Poor King Mark. He loves Isolde so deeply but has never receieved a love from her. He has to lead a life of suspcion about his wife. I was impressed how deep his love to Isolde is and how generous he is to hie nephew when he frogave her and tried to allow Tristan to serve him. Oh god, why would he deserve such a miserable life? Did you now punish the disloyalty of the couple? I no longer know what chivalry is. Tristan should have returned her to the king according to his loyalty to him. Also, Isolde should not have lied to him. Even after the effect of love portion ended, they still love each other and keep decieving the king. I pity the king.
Since the night when the mantle revealed the sin of my wife, I cannot believe women. And this incident in Cornwell, my suspicion against their chastity is greater than before. I feel sorry for the king. Are the chivalry and chastity forgetton?
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I your much younger self, do agree with you on some repects, but not all. Didn't you say you would make the traitors that slandered Isolde's name suffer? Perhaps you would say you were decieved and thought her innocent at the time, but now that you know the truth you would not have done so? But isn't a man honor based upon his word?
King Mark was decieved and his wife unfaithful. But he relied on the word of evil men (one of which was my own enemy) and was indiscive. Not a trait any man should have.
And though Isolde's chasity was not pure, Isolde was not entirely at fault- it was the potion that made her sin with Tristan. And once its effects wore off she repented and God forgave her.
Love is love, my good Sir Valven. The lovely Lady Isolde and I were in love. Perhaps we went about it the wrong way, but the King was a fool if he could not see that his wife desired another. Even after seeing the proof, he remained indecisive and wavered in his convictions. What kind of king, nay, what kind of man acts as such? And to take the advice of such evil barons? A fool indeed.
Still, Isolde and I could have went about our love in a more honorable way. And yet, even though the king claimed to be heartbroken about Isolde's and my indiscretions, he still promised Isolde to a group of vile, wicked lepers to take by force! What king would be such a coward as to allow others to mete out punishment for a betrayal, rather than taking care of it himself? And to put someone he "loved" through such pain and misery as Isolde would have went through? No, King Mark deserves nobody's sympathy. for he is a cowardly fool.
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