If the castle is being under attack, would his servant go into his room to wake him up or would he knock and let the king open the door?
2006-10-09 09:33:02 · 19 answers · asked by beast 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
This is an English assignment
2006-10-09 11:46:24 · update #1
He wouldn't do either. He would wake someone below the king but higher than himself. Probably the castillian, or the captain of the guard, who would raise a counter-attack and send an urgent dispatch to the king, or carry it to him personally.
2006-10-09 10:00:16 · answer #1 · answered by Murph 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
If the castle is under attack, all the occupants would be aware, in which case, the responsibility of waking and warning the king would fall to someone of importance . I imagine the sentries would raise the alarm, the castle commander or sergeant of the guard would warn the king. If the servant was the first or only person to notice the attack, he would enter the kings chamber and wake him. Remember that the king is a soldier too, and would be prepared, and expected to fight,
2006-10-09 16:59:58 · answer #2 · answered by ED SNOW 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If I put myself in the place of the servant, and I experience the feelings of living in a castle that is under attack, AND I don't fear that the king will decapitate me if I come running into the bedchamber with EMERGENCY written all over my face - I'd go running into the room to wake the king.
> By the way, what era is this?
2006-10-10 13:48:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
T'was half past two when Eugine of King Patrick's Court was awakened. The steady beat of a drum could be heard vaguely in the distance. Alarmed, Eugine made his way out of the servants' quarters and up onto the tower. Stepping over the snoozing watchmen, he gazed out over the surrounding lands. What he then saw chilled his bones. For a moment, all he could do was stand there, paralyzed. Recovering, he immediately ran to the King's quarters, past the sleeping guards at the enterance, and stopped at the door to his master's room. Unsure of what to do, he nervously tapped the door. The sound of his taps were drowned out by the nervous chatter of his teeth. In a sudden torrent of desperation, the servant began pounding at the locked door. "Sire, Sire. Rouse thyself from your deep slumber. A foreign army seeks to...
2006-10-10 00:28:24 · answer #4 · answered by indian_gogirl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The castle was under attack. Horace, his kindly old servant quietly edged his way up the stairs as the brave knights fortified the gates. Horace turned to knock at the door, he hesitated. Should he barge in or should he knock. Knowing that the king might be otherwise preoccupied, the servant knocked timidly and then loudly. The king bellowed drunkenly,"What is it?"
2006-10-09 16:37:44 · answer #5 · answered by Searcher 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the kings servants commonly slept in the same room as the king, usually on straw filled bags on the floor, thats why medieval beds have curtains...to give the king a bit of privacy when he is entertaining the queen...it would be the alarm bell that would waken the king...but the knightsmarshal would probablty send a runner to the king to tell him from what direction the attack was coming
2006-10-09 19:13:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The 1st "commandment" for a servant is to save the life of his King.
In this case, the servant must break into the king's bedroom and explain the situation. This is a matter of loyalty and not disobedience.
2006-10-13 16:37:53 · answer #7 · answered by Ariale 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say that enemy is pretty ballsy to be attacking the castle that the king is in... that sort of thing usually wasn't done. It would have been against the code of chivalry.
What year is your story supposed to be set in?
I would say the king would be woken up and he and his family would be moved to the safest part of the castle or else moved carefully out of the castle.
2006-10-09 23:42:33 · answer #8 · answered by KdS 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The King's Chamberlain has the authority to walk in on the King at any time. So does the Privy Counselor. But the king would probably be wakened by the klaxon, and the marshaling of the garrison.
2006-10-09 16:44:19 · answer #9 · answered by Brian M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Let him leave. Wake him up. That gives you more speculation possibility's in your story. If you don't need him any more, let some children play a game with stones and kill the King and ask the BIG question: Was a plan from some one or
it was Kings but luck??????????????
Thomas the Greek
2006-10-12 19:29:56 · answer #10 · answered by kan1nas123 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋