User blog comment:Morganaforever/Merlin and Tragedy/@comment-5102537-20120905135936/@comment-4650675-20120905141413

Well, they will be coming right up! Glad to see you're looking forward to them!

I know many people who do not care about Morgana at all, but I also know a lot of people that feel sympathy and pity towards the character. Even the fact that she has become something entirely different from what she set out to be is tragic itself. Still, I will not argue about that, because that has to do with how objective the viewer is.

I remember that, in that episode, she did. Not in regard to Uther, but, when Morgause gave her the Rowan Staff, she did hesitate before taking it. Also, in her dialogue with Merlin, she said that Uther hates her and everyone like her, and that "there is no other way". She has that in common with the tragic characters, because they think that they follow the only path available to them, if they do not want to choose destruction for themselves.

As for being evil, mean and sadistic, there are various examples of tragic characters that were just as evil, if not more. Take for example Macbeth, from William Shakespear's work. He did not hesitate to slaughter women and children and send men to their deaths. He even did that to the family of his enemy in order to lure him in the battlefield. He was also not sad at all when his wife died, and only thought about the man that was supposed to kill him coming near him. He was not like this in the beginning, but later became worse than an animal. In fact, he resembles Morgana in many, many ways (that's random, but I recommend watching it to everyone, it's a great play!). I agree that since Morgana hasnt been developed well by the writers, not everyone can accept some things about her personality, and certainly their bad writing can in NO WAY be compared to Ancient Greek Tragedies, but, after figuring all these similarities out, I just had to make this post! :D