
Broken Promises and Shattered Bonds
The Tully family’s motto is Family, Duty, Honor. While Catelyn Tully perfectly embodies these virtues, her fate seems to be a slap in the face to these ideals. In a turbulent time like that in ASOIAF, doing the right thing can get you killed — a recurrent theme of the series. George R.R. Martin’s body of work suggests that he is not a cynic. But, in the ASOIAF series, Martin is brutally honest about the gap between perception and reality: following…
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