The Characteristics Of Intriguing Characters In A Game Of Thrones

There are two sides to every story. The events may be the same, but the tone in which the story is told shapes the reader’s understanding of the events. This idea is never more evident than through the disparity between Burton Raffel’s translation of Beowulf and John Gardner’s Grendel. Both novels are based on the idea of Beowulf killing Grendel. However, the two different points of view telling the story create vastly different novels. Beowulf highlights the heroic and positive world in which Beowulf lives. Whereas Grendel elucidates on the miserable life that Grendel is circumscribed to. The consistent variance in tone skews the events in two completely different directions. The tone between Beowulf and Grendel differ in

To support this opinion, Zimmerman immediately clarifies why she believes this, stating that Martell is presented by Game of Thrones as someone with an “insatiable appetite” (Zimmerman 565) instead of a dissimilar sexuality. This has the result of devaluing his bisexuality and reframing it as “masculine libertine” (Zimmerman 565).

Beowulf has delighted and intrigued a wide array of people for centuries. The timeless nature is visible in modern-day extensions of this epic, through heroics and battles of good versus malevolent forces. Beowulf continues to appeal to sophisticated audiences because it tells the story of a great hero prevailing over evil, a timeless theme valued by society and portrayed by his counterparts in modern media, although these new heroes display more complex qualities.

Cersei Lannister is one the antagonists in the Game of Thrones series. She’s portrayed by actress Lena Headley. Cersei is an interesting character because most of us either love her or hate her for being incredibly ruthless and ambitious. According to Freud’s structural model of the psyche, the id, ego, and superego are in a constant conflict. Cersei’s id has most of the control, she is impulsive and emotional since she is highborn, she believes she’s entitled to power and because of her emotional outburst, her plans are usually flawed as she doesn't think them through to their logical conclusions. The ego develops mediate between the unrealistic id and the external real world and typically attempts to please what the id wants through

Although the author of Beowulf is unknown, his ability to reveal an eternal truth is undeniable. The author uses literary elements such as theme, points-of-view, and symbolism to portray his purpose. Countries and world leaders still struggle with the concepts in Beowulf. Analyzing the deeper meaning of Beowulf will reveal the truth behind the reason for war and conflict.

Beowulf holds a key to understanding how the author can invoke a response from the reader through different narrative forms and the heroic/non heroic trope. The form of the epic poem is used to present the themes of power, war death and life itself in an enhanced way that allows the writer to arouse a particular response from the

In lots of stories, there is character development. In certain cases of character development, the characters change because of certain things like power desire. Like in Lord of the Flies Jack one of the main boys in the book changes into an evil character craving the desire for power.He takes advantage of the young kids and uses them to take over and create a new tribe. While Ralph the other main boy in trying to run away from being hunted. That shapes him into his role into the whole story line. Also, like in Macbeth the main character, Macbeth, is changed because of a fortune told to him about his future. In that fortune, it is said he will be king, but his ally, Banquo, son’s will be kings after him. This turns Macbeth into a mad man thinking that his place will be taken by Banquo. So this sacredness and these expectations of being king drives him into being what he is in the book.

In Orson Scott Card’s novel Ender's Game the main character is Ender Wiggin. He is brilliant and successful in all his battles throughout the whole book. An equation Ender develops is knowledge leads to love and love leads to destruction. Ender first expresses this equation to Valentine when he returns to earth after being graduated to command school. By this time his equation had reached the end of its evolution.

“Welcome to Night Vale…a friendly desert community somewhere in the American Southwest where the sun is hot, the moon is beautiful and mysterious lights pass overhead while its citizens pretend to sleep.” (Second Cover). Welcome to Night Vale was co-authored by Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor. It is set in a town that is exactly like any other town, and at the same time unlike any other town, with quirky neighbours, local radio and community culture. In the novel two characters; Jackie Fierro and Diana Crayton make their way across Night Vale, their home town in hopes of regaining their everyday routine and repairing relationships.

The book Grendel, written by John Gardner, and the poem Beowulf, translated by Seamus Heaney, both have very distinct opinions on what role each character plays. The translator of Beowulf and the writer of Grendel follow the idea that everyone has a story. A story is the writer’s perspective on a character’s personality, the way people in the story see and treat the character, and the way it ties the ideas together. There are many examples in these two writings of this concept, but the main instances connect with the lives of Grendel, Beowulf, and Unferth.

In literature, and real life, characters can be broken down and explored by their traits and actions. Especially in good literature, every character has specific and unique characteristics that make them whole and realistic. However, overlaps do occur amongst traits. One example of an overlap across huge gaps in literature is that of the Knight from The Canterbury Tales and Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings.

Often times great novels and plays allude to religion, to mythology, or to other literary works for dramatic purposes. Shakespearean plays are perfect examples. Allusions help the reader or spectator better understand, through visualization, a character or an event in a novel. In some cases, the characters, the events, or a series of events are structured according to the people and the action in other stories, whether the stories be religious, mythological, classical, or historical. The character or the event, therefore, becomes a prototype of the character or event alluded to. A prototypical character in a novel is usually referred

Introduction: In the book series, A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin, published in 1998 and is still unfinished up to this writing, the power struggles to get the iron throne between many characters are portrayed. The desire of many nobles to rule Westeros turned in a war between self-crowned kings while on the other side of the Narrow Sea is the last surviving person of an old family that used to rule before the rebellion planning to claim the iron throne for her own and for the revenge of the usurpers.

The Last Kingdom, written by Bernard Cornwell, is a novel following a young Anglo-Saxon boy named Uhtred through his journey of growing up as a dane after being taken in a battle. When Uhtred is seven years old Danes come to where he lives,Bebbanburg, and kill his brother. Since he is next in line to own and rule Bebbanburg, his father takes him into battle against the danes. However, when Uhtred sees the man that killed his brother, he charges into battle and meets someone that would shape him into being the man he will become. After his father is killed in the battle, the man who killed his brothers takes him back and raises him as a son due to his courageous behaviors at the battle. The influence the Danish culture had on Uhtred at such a young age is more than prevalent through his actions and thoughts in the book. Although he was born and Anglo-Saxon, Uhtred displays traits of a Dane.

The epic tale of Beowulf was written sometime after his death. In other words, a long time ago during the Anglo-Saxon period. Today, directors in Hollywood did not keep from creating their own rendition of this epic poem As a result, plenty of modern interpretations of Beowulf, such as Sturla Gunnarsson’s Beowulf and Grendel, have been released. Naturally, the cultural values that might be reflected in modern Beowulf renditions will demonstrate a clash with those of the original fifth century Beowulf literature. One reason for this is that in the modern age we value characters with profound characteristics, characters that change due to the challenges they experience; characters that we as the audience can attach to. Flat characters like those of the original Beowulf text are difficult to empathize with since they are not realistic enough for our standards. Due to these differences in culture and values, the Beowulf and Grendel from the original Beowulf text possess definite contrasts when compared with their Beowulf and Grendel counterparts.