For this week I read The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. I didn’t know that this book even existed until now. The novel is narrated by King Arthur's half sister, Morgan Le Fay, who is one of the witches of Avalon. She tells all of the other witches side of the story and explains the reasoning and decisions that Arthur made in the women’s perspective. The novel is told by the four women instrumental to the story who are Gwenhwyfar, his wife; Igraine, his mother; Viviane, the Lady of the Lake, High Priestess of Avalon; and his sister and lover, Morgaine tells her side of the story as the narrator. The stories are told by what they saw and how the situations happened. The struggle between Christianity and the religion of Avalon is a central part of the story, and Arthur’s loyalty to and betrayal of Avalon another part. I found it fascinating of how the main King Arthur novels show the women as either submissive or evil, but this novel portrays the women as powerful and shows how they rebelled against King Arthur if they were portrayed as evil in the previous novels.
The novel told Most Medieval Romance differently from those of the realistic novel. The plots,
like those of the romance, divide into sharply separate episodes that often do not seem joined in
in any obvious order and generally take the form of tests that they must pass to attain some
goal. Frequently, the generally male protagonist fails tests, which often involve acts of moral and
spiritual perception, until such point that he finally follows advice.
like those of the romance, divide into sharply separate episodes that often do not seem joined in
in any obvious order and generally take the form of tests that they must pass to attain some
goal. Frequently, the generally male protagonist fails tests, which often involve acts of moral and
spiritual perception, until such point that he finally follows advice.
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