Imagination In Morte D' Arthur
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A recurring theme in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d' Arthur is the use of
imaginative descriptions of characters and settings. Imagination is what the
reader of the story must use to form his or her own mental images of a
situation, and the better the storyteller is, the clearer the mental image. Hi ....
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.... goings on of the story. Malory uses this method again, when Arthur and his
army are about to negotiate with Mordred and his. One of the King's soldiers
notices a snake about to bite him, and he draws his sword to slay it. All that
Mordred's men see is the blade being drawn, and a battle immediately ensues.
Once again, the reader is told more than the characters. The only thing
keeping the reader a part of the story is the vivid descriptions given of the
nightmarish world of Arthur's d ....
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