LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 19:10 October 2019
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Conflict and Opposition in Game of Thrones

Rohit S. Kawale, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.


Game of Thrones
Courtesy: https://www.hbo.com/game-of-thrones

Abstract

Game of Thrones is a highly popular HBO TV series based on George R.R. Martin's series of novels A Song of Ice and Fire. This paper focuses on the TV series, not the novels. The story of the series is full of conflict and opposition of various kinds. They include conflict for power, the conflict between the living and the dead, the conflict between religion and the State, the opposition of the sexes, the opposition between the north and the south, the opposition between normal sexual relations and different sexual relations, the opposition between different religions and the opposition between legitimate and illegitimate children. It covers almost all types of conflict and opposition in human life. This has made the series a landmark in television history.

Keywords: Game of Thrones, television, fantasy, conflict, opposition

Game of Thrones, the popular TV serial on HBO, is based on George R.R. Martin's series of novels The Song of Ice and Fire. This paper is about the TV series, and not about the novels. It is a fantasy story with epic proportions – a large number of characters, a story occurring at many locations, brave fights, dangers, a complex network of timelines following every major and minor character's whereabouts and actions and an element of fantasy (magic that is supposed to be aided by divine powers, dragons etc. that may remind us of divine intervention in epics). There are many types of opposition in the series, some of which turn into conflict. This paper aims at analysing all those types of opposition and conflict in Game of Thrones.

1. The living and the dead – The series begins by showing what are called the 'White Walkers'. To the extreme north (to the north of the 'Wall' that was built about a thousand years ago to protect the human world against such dangers), there are innumerable White Walkers – the walking souls of dead people. The story of the series begins with the discovery of the existence of White Walkers, which are supposed by most people to be just a false belief. But nobody believes in this discovery at the beginning.

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Rohit S. Kawale, M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D.
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