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Why Stannis Baratheon Was Always Doomed | ASoIaF Analysis & Theory

Why Stannis Baratheon Was Always Doomed | ASoIaF Analysis & Theory

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Yapping about Stannis Baratheon for 136 minutes straight ❤️‍🔥🦌

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📖 Chapters 📖

00:00 Intro

01:52 A Portrait of Duty, Justice & Bitterness: A Mandatory Stannis Summary

05:43 A Childhood in the Shadow

11:23 Stannis in the Prologue of aCoK: Let’s all agree—yes, Stannis in the present is very often a d*ck

21:39 The Advantage of Having No POV: Then why do we even like Stannis?

45:16 The Aristotelian Tragic Hero: Strength as a Path to Ruin

50:52 🎵 He’s as cold as ice, he’s willing to sacrifice his love 🎵

59:23 Game of Thrones & Stannis in the Fandom’s Collective Mind

01:06:41 The Many Relationships of Stannis & How GoT Changed Them

01:30:32 Was Stannis Ever a Good Father?

01:40:51 The Real Issue with Shireen’s Sacrifice in GoT & Why Burning Her is the Only Thing That Makes Sense in the Novels

01:51:30 The Rise of Stannis Baratheon: Taking Winterfell Back

01:59:46 The Fall of Stannis Baratheon: Waking Dragons from Stone

02:13:48 The Impending End

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📚 Sources 📚

- A Song of Ice and Fire book series

- HBO’s Game of Thrones & Histories & Lore

- The World of Ice and Fire

- Hogue, Chelsea. “Tragic Hero.” LitCharts. LitCharts LLC, 5 May 2017

- Tragic Hero: Exploring One of Literature’s Archetypes in Classic and Modern Narratives

- Greek Tragic Heroes and Heroines, Popular Misunderstandings – Dr. Georgios Patios

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🖼️ Art 🖼️

- Thumbnail art: Melisandre by John Picacio and Stannis by Darko Stojanovic

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ThroneKing by Liborio Conti

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