User blog comment:Morganaforever/Reactions at the magical reveal/@comment-4814726-20120617163242/@comment-204.93.60.208-20120620193110

I'd like to add something about the definition of a psychopath that applies to Morgana pretty well:

"Psychopaths routinely offer excuses for their reckless and often outrageous actions, placing blame on others instead. They rarely learn from their mistakes or benefit from negative feedback, and they have difficulty inhibiting their impulses. [-]"

"[-]In contrast to people with psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia, who often lose contact with reality, psychopaths are almost always rational. They are well aware that their ill-advised or illegal actions are wrong in the eyes of society but shrug off these concerns with startling nonchalance.[]"

The link can be found here http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-psychopath-means.

Granted, the first part could also match a lot of other people and situations, "placing blame on others", but I think it's important what actions the people in question do or did. Of course not everyone who blames someone else is a psychopath. In regard to what Morgana does and how she seems to think, the first paragraph matches her character very well.

So does the second paragraph because Morgana doesn't waste a thought on what others might think of her and wether people hate her not not. She doesn't try to justify herself or to defend her honour but simply doesn't care about other people's emotions and opinions.

@Morganaforever - I must have seen a different show because I can't remember Morgana forgiving Uther for anything. Or are you talking about season 1? If so, you are right, she forgave him in To Kill the King, and Uther kept his promise and softened towards her. That was still the time when the characters, including Morgana, were still so very well described and perfectly portayed. Morgana lost her love for Uther somewhere along the way in season 2. She grew more and more immune towards Uther's attempts to improve their father-daughter relationship and his love for her was not appreciated. She could not return the tiniest bit of sympathy and love to him. In season 3, she was completely freed from any warm emotion, and no love for aynone was left. I don't see her bond with Morgause as real sisterly love but most of all as sort of admiration and dependence. If she loved Morgause so much, I wonder why she didn't try to heal her but agreed to sacrifice her instead. If Merlin can heal almost-dead Arthur, Morgana and Uther, then the last of the High Priestesses of the old religion, Morgana, could have done it as well. Or maybe another sorcerer could have done it, they had a year looking for one after all. Aside from that, even if nobody could help Morgause, Morgana probably only admired Morgause and needed her to be guided and taught by her. When Morgause was dead, Morgana never mentioned her again and didn't show much grief.

I agree that all those reasons for her change can not explain why she has become so evil. Arthur was locked up in the dungeon as well but he didn't snap and tried to kill everyone afterwards. Also, Morgana knew that Uther loved her and that he would have never hurt her when he even asked Gaius to use magic when Morgana was about to die. The reasons for not announcing Morgana as his daughter could be numerous ones, and given that Morgana can't be too stupid to think of some, she should have considered that adultery was not only a crime punishable by death but that Uther probably also tried to save the reputation and honour of all people involved, including Morgana and her mother. Even if he just did it for himself only, it's not reason enough to go out and kill and torture everyone.

What Nimueh did is not different from what Morgana did and does. She killed thousands of people with the wars she provoked and triggered and she tortured people. The wars did not serve a greater good but only her own purposes, most of all destroying her father. She also seeks revenge and stops at nothing, not even when innocent people and children are involved. When someone kills a parent and enjoys it - and she even hoped that her face would haunt him in his last moments - and when someone tries to kill a sibling and friends, there is no rational explanation, or better, no sense or sanity in it. She is totally insane. Remember, she killed her father. It's not something that anyone does between hair combing and arranging flowers, it is not a harmless or understandable thing. The entire story about her unimaginable hatred for her father was done much too careless and was sold to us as being the most normal thing. I didn't like that because it seems that the audience was supposed to think that what she did was actually okay and comprehensible. What she really did was torturing and destroying her own father in any possible way but he wasn't someone who abused her but the one who loved her the most, even more than anyone else. She has never and will never get more love from anyone like she got from Uther, yet she took pleasure in his suffering and death.

Let's face it, if Morgana wasn't played by the beautiful and very attractive young woman Katie McGrath but by a less attractive and older woman, nobody would really care for her after everything that she has done. No offence, I understand why people find her attractive and try to defend her up to a ceratin point. I just don't quite get why some still see her as a normal and kind-hearted person. She is now an ice-cold and more than ruthless crazy killer.