Joffrey actually represents the inner state of many, many contemporary children: on the one hand, they are spoiled by their mothers, arrogant and arrogant, do whatever they want, and feel that they are the king of the world, and they can have whatever they want. On the other hand, he is deeply ignored and despised by his father or other social figures. Let him constantly feel frustrated and feel his unwelcome. Plunged into a deep sense of incompetence.
The perversity and cowardice of the character form a great contrast.
To say, this Joffrey character in the play is really portrayed too realistically and impressively.
Since Joffrey died very suddenly, this makes the plot confusing and meaningful...
So, at this moment, when I started writing about Joffrey, my heart flowed,
I feel the resonance of countless Joffreys.
I hope that I can use this article to write about the plight faced by Joffrey, an extremely simple child.
It also helps everyone get to know themselves and their children.
Cersei's three children are actually extremely simple children, Joffrey, Tomman and Misera. Joffrey has a scene in the play where he once so truthfully confessed his inner vulnerability to his mother.
It's a pity that they are all protected by Cersei in a relatively closed environment, so that they can't accept any "wind and rain".
When Joffrey and Arya clash, Cersei protects Joffrey's heart, revealing:
She convinces Joffrey that he is the supreme king and that he can do whatever he wants, and then indiscriminately kills Sansa's wolf, which is originally right, to the relief of her son's anger.
So when Joffrey felt his incompetence, this sense of incompetence was quickly cut off by Cersei. Cersei chooses to distort the facts to increase the child's "self-confidence", and this self-confidence is the source of Joffrey's arrogance.
Joffrey lives in his own world, constructing his world only according to his own subjectivity.
I AM THE KING.
But the fact is that in the objective world, the "power of the king" is actually small, and the relationship between the king and the parliament and vassals is a relationship of mutual checks and balances and interdependence...
Joffrey's subjective world is far from the objective world, so we see that Joffrey is like a freak, looked down on by everyone except his mother, and only he himself is kept in the dark.
And he can feel the disdain of others for him, and feel that others are looking at him like a "clown".
Especially when Uncle Tyrion lectured him again and again,
All the resentment in his heart was vented,
After he became king, he brazenly confronted and clashed with the little devil.
In his world, he is the king, that is, he can do whatever he wants.
In his world, whoever dares to violate him must die. The civilians threw at him, and he immediately ordered them to be killed.
In his world, Sansa is his plaything, he can insult her at will, let him feel the joy of a power to bring him.
At this moment I think of Gollum in The Lord of the Rings, a monster with a cowardly heart and a talisman for power. He spent his whole life losing his mind in order to get the "Lord of the Rings".
When a growing child, hormones are constantly rising, and he does not know how to really find pleasure and fulfillment, he grows up in a completely distorted environment, and all his way of pursuing pleasure is to play with people.
So all he can do is do everything he can to find ways to abuse people, and feel powerful when he sees others crying and begging for mercy.
Therefore, in the plot, the more Sansa cries and asks for Joffrey's mercy, hoping that he can release his father, but Joffrey quickly beheads his father.
The reason is simple: Joffrey is a child who pursues only his own pleasure. In his "world map", there is no other person, no kingdom, no view of right and wrong, no morality.
Including later, he tore Sansa's clothes in front of everyone.
Including his later mockery of Tyrion in front of everyone in the parliament, and complaining about the inaction of his grandfather (Tywin), etc., are all manifestations of his complete irrationality.
In Joffrey, kingship is everything. The success of such perverted ideas in his body and mind was largely due to Cersei.
A large part of it came from his biological parents.
Cersei and Jaime are extremely solitary siblings who have been raised to be tools for power. Weak and arrogant in heart + the indifferent teaching of their father, this brother and sister are simply like "gods" who are high above and ignore the lives of others, cold and ruthless. As my father said: a male lion doesn't care about the life of a sheep.
Such a pair of brothers and sisters, the first child born will have extremely lonely genes in their bodies.
Low self-esteem and arrogance, like a pair of inextricable twins, too difficult to overcome.
It was in this way, under such conditions, the time of day (genes) and the location (staying in the royal family), as well as the multiple conditions of people and "the high spoiling of the mother and the extreme disregard of the father", that Joffrey developed such a "freak".
In addition, the courtier's use of him (Littlefinger specially pushed the performance of "The War of the Five Kings" to him, intensifying his conflict with Tyrion), plus the queen's coaxing of him (Little Rose approached, facing Joffrey's needs, continued to strengthen Joffrey's dream of kingship, and used his vanity to make him feel that he was being loved by the people).
All of this, the water does not drain. Give Joffrey's subjective world a given type. He dreamed of his spring and autumn and was satisfied.
He thought his uncle Tyrion had poisoned him. As everyone knows, Tyrion is the only one who is good for him, advising him again and again, teaching him, hoping that he will see the truth clearly.
He thought he had been murdered. The truth is that it was his ignorance and cowardice that really killed him.
I hope that all children in the world can get out of their subjective world and truly connect with the objective world.
I hope that all parents in the world will not spoil their children like Cersei, and dare to tell their children the truth about the world.