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The Once And Future King by T.H vacuous is a four part maintain of magic, love, death, war and medieval tales. The book tells the tale of how the Wart (Arthur) becomes king and how he goes about life. The need for facts of life is very important the lessons Arthur learns and his application of them later in life demonstrates this importance.The lessons Arthur learns as a child is taught to him by various animals. On the signs over each(prenominal) ant tunnel was a notice which read, Everything Not Forbidden Is controlling (122). In the life of a worker ant there is no absolve thought allowed. The worker ants also have no free will they do only what they are told to do and nothing else. another(prenominal) good example is the view of Lyo-lyok the goose There are no boundaries among the geese (170). Lessons learned from the geese are those that teach leaders take charge when a leader is needed. The geese also teach Arthur why war is unnecessary. In those lessons Arthur learns th at communism is oppression, is war, and Lyo-lyok teaches that war is not the only thing one should depend on. later in Arthurs life, he uses his education to form ideas of using major power for right. For example, Arthur rhetorically inquires, Why cant you harness might so that it works for right (248)? Asserting his idea Arthur decides to fight the battle at Bedegraine in hopes of stopping people from thinking of war as he once did. With that idea in mind Arthur wishes to use might to channelise people what is right. Arthur then decides to enforce his idea of might for right by creating a league of knights (The Knights Of The Round Table) this idea leads to a genius intent in when he states, Then we can have a government note table (265). Arthurs round table idea prevents jealousy and disceptation among the knights.