Previous Share Flag Next. I've already discussed at length the important issues of privilege and power this theory glosses over. But it also completely flattens the complexities of Morgana's character, and completely deprives her of agency.
I've always been more troubled by the show's tendency to put Morgana in comas 1x06, 3x04 and otherwise emphasize her passivity and reactiveness than their characterization of her as a villain. From the beginning, Morgana tended to personalize conflicts, manipulate others, believe what she wanted without regard for evidence, and let her emotions blind her to the effects of her actions on others. These flaws all point to a selfish disregard for others—something we're all capable of on occasion—and her arc shows them opening up, bit by bit, into outright cruelty.
For me, the fact that Morgana's bad points aren't hard to identify with makes her interesting, and while I would have appreciated her retaining more nuances than she currently displays, I'm not eager to see the complications she already has downplayed.
I also find it disheartening, given how infuriatingly often Morgana's arc emphasized the actions of others, that some parts of fandom want to deny the agency she has shown. Morgana has made deliberate decisions along her path—from turning on Tauren, to sacrificing the lives of many low-born suspected magic-users for her personal happiness, to choosing as allies Mordred and Morgause and Alvarr. I don't like many of her choices, but I wouldn't deny that she had reasons for them and that they suited her psychology.
Morgana also committed an unforgivable act when she killed Gwaine after relentlessly torturing him "The Diamond of The Day".
If Merlin believed she could be redeemed, there was no chance of that happening after this. It shouldn't come as a surprise that the worst thing Merlin had ever done is to kill her. After Morgana realizes that Arthur was still alive and with Merlin, she decides to hunt them down once and for all. As soon as she finds them, Morgana wastes no time in attacking Merlin. Believing the warlock to be incapacitated, Morgana turns her attention to her brother and taunts him about his failure.
However, she fails to notice Merlin creep up behind her with Excalibur. As a result of her incompetence, she is killed immediately. The worst thing Morgana ever did to Merlin was when she caused him to fail his destiny.
While Morgana met her maker in the season 5 finale, she also got the last laugh when she succeeded in killing Arthur. Before Morgana's death, the witch managed to inflict a fatal wound on Arthur after she gave Mordred a sword forged in dragon's breath. Morgana also prevents Merlin from saving his life when she scares their horses away. As a result, Arthur succumbs to his wounds before they reach Avalon, leaving a brokenhearted Merlin behind. Morgana may not have won the war but she did succeed in finally breaking Merlin's spirit.
A writer, reader and tv fanatic, Kayleigh enjoys reading movie news and your film reviews. She has attained an Undergraduate degree in Creative Writing and is also the creator of the film and television blog 'The Critics' Corner'. True: trying to kill her father was not the answer there was clearly still some good in Uther but you can see why Morgana would feel so conflicted. Morgana felt unloved.
Severely and deeply unloved. Her father had denied her to her face. He put his pride before his own daughter. Morgana turned on him because she felt like she had to in order to survive—in order to distance herself from how much he had hurt her. Her heart was broken. Her own father was ashamed to admit that she was his daughter, and Arthur her brother usually regarded her with annoyance and irritation, mocking her for her nightmares.
And as for why Morgana came to hate Arthur: several reasons. First and foremost, Arthur too, had killed many of her kind. She did not feel like she could trust him.
Also, Uther favored him and illegitimacy aside, Morgana was actually next in line for the throne since she was born before Arthur so it was natural for her to feel jealous of him.
Gwen did nothing—and that is the problem. That was it. The last straw. Morgana had already been hanging at the end of her rope—and Merlin was the one who cut it. Merlin: the person who Morgana was sure would never hurt her, ended up being the one who hurt her most of all. Her hatred toward Uther and Arthur deepened at the realization that Merlin cared about both of them even Uther more than he cared about her. He sacrificed her to ensure that they would live, and now—.
I love Merlin—I love all the characters—but what he did to her was so wrong. Merlin poisoning Morgana was an act of murder. Even then, she was still conflicted. You cannot kill someone simply to save someone that you happen to like better. I mean, just think it through. What if the same ideology was applied to real life? Keep in mind that she was Uther's ward for most of her life, and was repeatedly taught that magic was "evil". She was able to witness first-hand Uther's tyranny against magic - brutal executions, man-hunts etcetera.
That being said she did not agree with Uther's decisions. We see in the very first episode S1E1 that she tried to persuade Uther to not execute Thomas Collins, a magician. And then she realises she herself can use magic, and the dangerous predicament this puts her in.
Merlin immediately packs her off to the Druids, where her belief that magic can be used for good is strengthened during her stay there. She hates that she has to hide her magic because of Uther, furthermore knowing for a fact that she is not "evil", yet will be executed all the same if he found out.
Finally this reaches the tipping point after she is abducted by Morgause, who does the opposite of what Uther has been doing - accepting Morgana for what she is, a magician.
She's not alone anymore. And with that in mind, she fully realises Uther has always been wrong about magic and grows to hate him even more. She wants to rid Camelot of Uther, and Arthur, who she believes is just like his father, so that magicians all around won't be persecuted there again. Her final turning point is after Merlin attempts to poison her making her feel betrayed and her 1 year long "captivity" with Morgause which was ample time for her hatred of Uther and Arthur to grow even further.
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