MovieChat Forums > Merlin (1998) Discussion > I wonder...

I wonder...

posted 20 years ago by mrvlgrl1860
7 replies | jump to latest

In my drama class, we got to pick stage names, and one stupid little freshman girl, I might add, choose to call herself Morgen LeFay. I'm debating on whether or not telling her who Morgen LeFay is, (cuz I doubt she knows.) I would simply say, "Morgen LeFay was a perverted girl who seduced her own brother into have sex (who, by the way, didn't know until it was too late), just so she could have his child."

What do you all think she'd think of her chosen name then? LOL.

[–] karminstant 20 years ago

I think she is not as stupid as you think. Most likely she has read (or seen) Mists of Avalon, where the author has completely retold the legend in a different way, which is more sympathetic to Morgan Le Fey. I think it's great she chose that name. On a side note, I know of a woman who legally changed her name to Morgan Faie (inspired by Morgan Le Fey of course). What stage name did YOU choose? :o)

[–] 20 years ago

[deleted]

[–] mrvlgrl1860 20 years ago

My stage name was Marguerite Malone.

And sorry, didn't mean to upset or make any of you lose ur head, it was just my stupid opinion in the first place. It doesn't mean anything, and I wasn';t speaking so technical either, but whatever.

[–] spanishfli 20 years ago

In mythology, Morgen is viewed also good equally as she may had been bad. She was the one, if I remember correctly, that takes her brother to Avalon and protects him with her magic. "LeFay" is French for "The Fairy".

You shouldn't knock down people so easily-- it is a wonderful name. I for one legally changed my name to Che.

And he's a communist. While I am no, but I did like the stuff what he did for his people and how valient he fought for them.

[–] Lady_Targaryen 19 years ago

I see Morgana as a good person, like in Mists of Avalon.

Even that I love ''Merlin'', I always imagined Morgana to be actually good.

[–] walrod_david 19 years ago

I always saw Morgan Le Fay (Morganna, Morgaine, Morgan of the Faeries) as being more of a sympathetic figure than a villain in the Arthur legend. Saw her father killed at a young age, was the only one to see through Uther's disguise, cast off by her mother, her half-brother lost, always under the influence of another. In many versions of the legend, it is not even Morgan who bears Mordred, it is instead Morgause, mother of the Orkney knights and sister of Igraine.

[–] Merykara 16 years ago

And maybe you don't know but in x. XVI, in France, there's a great collection of tales and pieces of theater where Morgan Le Fay has nothing to do with King Arthur and appears as the Queen of all the Faeries, a really sweet and good queen.