Reading Diary A: King Arthur

I chose to read the King Arthur unit this week.  To be honest, I mainly chose it because King Arthur and Camelot are the focus of this season of Once Upon a Time.  I wanted to see how much of the original stories the show is drawing upon and how they are reinterpreting the old tales.  They seem to follow the same tale, more or less, but with a much darker twist. 

Excalibur was broken and so Arthur has become a broken and twisted ruler.  We recently learned the role that Nimue plays in the show as well, which somewhat reflects the old tales. In The Passing of Merlin, we learned that Nimue was playing Merlin the entire time and was using him to learn magic.  This is vaguely reflected in the show, but not entirely.  She started out loving him but was corrupted by power, like most people seem to be. 

I really enjoyed reading this half of the unit and comparing it to the show and cannot wait to finish it. 

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