User blog comment:Morgana High Priestess/In the end,Morgana could have become good!/@comment-4909386-20130110162108/@comment-5102537-20130818132722

Aside from the very unbelievable plot around Morgana's change to pure evil - which was something that the character didn't deserve and wasn't worked out well enough to create a believable reason - it's much too simple to blame others for her evilness in case that she wasn't enchanted.

Everyone has always a choice. Morgana wasn't a slave of either Uther and/or Merlin or anyone else's attitudes and actions but (as a fictional character, of course) a person with her own mind. It was her choice alone to become evil and brutal and violent and it's no-one's fault - except she was enchanted which obviously wasn't the case (shame).

If anyone thinks that Morgana simply became so evil and cruel because of Uther or Merlin (or whoever) we could also say that everyone outthere who makes mistakes and who kills, tortures, harms others is actually innocent because others have caused it. We then could as well say that Uther did what he did because maybe his parents made mistakes and treated him badly. Or because others did something to him, which happened indeed (the Old Religion/Nimueh killing Igraine, causing destruction etc...).

Nevertheless, a sane person has always a choice. In case that Morgana was mentally afflicted, which I'm sure of, it was no-one's fault at all, not even her own. In case she wasn't suffering from a mental disease, it was her fault alone. There are things that can push a person over the edge, like traumatic experiences, for example, and there is a point in life when such people can't deal with it anymore and make huge mistakes. But there's a difference between being convinced to do the right thing, making mistakes and seeing sense in the end or being a ruthless, torture-loving mad killer who is eager to see others suffer.

Blaming others for that when they didn't drive the person in question insane, is a very naive and simple way out of it all.