Chapter 27 Game of Thrones Concept of Good and Evil and Some Customs
Chapter 27 Game of Thrones’ concept of good and evil and some customs
The reader sneered at the madness and asked two questions in the comment area. I will answer them first.
Do nobles work part-time? Can Jules inherit the title and territory by killing Arthur?
First, in the area in the southern part of Westeros where the Seven Gods are believed, nobles should add the prefix Armed.
"Armed" nobles are their real title.
The social division of labor of these nobles is a division of labor that integrates all violent institutions such as the army, police, urban management, etc.
What the noble family needs to do is to ensure that the people do not accept any violent aggression from forces other than the lord.
The subjects only need to pay taxes on time to get the protection of the lord.
Moreover, Westeros is divided into territories. The upper-level nobles will protect the territories of lower-level nobles from being invaded by others, but those who escape the territory will not be able to control it.
To be precise, they do not have a household registration system (only Chinese-speaking people should have a household registration system). It is just because the cost of moving is too high, so it is not circulated.
Combining these two points, it seems that the nobles are working part-time in a sense.
Positioning similar to that of a sheepdog.
The second question is, if Yule kills Arthur, he will be exiled to the Great Wall as a man in black.
This is also closely related to armed nobles.
In order to maintain the power of the family and reduce the internal friction caused by internal fighting among members, the behavior of a certain heir killing the family governor to inherit the family will be boycotted by the entire continent.
First, it really violated the interests of the dukes and earls.
Secondly, it violates the unspoken rules of inheritance law.
Thirdly, this kind of internal fighting will greatly consume the family's strength and give the opponent an opportunity to take advantage of it.
In order to ensure the strength of the family, the nobles did everything possible. The custom of positioning the second son as a warrior and the culture of the youngest son being called an adopted son but actually being a hostage all drained the use value of family members.
In such an atmosphere, if an heir can inherit by killing the governor, then all the heirs will have ideas.
So as long as there is one case, they will be suppressed.
With this thousands of years of practice, the second sons would rather go out as mercenaries than return to their own families to rebel.
The Blackfire Rebellion of the Targaryen Dynasty is another matter. It was actually a conflict triggered by the feud between the Riverlands, Stormlands and Dorne.
These two questions have been answered.
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The following is Game of Thrones’ view of good and evil:
If the combination of order, neutrality, chaos, good, neutral, and evil is divided into nine grids.
The concept of good and evil in Thrones that the author of Ice and Fire wants to express is absolute neutrality.
This is reflected in killing, which means you can only kill the person who killed you, and blood revenge.
No one has the right to interfere with the life or death of other people.
Eddard Stark interfered with the deserter's death, and he was also interfered with.
But the people who read our novel are all Chinese speakers, so this view of good and evil is a bit conflicting.
Among Chinese-speaking people, the spectrum of good and evil for the vast majority of people is good and neutral, and oscillates between good order and good chaos according to different events.
There is a flexible spectrum of good and evil.
For example, when longing for the master Qingtian to make decisions for the common people, it is kindness and order.
But when princes, generals and ministers are willing to be kind, they are kind and confused (this can be considered a kind camp because they occupy the moral high ground to fight for themselves).
In this culture, those who rob the rich, give to the poor, and rob homes and homes will gain sympathy and understanding from most people.
For example, the 108 heroes in Liangshan are actually 108 villains, but in public opinion, they do not have an extremely evil image.
Even Lu Zhishen, the only hero, had several lives on his hands.
But he had wisdom, and the abbot was not mocking him when he said it was not easy for him to kill people and set fires, because in the end he really jumped out of the category of a hero.
It is also common to have a flexible spectrum of good and evil.
Song Jiang acted for Heaven and ran to Tokyo to stick out his butt for Song Huizong.
Another example is the period when Guan Yu was so powerful that he shocked Hua Xia. Liang, Jia, and Lu Hun were bandits who might have received Yu's seal from afar and formed a party for them. Yu's power was so powerful that Hua Xia was so powerful that Cao Gong proposed to move to the Xu capital to avoid his influence.
This group of green forest thieves actually responded to another separatist force and instantly changed their spectrum into the order camp.
We may think this kind of behavior is normal, but it does not conform to the Game of Thrones' concept of good and evil.
I think the value orientation of good and evil that Martin wants to express is very similar to a movie.
Forrest Gump.
Forrest Gump inside, he will be nice to anyone who treats him well; he will run away from anyone who treats him badly, instead of fighting back.
Of course, he will also beat people, but this is when Jenny is bullied (he thinks). In the West, this can be considered blood revenge.
It is just and ethical.
Later Jenny did become his family.
Our blood revenge was abolished as early as the early Western Han Dynasty because it did not conform to the ruling order of Confucianism as the skin and Legalism as the inside.
Blood revenge gives the family members of the beheaded criminals a legitimate reason to take revenge.
Considering that most of the Qiuhou beheadings were ordered by the emperor, the target of revenge became the supreme ruler.
This was a disaster for the stability of the order, so it was completely abolished.
Many people said that I was a little bit cruel by not killing the bandits pretended to be Brynden and others, but I think it is normal not to kill them.
They didn't kill the villagers of Riverside Village first. This was just a dispute, not the lord's just revenge.
But after Santaga kills someone, as the lord is a family member in a certain sense (parents and officials), he can take "blood revenge".
The above is my opinion. If you have any doubts, you are right.
