Relationship between morgaine and arthur imagined

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Answer only One question in detail from the following questions.Please provide citation in MLA. Also please provide a detailed and clear explanation to only one question from the following.

QUESTIONS

Medieval romance often contains women who are powerful or who are agents acting in their own interest, especially supernatural women. To what extent does Morgaine have agency? To what extent is her life constrained?
Despite its feminist stance and its employment of neo-pagan myth, The Mists of Avalon is surprisingly conservative when it comes to questions of genealogy. In fact, the emphasis on royal blood in the novel is reminiscent of Malory's perspective in the Morte Darthur. What similarities and what differences are there between the ways these two writers conceive of royal blood?
Compare Morgaine's inadvertent visit to fairyland (Chapter 20, pp 223-226) with Gwenhwyfar's inadvertent visit to the Isle of Avalon (Chapter 12, pp. 157-158). What are the similarities and differences between these two episodes?
See pp. 200-202 (Chapter) where Morgaine interacts with Arthur. How is the relationship between Morgaine and Arthur imagined?
In 2014, Bradley's daughter accused her mother and father of having sexually abused her as a child, an accusation that sent shock waves through Bradley fandom. Do these allegations affect your reading of The Mists of Avalon, especially the mother-daughter relationships in the novel? Should the biography of the writer make any difference to how we read a text?

UNIT READINGS

Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon, Book One "Mistress of Magic"

TERMS

The Summer Country: the Somerset Levels in the south of England, which would have been fenland during the Middle Ages.
Samhain: the day marking the change from the season of summer to the season of winter in the Celtic calendar (Oct. 31).
Beltane: May Day or May 1, the day marking the change from winter to summer in the Celtic calendar.
The Horned God: the consort of the Goddess in some neo-pagan belief systems. Bradley connects the Horned God with a Continental Celtic antlered god, sometimes called Cuernnunos.

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