Texts are usually appropriations of another text, it is a rendering to a similar idea or theme. The author of a book may have been inspired by another to write their novel. Hence the ideas of the time in which texts were written or the times in which the story is based in can also be transmitted. Le Morte Darthur by Malory, Saint Joan by Bernard Shaw are just a few examples of texts responding to cultures and values tainted during their time as well the era in which the story is written in.
Sir Thomas Malory (1415-1471) Arthur of the famous and influential version of the legend of King Arthur. The title Le Morte Darthur is taken from the epilogue of William Caxton's landmark illustrated edition of 1485.
In the introduction to the Le Morte Darthur the author refers to himself as a knight prisoner. It is in reference to the fact the most part of Le Morte Darthur had been written whilst Malory was in prison. …
