In the epic, The Idylls of the King, by Alfred Lord Tennyson Vivien is born of death and is saturated with evil. She is born on a battlefield encompassed by the dead to dying mother atop her dead father. Vivien comes to Guenever and claims to be a maiden though her mind is tainted. She reveled in the torment she caused her hated enemy Arthur with her rumor of Lancelot and Guenever’s affair. Being born of