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AnArcheypalAnalysisofCharacersinASongofIceandFire_开题报告

Ktbg1185 AnArcheypalAnalysisofCharacersinASongofIceandFire_开题报告The story of A Song of Ice and Fire takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos, with a history of thousands of years. The series is told in the third person by point of view characters. Three stories become interwo..

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The story of A Song of Ice and Fire takes place on the fictional continents Westeros and Essos, with a history of thousands of years. The series is told in the third person by point of view characters. Three stories become interwoven: the chronicling of a dynastic war for control of Westeros by several families; the rising threat of the dormant cold supernatural Others dwelling beyond an immense wall of ice on Westeros’ northern border; and the ambition of Daenerys Targaryen, the exiled daughter of a king murdered in a civil war shortly before her birth, to return to Westeros with her fire-breathing dragons and claim her rightful throne.

Martin’s characters are multi-faced-each with surprisingly intricate paste, aspirations, and ambitions, Publishers Weekly wrote of his ongoing epic fantasy A Song of Ice and Fire, “The complexity of characters such as Daenerys, Arya and the kingslayer will keep readers turning even the vast number of pages contained in this volume, for the author, like Tolkien or Jordan, makes us care about their fates.” No one is given an unrealistic string of luck, however; so misfortune, injury, and death can befall any character, major or minor, no matter how attached the reader has become.

As a matter of fact, all the writing experience from the first twenty years of Martin’s career as a writer, was the preparing of writing A Song of Ice and Fire, for example, the set of disordered seasons was inspired by a similar set in Ice Dragon which is published in 1980; also, as a theme in this book, the number seven was first came into being in his novelette And Seven Times Never Kill Man. In fact, if we say that A Song of Ice and Fire is the peak of Martin’s career, then all these previous works is a way to get him there.

Given the source of the Latin hospes – ‘host’, ‘guest’ or ‘stranger’ – in hostis –

‘stranger’ in the sense of ‘enemy’ – hospitality might best be regarded as

codiﬁed hostility, formalised enough to allow for acknowledgement of

grievance and dislike while maintaining a conversation. The world of George

R.R. Martin’s book series A Song of Ice and Fire bears this out: moments of

encounter in these novels tend to be fraught, sliding – more often than not, it

can seem – into violence. Readers of the books, and viewers of the HBO TV

adaptation Game of Thrones, might be forgiven for wondering whether the

evident social conventions in place governing conduct and transaction exist

only to tempt the characters into further transgression.

The sort of betrayal this represents – of not only the reality, but also the

ideal of hospitality – is well captured in Derrida’s meditation Of Hospitality:

it is as though the laws (plural) of hospitality, in marking limits, powers,

rights, and duties, consisted in challenging and transgressing the law of

hospitality, the one that would command that the ‘new arrival’ be

offered an unconditional welcome.

Let us say yes to who or what turns up, before any determination,

before any anticipation, before any identiﬁcation, whether or not it has

to do with a foreigner, an immigrant, an invited guest, or an unexpected

visitor, whether or not the new arrival is the citizen of another country,

a human, animal, or divine creature, a living or dead thing, male or

female.