Mythology - Answers expression of ethos, spiritual writings of culture
Hero - Answers self-sacrifice
Romance - Answers agape: devoting life to god
amore: individual (I trust my own feelings)
eros: sexual desire
How does romance apply to Exalibur? - Answers Uther raped Ygraine, Lancelot and Guenever and
Arthur, etc
Medieval World View. How does it apply to Excalibur? - Answers 1. earth is at center with seven
spheres, beyond that is heaven, born out of God, come through seven spheres, when we die we go back
(Percival)
2. The Great Chain of Being
- God's at the top
- Hierarchy of Angels
- man
- woman
- angels
- plants
- rocks
Everything needs to be supported from the Bible
Speculative Fiction - Answers an umbrella genre encompassing narrative fiction with supernatural or
futuristic elements
Keeper of the Isis Light - Answers know characters and main happenings
Neurological - Answers right brain thinking: symbolically, holistically, connotative, holistic
Psychological - Answers unconscious. conscious
Archetypal - Answers universal mental pattern, supernatural (beyond nature)
Step 1: Hero's Adventure - Answers begins at birth, special happenings, bloodlines