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Game Of Thrones Misogynist

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Daenerys Targaryen Game of Thrones, (written by George R.R. Martin,) is a widely popular medieval epic turned television show. The medieval society in which Game of Thrones is inspired by is historically viewed as misogynistic. In this type of society, women existed in a caste system almost as low as slaves. Kingdoms, lands, titles and wealth are handed down and owned entirely by men, while females take part by being married off for political gain. As we have seen in almost all other medieval stories, women are meant to look as beautifully feminine as possible, with long hair and brightly colored gowns, bare children to their husbands, (preferably boys) and live to serve and please their husbands. What is so spectacular about Game …show more content…

Her plot has some misogynistic issues that suggest that the show itself wanted the character to create her own feminist undertones to weave into her storyline. In Season One, Episode One titled, “Winter Is Coming,” Daenerys’ horrifying relationship with her new husband, Khal Drogo starts off horribly. Eventually, she asks one of her handmaidens to teach her how to seduce a man so as to take charge of one’s own body. She changes the dynamic in the bedroom so that she isn't treated as an object, but rather as a thinking, feeling, sensual human being who is a part of the relationship. She gathers the courage to stop him as he bends her over, angering him, but forces him to look her in the face. She says to him, “tonight I would look upon your face,” and straddles him. Though this doesn’t exactly conquer misogyny in media, Daenerys took her situation from being a voiceless object to being a fully realized participant. In this moment, she shifts the power dynamic, resulting in both she and her husband to fall in love and have mutual respect and admiration for one another. In the misogynistic, chauvinistic world she lived in, Daenerys easily could have stayed silent, doing what her brother, husband, and society wanted her to do. But instead, she chose to demand respect and sexual gratification, knowing she deserved more than what she was

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I want to start with ‘The Seventh Seal” because it’s supposed to be dated back to medieval era. Women during that times were condemned and punished more severely than their male counterparts. This film is very misognistic but this film shows a point that women can have many faces, Jezebels, Holy Mother or witches, but majorly infact they are deemed as evil but something the men cannot live without. Jön’s made a point with the Blacksmith that ‘its hell with women and its hell without women’ he also added “to kill them while its fun” and their conversation proved their views of women they seen women nothing more but “evil wenches”. Also to consider that ‘The Seventh Seal” is very anti religion and it shares it views in a way where it’s more beneficial to be a Man than a Man of

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The saying goes, “Behind every great man is a great woman,” and, in some medieval romances, that great woman is scheming for her own benefit (and either for or contrary to that of the man’s). Feminine honor is tied to being a good wife, which means being sexually faithful to and obeying. In Bisclavret by Marie de France, Bisclavret’s wife betrays him both by taking away his humanity and by taking a lover, and for that, she is disfigured as her punishment. The inverse occurs in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle: Ragnelle, disfigured by her stepmother, manipulates both Arthur and Gawain to secure her marriage with Gawain, and she is rewarded with beauty. These women are ultimately judged not by their manipulative actions but

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