The Once and Future King LeadershipIn The Once and Future King TH White conveys his personal thoughts on leadership through Merlin's help and Wart's transformations. Through each transformation, Wart experiences different forms of power, each part of an overall idea of ​​how a leader should act. He must put these ideas together to determine the definitive way he should rule as king. In order to teach Wart, Merlin transforms him into several different forms, a fish, a hawk, an ant, a goose and a badger. "'I wish I was a fish,' says Wart." (p.45) At that point, Wart's first transformation plunged him and Merlin into the castle's moat. They then encountered the largest fish in the moat, which is the ruler. This fish took what it wanted because of its size. In a speech about power, he told Wart, “Might is right,” and the power of the body is greater than the power of the mind. Because of the way the Fish King ruled, his subjects obeyed him out of fear for their lives. Wart experienced this first hand when the Fish King told him to leave. He had grown tired of Wart, and if Wart hadn't left, he would have eaten him. The king used his size to claim power, so his subjects followed him out of fear. During Wart's next transformation into a hawk, he flew away amid the meows of the castle. All the birds in the stables had a military rank. Their leader was an old falcon, kept for show. Birds that ranked below the hawk held her in higher esteem due to her age. She applied her power to other birds without worrying about their lives. In one instance, Wart is ordered to stand next to the cage of a mad hawk that nearly killed him. On the other hand, his age brought respect. The falcon was much older than the others because it had not been released once it had outlived its usefulness as a hunter. Her age and attitude allowed her to maintain a powerful hold over all the birds she ruled out of fear and respect. Then, Wart was transformed into an ant and assigned to an ant colony. There was only one leader of the ants, and she was the only one thinking individually in the whole nest..