> > Morga(i)n(e) is certainly portrayed differently in
> > 'The Mists of
> > Avalon'. It took me a long time to get around to
> > this one but I'm
> > thoroughly enjoying it. Fascinating reinvention of
> > the Arthurian
> > legends.
> >
>
> Morgan is portrayed differently in just about every
> version of the Arthur tales I've read or seen in film.
> Sometimes she's a beautiful temptress with an evil
> heart, sometimes a gluttonous creature who seduces men
> by feeding them (I think of Circe luring men and then
> turning them into swine), sometimes she's an ugly hag.
> I can't get enough of the Arthurian stuff. Mirren as
> Morgan in Excalibur was the best part of the film IMO
> - the part I most remember at any rate.
In 'The Mists of Avalon' she is the protagonist and a sympathetic
character, more or less caught in a web woven by circumstance and the
power struggle between two religions - the old Celtic pagan/goddess
tradition and the Christian religion brought to Britain by the Romans.
She is portrayed as very real and not as a witch or sorceress. The
central characters in this novel are the women and it makes for a very
imaginative retelling of the Camelot story from a very different
perspective.
Mark in Seattle
