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[Book Spoilers] Mother/daughter relationships Catelyn and Cersei


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Ice Turtle, I think it´s unfair to compare these two incidents. We don´t really know how much of Cersei´s outrage was due to her concern for Myrcella, or if she was just pissed because Tyrion arranged this betrothal without consulting her. Catelyn on the other hand had little choice if she wanted Robb to succeed. Catelyn certainly was a hard mother, very stern, but when it came down to a matter of her daughters chance for survival, she even freed Jaime knowing and accepting it could mean her own death at the hands of Robb.

I think Cersai really loved at least Joffrey and Myrcella, but I don´t know how she would have acted if they stood in her way to power. And I think she despises Tommen´s "weakness".

We never have all information, so almost always there are more possible interpretations, and I agree that part of Cersei's rage was due to the fact that it was Tyrion who arranged marriage but because of own her bad experience Cersei is more emphatic at least in this situation. In the books Cat thinks that hers and Lysa's marriages are similar before Blackfish tels her otherwise.

About Jaime, I think she let him go because she was desperate after her sons' deaths. Of course she loved her children, but for me it always felt like she made Sophie's choice a little too easily when it come to crossing the Twins. It helped Robb but even Robb tells her that Arya will hate it.

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ETA: Forget all I said, didn´t notice that this was the GoT TV series subforum.

I know the books better than the show anyway, always have to look if the scene was there on the screen or not, in the show Cersei's rage is much stronger.

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