Character description
The author perfectly describes every person of the novel. He opens each one's true face, hidden sides of the soul, and honest thoughts. However, we understand all about the characters not through the description of their features, clothes, and appearances but through their doings. There is no exact depiction of Tristan, but with the development of the story we can realize that he is brave, strong and loyal.
Feelings description
In every situation that happens to the characters, the author skillfully describes the whole array of emotions a person feels. “Love pressed them hard, as thirst presses the dying stag to the stream; love dropped upon them from high heaven, as a hawk slipped after long hunger falls right upon the bird”. Such writing provokes a reader to feel frank emotions and share the feelings of characters.
Kingdom life
Throughout the whole story, we can feel the spirit of royal life with its pros and cons. Sometimes this life is unfair: it is full of deaths, treasons, rules that can’t be broken. It make readers think: is it really so luxurious and wonderful as everyone think? The author shows such a state of conflict by the fact that Iseult has to marry King Mark although she doesn’t love him, and also by other similar situations.
