One King Arthur Story Question?

Question

1) Why is it important to believe that Arthur is the "Once and Future King"?

Answer 1

King Arthur brought peace to a land of chaos and war. People want to believe that he will rise again during a time of conflict and bring peace back to the land. Some believe that he has already come back at different times. Jackie Kennedy compares her husbands presidency to Camelot.

Answer 2

It is not important at all to believe this. Did Arthur actually exist at all? No historian would put his/her reputation on his existance at all.
However, many Arthurian buffs like to believe he existed and that he will exist again. Personally I like to believe he did exist, after all there's no smoke without fire. Was he one person, or an amalgamation of several? There's certainly a lot of evidence that many people of known history fit some of the descriptions of Arthur and his exploits. Was he a king? probably not because we do know most of the kings of the time he supposedly existed. He is described (by nennius I think) as Dux Bellorum which is a Roman title meaning leader of battles (litterally Duke of Battles), which is given to leaders of military note and not kings.
Want to know more, try searching wikipedia starting with King Arthur and then following the myriad of links. Then start other searches under nennius, morte darthur, mabbinogion and so on. Tons here to keep you going for months.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Because Arthur learned from Merlin that "might does not make right", and in TH White's series of books of that name, comments on human governance with reference to the second world war.

"Underscoring the story of Arthur's life, from his youth and education to the end of his reign, is a well thought out commentary on how mankind should govern itself, written in the context of the Second World War.
When Arthur first ascends to the throne, the country is ruled by what he calls Fort Mayne, or the rule of the strongest. The barons and nobles ride around the countryside doing whatever they wish--being unpleasant, exploitative, and sometimes murderous. Despite the ongoing question of whether humanity is naturally evil, through most of the book King Arthur is optimistic that there is a means to curb humanity's tendency toward violence and cruelty. The latter three parts of the book show the progression of his search for a solution. His first solution to the rule of power is to crush it with power. As a young king, he conquers rival barons in a war in which Arthur dispenses with gentlemanly protocols so as to force the barons to experience the horrors of war firsthand. However, this is clearly not a permanent solution, but merely perpetuates the problem.
His next move is to channel power into something worthy. He reinvents Chivalry, and forms the Round Table, making it a goal for his knights to use their Might to rescue maidens and right wrongs. However, this solution does not last for long. Once all the wrongs are righted, and England settles into a golden period of peace and lawfulness, the knights grow bored, and things at court start to go badly. Pettiness and squabbling arise, and society stagnates. This is what Merlyn calls "Games-Mania": the knights become caught up in Jousting and Tourneys, to the point that vicious rivalries are established, especially the Orkney-Lancelot one. A better solution is needed.
Arthur's next move is to seek the solution from outside the mundane world. He sends his knights on a quest for the Holy Grail — aiming their power toward God instead of toward worldly things. This, however, is a failure, too, because any knight who achieves the quest is perfect, and thus no longer suitable to live in an imperfect world. The other knights who fail are for a time positively affected by the quest (Sir Lancelot in particular), but it does not take long for them to fall back into their old ways. In addition, many knights who fail the quest (Gawaine) feel humiliated by Lancelot and Galahad, and many good knights end up dying in the quest for the Grail.
Arthur's final solution as king is to formalise power: he invents Civil Law. Instead of power being wielded by the knights, it now belongs to the state. An example of this would be the replacing of trial-by-battle with trial by jury. This solution comes back to bite Arthur when the affair between Guinevere and Launcelot is exposed: adhering to his new law means that he must punish his beloved wife and his best friend, by banishing Lancelot and burning Guinevere. However, he knows that Lancelot will rescue her, and Lancelot does indeed end up rescuing Guinevere and they escape to his castle together. However, in the process he unintentionally kills Gaheris and Gareth.
Almost everyone considered Gareth the "best" or most "knightly" of the Orkneys; he was knighted by Lancelot, and his brother Gawaine loved him. When Lancelot is accused of his death during a rescue (though it is hinted that Mordred actually did the deed), Gawaine flies into a rage and Arthur into deep depression. Gawaine tells Arthur he has no choice but to go to war with Lancelot so Gawaine can extract vengeance.
The book ends with Arthur, weary and aged, in his field pavilion on the eve of the final battle between his knights and Mordred's Thrashers. He reflects upon where he has gone wrong, and whether humans can ever learn to renounce violence. Before going forth, Arthur charges a young page (Malory) with keeping alive his legend and his ideals until a better day."