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The Mists of Avalon

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The Mists of Avalon	comment	Published in 1983, The Mists of Avalon is a novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It is notable among the many, many variants in Arthurian Legend due to its approach — the story is told not only through the eyes of a woman but through the eyes of one of the biggest villains in the legends. The narrator is Morgaine (Morgan le Fay or Morgan of the Fairies), who tells Arthur's tale (and her own) against the backdrop of approaching war with Rome and the Saxons, as well as religious war, as Christianity threatens to destroy Avalon and Goddess worship in Britain.Several books came after this, all of them prequels. Near the end of her life, Bradley began collaborating on them with Diana Paxson, who took over the series after her death. The novels which they wrote together include: The Forest House, Lady of Avalon, and Priestess of Avalon.The main characters: Morgaine: Protagonist, priestess of Avalon, and half-sister to Arthur. Daughter of Gorlois, Duke of Cornwall, and Igraine. Arthur: King Arthur. Caught between oaths to the Lady of Avalon and the spread of Christianity. Viviane: High Priestess of Avalon and sister to Igraine and Morgause. Manipulates things behind the scenes, but does everything to try to save Avalon. Morgause: Sister to Igraine and Viviane. Plots to put her husband or one of her sons on the throne.This was made into a miniseries in 2001, starring Julianna Margulies (ER, The Good Wife) as Morgaine, Anjelica Huston (The Addams Family) as Viviane, and Joan Allen (Pleasantville) as Morgause.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_130436b9	type	Annoying Younger Sibling
The Mists of Avalon / int_130436b9	comment	Annoying Younger Sibling: Neither Igraine, nor Vivane has much patience for Morgause. Also Morgaine sees Arthur this way, until realizing that their mother didn't abandon her for him - she abandoned them both for Uther.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_1872821f	type	Related Differently in the Adaptation
The Mists of Avalon / int_1872821f	comment	Related Differently in the Adaptation: Morgause is often depicted in the Arthurian Legend as Arthur and Morgan's sister. Here, she's their maternal aunt, also making her Igraine's sister rather than her daughter. This results in Morgause and Morgaine (as Morgan is called here) becoming Decomposite Characters to an extent (usually Morgan and Morgause get conflated); Morgaine is still the mother of Mordred and slept with her own brother to conceive him, but she's depicted far more sympathetically (she and Arthur suffered a case of Surprise Incest) while Morgause is the scheming sorceress and wife of King Lot, who helps raise Mordred and manipulates him into hating Arthur. Morgause was originally Mordred's mother while here she's his great aunt, though she takes him as her ward and is still a mother figure to him.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_1b4e322c	type	Mr. Fanservice
The Mists of Avalon / int_1b4e322c	comment	Mr. Fanservice: In the miniseries, for sure: Accolon, Arthur, Lancelot.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_1ec3eb0a	type	Take Our Word for It
The Mists of Avalon / int_1ec3eb0a	comment	Take Our Word for It: Invoked by Morgaine in the first-person narration between chapters; she states that she canâ€™t tell the reader about her youth in Avalon training to be a priestess because whatever isnâ€™t secret is obvious, and anything that isnâ€™t obvious is secret.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_1edfa2c7	type	Royals Who Actually Do Something
The Mists of Avalon / int_1edfa2c7	comment	Royals Who Actually Do Something: Pretty much all of the royal characters are shown either actively participating in leading their country or fighting in war Though, in Morgaine's case, it's both a straight and averted case; she is active in her tasks for Avalon, but she utterly neglects her duties as Duchess of Cornwall.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_2171fd57	type	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It
The Mists of Avalon / int_2171fd57	comment	I'm a Man; I Can't Help It: The standard even between heroic characters.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
The Mists of Avalon / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Like any other variant on Arthurian legend.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_259d5879	type	Anachronism Stew
The Mists of Avalon / int_259d5879	comment	Anachronism Stew: Assuming that this story happened during the first wave of the invasions of the Angles and Saxons and the time the historical Patricius (AKA St. Patrick) was alive, it would have taken place in the 5th century. However: There is mention made of Moorish Spain. Muhammad (the founder of Islam) would not even be born till 597 AD. Islam was not founded till the 7th century. And Spain was not invaded by the Muslims till the 8th century! There is also talk about praying to Mary with a string of beads. In other words, a rosary. Which was invented by St. Dominic in the 13th century. The Catholic priests profess belief in witchcraft. Up until the 14th century, however, the Catholic Church actually taught that believing that human beings could have supernatural powers was itself heretical.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_27fdd6a1	type	Divine Parentage
The Mists of Avalon / int_27fdd6a1	comment	Divine Parentage: While not exactly divine, the queen of the fairy folk reveals that Morgan, and assumingly all of the royal line of Avalon, are descended from the same lineage as she is.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_2fa6b075	type	God Save Us from the Queen!
The Mists of Avalon / int_2fa6b075	comment	God Save Us from the Queen!: Any queen who refuses to Stay in the Kitchen is seen in that way, and also the Ladies of the Lake. Gwen is looked upon unfavorably because of her affair with Lancelot, though it's probably the least harmful thing she's done.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_3016de81	type	Reincarnation Romance
The Mists of Avalon / int_3016de81	comment	Reincarnation Romance: Subverted. Viviane and Uther may have had one had they not been born a little too far apart and only met when they were both too old. Played straight earlier when Igraine has her epiphany that she and Uther were lovers in a previous lifetime. Uther-in-previous-incarnations got around.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Mists of Avalon / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: Morgaine's treatment of Uriens. Even overlooking her affair with his son - after all, Uriens was also bedding other women, and at this point of the story the incest factor was really comparatively minor - she led two of his sons to death and then tried to kill the grieving father when he (quite correctly) blamed her.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_3a92b459	type	Please, I Will Do Anything!
The Mists of Avalon / int_3a92b459	comment	Please, I Will Do Anything!: Gwenhwyfar to Morgaine when she asks her to create a fertility charm to make her conceive, despite Gwen's extreme aversion to anything Pagan or magical.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_3ab3dbb	type	Adaptational Protagonist
The Mists of Avalon / int_3ab3dbb	comment	Adaptational Protagonist: Morgaine or Morgan Le Fay is almost always depicted as King Arthur's diabolical and sorcerous elder half-sister who sires Mordred after an incestuous encounter with him, and is almost always the default antagonist whenever Merlin or King Arthur is involved. However, in the mini-series, Morgaine is catapulted to the spotlight: she becomes an apprentice to the druids and witches of Avalon, follows pagan traditions, and becomes a sorceress in her own right. She still antagonizes Arthur, Merlin and Camelot, but out of need to preserve Britain's religious traditions against what she perceives to be a foreign invader: Christianity.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
The Mists of Avalon / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: Since the entire story is, of course, based on Arthurian legend, anyone who has read them through will already know how several things will happen beforehand. even though they are told in a slightly different way.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
The Mists of Avalon / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: Pretty much every line out of Viviane's mouth. The entire reason for Arthur's existence. Invoked by the fairy queen when trying to convince Morgaine to give up her unborn child for adoption: the young stag must kill the King Stag. The chain of the prophecy is broken in the most tragic possible way when Arthur and Mordred kill each other, leaving no one to become High King or act as the representative of the God.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_4160410d	type	Damsel in Distress
The Mists of Avalon / int_4160410d	comment	Damsel in Distress: Gwenhwyfar.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_44606d14	type	Becoming the Mask
The Mists of Avalon / int_44606d14	comment	Becoming the Mask: Nimue, on Morgaine's orders, uses magic to seduce Kevin, the Merlin. But she ends up falling for him for real—- it could be the sympathetic magic at work, or simply their own compatibility. It doesn't stop her from delivering him to his death.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_4523420b	type	Love Dodecahedron
The Mists of Avalon / int_4523420b	comment	Love Dodecahedron: Arthur, Gwenhwyfar, Lancelet, Morgaine, Accolon, Elaine.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
The Mists of Avalon / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gwenhwyfar and Lancelet effectively blow up her marriage to Arthur and decide to finally run away together in their old age - only for Gwenhwyfar to realize that Lancelet will never be able to live with the guilt of betraying his closest friend and man he loves, so she reluctantly leaves to live out the rest of her days in the nunnery she was raised in.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Mists of Avalon / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: As expected for Arthurian legend. All of the main characters either die brutally by the end, or live to be elderly, lonely, and full of regrets. Arthur ends up fatally wounded in a battle with his son Mordred. The only possible chance of saving him is for Morgaine to bring him to Avalon - which is now all but cut off from the rest of the world. Gwenhwyfar and Lancelet effectively blow up her marriage to Arthur and decide to finally run away together in their old age - only for Gwenhwyfar to realize that Lancelet will never be able to live with the guilt of betraying his closest friend and man he loves, so she reluctantly leaves to live out the rest of her days in the nunnery she was raised in. Lancelet ends his life an utterly broken man, having lost nearly everyone he cares about to death or estrangement, and, from Gwenhwyfar's perspective, perhaps a little Sanity Slippage. Morgaine, having lived a bitterly unhappy life and alienated nearly everyone around her with her manipulations, finally understands that she will not be able to preserve her religion in the world, and finally returns to Avalon with a fatally-wounded Arthur to fade away into the mists. Mordred has a belated realization that actually, he could care less about Gwenhwyfar's sex life - the cudgel he'd used to goad several of Arthur's men into rebellion and civil war against him - is filled with remorse, and repudiates his foster-mother, Morgause, for poisoning him against his father. But it's all too late by then, and he himself dies in battle against Arthur. Morgause's ending might seem almost Played for Laughs in comparison - her final scene is a man roughly a third her age rejecting her sexual advances - but it's meant to portray that for all her scheming and manipulations over the years, she has gained nothing, and now she is simply old and irrelevant.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_4f6cf75	type	Mirroring Factions
The Mists of Avalon / int_4f6cf75	comment	Mirroring Factions: One of the main themes of the book: â€œAll gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess.â€� Morgaine views the tradition of Christian cloistered nuns and monks with disgust, seeing it as a perversion of the natural order and a denial of fertility and life. However, she has no such qualms when it comes to her fellow priestess Raven, who, similarly to a nun, observes a vow of silence, lives in total seclusion and has vowed to remain a perpetual virgin. The text even says that Raven does this in order to better hear the Goddess and heighten her spiritual powers, which is precisely why nuns and monks remove themselves from the world and dedicate their lives to prayer: they are seen as closer to God, and even today many Christians write to nuns to ask for prayers of intercession. On a more positive note, Taliesin and Kevin are both great lords of the druids and respect the Christian God and see value in Christian traditions and rituals, even if they are not the ones they themselves know, and several characters state that it is neither wrong nor blasphemous to worship the Goddess in the form of the Virgin Mary. More generally, Morgaine despises the Christian faith as being narrow-minded, violent and having unnatural ideas about sex and gender roles, while at the same time being more or less a religious extremist who refuses to accept that Britain's religious traditions are changing, causing the deaths of several people in her attempts to preserve paganism, and belonging to a culture whose ideas about "normal" sex include things that we would consider incest or rape. Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar in general are actually portrayed really similarly despite Morgaine's disdain for her. As mentioned above, Morgaine denigrated Gwenhwyfar's religious extremism while ignoring her own. Both women spent most of their childhood in religious convents. Both were placed in some kind of union with Arthur for the purpose of conceiving an heir. Both were in love with Lancelet. Gwenhwyfar is barren. Morgaine is barren after her traumatic delivery with Mordred, and once estranged from him, is effectively childless (in a sense, Morgause is responsiblefor both of them being "childless"). Gwenhwyfar envies Morgaine's freedom and independence. Morgaine envies Gwenhwyfar's happy marriage and domestic life. Both women would likely have been much more content spending their lives in their respective convents, and both return to those convents at the end of their lives.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Mists of Avalon / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: Morgause usually comes off as genuinely nicer than both of her sisters and often than Morgaine or Gwen as well. Not being Holier Than Thou helps a lot.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_5565bf30	type	Three-Way Sex
The Mists of Avalon / int_5565bf30	comment	Three-Way Sex: Arthur, Gwenhwyfar, and Lancelot.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_55940b68	type	Doorstopper
The Mists of Avalon / int_55940b68	comment	Doorstopper: Even the paperback would make a decent doorstop or bludgeon in a pinch, clocking in at over 800 pages.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_571833a	type	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?
The Mists of Avalon / int_571833a	comment	Aren't You Going to Ravish Me?: All over the place. From the Avalonion perspective normal lovemaking, as opposed to simply procreating like animals, is strange and unnatural. To the point that Morgaine grows bitter towards Lancelet for engaging in foreplay.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_58e83efd	type	Disease by Any Other Name
The Mists of Avalon / int_58e83efd	comment	Disease by Any Other Name: A brief passage of Gwenhwyfar reflecting on her childhood and later life indicates to the reader that she probably suffers from agoraphobia. It's fairly obvious to a modern reader that Priscilla dies of some form of cancer.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_598ad6e2	type	Even the Guys Want Him
The Mists of Avalon / int_598ad6e2	comment	Even the Guys Want Him: The nature of the men's admiration for Lancelot either is implied to, or explicitly stated to be homoerotic.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_5abc8612	type	Unholy Matrimony
The Mists of Avalon / int_5abc8612	comment	Unholy Matrimony: Lot and Morgause get along well. Sure, they are both philandering like there is no tomorrow, but they are both cool with the other one's cheating (Lot is about the only man in the book who doesn't invoke any kind of Double Standard here) and out of bed they like one another best. And they act as the Ruling Couple in Lothien, with Lot admitting freely that his wife is as competent a ruler as he is.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_5bd1083d	type	Holy Is Not Safe
The Mists of Avalon / int_5bd1083d	comment	Holy Is Not Safe: It is death to touch the Holy Regalia unprepared.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
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The Mists of Avalon / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
The Mists of Avalon / int_62434fe2	comment	Lancelet ends his life an utterly broken man, having lost nearly everyone he cares about to death or estrangement, and, from Gwenhwyfar's perspective, perhaps a little Sanity Slippage.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Mists of Avalon / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite her back-stabbing ways, Morgause is shown to genuinely care for Igraine, Morgaine, Lot and her sons to the point where Gareth's death and Mordred's subsequent abandoning of her leaves her shocked and broken.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_64b2ff00	type	Jesus Was Way Cool
The Mists of Avalon / int_64b2ff00	comment	Jesus Was Way Cool: Many pagans in the book comment that they don't mind Christ; their problem is with the people interpreting His words.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_6afefa62	type	My Girl Is a Slut
The Mists of Avalon / int_6afefa62	comment	My Girl Is a Slut: King Lot of Orkney and his wife, Morgause, both sleep around, and are both fully aware of it. But they're still each other's best friend and confidante, and she is heartbroken when he dies.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Mists of Avalon / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Nimue, who led Kevin to his destruction after falling in love with him.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Arthur's rise, Camelot's fall, and Avalon's secession from the world - but Viviane pretty much destroys or alienates everybody she loves trying.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_7583ecbf	type	Morality Kitchen Sink
The Mists of Avalon / int_7583ecbf	comment	Morality Kitchen Sink: Nobody is pure good or evil in this book. Morgaine is an Anti-Hero, Viviane is just straight-up Blue-and-Orange Morality, Gwenhwyfar is a Well-Intentioned Extremist, Arthur spends most of the book being manipulated, Patricius genuinely believes he's doing the right thing. Even Kevin, probably the least sympathetic of all the characters, talks Morgaine out of what basically amounts to suicide; she notes that he's the only person who's never tried to manipulate her.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
The Mists of Avalon / int_762b9223	comment	Morgause's ending might seem almost Played for Laughs in comparison - her final scene is a man roughly a third her age rejecting her sexual advances - but it's meant to portray that for all her scheming and manipulations over the years, she has gained nothing, and now she is simply old and irrelevant.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_771f6307	type	Brother–Sister Incest
The Mists of Avalon / int_771f6307	comment	Brotherâ€“Sister Incest: Morgaine conceives a child by Arthur, a boy named Gwydion ("bright one"). Morgaine and Arthur did not know they were having sex with each other at the time. Morgaine hadn't seen her half-brother since he was 3, both were masked, and both were playing parts in a Sacred Marriage rite. Meleager's attitude toward his "dear sister" Gwen seems disturbingly predatory. It culminates with him raping her. And we never learn whether he was her half-brother or not.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_796a7bfc	type	Twice-Told Tale
The Mists of Avalon / int_796a7bfc	comment	Twice-Told Tale: While it is not strictly necessary to be familiar with Arthurian legend to enjoy the book, it makes a lot more sense if you know the basics of the legends.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_79b5677	type	Belief Makes You Stupid
The Mists of Avalon / int_79b5677	comment	Belief Makes You Stupid: Various minor characters espouse Dung Ages-style Christian superstitiousness throughout the story. The trope is also a big factor in the plot-shifting decisions of Morgaine and Gwenhwyfar - at various times in the story, their fanaticism drives them to do things that slowly destroy Arthur's kingdom. Averted with the Druids and priestesses of Avalon, whose religion requires them to study medicine, astronomy, music and history, and ultimately subverted in the case of Christianity, which serves to preserve the learning, spirituality and the last vestiges of goddess-worship into the Dark Ages and beyond.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_7c9dcc1	type	THeUnfavorite
The Mists of Avalon / int_7c9dcc1	comment	The Unfavorite: Morgause, to the point that Viviane kicks her out of their The Hecate Sisters assemble, counting Morgaine instead, and mentions several times, that she doesn't really trust and love her despite feeding her like her own baby. Of course, Viviane had some insight about who Morgause would become, but it's hinted it's a bit of a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - Morgaine (the only family member who liked Morgause) theorizes that her youngest aunt might have grown to become such an ambitious Attention Whore precisely because nobody paid attention to her in her youth.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_859ec5d8	type	The Fair Folk
The Mists of Avalon / int_859ec5d8	comment	The Fair Folk: Their existence is acknowledged early in the novel, though their exact desires and influence on the story are mysterious.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_85cc4dbc	type	Sex as Rite-of-Passage
The Mists of Avalon / int_85cc4dbc	comment	Sex as Rite-of-Passage: The Sacred Marriage ritual, watch out your partner might be your sibling.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Mists of Avalon / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Morgaine's for Viviane when she finds out she orchestrated the anonymous sexual tryst between Morgaine and her brother.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Mists of Avalon / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Morgaine is usually the villain of Arthurian stories. Then in this story she appears to be a misunderstood heroine... before starting to look like a villain again, in the second half of the book.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
The Mists of Avalon / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: Arthurian Legend from the viewpoint of the women, and particularly of the women who are more usually depicted as villains.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_8cb01d0e	type	Category Traitor
The Mists of Avalon / int_8cb01d0e	comment	Category Traitor: Kevin commits one specific act of treachery against Avalon when he steals the Holy Regalia and turns it over to Bishop Patricius, and that's what prompts Morgaine to have him killed. But his biggest betrayal, in Morgaine's eyes, is essentially being too friendly toward Christianity and going native in Arthur's court. The initial break in their relationship comes when Kevin consents to Vivianne being buried in a Christian cemetery, much to Morgaine's horror. Kevin initially defends himself by drawing parallels between Christian worship and pagan worship of the Goddess. Later, he argues that the time of Avalon is at an end, Christianity's rise is unstoppable, and it's better that the Holy Regalia be out in the world with humanity instead of being locked away in an unreachable, mist-shrouded Avalon.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Mists of Avalon / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Morgaine's crush on Lancelot. Though they never fully seal the deal. Arthur and Lancelot, who are also first cousins, apparently got interested in each other during this Three-Way Sex with Gwenhwyfar. Lancelot in particular is confused about the nature of his feelings for Arthur.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_970c8a84	type	Big Fun
The Mists of Avalon / int_970c8a84	comment	Big Fun: Gareth, of the muscular and height variety, once he grows up.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
The Mists of Avalon / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Mordred resents his biological parents because they abandoned him (despite the fact that Morgaine got him Happily Adopted, and many other characters grew up in similar environments), and later Morgause who apparently "corrupted" him (we see them during his childhood and it appears like he is a cunning little brat whom she is trying to straighten out, and all of Morgause's biological sons turned out fine), and finally it's all bad because of this damn Avalon and its Matriarchy!
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The Mists of Avalon / int_9830549e	type	He-Man Woman Hater
The Mists of Avalon / int_9830549e	comment	He-Man Woman Hater: Gwen accuses the Christian God of being this.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Mists of Avalon / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Viviane remarks that priestesses, who live secluded in communities of women and wear black robes and veils, are easily mistaken for nuns, and Morgaine sometimes doesn't bother to correct people when they think she is one.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_9853e107	type	Elective Mute
The Mists of Avalon / int_9853e107	comment	Elective Mute: Early in the book Morgaine meets Raven, a young seeress, who has taken a vow of silence and dedicated her voice to the Goddess.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
The Mists of Avalon / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Lancelot. Almost any woman (including one of his aunts) who sees him, seems to lust after him.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_9c209a57	type	The Hecate Sisters
The Mists of Avalon / int_9c209a57	comment	The Hecate Sisters: Although they aren't sisters, Viviane makes explicit reference to the concept of "maiden, mother and crone."
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The Mists of Avalon / int_9df954d6	type	Enigmatic Empowering Entity
The Mists of Avalon / int_9df954d6	comment	Enigmatic Empowering Entity: The Lady of the Lake is a machiavellian politician who supports King Arthur because she believes that it will save her people.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_9f9ef70f	type	The Unchosen One
The Mists of Avalon / int_9f9ef70f	comment	The Unchosen One: While Igraine is horrified after learning that she has to marry for the second time and give birth to The Chosen One, and Morgaine is understandably even more horrified upon learning that her "destiny" was to bang her brother and produce a child, Morgause would love to pop out some destined children and even offers Igraine to marry Uther instead of her, but is shunned.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_9fc04a54	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?
The Mists of Avalon / int_9fc04a54	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Lancelot of all of people. Although he's attracted to women just fine, it's stated that he became a ladies man to prove to himself he wasn't gay after spending some time in the army, he had allegedly composed a poem about love between two knights, and even his great love for Gwen seems to be an outlet for his even greater love for her husband.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
The Mists of Avalon / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: those who have read the Arthurian legends know several of the characters are in for a sad fate.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_a5de0ab9	type	Polyamory
The Mists of Avalon / int_a5de0ab9	comment	Polyamory: While none of the assorted marriages in the book are entirely monogamous, Arthur and Gwenhwyfar are a unique case, engaging in Three-Way Sex with Lancelet while the text continually hammers that all three of them are in love with each other. Gwenhwyfar genuinely loves both men, both men love her and each other. While Arthur and Lancelet rarely act on it directly with each other, this seems to be an element behind Arthur condoning Gwenhwyfar's and Lancelet's affair, in some ways making it something of a triad or three-way marriage. Moreover, Arthur seems to continue to harbour incestuous romantic feelings towards Morgaine for years, if not the rest of his life, even while genuinely in love with Gwenhwyfar and presumably Lancelet, and with occasional hints of having other affairs on the side.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Mists of Avalon / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: Done both to the reader and in-universe: plenty of things which seem normal to the Dark Age-era British characters are distasteful or even taboo to modern sensibilities, while within the text, the charactersâ€™ wildly differing moral and cultural ideals cause conflict and friction. Notably, among Avalonians rape is never portrayed as a crime, only something that powerful people have the right to commit, with anyone who objects being framed as small-minded. Note that we're still expected to sympathize with Viviane after she tricks her niece and nephew into having sex. A horrified Morgaine still reveals sheâ€™s been conditioned to see the rape of a child by an adult as something sacred and holy.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_ac1b0a35	type	Elegant Classical Musician
The Mists of Avalon / int_ac1b0a35	comment	Elegant Classical Musician: Morgaine considers that there are men who lust after her when she plays the harp in Caerleon. She's good with that harp.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_b1c8e04e	type	Marital Rape License
The Mists of Avalon / int_b1c8e04e	comment	Marital Rape License: Gorlois appears to believe in this, as hinted by Igraine when thinking of the early years of their marriage.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Mists of Avalon / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Yes, Gwen, just go into the lair of your violent, power-hungry alleged half-brother barely escorted. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_b593baf1	type	Author Filibuster
The Mists of Avalon / int_b593baf1	comment	Author Filibuster: Marion Zimmer Bradley is quite clear on her pro-feminist stance. She's also pretty vocal about religion.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Mists of Avalon / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Running the gamut from familiar —Arthur— to medieval and acceptable - Lancelet, Morgaine - to alternate spellings - Gwenhwyfar - and then Kevin.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_bda2a088	type	Did They or Didn't They?
The Mists of Avalon / int_bda2a088	comment	Did They or Didn't They?: Bradley's writing style creates a lot of scenes and even entire pairings that only become apparent on the fifth reading. Like Morgaine and Raven.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_bdb5c651	type	Real Men Love Jesus
The Mists of Avalon / int_bdb5c651	comment	Real Men Love Jesus: Gwenhwyfar basically pulls this on Arthur during a fight.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
The Mists of Avalon / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Preparing a Love Potion for Lancelot, Morgaine wonders if it doesn't resemble rape for Elaine, despite the fact that she asked for that elixir (since Lancelot wouldn't be able to resist sex even if Elaine changed her mind). That's correct, but she doesn't sacrifice one thought to how it would resemble rape for Lancelot.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
The Mists of Avalon / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: We never see Gorlois treating Igraine as an equal, even before things between them go to hell.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_c5fe6c81	type	Strong Family Resemblance
The Mists of Avalon / int_c5fe6c81	comment	Strong Family Resemblance: Viviane, Morgaine, Lancelot and Mordred all resemble their Pictish lineage, fine-boned with dark coloring; Igraine, Morgause and Niniane are blonde and tall; Uther and Arthur; Gwen, Elaine, Galahad and Nimue...
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The Mists of Avalon / int_cdad4b25	type	Toxic Friend Influence
The Mists of Avalon / int_cdad4b25	comment	Toxic Friend Influence: Gwen's constant jabbing about sin to Arthur really doesn't do anyone any good. Morgause is accused of being this to young Gwydion by the tad judgmental Viviane and Mordred himself, but there isn't any proof. Morgaine is often accused of it as well, usually in regards to Arthur.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
The Mists of Avalon / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Igraine, Viviane and Morgaine all attempt this to some degree. None of them are successful.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_d1ceb951	type	Holier Than Thou
The Mists of Avalon / int_d1ceb951	comment	Holier Than Thou: Gwenhwyfar's general attitude against anything Avalon-related. Balin and basically any priest with a speaking role as well. Viviane sometimes fulfills this role for the other side of the conflict, and Morgaine comes to be just as bad.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_d5d34629	type	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Mists of Avalon / int_d5d34629	comment	Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Late in the book, Raven has a vision that Kevin, the Merlin of Britain, has betrayed Avalon by giving the Holy Grail itself to be a chalice for a Christian mass. Morgaine is beyond furious: she plots Kevin's capture and return to Avalon, where he will be given the ugly and drawn-out death of a traitor and blasphemer. In the end, though, she decides to have him killed with one swift stroke.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
The Mists of Avalon / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: Viviane, the Lady of the Lake and high priestess of Avalon. For all she laments the burdens of power and the gravity of her decisions, she briskly arranges everyone's lives, with plans spanning decades. Later in the book, Morgaine tries her hand at it, particularly the destruction of Kevin by Nimue.
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The Mists of Avalon / int_d6901d5a	type	Dress Hits Floor
The Mists of Avalon / int_d6901d5a	comment	Dress Hits Floor: In the miniseries, Gwenhwyfar's night of passion with Arthur and Lancelet begins when she unhooks her dress and lets it fall to the floor with her back to the camera.
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