Thursday, February 5, 2015

Catelyn

Catelyn (pg. 58-67)


I chose the chapter Catelyn simply because I loved reading about the life and marriage between Catelyn and of the Lord Stark of Winterfell. They have an intense strong relationship to where no one is weak because they are lifting eachother up. Catelyn will do almost anything for her husband and supports him through anything and only wants the best for him. Ned (Lord Stark) is in a predicament on whether or not he should agree to the Kings terms on leaving and to stand beside him. When Catelyn receives a letter from her sister saying that Arryn was murdered by the Lannisters, great anger took upon Ned and Catelyn had no choice in supporting him to take the Kings offer. By doing so, Ned would be taking 3 of children, leaving 2 with Catelyn, which broke her heart. This chapter is very important in following the story within the book. It tells us a lot about who Catelyn and Ned are and their family, and shows the personalities and obstacles that they will later on have to face- and gives a good sense of what life was like in their time. I think the character of Ned changes drastically with the influence on his wife as well. I think bigger viewpoints this chapter could ponteinall link to would be treatment of women- only because in that time men were known to cheat on their wives, but Catelyn and Neds relationship isn’t like most Starks. And I think medieval life falls into this because the setting seems to be in a medieval time with kings and lords, etc.

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