hero dreams of becoming a knight). This hero struggles to overcome obstacles, and through a series of successes and defeats, returns as a person of significance, falls in love and “lives happily ever after.” This narrative pattern is seen frequently in the medieval times, when knights did exist and young boys all dreamed of becoming a proud, shining knight.
The legend of King Arthur further expanded on that pattern, that narrative skeleton, through the introduction of the Knights of the Round Table…
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