Future King

The Once and Future King, a rendering on the Arthurian legends written by T.H. White, shows the changes in life through the eyes of King Arthur. The books portray Arthur’s misery, maturity, and the development of what White addresses as the seventh sense. The knowledge of the world or the seventh sense, is given White’s best description when he implies, “ The slow discovery of the seventh sense, by which both men and women contrive to ride the waves of a world in which there is war, adultery, compromise, fear, stultification and hypocrisy”(White 374). The Once and Future King is a story of experience, but of the 4 books, The Sword in the Stone resonates with me through the personal significance of Arthur, and the applicable philosophy of leadership within the transformations.
There is a child who dreams of being a knight. A boy who aspires to become a king. A juvenile that plays with swords and shields.
A boy with a lack of manners and ideologies characterize by White when saying, “The Wart was not a proper son. He did not understand this, but it made him feel unhappy”(White 4). The Sword in the Stone is a book with childhood views which connects to me emotionally. It makes me feel as I am King Arthur himself.
The transformation, most important in the philosophy of leadership, is of the ant. The life of an ant shows communism through the loss of originality within the colony. Each member of society is given a role of equal standing, which they serve with a lack of emotion. Each ant is degraded to a situation of numbers which represent their names such as “42436/WD”(White 125). Each individual transformation Arthur encounters serves as an allegory on the government of society. The transformation serves as a catalyst for Arthur’s ascension to the throne and his ability to rule. The transformations give me qualities applicable to life which make The Sword in the Stone the book I