the boundaries built to keep her there. By choosing the abject over conforming to the patriarchy, she transforms from an oppressed girl into a ruler in her own right. By embracing the abject and the monstrous-feminine Dany births her dragons, a literal embodiment of her+
Part 2 I guess it turned out longer than I thought 😅
Dany as a Victorian gothic heroine with her Viserion for #danyween
art by the wonderful @Draconia_Art_
How does Daenerys Targaryen navigate the gothic heroine’s journey and subvert her fate in AGOT? 🧵
patriarchal structure.
The Witch is the third archetype Dany embodies. Creed characterizes her as a rebellion against the patriarchal symbolic, acting as its most implacable enemy. Instead of becoming a victim to her biology, she actively weaponizes the abject by using blood,+








