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Morality in a fictional setting
Jun. 18th, 2014 11:55 amIt drives me up the wall when people say things like "But let's not project our own sense of justice and morality onto the world of Game of Thrones" when analyzing or defending characters' questionable actions.
Why the sam hill shouldn't we?
Game of Thrones was written with us as the intended audience. George R.R. Martin has clearly deliberately made the idea of justice a major theme of the story and thought about it a great deal as it relates to the characters' choices. (Whether the producers and writers of the TV show have done the same is less obvious, but they're still working with his source material.) The world of Game of Thrones' whole reason for existence is so that we can project our own sense of justice and morality onto it.
Why the sam hill shouldn't we?
Game of Thrones was written with us as the intended audience. George R.R. Martin has clearly deliberately made the idea of justice a major theme of the story and thought about it a great deal as it relates to the characters' choices. (Whether the producers and writers of the TV show have done the same is less obvious, but they're still working with his source material.) The world of Game of Thrones' whole reason for existence is so that we can project our own sense of justice and morality onto it.
