![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout The Queen of Air and Darkness, Arthur struggles to reform and "civilize" the bloody nation (torn by racial strife) left to him by his father, Uther Pendragon. The pleading questions asked here are never directly posed by the Wart (now King Arthur) in the novel however, the sense of the "sins of the fathers" affecting the son - and the past affecting the present - is a chief component of the Arthurian legend (and White's retelling of it). Like the other volumes in The Once and Future King, The Queen of Air and Darkness begins with an epigraph: "When shall I be dead and rid / Of the wrong my father did? / How long, how long, till spade and hearse / Put to sleep my mother's curse?" ![]()
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