The Once and Future King Fate and Free Will Quotes

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Quote #10

"Well," she said, "who made us love each other?" (C.3.72)

Who is doing the "making" here? The fact that Guen mentions a possible outside person or force that has caused them to love each other shows us that fate is once again coming into the picture. Lancelot might say that it's God, the fourth player in their "Eternal Quadrangle," while Guen would be more likely to chalk it up to fate or fortune, an impersonal and inscrutable force.

Quote #11

For that time it was his destiny to die, or as some say, to be carried off to Avilion, where he could wait for better days. For that time it was Lancelot's fate and Guenever's to take the tonsure and the veil, while Mordred must be slain. The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea. (C.14.108)

Each person has his or her own destiny, and even though each is tiny in the overwhelmingly huge ocean of the history of humanity, each drop sparkles as an individual. Sparkle Motion!