For Part 2 of the Exam

Throughout the course, we have discussed how each of the knights represents certain values of Arthur’s court. For example, Chrétien’s Romance poems demonstrate how Lancelot and Yvain represent the values of a courtly lover and a noble knight. In the second half of the course, we saw those same values lead to the fall of the round table in the “Alliterative Morte Arthure,” and Malory’s “Lancelot and Guenevere,” and “Death of Arthur.” Using any of the texts from before the death of Arthur, can you find any evidence of knightly values leading to the fall of King Arthur’s court? Were there warning signs that the round table would end in tragedy because of the inability of the knight to keep up their reputations?