Morgan le Fay, also named Morgana, was a powerfully skilled in magic of all sorts, and she despised her brother, King Arthur, due to the fact that he had killed the knight whom she had loved in a battle. With her heart torn, Morgana decides that she needs to revenge herself upon King Arthur, and it all starts on the day when she went to go ask Queen Guinevere for permission to leave the country. Finally. Morgana thought to herself as she started her way up one of the castles stairways. I finally have a plan for getting my revenge on Arthur for killing the man I loved. As Morgana reached the top of the stairway she came upon a closed wooden door, which she then knocked on. “Who’s there?” a voice asked. “Queen Guinevere, it’s Morgan le Fay. …show more content…
“Thank you Queen Guinevere,” Morgana said as she started making her way back down the stairs, shutting the door behind her. Well that was simple. Morgana thought as she made her way to her horse, which stood in the horse stables. Now I just need to get my horse and start moving towards Arthurs rest place. Once she was ready and had food, water, and clothes in a traveling bag, she climbed onto her horses’ back and took off, heading towards the Abbey of nuns, which was where Arthur had taken rest at.
Morgana, taking breaks only when she or her horse needed one, traveled for many days. She filled her water canister at every stream and well she came upon, but the food in her traveling bag was getting very low. Is that a building on the horizon? That must be where Arthur is resting at. Morgana thought as she handed her horse an apple, from which she had gotten from an apple tree. Just a few more miles and Arthur will have the revenge that he deserves. She thought as she drew nearer and nearer to the Abbey of nuns. After several minutes, Morgana reached the building and tied her horse’s rope to a pole. She then slowly, and quietly opened the wooden door that led
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Arthur was sleeping peacefully on his bed with the sword of Excalibur grasped in his right hand. At the sight of the sword, Morgana's heart fell to the floor, for she dared not to touch the sword, knowing that if Arthur would wake up and see her she would be as good as dead. Spotting his scabbard on his bedside table, she grabbed it, put it under her mantle and left the room, slowly making her way back through the hall and towards the door.
“Thank you for letting me see him,” Morgana threw out towards the woman as she opened the door and closed it behind her. In a rush, she huringly untied her horse, climbed on and took off with the wind in her face. Morgana was inspecting the scabbard when she started to hear what sounded like another horse galloping behind her, looking back she saw King Arthur chasing after her. Morgana, seeing that she couldn’t escape him, rode into a lake that lay in the plain on the edge of the forest.
"Whatever may befall me, my brother shall not have the scabbard," Morgana cried as she threw the stolen scabbard far into the water, where it would sink. She then turned around and fled into a valley full of great stones, and with her skilled magic of all sorts, she turned both herself and her horse into blocks of
The Arthurian cycle shows a sporadic awareness of the impossibility of mere humans fulfilling all the ideals that Arthur and his court represent. The story of Lancelot and Guenevere, Merlin's imprisonment by Nimu‘, and numerous other instances testify to the recognition of this tension between the real and the unrealistic.
The story of King Arthur is widely known, either his beginnings told in The Sword in the Stone or how he led the Knights of the Round Table. While there are many version of his story T. H. White’s written version and Disney’s animated version of The Sword in the Stone are two of the most recognized versions. Most movies have the ability to embody the original intent of the book they were based upon. Disney’s movie version of T. H. White’s rendition of The Sword in the Stone, however, while portraying the correct story, does not truly convey enough elements of White’s version to be effective in telling the original story. The characterization and Merlyn’s ‘lessons’ within the movie inhibit the film from being an effective portrayal of the book.
We first meet her as the ugly old lady that was along side Lady Bertilak in the castle, she is covered head to toe but is described as “repulsive to see and shockingly bleared (Winny 2011: 55).” In the end we find out she is really Morgan le Fay. Though she is not mentioned very much in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, but she plays a very significant role. Morgan le Fay is really King Arthur’s half sister and sent the Green Knight, who we also find out is the same person as the Lord Bertilak, to King Arthur’s in the very beginning of the poem. She does so to test King Arthur’s knights as well as to scare Queen Guenevere to death (Winny 2011: 137). “Through the power of Morgan le Fay” she controls Lady Bertilak as well as Lord Bertilak to do the work and test King Arthur’s knight, Sir Gawain (Winny 2011: 137). The whole time Morgan le Fay had power over most of the characters. She was the one that set up the idea that Sir Gawain would have to meet the Lord Bertilak/Green Knight at his chapel and set up the agreement that Sir Gawain and Lord Bertilak/Green Knight to exchange gifts daily. Though Lady Bertilak did go about testing Sir Gawain with her own power, it was Morgan le Fay who made it happen. This whole poem would not have happened if Morgan le Fay did not set up the whole thing. Morgan le Fay had power over everyone and everything throughout the entire
The castle is as inviting to her as it had been to her father. The Beast is welcoming and not the ogre that she had originally thought he would be. Slowly as time goes by, they develop a bond of companionship...
The world of Arthurian literature is filled with magic and adventure that enchants readers of all ages. T.H. White has done a fantastic job of turning the childhood adventures of Arthur by turning his narrative into spellbinding, cartoon like interpretation of the sword in the stone legend. Moral values are apparent from the beginning of White’s novel. White has cleverly connected all the educational adventures of Arthur, along with the people and animals encountered to the pulling the sword out of the stone. This marvelous amalgamation of key elements not only ties the loose ends of Arthur’s adventures together, they also solidify the reasoning behind Arthurs’ predetermined path to becoming the king of England.
Giving that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight poem is a medieval romance poem Morgan’s ugliness although surprising perhaps had another clue that her presence is not a surface mention of one an Arthurian legend but something behind the beauty of women her time focus more on the significance of Morgan herself. Giving the fact that she was the one who set the plot in motion and subsequently holds the power over every character, the reasoning behind this adventure can be said to have failed to be satisfied or justified. Every journey has a point of origin and reason why the hero is set on this journey. Home...
notices that there is a huge sword on the wall of the battle hall where he was dragged to.
If they are not welcomed by the court; with the repeated use of the verb “laughter” suggesting they have not been; even after Gawain’s realization of their importance, then the court will likely suffer as Gawain did at the Green Knight’s hand. The poet would have been aware that his audience would know the story of Camelot, and thus his inclusion of the following lines would have been extremely foreboding to his contemporary readership – “No one can hide, without disaster, a harmful deed. What’s done is done and cannot be undone.” By having Gawain speak these words, the poet manages to show not only that Gawain has come to terms with the fact that he will have to live with the shame that came with his failure, but that the court, if they do not change their ways and values, will suffer “disaster” in the future – as the mythical story of Camelot tells us. Furthermore, when it is considered that the events of this poem were set up by Arthur’s half-sister Morgan le Fay, the failure of Camelot to stand up to it’s reputation as the greatest in all the land becomes even more foreboding, as the reader realizes that eventually the court, seemingly unaware of it’ failings, will fall from greatness and suffer shame, pain and
‘On her way Queen Morgana Le Fay came to the abbey where Arthur lay recovering from his wounds;and suddenly she thought that now at least she could steal his sword Excalibur.’ ‘The King lies sleeping on his bed,’ she was told, ‘and gave command that no one was to wake him.’(p.75) Morgana Le Fay displays evilness by taking Arthur's sword. When arthur awoke from his nap he was very angry and asked people around him who took it and people told him it was Queen Morgana Le Fay. He got on his horse with Sir Outlake and found them and she threw the scabbard into the middle of the lake. Morgana Le Fey turned herself into stone and that shows that she is
...mocks Arthur's court and his so-called honor, and is in concordance with Morgan le Fay's plan to make a fool out of Arthur and his knights.
Fay. But who exactly is Morgan and how does she vary in the different accounts of the
Gawain's travels in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight suggest a world in which home--i.e., Camelot--is "normal," while away--the opposing castle of Hautdesert where Gawain perforce spends his Christmas vacation--is "other," characterized by unfamiliarity, dislocation, perversity. And in fact the atmosphere at Hautdesert appears somewhat peculiar, with various challenges to "normal" sexual identity, and with permutations of physical intimacy, or at least the suggestion of such intimacy, that are, to say the least, surprising. The typical journey of medieval romance juxtaposes a "real" world where things and people behave according to expectation with a "magical" world in which the usual rules are suspended. According to this paradigm, we might expect that this poem would place Hautdesert outside the bounds of tradition, separated by its difference from the expectations that govern Camelot and the remainder of the Arthurian world.
The first of act of real betrayal is seen towards the beginning of the novel committed by Sir Accalon of Gaul and Morgan Le Fey. King Arthur under the impression that he and Accalon were friends, had no idea that Accalon was planning on killing him. But the even worse was the fact his sister spearheaded the whole thing. At this point Arthur is being betrayed by his Knight and his sister. Morgan was the one who seduced Accalon into the idea of becoming the strongest knight and giving him this false confidence. His false perception of strength came from the fact that Morgan gave him sword of Excalibur. Arthur finds out and says, “But I fele by thy wordis that thou haste agreed to the deth of my persone: and therefore thou art a traytoure – but I wyte the lesse, for my sistir Morgan le Fay by hir false crauftis made the to agré to hir fals lustis. (Malory 90) In theses lines Arthur is forgiving
...wenhwyfar recover from a brutal rape. These deep and infinitely complex motives prevent the reader from making simple decisions of right and wrong. Actions which would normally be assumed inherently evil, such as when Balan strikes Viviane with an axe in King Arthur’s court at Pentecost, have twists. Viviane assisted his mother with suicide. The layers of motive that entwine this tale must be unravelled slowly by the reader, making this a philosophical piece, just as it is entertaining.
... The main purpose of this essay has been to discuss the facts that prove there was a "real" Arthur, as well as to discuss the legendary Arthur, to try to find an explanation why his deeds were portrayed in a way that made them larger than life. The The legendary Arthur and the real Arthur have been presented, and the two have been compared for the purpose of drawing conclusions as to why, perhaps, this mortal man was personified as a legendary warrior and king of his people. Now, with both the legendary Arthur and the "real" Arthur discussed, perhaps a new outlook on the Arthurian legends can be taken when a person hears about Arthur and his knights of the Round Table.