Perceval still has a lot to learn about being a knight. Mainly he needs to learn how to listen and be sensitive to the feelings and needs of others. He will never learn to become a knight until he learns this lesson. Look at the way he treats his mother, for example. He is about leave hoe for the very first time and doesn’t even bother to pay attention to what she has to get off her chest. And as he is leaving, she faints and he does not even think to take care of her until much later.
And in battle, he is too eager to kill—the knight he battles with for the sake of Blancheflor must remind him of the code of chivalry, which maintains that he must not remain beyond mercy or to strike a fallen knight. On the other hand, it seems that Blancheflor has caused him to partially open the doors to being sensitive, so with her help and with Arthur’s wisdom that will later guide him, he will be one of the only knights who will go on a quest for the grail.
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