Literature Group
Question:
dorkkk423
Student
High School - 11th Grade
Based on how other Arthur's court respond to Perceval, what prediction can you make about how successful Perceval will be as a knight?
In the following text:
Just then, behold, Perceval entered the hall upon the bony, piebald horse, with his uncouth trappings. In the centre of the hall stood Kay the Seneschal.
"tell me, tall man," said Perceval, "is that Arthur yonder?"
"What wouldst thou with Arthur?" asked Kay. "My mother told me to go to Arthur and receive knighthood from him."
"by my faith," said he, "thou art all too meanly equipped with horse and with arms." Then all the household began to jeer and laugh at him. But there was a certain damsel who had been a whoke year at Arthur's court, asnf had never been known to smile. And the King's fool had said that this damsel would not smile till she had seen him who would be the flower of chivalry. Now this damsel came up to Perceval and told him, smiling, that if he lived he be one of the bravest and best of knghts.
"truly," said Kay, "Thou art ill taught to remain a year at Arthur's court, with choice of society, and smiler on no one, and now before the face of Arthur and all his knights to call such a man as this the flower of knighthood"; and he gave her a box on teh ear, that she fell senseless to the ground.
