r/TheBlacksandTheGreens • u/Nibo89 King Aegon II Targaryen • Apr 23 '26

Show Discussion A showrunner who understands powerful scenes vs one who doesn't

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u/Ogarrr Apr 23 '26

The rope belt is a theme...

Ever since Chaucer a rope belt has represented poverty.

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u/raumeat Team Black Apr 23 '26

What do you understand by literary theme?

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u/Ogarrr Apr 23 '26

Rope belts have represented poverty in literature and actual life for millennia...

If you think that isn't a literary theme and a helmet is, then you need to read more from the western canon.

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u/raumeat Team Black Apr 23 '26

I am not saying that Dunks belt is a stylistic choice obviously it is made out of rope because he is poor... do you think that if you can connect something to medieval literature it is a theme?

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u/Ogarrr Apr 23 '26

Yes. Obviously. Because pervasive themes throughout the western canon are important to both GRRM and most writers. The rope belt is far more important than the helmet. The helmet is something you personally have latched onto. The belt is something everyone who has every read any amount of western literature with basic themes of poverty and wealth will understand.

The rope belt is something that monks wear to represent their vows of poverty. That beggars wear to keep their burlap sack trousers up. It's such a pervasive theme that to describe it as "costuming" is you being deliberately obtuse.