Theon is born again!
In the whole "Game of Thrones", Theon made me feel the most pain and admiration the most, and there was no one.
All his life, he searched for himself: Who am I?
01 Who is Theon?
Theon, the lord of the Iron Islands, Baron Greyjoy's only remaining son, Ned of the Wolf Family, after quelling the rebellion in the Iron Islands, took the 8-year-old squid Theon home as an adopted son, that is, a hostage, so that Baron did not dare to act rashly.
Everyone around you is reminding Theon of how lucky you are to be adopted by the Starks, your own family treats you coldly and ruthlessly, while the righteous father Ned is honest and kind, and the children of the wolf family treat you like brothers.
But Theon may always have a question in his mind: If the man who gave birth to me rebels again, will the man who raised me cut off my head with a sword?
So, who the hell am I? Do I belong to the Squid Family, or the Wolf Family?
When the young wolf lord Robb raised an army and sent Theon back to the Iron Islands to lobby Baron to ally with the wolf family, he thought that the time had come to prove his worth and finally be able to raise his eyebrows.
Neglected people are always looking for opportunities to prove themselves, and the longer they wait, the stronger the desire.
Unexpectedly, his father and sister scolded him for forgetting the national hatred of the wolf family and the squid family, and the Iron People ridiculed him as a little wolf cub raised by the Stark family.
To prove yourself, you have to betray the Wolf Family.
With nurturing grace on one side and blood kinship on the other, Theon tangled and chose the latter, as most people would do.
On the way back to the North with King Baron, Theon stood side by side with his sister Yara at the bow of the ship, and for a moment he thought he had found his iron form: cold and ruthless.
When your fantasy appearance is inconsistent with the real heart, there are two choices: one is to change the outside and return to the inside; the other is to exaggerate the outside and let the inside be squeezed into an invisible corner.
The former is difficult, the latter is easy. Theon chose the latter.
Thus, the scene of Theon falling to the trough of humanity occurs: he wants to wash the East Side in blood, and he wants to hunt down Bran and Rickon of the Stark family, although in the end only two stand-ins are used.
At this moment, his performance is crazy and almost hysterical, because he wants to use extreme external forms to cover up his inner inferiority and pain.
He thought that he showed such cruelty and cold-bloodedness, he should always be recognized and supported by the iron people to whom the bloodline belonged, right? Unexpectedly, with a single blow, he was knocked unconscious and thrown to Little Peel: Theon was still not accepted by the Iron People.
Next, Theon experienced the most painful years of his life. He was tortured and cut off.
And that's not to mention, little skinning over and over again mentally PUA Theon:
"You're nothing, you're a stinker."
At this point, Theon was completely lost: Who the hell am I?
02 Sansa helps Theon to be reborn
The original book begins with this sentence:
"The Starks had seven children, five of whom were born to Caitlin, one to the Starks' adopted son, and one to the Mockers, who had brought back bastards."
The adopted son is Theon Greyjoy, illegitimate son is Jon Greyjoy. Snow.
The adopted son is in front of the illegitimate children, which is understandable, because the bastard is Caitlin's shame and unpopularity.
Mrs. Catelyn valued Theon more than Jon, and so did the children of the Wolf Family.
Robb, the wolf's son, was Theon's playmate since childhood, treating him like a brother, squeamish like Sansa, and not hating Theon as much as he hated Jon.
Theon had fantasized that Ned would marry Sansa to himself, and dared to come up with the idea, at least to show that his interaction with Sansa was normal. Otherwise, like Jon, even Sansa would have to be careful when approaching.
Although the fundamental motivation that prompted Theon to have this idea was the desire to make himself a true Stark by means of marriage, thus creating a sense of belonging.
But it is only natural that a handsome man with a green plum bamboo horse admires a beautiful woman, and Theon must have some feelings for Sansa.
When Little Peel tries to completely control Theon, make Theon forget himself, and completely lose his mind in the cognition of the "stinky guy", there is a plot that shocks me:
When Little Peel forced Theon to admit that he was a stinky guy, he resisted, shouted "I am Theon" three times in a row, and finally sobbed helplessly:
"I'm a stinky guy."
At that moment, my tears came out of my eyes: this is a microcosm of Theon's life, he is always resisting, and finally has to give in.
After a brutal torture, Theon finally lost his last courage.
So, when he took a razor in his hand and clearly had a chance to kill the little peeler, he flinched; when his sister Yara risked death to come to his rescue, he refused...
How many viewers are as angry as I am?
But we can't blame him, because he's already a walking dead, his spirit is dead.
Then Sansa came. Witnessing the girl he grew up with being beaten and humiliated by a little skinned whip, Theon resisted.
Stinky guys won't resist, the walking dead have no feelings.
In the moment of reaching out to Sansa, Theon was resurrected.
After going through purgatory, but still born again!
03 Theon lives forever
He looked up at Yara, "Sister, look, this time I recognize you." ”
Yara's heartbeat stopped: "Theon? ”
His lips were open, probably trying to grin. Half of the teeth in the mouth are gone, and the remaining half is broken.
"Theon, my name is Theon," he repeated, "one must know his name." ”
After returning from Hell, Theon finally found himself. Whether it's Greyjoy or Stark, it doesn't really matter, what matters is that he's Theon, the one and only Theon.
Being able to find yourself after being reborn in a desperate situation, and then being able to save those who are stronger or weaker than him, is really not something that ordinary people can do.
Even if he has been weak in the middle, but we can't blame him, who is a hero in one step?
In the end, Theon's once self-righteousness, his selfishness, weakness, childishness, and neuroticism are all particularly like someone around us, even ourselves: not having enough intelligence and courage to be a great evil person, but involuntary brewing irreparable mistakes.
When we realize our mistakes, we want to turn back, but we find that the way back is difficult. So we simply gave up and let inertia push us farther and farther down the wrong path.
Theon, who was born as a young son, and sent as a hostage to the fence, caused him to be anxious to perform his character shortcomings, and it was this that hurt him.
However, in the face of endless nightmares, he did not give in and save Sansa, which was only the first step in Theon's path to redemption, and his next path to nirvana was truly thrilling, singing and weeping.
A man who is not a man, an iron man who is not an iron man, leads the crowd Yang Fan to set sail, Theon is extremely determined, he knows who he is and what he wants to do.
He returns to the North, confronts the Stark family, who have been deeply hurt by him, and requests to join the human race against the Ghosts.
What courage, what a responsibility, Theon did.
Of his betrayal of the Wolf Family, the ones who hurt the most were Bran and Rickon. Even though he had saved Sansa and gained Sansa's forgiveness, he still needed to be forgiven by Bran.
At this time, Bran was no ordinary person, he must have known that Theon must have died in this battle, and he forgave Theon from his heart. So he calmly said to Theon:
"You're a good man!"
Theon is relieved: from Sansa to Bran, he has achieved his complete redemption!
So he raised his spear and rushed to the tide of ghosts without hesitation, never to return.
Theon is dead, but he is also immortal!
He lived in the legend of the Stark family, in the pride of the Greyjoy family, and even more in the history of the salvation of mankind.
And as a spectator, you and I ask ourselves, are you like him, not fully accepting yourself, in order to integrate into the surroundings, deny the real self, attack your past?
May we all see our own shadow from Theon, and we can all draw the strength to grow from Theon!
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