User blog comment:MorganaEmrys/Could Morgana have a mental breakdown?/@comment-5102537-20120704090339/@comment-5102537-20120804105149

Have I ever told you that I love your comments, Sybil? I wish I was a native speaker so that I could express my opinion more detailed. Oh no, no, I didn't interprete your response as a correction to mine or something. I was just trying to add some things because I find it a bit annoying that the show comes up with such genius subjects but then tries to simplify things so much and then cut them off. The question about Uther/Morgana/The Great Purge/The Old Religion broaches interesting, fascinating and deep subjects, it just can't be dealt with in a few epsiodes without clearification and detailed analysises. As you can see, we both and many others could talk about it like crazy because there are always new ideas, theories and references coming up that even connect the fiction to our real history and to real life happenings, even psychology.

So let me try to explain my point of view on what you said about the similarities to the Holocaust and Hitler. I'm not contradicting you but only adding my thoughts on what you have already discovered and pointed out :-) I agree with you that there are similarities, of course, at least in regard to the Holocaust, not in regard to the personalities. But as I see it, Morgana comes much closer to what Hitler did than Uther, though it's always dangerous to compare someone, even a fictional character to the nazis. However, Hitler started as a poor, malnourished outsider who suffered from his father's violence towards him and his mother. Here there is nothing that he had in common with Morgana. But what they have in common is the fact that they did what they did due to wounded pride and vanity. Hitler suffered from various mental disturbances, probably caused in his childhood. He had tried to sell his artwork through jewish salesmen and failed. Some of them were his roommates in the boarding house for men. Since he was always violently punished by his father and remained an outsider and rebell throughout his youth, he was looking for a direction and leadership and got contact to anti-Semitic organisations in which he could live out all of his hatred caused by his miserable life. He actually knew that jews were human beings and not different from anyone else, he even had a jewish confidant (his doctor when his mother died), only the propaganda later claimed that jews were not "normal" people and therefore had no human rights in order to sell and justify his holocaust to the world. Also blaming the jews for economical problems was only part of the propaganda because people wouldn't have followed someone who only pursued a personal vendetta born of a mental disturbance. His hatred was totally personal and also caused by mental disturbance. He hated the people themselves and the entire race and not what they did.

Same with Morgana, she hates people for who they are and not for what they do or did, completely due to selfish reasons and not to protect anyone. She feels betrayed and not accepted, therefore everyone has to die. What bothers me a lot is the fact that her insanity hadn't been explained. It's one thing to turn to the dark side and do questionable things but another to get totally nuts out of the blue. If she had suffered the things that Hitler suffered from, if either Vivienne, Gorlois, Uther or someone else had abused her and if she had suffered violence and poverty and other cruel things in her life, I could understand her mental state, though never justifying it. But she didn't. She had a safe and good childhood and youth and got all the love anyone could wish for. Anyway, what she has in common with Hitler is the fact that both were/are mentally disturbed and hate people due to personal and self-centered reasons without the will to differ between what's right and wrong.

I doubt that Hitler wanted to protect the German people and get rid of the dangers (he was from Austria, by the way), on the contrary. He destroyed Germany (and many other countries, of course) and sacrificed millions of lives in order to let them fulfill his own personal wishes that were driven by megalomania and insanity. He was Germany's biggest enemy and not a protector at all, wether he was aware of it or not. His plan to build Germania, the capital city of the world had nothing to do with providing a great place to the German people but only with worshipping himself and opressing and terrorizing its cictizens.

It's similar with Morgana who doesnt really intend to protect her kind and bring peace to the land/world but instead tries to gain power and live out her hatred, no matter the costs. She provokes wars (unlike Uther who always tried to avoid wars) and doesn't care how many people die as long as her own personal goal is reached.

And although I hated that they described Uther as someone who killed hundreds or even thousands of people and even children, which was the worst thing of all, and although none of that could ever be justified, it is still different with him. His personal reason was the death of Igraine but I doubt that all that he did was mere revenge. As I wrote on my blog, everything points into the direction of having realised how dangerous magic really is. Igraine's death "opened his eyes", so to speak and whatever he did, he tried to eliminate a thing that was real and a real threat. I'm convinced that if he had had the possibility to eliminate magic itself... maybe by destroying some sort of source of power, a tool, a vessel or whatever, the killing of people would have stopped once and for all. If magic was dead and people could have never used it again, he wouldn't have had a reason to kill them anymore. So it wasn't the people or a race but only the thing - magic. He did not hate a race and he did not think or know that sorcerers were actually innocent but thought that what they used, which was magic, was a real threat. Fighting a thing or fighting a race are two different things. Hitler and Morgana didn't need such a reason and they didn't need to feel threatened by a thing, they only wanted and want to give in their hatred and delusion and hurt people the way that they were hurt - even though I don't know what exactly supposedly hurt Morgana so much. No Jew had ever hurt or threatened Hitler or others (society, countries) as far as history tells, nobody had ever hurt or threatened Morgana, not even Uther who would have never hurt her despite her magical powers. She knew that Uther loved her unconditionally but she ignored it.

I also agree with you on what you wrote about Morgana's possible thoughts about why it's also other people's fault that Uther did not ackknowledge her as his daughter. I wish they would have described her as a believable antagonist instead of making her a maniac villain blaming each and everyone for everything when actually nobody had anything to do with particular situations. The fact that she vehemently denied Uther's more than obvious deep fatherly love for her and the fact that she denies to think logically and being sensible about the reasons why Uther kept Morgana's heritage being a secret proves that she doesn't want to be sensible and wants to think the worst things about everyone in order to justify her actions to herself which are driven by self-absorbed and egocentric reasons. She is totally hiding in her pool of self-pity and hatred because she is the one why the world is turning and the only one who counts - in her thoughts.