Game of Thrones Symbolism: Houses & the Starks
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2017
- Find out more about the deeper meaning of the house symbols on Game of Thrones, starting with the Starks: their grey & white, their motto, "Winter is Coming," and their animal, the direwolf. Buy or rent the series on Amazon: amzn.to/2uQIt2t
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I feel like there’s also some symbolism of calling jon the “white wolf” because he’s secretly a Targaryen and they’re known to have white/silver hair
Damn you're right...and with his red eyes/the red dragon of the Targaryen sigil GRRM really hinted at it all along
Bastard are called White wolf ...!!! i read it somewhere
@@ahmadbilalsaeed Bastards are called Snow in the North.
@@ahmadbilalsaeed He is white wolf cos he is Jon Snow of House Stark. Snow is white and since Wolf is the sigil of Starks, thus it makes Jon Snow the white wolf!
He's called white wolf mostly because he is a bastard, bastard symbol known by the reversed colour of their house instead. Stark sigil symbol is grey fire wolf with white background, so for snow, its a white dire wolf with grey background
The second motto for the Starks is "The North Remembers.." They can forgive but never forget and the superb loyalty and love for family above all.
Nope. This is not a Stark motto. This is the GNC's motto. GNC stands for Great Northern Conspiracy. This is used by northeners to remind themselves of the long night and that there must always be a Stark in Winterfell.
Not a Stark thing but a North one. They firmly believe there must always be a Stark in Winterfell.
This is all because The North is actually Pepperidge Farms.
Another key bit of symbolism: Jon was the only Stark to die before his dire wolf did. The fact that Ghost was still alive was a glaring clue that Jon wasn't gone for good.
the stark's scaled wolf may have also been a hint at jon's true heritage.
HoopsAndDinoMan Robb died before Grey Wind...
lonely one I’m thinking the producers just thought it looked cool. The sigil in the books looks different.
Actually Robb died before his wolf too..
Every Ned-Catelyn Stark children's direwolves died(left their owner), last remaining is Jon's Ghost which could also mean that he would be the last to have something die off him. also it wasn't mentioned how the stark children are all possible wargs, heck even Jon had dreams and he's half stark(in the show). though it wasn't proven if it was warging for arya, jon since it came off as something like a dream. bran is certainly proven a warg and a three-eyed raven. sansa's lady died to early to know. robb didn't get a POV for warging dreams. still would be nice to see it in the show if Jon accepted warging.
Summer's death also symbolize that Bran is no longer a Stark. He is only the Three Eye Raven. He has no duties to his family but he has a duty as the last greenseer. After Summer dies, Bran loses his personality and he seems unaffected by anything. The 3rd episode of the 7th season confirms this when he tells Sansa that he cannot be the Lord of anything, he refuses his right as a Stark, he can only be the Three Eye Raven
If Ghost dies that would symbolize Jon embracing his Targaryen lineage, Ghost is my favorite of the direwolves and it will break my heart to see him die. It's the same for Lady too, her death symbolizes Sansa's choice to side with the Lannisters over her family, she seizes to be a Stark then and Lady's death is the result of that choice.
I don't really think that sansa sided up with the lannisters. She saw arya as disturbing her 'romance' and didn't want to make her image towards cercei and joffrey bad so that she could mary him. Ofc she was wrong about them but at this point she thought it would be best to stay neutral. She was just a child who didn't realize why everything went wrong because she was believing life was a fairy tale.
But Jon is much more Stark than Targaryen, not only he's got Stark blood, he was raízes amongst them.
It's also written in the book how one of the big reasons why Catelyn despises Jon so is because he has more Stark features than any of her own children. He may have Targaryen blood in him, but he is as true a Stark as they come.
I hope that Arya's wolf comes back, representing how she came back to her family.
I would also like to mention that in the books, Robb’s downfall started when he stopped bring Grey Wind with him everywhere. There was one specific scene where he told his mother that he married another woman and not Walder Frey’s daughter, which was also the first time Catelyn did not see Grey Wind with him. It was mentioned several times in her POV about how Grey Wind was howling in the kennels, which in my opinion, is a foreshadowing of how things will stop working in their favor. Just a bit of my own theorizing.
Ned says "we can't fight a war amongst ourselves" and I realized Jon also said that to Sansa when they retook Winterfell..
Like father, like son.
Then there's Aarya.. Fighting now
Jon needs to go back to Winterfell before shit really hits the fan. I hope he makes it before Arya, Sansa or Littlefinger does something drastic.
jevgenkova yea but I feel like something bad is gonna happen at winterfell either with little finger or the stark sisters cuz it's GOT
"We need to trust each other, we have so many enemies now." is what Jon said. Close but not quite
I get that Robb dying was a masterful piece of storytelling... But I would still prefer he had won, that's just how much I love that character.
I take comfort in the fact that if not for the Red Wedding, Robb would have most likely won the War of the Five Kings and defeated even Tywin Lannister himself and had the Lannisters pissing in their boots. (I mean he practically did at the Battle of Whispering Wood anyways) Pretty sure GRRM had to kill him off because he was too powerful, the man was so badass they had to use some low ass tactics just to murder him man he was a great character
I think Robb was killed off because he wasnt playing the game the right way.
@@Kobeat21 you are right. if he obey his mother then he can take kings landing with north and riverland army plus the vale i guess.
You missed the point of the series. Congrats, dipshit.
Thank goodness you don’t write asoiaf
When winter comes for war,
You shall hear no lions roar.
When winter forces you to yield,
No stags shall graze upon the field.
When winter creeps upon you from the
Shadows,
No roses shall bloom from the meadows.
When winter wreaks havoc on the land,
You can bet there'll be no snakes in the
Sand.
When winter brings to life all it finds grim,
The krakens shall freeze right where they
Swim.
When winter sets and the land begins zu
Shiver,
The flayes man will start to rot and wither.
When fights to the last silver,
No more trouts shall swim in the river.
When winter ravages and all despair,
No falcons shall fly high in the air.
When winter shows you what happens
When snow falls,
Not even dragons breath shall warm you in
Your halls.
When winter comes with all its might,
Only the wolves shall howl in the night!
This is an extremely underrated comment
This gave me chills. Perfect, just perfect.
What’s wrong with stags?
@@gfilmer7150 the point is that the animals simbolizes something on each house. Of all of them the only real winter animal is the wolf. Is the only one that can survive trough all seasons especially the hard ones
@@miksobrado I meant “What’s wrong with The Baratheons” since their whole thing is stags and they’re allies with The Starks.
The amount of foreshadowing and details like these in Game of Thrones are insane. Really looking forward to more videos on the other houses :D
here is just a small reminder for us all, "the Game of Thrones" was written in 1996, so the amount of foreshadowing is ...
Nguyen Pham Is what god damn you
Nguyen Pham is what? Massive?
Well, we know now how all that symbolism turned out :/
Too bad the writers of the show messed it up
“stark“ is the German word for “strong“
Genau
Ich wollte das auch schreiben
Same in swedish!
I somehow always forget most people don't know that
same in swedish :P
5:30 Isn't Tywin Lannister cutting open a stag when we are first introduced to his character? I think that's another impressive example of symbolism as well.
Fawad B yoo
Very good. Wolves are the most faithfull and united animals, they love their pack and do everything to protect them, just like the Starks did, but once they are separeted, they became lonely beings. The combat between Starks and Lannister not came only by the history amoung Yorks and Lancasters, but from different perception of family. Lions also are group animals who loves each other, but they put their "proud" and strong capacities in the top of their leadership, while wolves prefer a "wise" and careful learder.
I also read somewhere that Ghost's eyes are red like the rubies Rhaegar liked and also wore on his armour when he died at the Trident.
iKloudz Basically symbolizing the Targareyn in Jon.
The mother direwolf dying via the stagg to protect its young is a clear metaphor for Ned dying but ultimately giving up something that matters greatly to him (his honour) in order to protect his daughters.
Also ‘stoicism’ is 100% one of the starks strongest characteristics. Stoicism is one of Ned’s strongest characteristics, as in the book he’s often described as being icy and frozen.
Haha, she said "spoilers are coming!"
Jake Anderson 1:17 lol she really did
Indeed, the net is dark and full of spoilers
You guys missed the point why Rickon's direwolf is named shaggy dog. In literature, a shaggy dog story is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax or a pointless punchline. In other words, rickon's story in the whole show was after all irrelevant and nonsense, hence the show never focused on him or gave him much scene which would and just have led him to a untimely nonsense anticlimactic death. GRRM planned it all along. A-ma-zing.
Junno Mars except you know he's still alive in the books
Books aren't finished yet. George gives the showrunners outlines and ideas of how the last 2 books will go. So there might be some similarities between the novels and the show.
Arya Snow I would think they would give him more meaning than just killing him off.
My Soup Too cold Agreed. Adding a shaggy dog story isn't amazing or an example of exemplary writing. It's absolutely...well pointless and adds nothing at all. A literal waste of sentences in a novel so centred on world building and character roles, where there are almost too many characters vying to be written. Why even put him there if he changes nothing in the story whatsoever? In any case, there's obviously a correlation between the number of Starks and the 7, of which Rickon is a part of. Besides, I hope Martin at least does something with Rickon's feral/wildling nature even if he does die soon. That's the part of him that I always wanted to be expanded on, at least a little.
The show has left many subplots out let's not forget (Dorne/Lady Stoneheart etc) and kills off characters that probably will survive, but won't be as relevant just for onscreen shock value. Or kills of characters too early/late. Rickon should at least get some focus in the books, if brief, before he goes. Not a lame fucking zig-zag fiasco.
My Soup Too cold nah he's too young in the books so i doubt he is important
I almost cried watching it... such a beautifully made video! All symbols are so simple and true. I truly feel sad for Rickon, I felt this child suffered so much...
Isabelle Mani why the he'll would you be crying over this ?people are too emotional in these days
She can do whatever the FUCK she wants. who the fuck are you? You monitoring people's behaviour ?
Isabelle Mani Rickon is so underrated. :(
Rickon shouldn't run in a straight line!!!! Even a child in that context should know that 😵😵😵😵😵
“And the Baratheons in anger” ‘SLAP!’
Laughed out loud
Stralia Mate “what did the five fingers say to the face?”
Same here jajajaja
eventually Starks are always right.
jon is basically ned jr or an extension of him, he carries neds words, wisdom and his actions..
legreat Spacejockey Jon is mostly Ned, but he has some of his father's traits too.. I think the way he led the wildings through the wall, forgiving Jorah.... is reminiscent of Rhaegar. He will do what is necessary to defeat the true evil.. Starks can be sometimes too proud, too stubborn.
Ned stark was a stupid asshole. Jaimie was so right. He DID judge him the moment he laid eyes on him, and Jaimie was justified with his hatred. Ned made Jaimie the way he was at the beginning of the series.
Matthew's exciting gaming and other I don't know whether this is a troll or not so...uh...
Krysis Advocate nah im not trolling. think about it. rewatch the bath scene with jaimie
i don’t remember where I heard it but someone said that the motto can go two ways depending on the state of the starks, “winter is coming” can be out of fear but can also be proud, because even though everyone’s terrified of whitewalkers and winter, the starks home is the north and they embody the strong winter spirit, so when it’s said like that it’s a warning to others of their strength and will
I also considered the motto "Winter is Coming" to mean When Winter gets here you will see the Strength of the Starks who were prepared for Winter.
"Winter is Coming! Now THATs memorable" 😏
~ Olenna Tyrell
(You were ALWAYS Memorable Olenna, RIP🖤)
yeahhh truly RIPed now
This is a great episode, you also have now made me want to rewatch the whole series. You also have a great voice, I really enjoy listening to it. I see we had the same idea, I'm hoping to have a GoT episode out before the new season too.
Before The Credits just subbed. keep it up
Thanks Dontay I really appreciate.
Before The Credits she do got a sweet voice
Arya to Nymeria: "That's not you"
signals that Nymeria found her self/path and so is Arya.
So if Gendry survives, he could reverse the Baratheon colors and rule the House?
theoretically, yes
That would be a pretty sigil, a golden stag on a black field.
He doesnt have an golden stag tho
celticwolff Even thought having Gendry continuing the Baratheon line would be nice I personally think the true ones to continue are Stannis, Shireen and Edric (From Robert And Delena Florent so technically he has Nobel blood). Yes Edric is a bastard but he doesn’t have have true Nobel blood unlike Gendry who only has one side.
And in a monarchy, I doubt we will ever see a Bastard ruling a Nobel house. To others it would feel like betrayal or a free-for-all. I mean just look what happened in The Targaryen civil war.
Yeah, if a bastard takes over a House, the colors swap
Omg this was so interesting to watch I didn't want it to end
My favorite House of GOT. In the end I appreciated every single Stark for very different reasons (even if Rickon had very little space in the story) and Jon Snow of course. I also liked them very much as a family (included the direwolves).
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Amazing Analysis
Oh, yes!
nah, i'm waiting for the Dorne one - how do i find my inner sex monster? - and avoiding any Bolton one - anyone who reads Amnesty torture stuff isn't up for an entertainment version
Maydha Mn
Just when you thought that you couldn't appreciate the show more than you do.. So grateful to witness such a masterpiece!
NICE ANALYSIS..
Wow, it's pretty rare I can watch something like this without switching off halfway through but this video is an exception. Fantastic job, thanks.
Edd So, you are usually too impatient to watch a 10 minute video?
The dire wolf symbolism is so well done
king in the north.
still makes me tingle
I had never thought about the fact that the direwolf was killed by the stag's antler and how that linked to Ned and Robert, there must be so many things in this show that I've missed
Hey!
It was Cersei who demanded Lady be put down.
NOT Joffrey!
are you going to make similar videos for the other houses
Yes we are! Stay tuned for Lannisters & Targaryens coming next week.
awesome
After you've done Lannister and targayrean you should do some of the smaller ones like Tully, Tyrell and especially Greyjoy!
I'd love to see a Tyrell and Martell analysis.
And of course no one mentions the arryns ... smh
There is another thing that links all surviving members of Stark family: in one way or another they died and came back to life.
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Wow it's crazy the amount of symbolism that is in this show! I'm writing my own dark fantasy world myself and this is giving me so many ideas!!
Girl. You took the words from my mouth. I wanted to share this with everyone at the time I read the book. Keep doing content like this one. You rock!!
So glad I clicked on this video and learned all of this information. I would've never caught any of this on my own and thanks for presenting it to me in a easily digestible fashion!
I love this video, love this channel, and need ya'll to cover every major house now.
Stark means strong in Swedish. Always asumed that was what George was going for
I've always thought that Lady's death was symbolic of Sansa's severed ties with house Stark. Sansa is so different from the other Starks, she really stands out, and she is the single Stark to have the most conflicts with the other members of the family, never truly emotionally connecting with them. All of the other siblings, from Jon to Rickon, liked each other pretty well and enjoyed playing together, but Sansa always was in the different room knitting and dreaming of glamorous Southern life. Oh, and she also the only one to never warg.
Love the analysis, straight to the point, easy to follow, good voice,and almost something out of a creative writing class. Love the channel.
Thank you so so so so much for these videos. They're well-edited, cohesive, and wholly entertaining. Looking forward for more.
Really enjoyed this video (as well as you other ones). I hope you get around to making a video of the other two main Houses, the Lannisters and of course the Targaryens.
All these vids really are incredible, I have watched every season twice and I still learned things that I never noticed before. Especially the differences in the banners and their changes across all your vids/the episodes. I didn't pay a significant amount of attention to the changes in the different houses banners, but their almost a character in themselves, as they too grow and change. Fascinating.
what a majestic video, absolutely perfect on every level, the ending actually gave me goosebumps. Keep up the great work. Legendary movements!
Looking forward for other house's analysis! Seriously doing these analyses couple days before season 7 of GOT starts is pure genius ScreenPrism!
It is worth mentioning that when Jon dies, in the books he will warg into ghost until his resurection, as shown in the opening chapter of aDwD. A shame they left it out of the show.
TV shows and books are two completely different mediums!
Right now Jon is dead in the books. I don't know where you get the warg thing in the first place, it doesn't appeared anyway. On the other hand I've theorised he would "reincarnated" in Ghost so who knows?
@@nidohime6233 Jon's a warg in the books just like Bran, Rickon, Robb, Arya, and even Sansa.
@@gfilmer7150 Yes... I already know Jon is a warg. What I meant is it doesn´t appeared to use his power just before he dies. Also I don´t think every Stark child had warg powers, Robb and Sansa don´t lookrd like to ever manifest any, and Rickon is kinda unclear since he is too young.
@@nidohime6233 Lady was killed before Sansa even knew she had powers. Also, Jon warging into Ghost makes sense, given the prologue of A Dance With Dragons.
Top class analysis, it's really all making sense. Just goes to show how incredibly delicate the writers and directors are, every small detail in the whole series has a meaning and all connected.
Thank you so much for these presentations. Reviewing these houses again really pumps my memories about Game of Thrones. I love these! 💕
Don't worry in the future they will have Tony....
And now he's gone too 😭
@@ayamshiia336 But he has a daughter!!! It's still a Stark!!! 🐺😭😭😭😭
THE NORTH NEVER FORGETS ! 😂 superheroes are coming
Excellent analysis. Love this show! 👏
"The king in the north" scene always gives me the chills.
there are so many great film and television analysis channels but screenprism I must admit is the most underlooked. Fantastic work here!
I enjoyed this so so much. This is seriously a great analysis and I can't wait for more of the houses to get similar videos. :') Thank you for doing such good work on this. Couldn't not subscribe.
subbed great stuff. Nothing nobody wasnt sensing. But laid out in an entertaining articulate fashion with beautiful screencaps and clips. This is why youtube is important and content that expands on originally produced content should be allowed to license for free.
I like how you made it look classy and kept it to the point, the length was longer so I felt bored but the content was worth being patient for... keep making videos like this. Good Luck
Very nicely done! Loved this video, yet I have one addition concerning Shaggy Dog and Rickon.
A shaggydog-tale is a tale which has a huge build up, but ends with an anticlimactic ending. Rickon's story could be seen as a shaggydog-tale as well. Through the seasons you might think he will be of importance in the end. After the first seasons, Bran sends him away to an assumed safehouse and one could expect that he might pop up and become important in a later season. Yet in season 6 he is suddenly killed of without us knowing too much about him.
So in this way the name Shaggy Dog also reflects Rickon's life.
amazing job.
God, I love the Starks so much! It is their House I want to see triumph and persevere in the end and it is their House that I feel the most for. Without them, I couldn't care less for the other Houses
This was beautiful; this is my favorite one out of the Game of Thrones videos you've posted. *applauds* Beautiful analysis, btw.
Beautiful annotations are implemented. Delved deep inside the meaning. No one could've done it better
You've captured the Starks' element *perfectly* .
1st video I've seen on this channel... SUBSCRIBED!
Absolutely brilliant analysis. Specifically the foreshadowing of Wolf's death due to Stag. Keep up the good work.
this channel gets better and better by each upload
How does this channel only have 60K subs? It's brilliant!
Thank you so much for making these videos! I'm new to the show so I've been binge watching and watching your videos for clarity lol.
You've earned a subscriber!!! What a video, absolutely spot on with every detail.
Great Breakdown and Analysis.
More Power to your Channel. 👌
Love your guys' channel. Keep it up!
Great video, I liked how concise and clear every point was, there was no confusion or complex jumping around. :)
House Stark. This is still my favorite house break down. Came back to rewatch it after House Mormont which is my second. Great job on these, Screen Prism!
This was amazing put together! Well done ScreenPrism
Can't wait to see that reverse Stark banner. He should also take up a cool name like Blackfyre
AR21 He should also change his house words to something like "Winter Shall End".
Because that went well the last time.
Not many people can make me subscribe after a single video. Kudos to you and I can't wait to see more!
You guys are incredible. So thoughtful and in depth. Thank you.
Fantastic video, well presented and researched :D
I cried a lot watching this
sergio vela SAME!
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Akhdar Muso shut up
I dont know if I should feel bad, but I get so happy everytime you show the scene of cersi getting smacked
This still has to be my favorite video of yours. Wonderful analysis of the most honorable of the house in GOT. Again, truly great job at revealing the truth of the honorable wolves.
Most of the wolves died due to budget constraints.
They die in the books too, so...
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Lucas Kitamura not Summer or Shaggydog
Well they died when they died in the books.
But if it was like the books, you'd see those fuckers in just about every scene with the Starks when they are alive
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your deep dives are amazing. so thourough and explained in an interesting way. keep it up guys
I enjoyed this so much! It made me fall in love even more with the series
Wow, this was a very well done video. Good job.
I love this stuff
Great job as always! Thank you for the video and interpretations.
I just started watching my his series from the beginning and man!..,why did he wait so long. This stuff is awesome!
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Thank you so much for these invaluable videos. Quality content all the way.
Interesting analysis. Of course i had picked up on the stag and wolf pup symbolism, but I hadn't thought of Lady in that manner. Her death is symbolic of the death of her nieviety and sweet nature. Good videos, keep em coming.
Good video ..expert level
Please do more
GREAT VIDEO!! please make more about the stark and the direwolf
Had me hooked from the start! Now I wanna rewatch the whole series.
I love this channel! Excellent research and quality content!