Medieval Fantasy in Popular Culture

                                                                        https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Dothraki The Dothraki are portrayed as violent and reckless. Weddings that include murder and rape along with an aggressive sounding language which lacks a word for “thank you” paint the Dothraki as an uncivilized, violent tribe. Even though the Dothraki are portrayed as violent and aggressive, the West appears to be no better. Rape in the West is still rampant and people are often killed. Martin does a good job of not portraying the Dothraki as they were by Tolkien, monstrous and evil, but he still has a ways to go. The West doesn’t treat their females much better than the East. Women are still a prize to be won or sold off as brides. Though not out in public like the Dothraki, rape in Martin’s...

                                                                    https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Daenerys_Targaryen Dany starts out a naïve young girl. Her brother mistreats and threatens her. He even sells her off to be married in order to gain what he needs to reclaim the iron throne. After being sold off to Drogo, Dany has a “traditional” Dothraki wedding, complete with rape and murder. At her wedding, she is given three dragon eggs. These eggs lie dormant, but in time they gain importance. At the end of the ceremony, Dany is given a silver horse which she later rides to the place where she consummates her marriage to Drogo. In the book, this consummation is consensual. There is a period of waiting before she says yes. In the TV version, however, she is clearly raped. She cries as she is forced to hav...

Rape Will Make Benjamins There has never been a deficiency in the raping of women in popular culture, but it seems to have reached a pinnacle in Game of Thrones . Writer Nina Raine said that “If you create a drama with a rape in it that doesn’t get talked about, that must surely be because the character didn’t get raped enough times”. This notion was specifically the case in the television show Game of Thrones. J.R.R Martin’s ideas were executed and altered to become more popular and interesting for the viewers. If you ponder on this idea, it sounds extraordinarily crude and twisted almost suggesting that mankind has no more morals left to scavenge for. The casual violence of rape in Game of Thrones has become so normative and playful to the extent that the audience forgets that it is wrong and immoral. Half the male cast in Game of Thrones are known for their authoritative, hyper-masculinity, and sexism toward women like chieftain of the Dothraki, Khal Drogo. However, these fact...