Question

Read the following text from a fantasy novel. This excerpt is about the Order of the Knights of the Round Table.

The Round Table talk was mostly long-winded speeches—narrative accounts of various adventures. These were not missions to avenge injuries or to settle old disputes. They were simply duels between people who had never even met each other before. I had always imagined that was the sort of thing that children do. But here were these big oafs sticking to it and taking pride in it, clear into adulthood. Yet there was something very lovable about these great simple-hearted creatures. They possessed little in the way of brains. But you didn't mind it after a while, because you soon saw that brains were not needed in a society like that.
Adapted from Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
The previous text suggested that the order symbolized honor and high moral standards. How does this fantasy novel build on or challenge that idea?

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation:
kicks down the boundaries of epic fantasy using fresh new takes on world building, dismantling of standard fantasy tropes, and a take on gender fluidity that is both provocative and thoughtful. The Mirror Empire is an ambitious work, and the scope of it shows that ambition. We follow a cast of characters as they try to find out the truth of their heritage, rise to a station of command that ill fits them, or balance their political ambitions with the sudden revelation of a genocidal plan. The Mirror Empire is all up in your face with its themes, making you reconsider the trappings of gender identification, reckon hard with the horrors of war and ethnic cleasing, or think sideways about what magic looks like. The Mirror Empire is a fiery shot in the arm to the stalwart notions of what epic fantasy should be.