Presence of Women in "The Ill Made Knight" Throughout the story "The Ill made Knight", in T.H. Whites novel The Once and Future King, women are portrayed as the cause of the destruction of Sir Lancelot's morality. Guenevere's ascendancy of Lancelot's love, Elaine's attempts at luring Lancelot into her life, and Queen Morgan Le Fay's enticing ways all depict women as the sole source for the ethical debauchery of Sir Lancelot. Guenevere, married to …
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…an example of how women use seduction to get what they want. Morgan and her queens were not successful, but they played a role in attempting to ruin Lancelot's principles. Not all women in the novel played the role of attempting to corrupt Sir Lancelot. However the main role of Guenevere, Elaine, and Le Fay was to show the universal idea that women were duplicitous. Bibliography The Once and Future King By T.h. White