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Thrones Themes Little Words, Big Ideas No question about it: A
Game of Thrones is all about power. Where does power come from?
And what do people do with it? The biggest struggle in the book
is the conflict over political/royal power in... A Game of
Thrones is chock-full of betrayals, treachery, and abandonment.
(Also conspiracies, subterfuge, manipulations… should we go
on?). Even the people who are incredibly principled do their...
Family is the basic unit for a lot of political decisions in A
Game of Thrones. If two men are fighting, it's rarely just an
issue between two individuals: it's a clash between two major
houses and... Society and Class Society is no picnic in A Game
of Thrones. Our heroes and villains (and just regular people)
have to navigate a social jung