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Merlin is a sorcerer who serves King Arthur. Because he represents (and draws his power from) superstition and belief, Merlin is a natural foil for Hank Morgan, and the two men maintain a professional rivalry throughout the book. Merlin fails to restore the fountain in the Valley of Holiness or to protect Sir Sagramore with his magic, but he gets the last laugh (literally) when he infiltrates the camp of Hank and his allies and enchants Hank into a coma at the end of the book. Merlin dies when he accidentally touches the electrified fence surrounding Hank’s base of operations.
Merlin Quotes in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court quotes below are all either spoken by Merlin or refer to Merlin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 39
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So the world thought there was a vast matter at stake here, and the world was right, but it was not the one they had in their minds. No, a far vaster one was upon the cast of this die: the life of knight-errantry. I was a champion, it was true, but not the champion of the frivolous black arts, I was the champion of hard unsentimental common sense and reason. I was entering the lists to either destroy knight-errantry or be its victim.
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Merlin Quotes in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court quotes below are all either spoken by Merlin or refer to Merlin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 39
Quotes
So the world thought there was a vast matter at stake here, and the world was right, but it was not the one they had in their minds. No, a far vaster one was upon the cast of this die: the life of knight-errantry. I was a champion, it was true, but not the champion of the frivolous black arts, I was the champion of hard unsentimental common sense and reason. I was entering the lists to either destroy knight-errantry or be its victim.
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