Female Representations in Game of Thrones: Mediations between Seven Kingdons and the Contemporary

Abstract

The present research questions how the feminine identities of the character of Sansa Stark, of Game of Thrones are represented, and which senses about the contemporary feminine are mobilized by the series. For this, we seek to observe our object through the category character and interactions through the textual analysis proposed by Casetti and Chio (1999). After this, we triggered the concept of mediation, coming from a comparison between Williams (1979), Orózco-Gómez (1997) and Martín-Barbero (2001), through the categories gender, competence and morality, and we perceive that the series seeks to problematize types of violence occurring contemporaneously in relation to the feminine, such as sexual, psychological or physical violence, child marriage and woman as a bargaining chip. Thus, throughout the seasons, the personage is pictured in order to ascend, but only after going through numerous types of violence. Therefore, the negotiated senses between fiction and reality present in Sansa, in the series, are formed according to the environment in which they live, social and private values imposed by society.