Section+2+(Chapters+XIII-XXI)




 * Synopsis **

On their way to save the damsels The Boss and Sandy found some freemen who gave them breakfast. Between these men The Boss found one who he thought would be a good addition to his Men Factory so he send him of to see Clarence in Camelot. They leave and soon find the castle of Morgan Le Fay. She is King Arthur’s sister and they don’t get along. They go in to meet her and find that she is a ruthless person and enjoys killing people because she abuses her power as Queen. She soon finds herself shooing The Boss and Sandy to the dungeons because of a comment The Boss said about Arthur. Sandy speaks up and tells her that he is The Boss and that she can’t hurt them. Morgan, realizing who he is lets them go and treats them better. The Boss stays there a couple of days and Morgan gives him a party. There The Boss can see truly how evil she is when she sentences the composer to death and The Boss when asked permission lets her kill him. The Boss feels he has to change things so he tries to change her but fails due to her “training” or habits, but let’s many people out of the dungeon. Some who didn’t even know why they were there. He sends some off to the Factory. He leaves after failing and realizing that he couldn’t change these people’s attitudes and ways. Sandy and he both find the “castle and damsels”. The Boss actually sees pigs and pig traders and tells Sandy this, but she claims it’s a curse and that she could see them. The Boss buys the pigs and they leave to Camelot. They finally come across another castle whose owner is vacant and unknown and rest there. They let the pigs or damsels go so that they can return to their kingdoms. They meet a messenger that asks The Boss to go to the Holy Fountain because it mysteriously stopped and people were panicking. So they head of to the fountain where they find Merlin already trying to fix it and wait until he fails and lets The Boss try. When he finally gets to try he finds a leak in the fountain and sends a letter to Clarence and tells him to bring supplies and to people as soon as possible because he was going to fix the Holy Fountain.

//Situational // Ritual - Hank's armor hinders and annoys him throughout his journeys. It represents the "defective" society of Camelot as a whole that expects him to wear the armor and conform to the ignorance and stupidity of its citizens. //Character // Morgan le Fay (Devil Figure) - She represents the other end of the feminine spectrum from Sandy. Le Fay represents how people can become morally depraved and possibly evil because of the ignorance of society as a whole.
 * Archetypes **



Sandy (Platonic Ideal) - Sandy assists Hank when he is unable to operate within the expectations and traditions of Arthurian society by using fanciful lies and threats when Hank is in danger from first the knights, and then from Morgan le Fay.

//Symbolic // Wisdom vs. Educated Stupidity - Hank's ideals and morals represent logic and wisdom, while Morgan le Fay is unswayable and completely set in her ways of her rights as nobility and lack of moral conscience. Twain also portrays this archetype by placing Hank's intelligence and Sandy's ignorance in juxtaposition during Hank's quest to rescue the damsels. Initiation - The journey to rescue the "princesses" reveals to Hank exactly how sad, ignorant, and backward the society of 6th century England is. It also strengthens his resolve and prepares him to take action for the advancement of society. Hanks' journey provides him with opportunities to find the few people he considers to have "common sense" and potential and send them to his "man factory". Magic Weapon - Hank utilizes his pipe has a magic weapon to scare off the knights who have proceeded to attack him. No one else is able to use this weapon because the citizens of Camelot see it as a type of "magic" and didn't understand how it functioned.


 * Themes **

//Nature vs. Training // During the second section of the book Hank shows how the poor people and peasants are treated. In the chapter Morgan le Fay Hank meets Morgan le Fay who is King Arthur’s sister, he sees that she punishes her peasants harshly just because they slightly angered her. Hank tries to show her why this is not right to punish them. He begins to free the slaves who she had imprisoned in her dungeon. One couple talks to Hank, he talks to them and asks the man if he had killed the deer. This man’s wife asked Hank to kill him fast but Hank told her that he was going to free him but they didn’t seem to understand why. Unfortunately le Fay didn’t understand either she saw the peasants as her property which meant she could take their lives if she wanted to. Throughout the passage Hank tries to change the way the people see each other but their customs and religion seem to get in the way of any sort of progress. When he and Sandy saved the “princesses” they stayed at this castle, the next morning he told Sandy he was leaving but she started following him. He asks her why she is going with him if that it her house but she said that wasn’t her house and that she didn’t even know the people. She said the people should have been proud to have The Boss stay at their home even though they didn’t know them at all.


 * Real World Application **

<span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">//Morgan Le Fay & Anna I of Russia// (Reign:1730-1740) <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Morgan le Fay’s reign as queen can be seen as cruel and unjustified because she would use her power to imprison innocent citizens and inflict torture on them for fun! Le Fay’s page bummed into her so Le Fay had the page killed. Le Fay’s acts of terror continue as Hank tours the dungeon, he comes across a man who is in jail for accusing the queen’s hair of being red instead of auburn. The man’s cell has a little window overlooking the town and his home. Le Fay decided to put five graves in front of his house to further torture him as he remains in jail. Le Fay’s abuse of power can be compared to Anna I of Russia’s reign during the beginning of the 18th century. Anna I of Russia’s reign is plagued by misuse of power for amusement. She had a prince’s wife feed a rabbit lettuce with her teeth and princes marry each other in dresses just for her amusement. She also punished a noble by forcing him to marry one of her maids and forced them to spend their wedding night in an ice palace during the Russian winter. Anne I of Russia’s reign and Le Fay’s reign are similar in the fact that they both misused their power and wrongfully punished the lower classes.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Group Discussion **

<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">We all said that we didn’t understand Sandy’s Tale, so we are going to go back and look at it again. We came to the conclusion that Sandy is delusional because she thought the pigs were princesses. We had a lot of trouble with categorizing Morgan Le Fay. We don’t know what archetype or symbol she represented but we know that she is an important character in this section. Hector brought up the suit of armor Hank wore. We said it represents the defects society and Hank wanted to fix the armor symbolizing society. We don’t know whether to say it is a symbol or archetype. We were talking about Merlin vs. Hank but decided to talk about that in the next section. We talked about the slaves Hank found on the road, but didn’t do anything with them. Finally we talked about the people in the dungeon and about the lovers there and how they could be an archetype of star-crossed lovers. We also found it interesting that Morgan went through all that trouble in making a prisoner believe his family died because he said she had red hair, not auburn.


 * <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Questions for Further Discussion **

//<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Level 1 // <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">1. What did The Boss see the damsels and ogres as? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">2. How did the lovers react when they were united in the dungeon? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">3. What did The Boss use to scare off the knights?

//<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Level 2 // <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">1. Why do you think The Boss let Morgan kill the composer? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">2. What do you think The Boss will do if he does anything to fix the Holy Fountain? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">3. Why do you think that the men on the road were so willing to give their foods to the knight?

//<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Level 3 // <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">1. Do you think that because someone has all the power they should be able to do anything they want? Why? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">2. Is it ever a good thing to condemn an innocent person to help you get on some ones good side or even save your life? Why? <span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">3. Should you ever lean away from your beliefs you were brought up with, or should you be closed up and not listen? Why?