Reading Percival's story with a new take shows him as less of a yokel and more of a naive or "good," helpful soul. However, like Percival, the other knights are wandering through a dense forest which is symbolic of the "density" of the knights' understanding. I grew up on the purity and heroism of Galahad but after reading our selection for today, Galahad is almost a comic figure the way he gallops on and off the stage of the quest set before us. He treats Percival pretty shabily which of course is why the latter suffers (however, it has been ordained as the good old man in the white-silk-covered ship announces) and Galahad is only serving the interests of the Lord.
If Galahad is connected to the Fisher Kings, is he not then a cousin of Percival's? However, there is absolutely no reference to the relationship. Another thing which disturbs me greatly is that the queen and Bors and Lionel claim that Lancelot had been tricked into impregnating the Fisher King's daughter. Are the Fisher Kings the descendants of Joseph? If they are, then how could they trick Lancelot so ignobly? Just because the greatest and purest of knights must be descended from a grat knight and a pure woman?
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