Game of Thrones in Disney and other fairytales
This is cross-posted: I have made this post for an ASOIF community.
Martin uses fairytales quite extensively, right? I don't want to mention the most obvious ones (like for example, how many times the Beauty and the Beast story crops up in the series? 3? More?) or the ones that I have already seen mentioned somewhere else (Jaime and Prince Charming from Shrek are long-lost twins), here are just a few:
This one I am particularly proud of. Some of the fairytale references in ASOIF are very Northern: the wolves, the Others, the wights. This is one of the aspects that interests me greatly.
I am re-thinking my feelings for Cersei after my recent re-read of "A Game of Thrones". First, we do not see her point of view at all in the first book and always see her from the eyes of someone else. Second, I have realised on this re-read that some of the things I thought her to be guilty of previously (Ned's death) are not her fault, at least not directly.
But regardless, I feel that Martin most definitely had The Queen from Snow White in mind when he was writing Cersei, all that stuff about "young and beautiful queen" is just so Snow White.
What do you think? Do you know any fairytale stories that you think might have influenced A Song of Ice and Fire series?
Martin uses fairytales quite extensively, right? I don't want to mention the most obvious ones (like for example, how many times the Beauty and the Beast story crops up in the series? 3? More?) or the ones that I have already seen mentioned somewhere else (Jaime and Prince Charming from Shrek are long-lost twins), here are just a few:
This one I am particularly proud of. Some of the fairytale references in ASOIF are very Northern: the wolves, the Others, the wights. This is one of the aspects that interests me greatly.
I am re-thinking my feelings for Cersei after my recent re-read of "A Game of Thrones". First, we do not see her point of view at all in the first book and always see her from the eyes of someone else. Second, I have realised on this re-read that some of the things I thought her to be guilty of previously (Ned's death) are not her fault, at least not directly.
But regardless, I feel that Martin most definitely had The Queen from Snow White in mind when he was writing Cersei, all that stuff about "young and beautiful queen" is just so Snow White.
What do you think? Do you know any fairytale stories that you think might have influenced A Song of Ice and Fire series?