Opinion: What would a feminist ending for 'Game of Thrones' actually look like?
Emilia Clarke in HBO's"Game of Thrones." By Alyssa Rosenberg Alyssa Rosenberg Opinion writer covering culture Email Bio Follow Opinion writer May 10 at 3:06 PM This post discusses the plot of “Game of Thrones” up to and including the most recent episode, “The Last of the Starks.”
And more disconcerting for some viewers has been a series of plot points seemingly engineered to undercut the character who replaced the late, lamented Ned Stark as the most logical rooting interest on “Game of Thrones.” Exiled Princess Daenerys Targaryen grew up being told that the people of Westeros would cheer her family’s return.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley elevated women’s perspectives in their retelling of Ovid in their play “Proserpine.” Marion Zimmer Bradley’s 1983 novel “The Mists of Avalon” reshuffled Arthurian legend to recast Morgan le Fay as Morgaine, a powerful priestess and the story’s true protagonist. Jane Yolen’s 1992 novel “Briar Rose” took the elements of Sleeping Beauty and used them to tell a Holocaust story in which the felled princess woke up and become a resistance fighter.
To greater and lesser extents, the same is true for other women on the show: They’ve experienced trauma at the hands of men and responded by becoming like them in various ways.
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