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Game Of Thrones: A Song Of Ice And Fire

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“Good people… are good because they've came to wisdom through failure”(William Saroyan). Failing leads to success, by failing knowledge is obtained and through knowledge comes wisdom. In the book Game of Thrones A Song of Ice and Fire: Book 1 by George R.R. Martin, the characters Tyrion Lannister and Daenerys Targaryen prove that through failing comes a strong mind. Tyrion Lannister proves that his problems can be obtained through discovering an opposers weakness, and Daenerys learns even those closest to her can be wicked. Great people obtain greatness through failing excessively, Tyrion proves this by tricking his prison guard after repeatedly failing, and so does Daenerys by showing no mercy to her brother. Tyrion achieves success by …show more content…

Tyrion becomes falsely accused of hiring an assassin to kill Bran, a crippled child whose mother is Lady Catelyn. As a result, Catelyn holds Tyrion as her prisoner, and places him in her sisters jail cell, her sister is Lady Lysa. Lady Lysa is not trustworthy towards Tyrion, and only wants to hear him confess to the crime he didn’t do, so Tyrion devises a plan for his freedom. Tyrion knows Lady Lysa wants him to confess, so he plans to fool his cell guard, Mord, into telling Lady Lysa that Tyrion wishes to confess, and once he has her attention he’ll deny the claims made against him. However, Mord beats Tyrion every time Tyrion speaks to him, thus Tyrion’s plan has became flawed. Through the realization that treating Mord rudely isn’t working, Tyrion takes a wiser more charitable approach. Tyrion offers Mord lots of gold, enough that Mord could leave his position as a cell …show more content…

Firstly, Viserys is Daenerys brother, the Targaryen family once ruled the seven kingdoms, however the were overthrown by the Lannisters. Viserys goal is to offer his sister to Khal Drogo, king of the Dothraki, then use Khal Drogo to reclaim the Iron Throne. However Viserys is corrupt and greedy, his goal is not to reclaim the Iron Throne for his family, but Viserys only intends on using the Throne for his own greed. In addition, Viserys constantly sexually assaults his sister, calls her a whore, beats her, and only uses her to get close to Khal Drogo. Daenerys fails to realize her brothers evil intentions and shows him mercy after multiple beatings. However, Daenerys finally realizes her brothers intentions after he gets drunk and attempts to murder her baby, which is in her womb. In rage Khal Drogo melts gold, straps Viserys to the ground, and stations the liquid gold over Viserys face to kill him. Right before Khal Drogo ends Viserys, Viserys squeaks, “sister, please… Dany, tell them.. Make them… sweet sister”(Martin 500). Daenerys has the option to save her brother, on the contrary, she is aware of his evil and instead of saving Viserys she watches him die painfully. In summation, Daenerys is unaware of her brothers greed for power, but through failing to recognize his greed she gains wisdom of his true

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