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TH White's DOCUMENT RESUME ED 026 387 TE 001 225 By-Fletcher, Paul F. "The Once and Future King." Pub Date Oct 68 Note- 5p. Journal Cit-Educators Guide to Media & Methods; v5 n2 p54-7 Oct 1968 EDRS Price MF -$0.25 HC-$0.35 Descriptors-Adolescence, *English Instruction, Fables, Fiction, Individual Development. *Legends, Literary Conventions, Literary Genres. Literature, *Literature Appreciation, Mythology. *Novels, Secondary Education. Teaching Techniques, *Twentieth Century Literature Identifiers-*The Once and Future King T.H. White's "Once and Future King" provides an antidote of humor for the pessimism found in many modern literary works. As the title implies, many of the book's themes are timelessthe fruitless quest, the eternal triangle, the conflict of desire and morality, and the opposition of good and evil. Other themes--the fall of the leader and the unifying of diverse elements into political unity--are as timely as a news broadcast. The 20th century, despite its scientific and technological advances, has been dominated by myth; and White's book, with its suffering and aexistential squirm," "is a veritable bellwether for our time." (Suggested teaching activities for a unit on the quest motif are listed. (LH) EMBUICZLIETZIODS Editor FRANK McLAUGHLIN Managing Editor CHARLES FAUCHER Art Director PETER B. RENICH Design RICHARD CLIFF Production Manager R. KENNETH BAXTER Subscription Manager MARY CLAFFEY Motion Pictures JOHN CULKIN Television NED HOOPES Tapes & Records KIRBY JUDD Paperbacks FRANK ROSS Publisher ROGER DAMIO Marketing Director W. BRYCE SMITH 405 Lexington Ave. New York, N.Y. 10017 (212) MU 7-8458 ADVISORY BOARD Barry K. Beyer, Ass't. Prof. of History, Carnegie- Mellon University, Pittsburgh Max Bogart, Ass't. Dir., Div. of Curriculum & in- struction, State Dept. ot Ed., N.J. Charlotte Brooks, Sup. Dir. of English, Wash., D.C. Public Schools John Cu ikin, 8.J., Director, Center for Communi- cations, Fordham U., New York City Daniel Fader, Project Dir., Dept. of English, Uni- versity of Michigan at Ann Arbor Sidney Forman, Prof. of Education and Librarian, Teachers College, Columbia U. Morris Gall, Social Studies Head, Norwalk Public Schools, Conn. Donald Kiemer, Supt. of Schools, Winchester, Massachusetts Peter Kontos, Ass't. Dir., Social Science Program, Greater Cleveland Philip Lewis, President, instructional Dynamics, Chicago, Illinois Marshall McLuhan, Dir., Center for Cultureand Technology, University of Toronto Joseph Mersand, Chairman Eng. Dept.,Jamaica High School, New York City William B. Sanborn, Dir.,Div. of Instructional Materials, San Francisco Schools Bertram Siegel, Dir. of Science, Westport(Conn.) Public Schools M. Jerry Weiss, Chm. English Dept., JerseyState College, New Jersey Educators Guide to MEDIA AND METHODSis published nine times per year, Septemberthrough May, by Media and Methods Institute,Inc., divi- sionof North American Publ:shing Co.I.J. Borowsky,president.FrankL.Nemeyer, vice president. Roger Damio, vice president.Publish- ing offices: 134 N. 13th St.,Philadelphia, Pa. 19107. Phone: (215) 564-5170. Subscription:$6.00 per year, 86.00 in Canada. $4.00each for ten or more to one school address.Single copy 75$ 0 Copyright,Media and Methods Institute, Inc., 1968. Printed in U.S.A. by World Color Press. Con- irtrolled circulation paid at Sparta, .r'tote 0+ Illinois. T EINCE AND FUTU EKING U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH,EDUCATION & WELFARE FLETCHER. The Onceand Future King is OFFICE OF EDUCATION BY PAUL F. deserves, a bookthat is not gettingnearly the attention it for it is a book, asits title suggests,for our time, for past time, and surely forall time. EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE fascinating interpretationsof THIS DOCUMENT HAS BEEN REPRODUCED White's is one of the most POINTS OF VIEW OR OPINIONS King Arthur and ofman's eternal search.Nowadays, it PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIGINATING IT. people are beingexposed to various STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENTOFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION seems to me, young most of these literary treatmentsof the quest motif, yet POSITION OR POLICY. pessimistic and tragicwithout the redeem- treatments are life. ing grace of thecomic, or at leastthe tragicomic, in Chrestien de Troyesand Layamon andMalory, and later Spenser, up to thatfinal pat answer tothe dilemmas posed of the VictorianCompromise, Tennyson by the conundrum I must "PERMISSION TO REPRODUCETHIS certainly all of thesemake interesting reading. COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL HAS BEENGRANTED confess that as a ladI myself wassomewhat amused by it a BY Tennyson's romantic treatment,and I always thought it,41 the office. After A-set iitzt./tHLL,Zmattita,. pity that Arthurdid spend all that time at Robert Goulet much too OPERATING all, he did leaveGwen alone with TO 'ERIC AND ORGANIZATIONS Tenny- UNDER AGREEMENTS WITH THEU.S. OFFICE OF much. 0, well, themagnificent cuckold! Of course, it this wayhe isnothing if not elegaic EDUCATION. FURTHER REPRODUCTIONOUTSIDE son never presents old Beo- PERMISSION OF and Arthur accepts hisfate as inevitable. Like poor THE ERIC SYSTEM REQUIRES gold-wreathed smoke THE COPYRIGHT OWNER." wulf, he goes downlike the sunset in a the Idylls so boringin of ruin. Perhapsthis is why I found high school, and in a wayonly a little interestingin col- high school; snide lege: standardsaccharine treatment in Nowadays; youngpeople areweaned on commentary by aknow-it-all professor incollege. Maybe teeth on the students of todaywould prefer T. H. "Lord of the Flies,"cut their this is also why with it White's version of theArthurian legend. White's "A SeparatePeace" and/or(depending more, atleast for our time.White knows the score. will bear) White makes Arthur noinviolable GeorgeWashington what thelocal censors Table. We first seeArthur as a boy: prop- into of the Round shifting of time refer- finally matriculate erly named Wart.And with all the "Catcher," and the fourteenth centuryedition of "Playboy." encesMerlin consults apply the the world ofPinter and/or the EncyclopaediaBritannicathe reader can "The various happenings to our owntime, for Arthur istruly a As an antidote tothis solemnity, once andfuture king. King" is a kindof (with accent on thisword for many) Once and Future All the characters Gawain basi- are in thebook: Gawaine, hardlythe Green Knight happy book, withsadness too, but here; indeed a lot lessstupid than that fellow, yethumanly with a nice measureof speaking, often a lot morestupid; Lancelot is noRobert cally a happy book Goulet here. Actuallyhe is ugly likeClegg in Muriel and grace thatadds up I was always grimness, gaiety Spark's MandelbautnGate. In my salad days, rather incensed atGawaine's behavior (orlack of it) with to reality. the complaisant ladyin the Green Knight.The Anglo- 54 /MEDIA & METHODS Well maybe it isn't exactlyclear who Arthur was, or what or where Camelot was. Butimagine Richard Burton or Richard Harris singing: Camelford, Camelford! orAs I was wandering in the dusk of Caerlon-upon-Usk. orElain, the lily maid of Queen'sCamel Yet, perhaps in his time compressionsT. H. White might have had Lancelot hurryingback to Guinevere offering: I'd walk a mile for a Queen'sCamel or Am I sinning more now and enjoying it less? You see, it's the book that'sdone this to me. I would be as bad, I fear, asWalt Disneyindeed closer toTerry- toons. Lyrical License of Lerner and Lowe?Well, as Kenneth Tynan points out, in My FairLady Lerner made Shaw's fanatically grammatical Professor'enry 'iggins commit two syntactical errors, separatedby a split infinitive, within the space of three lines. Well, whoever Arthur was,modern scholarship seems to think there really was anArthur and archeological dig- gings seem to indicate there was areal Camelot. off with Wart's early Saxon eunuchthen along cameLancelot du LacGallic The Once and Future King starts question in my mind being "eddication" as Cockney Sir Ectorcalls it, and the reader equating it with spice: The infinite variety of characters: like always which one did the manlything could be a mighty is introduced early to an the governess with red hairwho had a wound on her sit- good an tidote. Sir Ector: An acquaintance of minerecently remarked that there down that she offered to show to nowadays. had hysterics and was sent away.They found out after- were very few"happy books" students studied lunatic hospital for three culpa, the change wards that she had been in a Everything is the tragic vision, the felix years. (p. 9) of Philomel so rudely forced. Sir Grummore is always questingfor the Questin' Beast. Twit, twit, twit The jumbling of timelikeStetson among the ships at Jug, jug, jug Mylae, but much more funincludesrunning an ad for a Tereu tutor in the HumberlandNewsman and Cardoile Advertiser. Conflict is everywhere. Man inconflict with himself; There are some excellent descriptionsof the dark woods man in conflictwith others, man in conflictwith the forces, in the area and the man who gothis nose bit off and how usually malevolent, around him. he haunts the woods, andWart's being shot at by an un- White has a little fun, and itwould seem to me that known assailant. The boy gets lost inthe woods and falls The Once and Future King is akind of happy book, with asleep. The writing is exquisite: sadness too, but basically a happybook with a nice meas- The boy slept well in thewoodland nest where he had gaiety, and grace that adds up toreality. laid himself down, in thatkind of thin but refreshing ure of grimness, they begin to lie out of Nowadays young people areweaned on Lord of the Flies, sleep which people have when Separate Peace and/or (depending on doors. At first, he only dippedbelow the surface of sleep, cut their teeth on A and skimmed along like asalmon in shallow water, so what the local censors willbear) Catcher, and finally fancied hini3cif in the. air. and/or Playboy. Well, close to the surface that he matriculate into the world of Pinter He thought himself awakewhen he was already asleep.
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