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Women Of Camelot Analysis
Women of Camelot
In many books of literature, women are portrayed as evil, and wicked. King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table by Lancelyn Green is about the adventures of King Arthur and his knights of the round table. Women depicted in Green’s version of the Arthurian Legend are portrayed as manipulative, tempting, and cheaters.
To begin Morgan Le Fey is portrayed as an evil manipulator (p.69). She manipulates Sir Accolon into trying to kill Arthur, “These two knights, King Arthur and Sir Accolon in strange armour with closed visors and no devices on their shields to show who they were, met together in the green meadow, neither knowing the other (p.70). This proves that Morgan Le Fay was trying to manipulate Sir Accolon, because if

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