Themes in the Arthurian Legends--Choose from the following themes

and use the links below or a search engine like Google to help you
describe the theme, explain how it is shown in the legends, and give
specific examples from the Arthurian Legends that prove it is a theme
from the legends:

Equality Search for Self/Identity

(the Round Table) (Quests/Hunts)
Chivalry/Loyalty
(The rules of knighthood and
their loyalty to King Athur)

Love and Romance

(King Arthur, Guinevere, Highest Spiritual Pursuit (the Birthright/Nobility
Lancelot) Holy Grail) (the Sword in the Stone)
• Chivalry/Loyalty - Isn't Chivalry Dead? - An essay about chivalry in the modern world
• Chivalry/Loyalty - Timeless Myths: Age of Chivalry- Background on the
tales of King Arthur
• Chivalry/Loyalty - Chivalry and the Study of Modern Medieval Martial Arts
- A very strong essay on chivalry and its relation to the modern world (it's
long, but well worth reading)
• Chivalry/Loyalty - The Knighthood, Chivalry & Tournaments Resource
Library - Check out the list of article links to research more about chivalry.
• Chivalry/Loyalty - The Code of Chivalry -http:
//www.astro.umd.edu/~marshall/chivalry.html
• Highest Spiritual Pursuit - The Holy Grail from The Camelot Project - A
rather complete description of a very important symbol
• Highest Spiritual Pursuit - The Holy Grail - Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poetry
depicting the spiritual quest
• Birthright/Nobility- The Matter of Britain: the Story of Arthur - This
selection, written by Merrie Haskell, tells the whole story of King Arthur in a
brief form.
• Birthright/Nobility - Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone
• Birthright/Nobility - The Sword in the Stone
• Search for Self/Identity - The Arthurian Hunt - The hunt as a quest for
identity
• Equality - The Round Table - An argument about whether the round table
really symbolizes equality or not
• Equality - Symbolism of King Arthur's Round Table--A discussion of how
the round table is symbolic
• Equality - Mystical WorldWideWeb-Arthurian A2Z--A summary of theories
about the round table.
• Love and Romance - On Romance - an essay about romance in King Arthur's
court