There, the peregrine falcon, the bird in charge, asks the Wart about his ancestry and challenges the Wart to prove himself. As a new member of the group, he must show himself worthy by perching within reach of Cully, the goshawk, until the other hawks have rung their bells three times. Cully, who is so used to killing, attacks the Wart, who barely escapes as the bells ring for a third time. The next morning, the Wart wakes up in his own bed, and Kay accuses him of violating curfew the night before.
The Wart refuses to tell Kay about the previous night, and the two begin to fight. As Kay waits for the blood to stop, he begins to cry because Merlyn has not given him any of the adventures he has given the Wart. When the Wart asks Merlyn why he ignores Kay, Merlyn replies with a parable. When the rabbi asks Elijah why neither man has gotten what he deserved, Elijah replies that if the one man had not been kind, he would have suffered much worse, and that if the other man had not been cruel, he would have fared much better.
The Wart continues to demand an adventure for Kay. Merlyn finally relents and tells the Wart that Kay will have an adventure. Each of the magical adventures that Merlyn gives the Wart seems designed to impart a carefully calculated lesson or set of lessons.
Wart starts as a squire and then becomes a King. Kay abused his power. The Wart brings the sword back to Kay. Kay recognizes it as the sword that will determine the next king of England and falsely claims that he was the one who pulled it out of the stone. Each of the transformations is meant to teach Wart a lesson, which will prepare him for his future life.
Explain how Arthur ultimately became king of all Britain. There, they found a sword that had magically appeared embedded in an anvil on top of a large stone. The sword Arthur removed from the stone made him king of all Britain. Because a King is supposed to represent all of his subjects in battle, diplomacy, and politics, Merlyn has the Wart meet many different kinds of people — all of which, however, are found in the different types of animals into which he is transformed.
Only after being exposed to a variety of personalities, leaders, and followers will the Wart be ready. When he first becomes a fish, the Wart has difficulty manipulating his fins and swimming in a straight line, and like the frightened boy that he is, he asks Merlyn to accompany him.
Merlyn agrees, but not before explaining to the Wart why he will only accompany him on this one adventure: "Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance. Although a teacher should be able to answer any of his student's questions as Merlyn suggests with his remark about "what he is for" , he should ultimately guide his student's education, rather than "spoon feed" him easy solutions to difficult problems. After Merlyn transforms himself into a tench or carp and shows the Wart how to stay level and live in "two planes, not one," the Wart must realign his perceptions and see the world from a different point-of-view to accommodate his new situation — something that any leader must be able to do when faced with a crisis.
White's description of the Wart seeing the water's spectrum being separated into seven parts accentuates this idea: To truly become educated, one must be able to apprehend the world in a way to which he was previously unaccustomed. When the Merlyn attempts to correct the Wart's zigzagging by telling him, "You swim like a boy," he, too, is suggesting this same idea. A passing swan, who informs the Wart that it is not "deformed" as the Wart assumed it was, also causes the Wart to reconsider his past assumptions about life in the moat and people very different from himself.
The Wart's final lesson as a fish occurs when he meets Mr. Like King Pellinore, who suggests to the Wart what chivalry is by illustrating its obverse, Mr. White describes Mr. Power is of the individual mind, but the mind's power is not enough. Power of the body decides everything in the end, and only Might is Right. Because Mr. Indeed, he is so committed to power that he warns the Wart to leave before he attacks andeats him. If the boyish Wart is to become the chivalric King Arthur, he must understand what absolute power can do to a leader.
His education, at the hands of Merlyn, has begun. Organon the title of Aristotle's BC writings on logic and thought. Metheglyn a spiced or medicated kind of mead a liquor made from fermented honey and water. Hic, Haec, Hoc a joke by Sir Ector, who is pretending to offer the declension or breakup of verb tenses for his drunken hiccup.
Aristotle BC Greek philosopher and pupil of Plato, noted for works on logic, metaphysics, ethics, politics, and so on. Hecate a goddess of the moon, earth, and underground realm of the dead, later regarded as the goddess of sorcery and witchcraft.
This time, he's an ant in a soulless, robotic ant community. Major Lesson Alert: He learns that too much community spirit can be a bad thing. Individualism and free thought are necessary. Oh, and that anyone can justify going to war fairly easily. The next lesson really sticks with Wart.
He becomes a goose, and learns that war is completely unnatural to most species. Man is one exception. In fact, geese are just so above it all literally that they can't see those silly imaginary lines humans draw on the globe, divvying stuff up.
So no need for war of any kind. Six years quickly go by, and it's now time for Kay to become a knight and Wart to become his squire. Wart has one last animal lesson: he becomes a badger and learns from a very wise fellow badger the story of how Man gained dominion over all the other animals.
Uh oh. Kay forgets his sword at his first big tournament in London, and Wart grabs him one from a handy dandy war memorial. It's a sword stuck through an anvil sitting upon a stone.
Turns out, this is a test for the true King of England, and it's Wart. Who is actually Arthur, Uther Pendragon's son. Merlyn fills him in on all the pertinent details. Wart is now King Arthur. Not everyone so quickly accepts Arthur as king, though.
He does so through some kind of underhanded battle tactics, but in the long run it saves lives especially those of the poor serfs, who aren't protected by armor , so it's worth it. Even though Arthur is now a young adult and King to boot , Merlyn's still continuing his education.
In particular, he's trying to get him to understand that he has to think for himself, because he won't always have someone around to tell him what to do. Since he's learning lots of lessons about Might making Right, Arthur decides to harness men's aggression and form a brotherhood of knights who will use their Might for only Right.
They'll all sit at a round table, so everyone will be equal. Arthur learns that he'll soon be marrying Guenever, and she'll bring the Round Table with her as a wedding gift.
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