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"A Song of Ice and Fire" is famous for insinuating historical characters and stories, and he is also famous for making bento boxes. Not only is there many ways to die, but also to torture people. Too much. Because I recently read "A History of Human Torture", many of the penalties in the book are very familiar. Later, I discovered that they all match up in the "Game of Thrones" drama. In addition, there are more patterns of torture in ancient China. I believe that everyone has some understanding in the film and television drama, so I won't discuss it here.
This article will not involve the plot of the new season, but there are various spoilers about the plots of the previous six seasons, especially those of Bolton's and Reek. If you have not read it, please watch it carefully to avoid affecting the fun of watching the drama.
In addition, some penalties are quite heavy, and the props in the show are also disgusting. These pictures may cause discomfort.
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Assyrians and skinning people
"Game of Thrones" has posted so many lunchboxes, it is like a miserable meeting, but it is necessary to select the characters who are alive than dead, the squid family Theon Greyjoy said second, no one would dare to say first. After being imprisoned by Rams Snow, the illegitimate son of the Bolton family, he tried all kinds of torture on his body, tortured to forget his identity, lost his personality, and was transformed into a reek (stinky guy), even if he escaped smoothly later. It didn't help, the body and mind were severely injured, and under a little stimulation, PTSD was about to occur.
Theon Greyjoy, the little prince of Iron Island, the adopted son of the Stark family (actually a hostage). It was pretty good in the early stage, but I didn't expect it later... The biggest tradition of the
Bolton family is to skin people alive and hang the enemy's skin in the city as trophies, even as a cloak. The Bolton family has a motto: "Nude people have few secrets, and skinned people have no secrets." The degree of perversion is evident. The behavior of each character in the whole play contains complex human nature, which can not be summed up by a simple sentence of good or bad people. Only Qiao the Great and Xiao Peiping are probably not white.
small skinning works
Well, nothing new under the sun, the bloody act of skinning alive is recorded in Greek mythology. Marsyas angered Apollo because of playing the flute. He was peeled alive and nailed to a tree. This scene was too classic and became the subject of many paintings and sculptures.
Apollo and Marsyas
The Bolton family skinned their enemies alive and used them as trophies, and would hang them up. This description is very similar to the Assyrian tradition in history. The Assyrians advocate force and their style is very cruel. After they strip their enemies, rebels, and captives alive, they will hang up their skins as a warning to rebels. For example, the tyrant Asur Nasirpa II will strip the skins of the people. Hang on the wall.
In medieval Europe, the torture of skinning alive has always existed. In 1303, the Westminster Abbey vault was robbed, and the suspect was peeled off and pasted on the door. The Spanish Inquisition also had skinning behaviors. They invented a big drum with a sharp blade inside. The drum was put into the drum, and then rotated, the skin was cut off by the blade (sounds like a certain food factory. Kind of tools for peeling potatoes). In addition to live skinning,
also has torture of scalping. The difference is that some people can survive after scalping.
The Assyrians finished peeling the skin and hung it on the city wall
Cut fingers, castration and hunger
In the play, Theon was also cut off some fingers and toes by a small peeler-of course, it would not be a pain. Instead, he peeled his fingers first, and when he couldn't bear the pain, Theon asked Xiao Peel to chop off his fingers.
In the history of torture, there are too many penalties related to fingers and toes. For example, the thumb clip, the torture device invented during Henry VIII's time, is small and simple, but very cruel, and can crush people's thumb joints. Scotland also has a finger-clamping instrument, which is similar to the use of a thumb-clamp, both for breaking the finger (in China, the finger-clamping penalty is generally used to punish women).
Thumbscrew (Thumbscrew)
Pulling out the nail or piercing the needle into the finger is true in history. King James XVI of Scotland used this torture to torture wizards. As for the specific examples of cutting off fingers and toes in history, there are more.
Amputate fingers and earsPunishments such as Duo and Nose have special execution tools, such as special scissors.
In the play, Theon’s fingers were stripped of skin.
Regarding castration—whether Theon was castrated or not, there is no direct description in the book. But there have been indirect hints:
Ramsay rose, the firelight shining on his face. “Reek, get over here. Get her ready for me.”
For a moment he did not understand. “I ... do you mean ... m 'lord, I have no... I..."
"With your mouth," Lord Ramsay said.
It is directly explained in the TV series...there is also the scene of eating sausages,
is more straightforward in the play. Tintin, who had cut off Theon, was delivered to the Iron Islands by express delivery. This directly defeated Theon's body and mind.
Palace punishment may be the most familiar punishment for audiences, especially Chinese audiences. "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth" "Hammurabi Code" has long recorded palace punishment, the purpose is to punish sex offenders.
was imprisoned in a kennel. The victim was hungry and dehydrated in a cage. During his imprisonment, Theon was also tortured by hunger and even went to eat rats. Hunger is indeed a kind of torture. In the Middle Ages, in order to promote the authority of the church, there was a punishment of hanging the victim in a cage and waiting for him to die from starvation and dehydration.
The torture suffered by Theon is not limited to the above. For example, Xiao Peel smeared the manure on Theon, and the laughter broke Theon's teeth because he hated him. Of course, the more terrifying thing is the psychological torture.
The drowning god of the Iron Islands and the swimming torture in history.
is well known to the public. Many characters and plots of this work are based on the historical Rose Wars. The prototype of Theon Greyjoy is probably the first generation. George Gorse, Duke of Clarence. Comparing these two characters, you can find a lot in common: they were separated from their biological fathers since childhood, as proton (Theon) and father died (George); both of them had two elder brothers who died in battle and ranked The youngest became the heir (Theon) and was made the Duke of Clarence (George); they were both taken hostages; they all stood in the wrong team in the war, betrayed their brothers, and betrayed Robb Stark ( Theon) and the betrayal of Edward IV (George), and then found himself being used and betrayed again.
may be Theon’s prototype
At present we still don’t know what the ending of Theon is, but maybe we can get a glimpse of the ending of his historical prototype-George Gorse finally rebelled against Edward IV (general Considered to be the historical archetype of Robb Stark, who had repented of political marriage and married a lower-class woman) was charged with treason and was executed secretly. According to legend, he was drowned in a barrel.
drowned in a wine barrel
Coincidentally, in the work, Theon’s hometown of Iron Islands believes in a sea god, the god of drowning. The act of executing the iron man is called "drowning", and the method of death is also drowning. The priests of the Drowned God are called drowned people. They have to be drowned a second time, that is, they drown first and then save their lives. If they can survive, they can be "chosen" and become drowned. The "selected" form of
has a similar situation in history. During the reign of Henry I, there was a method of handling suspects called "Divine Judgment": When a person is suspected of committing a crime and cannot prove his innocence, he will be "tested by water", that is, tied hands and feet and thrown into a pond . If it floats, it proves guilty, because the water does not accept him; if it sinks, it proves that the water accepts him and is innocent-but before he is proven innocent, he may have been drowned long ago .
was submerged.
also recorded a waterboard trial in the Code of Hammurabi—throwing a woman accused of adultery into the Euphrates River and convicting the crime based on whether she reached the opposite bank safely or was drowned. This kind of punishment was later used in the persecution of witches and was called "swimming punishment". At that time, people thought that water was sacred and would not accept unclean people. Therefore, whether the prisoner will float (not accepted by water) or sink (accepted by water) in the water, use this standard to proveIdentify the identity of the suspect.
Rat Punishment
Speaking of this, I think Theon is too miserable. It seems that half of the torture in the whole show has been used on him. In addition to the experience of Theon, there are some other creative and representative features in the play-such as rat punishment. The rat torture scene in the
play appeared in the fourth episode of the second season, when Gendry escaped the rat torment with his weak protagonist group(?) halo. This penalty has been recorded in the history of various European countries, and the most common is the Spanish Inquisition. The operation method of
rat punishment is basically the same as in the TV series: Put a few mice in a pot, usually hungry, and then buckle the pot on the stomach. The executioner will burn charcoal at the bottom of the pot, and the mouse cannot After enduring the barbecue, he would desperately bite the victim's stomach to find an exit, which eventually caused the victim to die from intestines. In
history, there are some penalties similar to rat torture. For example, India has a torture in which people are rubbed with honey, tied to a tree, and allowed to bite by insects.
The other torture mentioned in the play
fire torture
-appeared more than once in the play, the most heartbreaking should be the little princess Celine.
cried to death.
fire torture is a common torture in the Middle Ages, especially for dealing with religious heretics and witches, or people who abandon their beliefs. At that time, people felt that fire could remove the evil of the soul, so fire torture gave people the feeling that they were particularly religious. colourful. The execution method is very simple. The victim is tied to the stake, surrounded by wood and other fuel, and then filled with grease to help burn. Because fire torture is regarded as an act of "salvation", it is the purification of the soul of the victim, even if the victim is extremely painful, people watching at the time will think it is a good thing. It's really ironic.
Burning victim-Bruno's statue
canine torture-refers to being bitten to death by a hound. When Nero persecuted Christians, he used hungry dogs to attack the victim. Now it seems that dog punishment will still appear in current political news, such as a certain extremist organization, and a certain great country.
There are more cruel tortures performed by animals, such as elephant torture, where the victim will be trampled to death by an elephant. The story of
teaches us that no matter how busy we are, we must remember to feed the dog
"hot head"-the first season of Long Ge's death. Although
did not find exactly the same way of execution, when Nero persecuted Christians, he did have the punishment of pouring boiling oil on people's heads. It can be regarded as another kind of "scalding".
The horse king melted the golden belt and created a crown for Weselis.
Conclusion
has a famous drama saying that in "Game of Thrones", no one is safe. The above content seems to be correct. The best evidence. In "Game of Thrones", no matter what kind of torture, corresponding events and allusions can be found in human history-after all, literary creation is based on reality. We often say that the cruelest is human nature, perhaps because human beings can torture and kill the same kind unscrupulously in many situations.
Original text: If you can’t accept the tortures in "Game of Thrones", just take a look at the real history.
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