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Morgan le Fay is King Arthur’s sister. A powerful enchantress and ruler in her own right, she has an antagonistic, competitive relationship with her brother. She has a reputation for wickedness, yet she is also exceptionally beautiful and charming. When Hank Morgan and Sandy are guests in her home, she both repels and fascinates the Yankee. As with the rest of the ruling class in medieval England, Hank attributes her cruelty and callousness toward others (especially her prisoners) to her training and upbringing in a society he finds superstitious and barbaric.
Morgan le Fay Quotes in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
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Chapter 18
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Oh, it was no use to waste sense on her. Training—training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us. All that is original in us, and therefore fairly creditable or discreditable to us, can be covered up and hidden by the point of a cambric needle, all the rest being atoms contributed by, and inherited from, a procession of ancestors that stretches back a billion years to the Adam-clam or grasshopper or monkey from whom our race has been so tediously and ostentatiously and unprofitably developed.
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Morgan le Fay Quotes in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
The A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court quotes below are all either spoken by Morgan le Fay or refer to Morgan le Fay. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 18
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Oh, it was no use to waste sense on her. Training—training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us. All that is original in us, and therefore fairly creditable or discreditable to us, can be covered up and hidden by the point of a cambric needle, all the rest being atoms contributed by, and inherited from, a procession of ancestors that stretches back a billion years to the Adam-clam or grasshopper or monkey from whom our race has been so tediously and ostentatiously and unprofitably developed.
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