New to the forum, love trying to find references, sources, parallels and homages. Anyone else notice the parallels between Sansa's story and De Sade's Justine? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_%28Sade%29 Sansa and Justine share the same 'flaws' -- 1. Both respond to cruelty with goodness. 2. Both mistake the appearance of virtue with virtue itself. The story lines also have some similar features, each successive savior turns out to be false and no kindness is ever repaid in kind. And they are the same age. I think that Martin and De Sade are making the same moral point -- one cannot be a good person in a cruel world. It seems that Sansa is at a turning point -- she can either continue on Justine's path, taking pity on a sickly boy who will betray her kindness, or she can transform herself into De Sade's heroine Juliette by learning what she can from Littlefinger and start treating people like pieces on a chessboard. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Histoire_de_Juliette
