"Thomas, my idea of those knights was a sort of candle, like these ones here. I have carried it for many years with a hand to shield it from the wind. It has flickered often. I am giving you the candle now- you won't let it out?" questioned King Arthur(White 637). The King was relating the Round Table and his idea of might for right to a candle in the wind. King Arthur tried everything to keep the candle from blowing out, and as a last hope he asked his page Thomas to keep the ideal alive. Arthur wanted his country to be a place of justice and equality. He was against fighting and war, and wished for his government to be like the government of the geese he had encountered as a child. These ideas made up the candle that Thomas was suddenly put in charge of. Unfortunately, as Arthur said, the candle flickered often because of the evil forces that were trying to blow it out. These evil forces were plotting against Arthur and his Round Table. The force that made the candle flicker the most, with such intensity, power, and strength was none other than the King's half sister Morgause. Morgause was responsible for the demise of the Round Table and Arthur's ideal.
Morgause was an evil women who practiced witchcraft and cared about nobody but herself. Morgause was Arthur's half sister and she absolutely loathed him. It all went back to the fact that Morgause was a Gael and Arthur was a Gall. Arthur's father, Uther Pendragon, tricked Morgause's mother, Igraine, into sleeping with him. Uther proceeded to kill Morgause's father the Earl of Cornwall. Under these circumstances Arthur was born. Morgause held the death of her father against Arthur and his family for her whole life. Morgause and the Gaels believed that fighting wars solved everything, which is the underlying reason why Morguase felt she must keep the feud with Arthur alive.
Morgause was responsible for the destruction of Arthur's ideal. She knew the one way to ruin everything Arthur had worked so hard for and that was to have his child.
