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"A Song of Ice and Fire" likes to allude to historical characters and stories is famous, and the love of hair bento is also famous, not only many ways to die, but also many ways to torture people. Because I recently watched "History of Human Torture", many of the punishments in the book are particularly familiar, and later found that they are all worthy of the number in the "Game of Thrones" drama. In addition, there are more torture tricks in ancient China, and I believe that everyone has some understanding in film and television dramas, so I will not discuss it here.
This article will not cover the plot of the new season, but for the plot of the previous six seasons, especially the part of Bolton House and Reek, if you have not seen it, please watch it carefully, so as not to affect the fun of watching the show.
In addition, some of the punishments are quite heavy, and the props in the play are also more disgusting, and these pictures may cause discomfort.
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The Assyrians and the Skinning of Man Alive
"Game of Thrones" has issued so many bento, like a worse than a tragic conference, but to choose the characters who are alive than dead, Squid's Theon Greyjoy said that no one dares to say first. After being imprisoned by Rams Snow, the illegitimate son of the Bolton family, various tortures were tried on the body, tortured to forget his identity, lost his personality, and was transformed into a reek (stinky guy), even if he escaped smoothly later, it did not help, his body and mind were severely damaged, and with a little stimulation, he looked like PTSD was about to attack.
Theon Greyjoy, The Little Prince of iron island, stark's adopted son (actually a hostage). In the early days, it was still beautiful, but I didn't expect it later...
The biggest tradition of the Bolton family is that they like to peel people alive and hang the skins of their enemies in the city as trophies, or even wear them as cloaks. The Boltons have a saying: "Naked 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, not simply a good person or a bad person can summarize, only Qiao The Great and Little Peel, probably can not wash white.
Small peeling works
Well, there's nothing new under the sun, and the bloody act of skinning people alive is recorded in Greek mythology. Marsyas, who angered Apollo by playing the flute, was skinned alive and nailed to a tree, a scene that was so classic that it became the subject of many paintings and sculptures.
Apollo and Marsyas
The Boltons skinned and skinned their enemies alive as spoils of war, and hung them up, much like the historical Assyrian tradition. The Assyrians advocated force and were brutal, and after they stripped their enemies, rebels, and captives alive, they hung human skins as a warning to disobedients, such as the tyrant Ashur Nasirpa II, who would hang the peeled human skins on the walls of the city.
In medieval Europe, live skinning torture persisted. In 1303 the Westminster Vault was robbed and the suspect was skinned and pasted to the door. The Spanish Inquisition also had the act of peeling, inventing a large drum with a sharp blade inside, loading the person into the drum, and then spinning, and the skin was cut off by the blade (it sounds a lot like some kind of tool for peeling potatoes in a food factory).
In addition to skinning people alive, there is also scalping torture. The difference is that some people can survive after peeling their scalps.
The Assyrians stripped it and hung it on the city walls
Cutting fingers, castration and starvation
In the play, Theon also cut off some fingers and toes by the small peel - of course, not a knife to give a painful, but first peel the skin of the fingers, when the pain is really unbearable, Theon begged the little peel to cut off his fingers.
In the history of torture, there have been too many punishments related to fingers and toes. For example, the thumb clip invented by Henry VIII, a torture device, is small and simple, but it is very cruel and can crush a person's thumb joint. Scotland also has a finger clamping device, similar to the use of thumb clips, all for the purpose of breaking fingers (in China, the punishment of pinching fingers is generally used to punish women).
Thumb clip (Thumbscrew)
Pulling out a fingernail or pricking a needle into a finger has historically been true. King James XVI of Scotland tortured wizards with this kind of torture. There are more specific examples of fingers and toes cut off in history.
The punishment of cutting off fingers, ears, noses, etc., there are special execution tools, such as special scissors.
In the play, the skin on Theon's fingers is peeled off
As for castration, whether Theon was castrated or not, there is no direct description in the book. However, there have been indirect implications:
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.
The TV series directly explains... There is also the scene of eating sausages
In the play, the performance is more direct, and the little peel cut off Theon's Tintin and also expressed it to the Iron Islands. This directly destroyed Theon's body and mind.
Palace punishment is probably the most familiar punishment for audiences, especially Chinese audiences. The Code of Hammurabi, which "fights for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," has long documented palace punishment in order to punish sexual offenders.
Prisoners imprisoned in kennels were kept in cages starving and dehydrated to death
During his captivity, Theon was also starved and even went to eat rats. Hunger was indeed a form of torture, and in the Middle Ages, in order to proclaim the authority of the Church, there was also a punishment of hanging the tortured in a cage and waiting for them to die of starvation and dehydration.
Theon's torture is not limited to the above, such as the little peeling of the dung on Theon, the breaking of several of Theon's teeth because of his disgusting laughter, and so on. Of course, what is even more terrifying is the mental torture.
The drowning of the Iron Islands and the historical swimming punishment
Many of the characters and plots of this work are modeled after the historical Wars of the Roses, of which Theon Greyjoy is probably based on George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence.
Comparing these two characters, we can find a lot in common: they were both separated from their biological fathers from childhood, as protons (Theon) and fathers died (George); both had two older brothers, two brothers who died in battle so that the third oldest himself became the heir (Theon) and was made the Duke of Clarence (George); they were both taken hostage; both had taken the wrong side in the war, betrayed their brothers, betrayed Robb Stark (Theon) and betrayed Edward IV (George), and then found themselves used and rebelled again.
Probably the prototype of Theon
We still don't know what the theatrical ended for Theon, but it may be glimpsed from his historical archetype – George Plantagenet was eventually charged with treason against Edward IV (generally believed to be Robb Stark's historical archetype, who repented of his political marriage and married a lower-class woman), and was then secretly executed, legend has it that he was drowned in a barrel.
Drowned in a wine barrel
Coincidentally, in the work, Theon's hometown of the Iron Islands believes in a kind of sea god drowning, and the act of executing the iron people is called "drowning", and the method of death is also drowning. The pastors of the drowning gods are called drowned, and they have to be drowned twice, that is, drowned first, then saved, and if they can survive, they can be "chosen" to become drowned.
This form of "being chosen" has a similar situation in history. During the reign of Henry I, there was a method of dealing with suspects called "divine judgment": when a person was suspected of committing a crime and could not prove his innocence, he would be "tested by water", that is, tied hands and feet and thrown into the 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 it is proved innocent, it is likely that he drowned long ago.
Drowned
The Code of Hammurabi also records a waterboarding trial in which a woman accused of adultery is thrown into the Euphrates River and convicted based on whether she reached the other side safely or drowned. This punishment was later applied to witch persecution activities and was called "swimming punishment". Because at that time people thought that water was sacred and would not accept unclean people, it was necessary to see whether the prisoner would float in the water (not accepted by the water) or sink (accepted by the water), and use this standard to prove the identity of the suspect.
Rat torture
Speaking of this, I think Theon is really too miserable, and it seems that half of the torture in the whole play is used on him. In addition to what Theon experienced, there are other things in the play that are also very creative and representative - such as rat torture.
The scene of rat torture in the series appears in the fourth episode of the second season, when Gendry relies on his own weak protagonist group (?). Halo escaped rat torture. This punishment is recorded in the history of various European countries, most commonly in the Spanish Inquisition.
The operation method of rat torture is generally the same as in the TV series: put a few rats 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 rats will desperately bite the stomach of the prisoner after the barbecue to find an exit, which eventually leads to the prisoner's intestines being rotten and dying.
Historically, there have been some punishments similar to rat torture, such as the Indian torture of rubbing people with honey, tying them to trees, and letting bugs bite through their skin.
Other tortures mentioned in the play
Burning - Appeared more than once in the play, the most heartbreaking should be The Little Princess Celine.
Cry to death
Burning was a common form of torture in the Middle Ages, especially for dealing with religious heretics and witches, or people who had turned their backs on their faith, because at that time people felt that fire could remove the evil of the soul, so the burning felt particularly religious. The method of execution is simple, the victim is tied to a burning pillar, surrounded by firewood and other fuel, and then poured with grease to help burn. Because burning was considered an act of "redemption", a purification of the soul of the tortured, even if the tortured person was extremely miserable, it would be a good thing for those who watched it at the time. It's really ironic.
Statue of bruno, the person who was burned at the stake
Dog punishment – refers to being bitten to death by a hunting dog. When Nero was persecuting Christians, he once had hungry dogs attack the victims. Now it seems that inuyasha will still appear in the news of current politics, such as an extremist organization, and the news of a certain baseball country.
There are even more cruel tortures performed by animals, such as elephant punishment, in which the victim is trampled to death by an elephant.
This story teaches us to remember to feed our dogs no matter how busy we are
"Hot Head" - The death method of Brother Long in the first season.
Although the exact same method of execution was not found, Nero did have a punishment of pouring boiling oil on people's heads when he persecuted Christians. It is also another kind of "hot head".
The horse king dissolved the gold belt and created a crown for Viserys
epilogue
There is a famous saying that in "Game of Thrones", no one is safe, and the above content seems to be the best proof of this statement. In Game of Thrones, no matter what kind of torture, you can find corresponding events and allusions in human history — after all, literary creation is still based on reality. We often say that the most cruel thing is human nature, perhaps because human beings can torture and kill their own kind with impunity in many cases.
If you can't accept the torture in Game of Thrones, look at the real history
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