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Essay Archive - The Queen of Air and Darkness
The Queen of Air and Darkness
In the Queen of Air and Darkness Morgause raises four boys. She is not
a good mother, and she does not give her boys a sense of right and wrong. She
often ignores them for days at a time and beats them when they displease her.
She acts as if they were pets rather than human beings, to be loved or not at
her convenience . But despite this common maltreatment, the boys turn out very
differently.
Gawaine is the oldest of the boys and in many ways the most normal. He
becomes a knight in Arthur's court, fighting for him loyally. The way in which
he is affected by his upbrin....
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