Queen of the Ashes: Daenerys Targaryen, Cinderella of the Apocalypse, and Her Mirror Prince, in Game of Thrones

Title: Queen of the Ashes: Daenerys Targaryen, Cinderella of the Apocalypse, and Her Mirror Prince, in Game of Thrones
Creator: Haywood, Loraine
Relation: Woke Cinderella Twenty-First-Century Adaptations p. 97-115
Publisher: Lexington Books
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2020
Description: The “Cinderella” fairy tale, like “Sleeping Beauty” and “Snow White,” “enumerates experiences which pertain only to the female; she must undergo them all before she reaches the summit of femininity.” 1 In the HBO television series Game of Thrones , Daenerys Targaryen is given a gown by her brother, Viserys, to meet a rugged style of Prince. In the game of thrones, her brother exchanges her body for an army to take back the crown of the seven kingdoms of Westeros for himself. Daenerys’s life is intertwined with magic and sibling rivalry, and overshadowed by oedipal concerns. The many variations of the “Cinderella” fairy tale involve these themes in varying degrees, but the concern of the narrative involves her transformation. Cinderella rises from the ashes and transcends her degraded state. 2 Dany imitates this as a dark rise from the ashes of her husband’s funeral pyre with three dragons—the magical power behind her conquest.
Subject: female; fairy tales; cinderella; femininity
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1444767
Identifier: uon:42401
Identifier: ISBN:9781793625946
Language: eng