Game of Thrones, the new HBO serires based off of the book sereis A Song of Ice and Fire, captures an example of a true tradegy within the story. The show takes place in the fictional nation called the Seven Kingdoms, a country where greed, coruption, and self interests rule supreme over all else.The show primarly follows the story of Ned Stark, a lord of the northern part of the kingdom who is known amongst the nation as a noble and honorable man. At the begining of the show, the top advisor of the king of the Seven Kingdoms dies under mystserious circumstances. This event causes the king of the Seven Kingdoms, Robert Baratheon to choose Ned as his new top adisor due to his reputation and their close freindship. Shortly after arriving in the capital of the kingdom to assume his new postion of power, Ned begins to investigatge the death of the former chief advisor. Twords the middle of the season, Ned discovers that the Kings three children are actually incestious bastards that were birthed as a result of an affair that the queen and her brother sharded. Although he intially intended to tell the king about his discovery, he immediately warned the queen that he new her secret and advised her to flee the kingdom with her children before he told Robert. However the king dies in a hunting accident before Ned gets the chance to warn him about the queen. As a result, the queen arrests Ned as an enemy of the state and her son whom has assumed the title as the new king eventually executes him.
Although most people judge Ned Starks actions as extremely stupid, his reason was justifiable. Ned did not want to be responsible for death of the queen and her children. Even though he could have easily kept this information a secret, he decided to do the right thing and warn the queen. He tried to do the thing that is morally right in an immoral world. As a result, his actions lead to his death much like the classic tragedies of ancient Greece and Elizabethan England.
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