Knight’s Monolouge

Knight Monologue

Scene 7: It is about 12:00 on the wonderful year of 1023 and, in a few minutes I will be right next to the king. It is the final step for me to become a knight. I have waited 14 years for this moment and to follow in my father’s footsteps. My father has already given me a piece of land after this holy orientation. Soon the king will come next to me and wish me to kneel. With that moment I will promise to protect the poor and then the king will touch me with the flat of his sword. This journey to become a knight began all those years ago… when I was 8 years old. Now it feels like someone has put a large weight onto my back. After this orientation I will have so many responsibilities that it will be as if I have to care for a small child. Finally, the king has come I kneel and then I say the final words.

“I promise to be loyal and brave, and to protect the poor and the weak.”

Before the king hits me with his sword, in those five seconds that feel like forever I wish I could say something to the king. Something important and meaningful. I then think about what will happen when I become a knight. I definitely want to work for the king. I don’t want to be some lowly knight who walks around patrolling a small town in the middle of nowhere!

But, sooner than later those five seconds end and I feel the cold metal of his sword touches the side of my face. As if somebody splashed water over my face. At the end of the ceremony it gives me the feeling that it was too easy for all the king have to do is touch me with his sword. I then promise to protect the poor, and boom! You’re a knight. Through those 14 years of work, that grueling training, seems gone. As if my life has changed in such a quick moment though I have not yet realized that this is all a part of my life moving on. I am looking forward to owning the land because I want to give jobs to peasants and help the poor, I did promise to. I will follow the code of chivalry because my father told me from experience to not exploit chivalry because that leads to war. Having to go to war makes the risk of death much higher. Also, sadly the spoils of war may will lead me away from home, away from the place I have been in for all of my life. No matter what type of person I will be brave or shy, strong or weak, I will always be a knight from now on. After this ceremony a new part of my life has begun and I will have to wait and see what the future holds.

To Be Continued…