Hi, this may sound really lame...but
is queen mab the mother of morgan le fay? i didn't quite pick up the connection
and they're both played by helena bonham carter right? so that made me reallly confused...and the son as well
thanks if you know!
'Change one thing, change everything' - The Butterfly Effect
no on both counts.
Mab just took her on as a 'student' so she would keep existing.
Quwwn Mab is played by an actress with a greater depth than Helena Bonham Carter.
Queen Mab is played by Miranda Richardson.
That is saying quite a lot because Helena B Carter is a very good actress herself.
Mab (as well as the Lady of the Lake) are both played by Miranda Richardson. Morgan le Fey is played by Helena Bonham Carter. "The son", I presume, is Mordred, played by Jason Done.
No, Morgan isn't Mab's daughter. She's the daughter of Igraine (Arthur's mother, the woman Uther fell in love with), and her first husband, the Duke of Cornwall. She possesses no magic powers, but was visited by Frik (Mab's servant) as a child. She is bitter about what happened to her father, and so, when Frik returns to her and makes her beautiful, she allies herself with him and Mab to help bring down Arthur's kingdom by sleeping with her half brother and begetting a son- Mordred.
Of course, the film version differs slightly from most of the other versions of the legend, but as Mab doesn't appear in any other retelling of the legend, I can be pretty confident in saying she wasn't related to Morgan in any of those, either.
Try not to panic. Just think of it as landing a little more vertically than usual
aha,
thanks for all who replied!
it helped heaps in understanding it!
'Change one thing, change everything' - The Butterfly Effect