"When you are gazing into the abyss, the abyss is also gazing at you." - Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Let me tell you a story: Once upon a time, there was an evil dragon who asked the village to sacrifice a virgin every year. Every year, there was a young hero in this village to fight the dragon, but no one survived. When another hero set off, someone quietly followed. The hero stabbed the dragon to death with his sword, then sat on the corpse, watching the dragon's lair covered with gold and silver and glittering jewels, slowly growing scales, tails and tentacles, and finally turned into a dragon.
This is the case with the Dragon Mother. She was also a slave liberator of Astapor and a Breaker of chains; but slowly, as she experienced more and more, from the time she treated the Unsullied "You are free now, you can walk or fight for me with freedom" to "bend the knees or die" to Tully and his son, and then to the fifth level of the eighth season to kill King's Landing, she walked step by step. Shura. But in fact, looking back on the experience of the dragon mother, you will actually understand her behavior. She was sold to the Dothraki by her brother as a tool since she was a child; the witch killed her beloved husband Aquaman and her children because of hatred; there are very few people close to him, including Sir Bastan, Jorah Mormont, Missandei died one after another, Varys and the little devil betrayed her one after another, and her lover Snow is simply Westeros Cheng Xin - indecision plus pure kindness and justice; plus she is the nominal queen but The people do not love her. I think her transformation is enough in the play. From her burning Tully father and son to Missandei being pushed down the city wall, the last straw that broke the camel's back, she originally hoped that she could be a mother in the world with love To rule the whole world, but she found that she couldn't do it in such a cruel world, so she decided to rule with fear, so she got the phrase Let it be fear.
In fact, this choice is correct. If she doesn't do it, she will have no prestige as a queen. Moreover, the cruel reality has almost taken away all the close people and loved ones of the Dragon Mother. The world is extremely cruel to her, and she has no mercy or kindness to the world. As Hu Yi said at the beginning, everyone is inseparable from the sins of society, so she used fear to rule the city on the one hand, and revenge on the world on the other hand. Moreover, Mercy's kindness was always just a means and a tool for her to subdue others without fighting, not her own soul.
At least in my opinion, the transformation of the Dragon Mother is quite reasonable. After all, it would be too idealistic to practice what Tagore said in such a cruel world: "The world kisses me with pain, but I reciprocate with songs." (Of course John Snow represents such an idealism). Or in a world that is so real in the play, John Snow represents human nature, and the dragon mother represents animal nature. If you want to ask whether human nature is more important or animal nature is more important in a world where the strong eat the weak, I can only quote Liu Cixin's words to answer you: "If you lose your humanity, you will lose a lot; if you lose your animal nature, you will lose everything." The transformation is embarrassing because everyone once thought she was a kind idealist, but in fact, kindness and benevolence have always been just a stepping stone for the ruler to reach the peak of power.
You think I'm talking about the Game of Thrones show, but it's not entirely true, I'm talking about this show, and it's also reality. To tell another story, there is a book called "Searching for George Orville in Burma", which tells the story of the former dragon slayer who eventually turned into the dragon itself. This story is about the current supreme leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, who was placed under house arrest by the Myanmar military government for more than ten years, but she still spared no effort to speak out for the human rights situation in Myanmar, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for this. I still remember that her speech on the theme of "Freedom from Fear" at the Nobel Prize was very wonderful, and even her story was made into the movie "The Lady", everyone thought she might be the Mandela of Asia.
However, when she really took power for 16 years, she started a dictatorship, and she took over the power and served as four ministers. And began to strictly censor the journalism, British journalists in Myanmar were sentenced for reporting unfavorable news to the authorities; civilians were also sentenced to up to seven years in prison for criticizing the authorities on the Internet; Less than the ethnic cleansing of neighboring Cambodia. Burma is not even as free now as it was under the military government that persecuted her. Even the human rights award she once won was announced to be withdrawn. The former dragon slayer eventually became the dragon itself.
So, Nietzsche told us long ago that when you are staring into the abyss, the abyss is also staring at you. When you are working hard for the good ideal in your heart, you are bound to slaughter many evil dragons. In the process of fighting against the evil dragon, when you kill the evil dragon and lie on its pile of gold and silver treasures, you are not knowing what to do. Unconsciously, he also became an evil dragon, which has been the case since ancient times.
People will eventually become what they hate the most.
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