The Once And Future King Book 4

In the fourth and last book of the Once and Future King, King Arthur is getting old, his round table old has a few members left, most of them lost to the grail. Lancelot and Guenevere are still lovers though subtle warnings from the king. Then finally after many years Mordred, Arthur son from his sister comes forth and accuses the Queen of her affair. Lancelot had to run to escape from Mordred but the queen was tried and convicted, she was to be burned. Lancelot came to rescue her from the stake but killed many people in the battle. A few of them being Mordred's uncles, this really got him mad and got the king to preform war against Lancelot. The Pope declared that Lancelot and Guenevere were both true to the king and pardoned the accused. The result was a very long siege at Lancelot's castle while Mordred was temporary King back home, and he finished the plan he started since he accused the queen. Mordred went to the people and said that the King had been killed in battle, and therefore took the crown. As soon as Arthur heard this he went back home to regain the crown, the morning of the battle the book ends with Arthur telling his Paige to pass on his story.

T. H. White's writing style is very good it keeps to going through the plot, but keeping you informed and understanding what is going on. Although this is not my preferred genre, the book is very good and details the story of Arthur very well. The theme that came from this book was how power corrupts people. This always relates back to life as an archetype, from Caesar, to Hitler. The story of King Arthur is in various forms but this one was very through and telling making it very convincing that this story was the true version.

The Once And Future King Book 3

In the third book of the Once and Future King, Arthur begins his round table and starts to incorporate the new young generation into it to establish a group of knights that are trained in this new idea of might for right instead of the old knight who were used to the might is right system. Lancelot ran away from his home to be able to join the table as king Arthur asked and together they did many battles to enforce the round table's ideas. Also during this book the quest for the holy grail started, and many good knights became perfect and were never heard from again. Lancelot and Guenevere started to have an affair and Arthur realized it but didn't want to face it, so he turned a deaf ear when he saw signs of it. The book finally closes with Lancelot being allowed to preform a miracle even through all of his sins.
I think that this was my most favorite book so far, King Arthur's ideas were fulfilling themselves and Lancelot was at the top of his game for a while, yet wasn't allowed to get the holy grail. I can equate this to life by; the king saw that his goal of might for right had succeeded, but now he had a problem. His knights were getting restless, they were bored, no invasions to preform, and the public was safe. His knight were going back to their old ways, they started to kill people who did only small crimes; Arthur saw this and needed something for them to do, so he started the quest for the holy grail. In life, when people get bored they want to do something so they we usually revert to crime, maybe vandalism, maybe theft. In the next book I expect Arthur's last battle and his death, Lancelot most likely will be exposed on the affair and will be punished for it.

The Once And Future King Book 2

In the second book of the once and future king, it starts out after the new king, King Arthur, just won a rebellion battle and was talking to Merlin and Kay. They discussed the ways of the people of the rebellion and why they were rebelling. As the book continues more battles went on and as a side story the book talks about the family feud brewing between the descendants of the Earl of Cornwall and the descendants of his murderer Igraine. Arthur with the help of Merlin sought how to control the knight's wanting to fight, and fulfill his goal of riding Might is Right from people's mind. They eventually came up with the round table, which was a wedding gift from Guenevere. The book ends by King Arthur's unwilling seduction by, unknown to him at the time, his sister Morgause.
I found that this book wasn't a every enjoyable one, it was more of a political, historic one that showed the necessary underpinnings of the story. Arthur was left off thinking about the round table idea and how it would work, the classic might for right idea which is still being used today. Might for right is how the democratic system is geared to work. The system enforcing the laws, might, to protect the other people of the nation, and prove justice, right. The the next book I think King Arthur with continue with the round table and will establish his idea of might for right, and start a long lasting time of peace. Lancelot will come to the round table soon, and probably become one of the upper members of Arthur's court. Hopefully he also will find some way to end this family feud before it goes to far.