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Essay Archive - Imagination in Morte D' Arthur
Imagination in Morte D' Arthur
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. His
descriptions, ranging from horrific to chivalrous, always manage to draw the
reader into the story and make him or her an active participant, usually
knowing a bit more than the characters about their own fates. Malory employs
many literary techniques, but perhaps his most prominent is his use of
imag....
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