Comparison of Cersei, Daenerys and Jon Snow, and also summary of the entire TV series “Game of Thrones”
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Daenerys, Jon Snow and Cersei are the main characters of the serial “Game of Thrones”.
In the teaser to the 7th season is emphasized the identity of such different at first sight characters. Jon Snow, Daenerys, Cersei go everyone to his goal, but in the end plunge into darkness. The symbol Black color is explained in the first shots of the serial, when covers from us the characters (gate covers rangers). Black colour (closed eyes) is a symbol of blindness, not vision, madness).
It seems that Cersei and Daenerys contrast with each other, as a bad queen and a good one, but in fact, they have much in common. Both reach the power, breaking traditions. Daenerys sits down on the throne at the words “sit down”, which emphasizes that she moves down. Daenerys goes downstairs in the Temple of the Dosh Khaleen, it means that seizing power over the Dothraki, Daenerys also moves down. She is not a khal, but athe first woman, who leads the Dothraki. As well as become “the first ruling Queen of the Seven Kingdoms.”
There are Cersei’s and Daenerys’s trials in the sacred places, and both with pleasure burn those places and their judges alive.
Cersei has only fear. She does not care about the people and loses its loyalty. Cersei does not see that she incites everybody against herself. She has enemies on all sides: to the east, to the south, to the west and to the north. Rivals for the throne surround Cersei. She she relies on Euron, who is loyal to her “for now.” Cersei alienates allies, Jaime and as a result remains alone.
Daenerys, on the contrary, tries to unite people around herself, but does not see where she leads them: Dothraki kneel, that is move down. Daenerys leads the Dothraki on the poison water, which “their horses can’t drink.” The symbol – horses on a ship – reminds about it. In the fourth episode of the seventh season, the Dothraki follow Daenerys downstairs. That symbolizes that according to the logic of George Martin Daenerys again leads the Dothraki to death, like in the second season she has leaded them “out of the Red Waste and into the slaughterhouse.”
Jorah tells Daenerys about ghost grass in the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai. And dragon’s eggs of Daenerys are from the Shadow Lands beyond Asshai too. The black dragon’s egg, as Drogon, is a symbol of Daenerys. In the third episode of the first season, Daenerys goes through the high grass, and on of Daenerys’s titles is «Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea”. Talking about Daenerys, characters mark that she is “paler than milk”, with “silver hair”, call her “Silver lady” and “Silver Queen.” The ghost grass is pale as milk too. Daenerys personifies the ghost grass. Ghost grass is also a symbol of Daenerys. The ghost grass glows in the night and “murders all other grass.” These words are about Daenerys, who in the fourth episode of the sixth season glows on fire in the night, destroys khals, the Temple of the Dosh Khaleen and traditions of the Dothraki. The Dothraki kneel near the burning Temple: this is the end of the world, when the ghost grass covers everything, what the Dothraki believed in.
At first Daenerys decides not to attack King’s Landing because she is “not here to be queen of the ashes.” Daenerys does not want to kill thousands of innocent people, and that is why she is better than Cersei. However then Daenerys changes her decision and attacks King’s Landing. That means she is not different. As Jon says, she is “just more of the same.” Compare Daenerys in the 3rd and 7th seasons: the same methods – progress is obvious. The dragon grows – there is more and more fire and victims. In the third and seventh seasons, the creators of the serial draw a parallel between Jorah and Tyrion, who both walk through the ashes and see a charred man. In both seasons the creators of the serial show a silhouette of Daenerys, and advisers Jorah and Tyrion, looking at her from below-up. Daenerys walks past both of them: Jorah continues to admire and follow Daenerys, and Tyrion in horror turns away and does not follow her. It becomes obvious that Daenerys feeds her worst impulses and continues to be queen of the ashes. Daenerys, really, would destroy King’s Landing, if there were not an arrow from Qyburn’s scorpion.
Although Daenerys and Cersei are positioned as opposites: Daenerys declares that she wants to make “the world a better place than we found it,” and Cersei does not care “about making the world a better place,” – both appreciate the power more than life of people. And both choose to fight for the power instead of fighting for alive people.
As a symbol of not vision, Daenerys and Cersei are dressed in black. As well as Jon Snow is. Even at the beginning of the serial, Jon Snow said that it was always his colour.
Before the battle with the Army of the Dead in the eighth season the song “Jenny of Oldstones” sounds, in whicn Jenny dances with ghosts. Daenerys has a symbol ghost – the ghost grass, and one of Jon Snow’s symbols is Ghost. So Jon Snow and Daenerys are ghosts. It seems that they are kings, but they are ghost kings. In the seventh episode of seventh season, Jon Snow and Daenerys give to each other a bone – a symbol of an end. It seems that they save people, but it is illusion. In the teaser Jon Snow goes to the right, that is to the right aim: to protect the world of people from White Walkers, but enters an empty hall, which symbolizes that Jon Snow hasn’t enough strength and means as always. Jon Snow’s friends perish (and run downstairs before that) because he sends into battle not enough people. Jon Snow orders to Grenn to take five men and hold the inner gate by all means. Only six men hold the gate and die, defeating the giant. That is the seventh man is not enough (that symbolizes The Seven) to keep Grenn and the others alive. That happens because of Jon Snow’s mistake. Before the battle with Ramsay Sansa also tells Jon Snow, that they have not enough men, but he does not consider her opinion. Jon Snow attacks Winterfell with insufficient forces and Stannis’s obstinacy and loses the battle. However, Jon Snow does not learn the lesson and brings to Tormund not enough men again. Jon Snow’s blindness emphasized by different phrases about eyes, including the words of Loboda: “I say we send the Lord Commander back to Castle Black with no eyes,” and also with many episodes of the serial, when Jon Snow closes his eyes.
| Daenerys | Jon Snow | Cersei | |
| Hero | + | + | – |
| Aim | – | + | – |
| Strength | + | – | + |
| Result | – | – | – |
Thus, Daenerys and Jon Snow are positioned as positive characters, Cersei – as a negative one. Jon Snow has a right aim, and Daenerys and Cersei have a wrong one. At the same time, they have enough strength, and Jon Snow has not. But all three are united by blindness, not vision, madness.
It is accented in the teaser with a full set of symbols: black colour of clothes, closing of eyes, dying-away light, immersion into darkness. And the Night King sees, therefore as a result he wins.
In the fourth episode of the fourth season, we can see that there are thirteen White Walkers. After Jon Snow has killed two White Walkers and Meera has killed one, there are ten White Walkers now. Jorah draws Jon Snow’s attention to the fact that when he “killed the white walker, almost all the dead that followed it fell.” Jon Snow guesses that the reason was the Walker was the one who turned those dead. Despite this, Jon Snow rejects the proposal of Jorah to go for the Walkers, resting on the fact that they have to take the dead man back with them. That is Jon Snow prefers the proof of the existence of White Walkers rather than fighting them. Beric suggests a better idea: to kill the Night King, who turned all the dead. On shots we can see that the way to the Night King is free! However, Jon Snow, who until then only talked about the Night King and his eyes, does nothing himself and does not allow others.
In the final of the seventh season, Beric himself also misses an opportunity to pierce the Night King with spear. The Army of the Dead can be defeated by several or even one well-aimed blow. To use this important information there was yet enough neither mind nor intelligence. We see Beric with Tormund and the rest run down. The stupidity of these heroes, who came beyond the Wall, is emphasized by Tormund’s words: “Smart people don’t come up here looking for the dead.”
Jon Snow and his advisors (Sandor, Beric, Jorah, Tormund, Gendry and others) are not very smart but going to defeat a man, whom they do not know. There was the same situation before the battle with Ramsay, which they lose. However, Jon Snow has not learned the lesson. Jon Snow has ignored information about the enemy again. The Night King is a necessary leader for the Dead, as well as Mance was a necessary leader for the wildling army. Jon Snow has not learned this lesson either. Just as it was necessary to kill Mance before the wildlings came to the Wall, it is necessary to kill the Night King, so that the dead do not come to the Wall. And it doesn’t take a lot of people.
This is emphasized by the words of Baelish, “Know your strengths, use them wisely, and one man can be worth 10,000.” Jon Snow’s group also has thirteen fighters, and that is enough to defeat the Night King. However, instead of thinking and commanding, Jon Snow himself is ruining his men. The symbol of this is that Jon Snow during the battle pushes one of his fighters down to the Dead, who tear him. In this situation, Jon Snow acts as Stark described by Baelish, “Ah, the Starks… Quick tempers, slow minds.”
Jon Snow loses control of himself easily. As in situation with Ramsay, Jon Snow lends himself to the provocation, forgetting the Sansa’s advice: “Just don’t do what he wants you to do.” Jon Snow loses time, looking angrily at the Night King. Moreover, before Jon Snow has not taken Daenerys’s hand and has gone to fight with the dead further and further from the people who are waiting for him. Jorah even has to call for Jon Snow. It is Jon Snow’s procrastination that gives the Night King time for blow, which kills dragon Viserion. Jon Snow makes such stupid mistakes that the creators of the serial emphasize it by words of Qhorin Halfhand even in the second season: “You’re even dumber than you look.”
It turns out, Jon Snow, Daenerys and Cersei, having lost the power at the end of the fifth season, what is shown by their moving down, and having gotten it again at the end of the sixth one, what is shown by their moving up, spend the entire seventh season not for fight against White Walkers, but at best for the proof of their existence. That is shown by the fact that characters are going down all the season and all wear black clothes. And as Jon Snow speaks, “There’s no time for that. There’s no time for any of this!”
Despite this, Daenerys and Jon Snow waste their power and risk dragons. No wonder Daenerys named them for her brothers who are both dead. The final shots of the sixth season symbolically show that without flame of the dragons (the dragons fly away) the huge strength of Daenerys’s army will turn to nothing (the army plunges into darkness). And all this is “about Aegon and his dragons.”
The prophecy about Daenerys and Euron Greyjoy
In the fifth episode of the third season Shireen explains an important symbol: Aegon means an egg. “Egg” is short for Aegon. Maester Aemon calls “Egg” his little brother Aegon. Aegon is the full name for Egg. “Egg” is a symbol of beginning of a new. Aegon is a conqueror. He gave the beginning to the new dynasty of Targaryen in Westeros. Aegon is an egg. Daenerys is a conqueror too. She gave the beginning to the new generation of dragons. Daenerys also is an egg (Aegon). No wonder one of the songs of the soundtrack to the seventh season is “Shall we begin?» like the phrase of Daenerys. A history of Aegon means a history of egg, that is a history of the beginning of something new. “An History of Egg the Conqueror and His Conquest of Westeros.” And the whole title of the book is “An History of Aegon the Conqueror and His Conquest of Westeros.” The connection between the episodes also shows that it is about Daenerys who at the head of powerful army is shown right after the explanation of Shireen.
In the fifth episode of the seventh season there is a prophecy of Lodos, “who promised that the Drowned God would rise up and destroy Aegon the Conqueror.” In addition, in the second episode of the sixth season at the first appearance in the serial Euron states, “I am the Drowned God,” and this can be considered the second part of the prophecy. It also concerns the conqueror Daenerys, who kneels, that is moves down, having hardly stepped to the coast of Westeros. This symbolizes that her attempt of conquest will be unsuccessful. Daenerys is the beginning… of the end of Targaryen’s Conquest of Westeros. That is why Daenerys looks from below-up at the castle of Dragonstone, which symbolizes the Conquest of her ancestor Aegon the Conqueror. Jon Snow has not learned the lesson from what happened to his grandfather. The Mad King invited him to King’s Landing and burned alive. “His daughter is no different,” says Cersei in the second episode of the seventh season, and it is a hint for us that Drogon, which is embodiment of Daenerys, can burn Jon Snow. There is one more possible clue in Sansa’s words that when Jon Snow sees Arya, “his heart will probably stop.” “The darkness is coming for us all. We’ll face it together,” sums up Cersei in the final of the seventh season. The words of Melisandre “This war of Five Kings means nothing,” concern the five kings: Daenerys, Jon Snow, Cersei, the Night King and Euron. “The true war lies to the north,” where are blueeyed sons of Craster. But before they and Bran can come to the fore, the old characters (the Night King, White Walkers, The Army of the Dead) “must be put to rest”, as well as Cersei.
And if the strength of the ghost saviors (Daenerys and Jon Snow) leaves them, what is symbolicaly shown in the teaser by dying away candles, and it gets cold, what is shown by the fact that Cersei’s breathing turns to steam, to the fore will come other characters, who will defeat the long Winter, and among them… Azor Ahai. Who is he? The hints are in the serial already, the main thing is to watch attentively. As advises Karl in the fifth episode of the fourth season, “Don’t close your eyes.” Who Is Azor Ahai?