The “song of ice and fire” is not only in the Game of Thrones but we also can notice these symbols in the chapter of Mother, where the source of ice and fire are judges and Pavel with his companions respectively. In the beginning author shows the fire as knowledge and truth, thus judges try to weaken these sparks. We see the first patterns of the fire from the perspectives of the observers in the trail “мигали ослеплёнными глазами, как будто перед ними загорелось нечто яркое, неясных очертаний, непонятного значения”, which gives the feeling that actions in the trail are opening truth for them as light, which they cannot understand yet. In the dialogues that judges reply “Тише, тише!” to the questions of the people and their disturbance as if they are extinguishing the fire, which is desire to know the truth and get some knowledge. …show more content…
Mother feels the voice of the judges as the ice “холодный и скользкий касался ее лица” which disgusted mother. Also, she depict them as “полумертвые” which is cold-bodied people and with “потухшие глаза” like without emotions. On the other hand, she describes the body of her son as hot and burning: “полных горячей крови” and “горячую кожу”. Thus, we again have ice and fire in the different interpretation, which is life and death. After that, she imagines how this fire irritated judges “это тело зажигает в них нехорошую зависть” and how they wanted to take this fire (life) as