What tasks of the soul are symbolized in Arthur's wars against the Heathen? against the lords and barons of his own realm?
How does the search for the Holy Grail symbolize a danger to the soul?
IV. General Questions
Do these Idylls form a grand epic?
Are the places of these poems, Camelot, Caerleon, Glastonbury, etc., to be identified with known places?
Are the descriptions of scenery such that we think of the places as real, or as places in fairyland? Do the characters seem like real people?
Is there unity in the story as a whole?
Are the episodes closely connected with the main action?
Each of the three Idylls especially chosen for reading should be studied as a story complete in itself, and as part of the series taken as a whole.