The Sword In The Stone Lessons Essay
Through life, people experience many different things that leave an impact on their future selves, including their actions, beliefs, speech, and everything else that makes them stand out as an individual. These lessons can be hidden in many different forms and will always teach them something important, even though they may or may not have took the learnings into account. They subconsciously start to let their actions be influenced by these lessons. That very thing happens to the Wart in The Sword in the Stone, book one of The Once and Future King by T.H. White. He is met with many different situations that affect his thoughts and beliefs toward government and society as a whole. A man with special powers named Merlyn help bring these lessons
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Merlyn tells Wart that it’s time for him to visit a wise badger that will help Wart learn more about himself, life, society, and more knowledge that will progress Wart’s studies of how to be a nice ruler. As a badger, Wart runs into a hedgehog while he’s fed up with the absence of the other badger. Wart explodes and threatens to eat the meek hedgehog. This interaction symbolizes how when a person has power, whether or not they are consciously aware of it, they tend to express it on creatures below them. Creatures that don’t have any power. They tend to oppress them in a sort of way, and that’s exactly what Wart did. He almost became the bully Merlyn warned him about. When Wart meets the wise badger, he is taught a lesson that is very important. To be happy with what you have and who you are and don’t strive to be someone or something you’re not. He speaks to Wart that even though you have massive amounts of freedom to do whatever you please, you still have to have enough responsibility to make sure that that freedom doesn’t become dangerous. The badger teaches Wart to have enough ethicality as a leader to rule and make to the point, rational decisions for his leadership to be effective. Wart learns a lot from this encounter and takes it into consideration, storing the knowledge away until he needs
Merlyn tells Wart that it’s time for him to visit a wise badger that will help Wart learn more about himself, life, society, and more knowledge that will progress Wart’s studies of how to be a nice ruler. As a badger, Wart runs into a hedgehog while he’s fed up with the absence of the other badger. Wart explodes and threatens to eat the meek hedgehog. This interaction symbolizes how when a person has power, whether or not they are consciously aware of it, they tend to express it on creatures below them. Creatures that don’t have any power. They tend to oppress them in a sort of way, and that’s exactly what Wart did. He almost became the bully Merlyn warned him about. When Wart meets the wise badger, he is taught a lesson that is very important. To be happy with what you have and who you are and don’t strive to be someone or something you’re not. He speaks to Wart that even though you have massive amounts of freedom to do whatever you please, you still have to have enough responsibility to make sure that that freedom doesn’t become dangerous. The badger teaches Wart to have enough ethicality as a leader to rule and make to the point, rational decisions for his leadership to be effective. Wart learns a lot from this encounter and takes it into consideration, storing the knowledge away until he needs