A Song Of Ice And Fire Essay

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INTRODUCTION

The series is termed as A Song of Ice and Fire written by GRR Martin, and the game of thrones comes from the first book of this series. The name of the series tries to provide a perspective to its readers that at some point of time Fire and Ice will be opposing each other, sometime.

The whole series orbits around intensified politics, where a set of houses, take as modern day nations, are trying to take over a common throne, assume being the ultimate super-power. The series presents three main vistas – Westeros, The Wall and the Free Cities.

Around 300 years ago the impression of single kingdom with a set of houses was started by the first common king a Targareyn. The Targareyns were once a mighty force and they rode the dragons. Thus, they uses dragon as the symbol for their house. Since, then Targareyns had been ruling the whole kingdom, from the high seat The Kings Landing. A major
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Bran notably goes from a cheerful young boy with dreams of knighthood to being suddenly paralyzed and bedridden. Every hope he had for the future is suddenly taken away from him, or at least made vastly more difficult to achieve, yet he has no choice but to confront the reality that he can no longer walk. Sansa spends a great deal of the early part of the novel imagining Joffrey as brave, and she imagines life in King's Landing being all tournaments and pageants where attractive knights compete for honor. But as she meets the inhabitants of the city, and the blackguard in particular, she realizes honor holds little importance in King's Landing. And it is only when Joff has Ned beheaded that she finally realize Joff for who he truly is. By that point it is already presumed they will marry, and that ,the marriage which is about to occur loses its romantic fantasy and comes to seem more like a

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