiated, or is it more subtle and complex?

The conflict is King Uther died and there is no king, by deciding who should be the king they set a tournament of pulling the sword. They're physical because no one have a strength enough to pulled out the sword. But when Arthur did pulled out the sword the conflict was resolved and he was decided to be a king.

7. What is the climax of the story and at what point in the story does the climax occur? Is the ending of the story happy, unhappy, or indereminate? Is it faily achieved?

The Climax is when Arthur pulled out the sword from the stone. The story ends happily because Arthur was crowned to be a king of Britain.

8. Does the plot have unity? Are all the episodes relevant to the total meaning or effect of the story? Does each incident grow logically out of the preceding incident and lead naturally to the next?
The plot is unity, it is relevant because it relates to the ending of the story, the plot leads naturally to the next stage.

9. What use does the story make of chance and coincidence? Are these occurences used to initiate, to complicate, or to resolve the story? How improbable are they? 
The story is make of chance because the sword is pulled out of chance as the book mentioned "no nobles could pulled out the sword", but Arthur did so it is a pure chance. Yes, the story resolve when Arthur pulled out the sword successfully.

The Crowning of Arthur by: Sir Thomas Malory