Game of Thrones Textual Analysis

Season 4 Episode 7

The room is dark and secluded, so all attention is directed towards Sansa. The lighitng is also low-key, to imply that something sinister is going to happen, which is also implied through the use of the rising music. However, this music stops when Sansa begins her story. Throughout her story Sansa cries and has to stop to take breaths. This si cnforming to the stereotype of young girls being delicate and emotional, a stereotype which is also prevalent in the sexist world of Game of Thrones. However, the long take at the end shows Sansa stop crying to look at Petyr Baelish, implying she was lying. This shows how Sansa was using this stereotype to manipulate the interrogators, which gives her power over them. In the world of Game of Thrones, females have little power, so they use their own negative tsereotypes to gane some sort of power. This is what Sansa does here. By manipulating her interrogators, Sansa is shown to be clever, which subverts the stereotype of young girls being silly/stupid. The long takes on Sansa and selective focus on her give her power and shows she is the most important character, which juxtaposes the misogynistic setting. However, Petyr Baelish is always out of focus in the background, and the camera continously cuts between him and Sansa. This signifies that he ahs some sort of power over her, which conforms to the sexist stereotypes of men being more powerful than omen.