Arya Stark's Last Dream in AFoC
Hello!
I continue to interpret dreams. While I was interpreting Arya's dreams, something happened in the last one that caught my attention.
First of all, let me give you a preview. Arya doesn't have many real dreams, aside from her wolf dreams. In total, only 4 dreams come true, and all of these dreams contain signs of what will happen in the future. In her dream of Red Keep, Arya saw what was to come for her father and her own difficult journey; In his second dream, she saw the continuation of this difficult journey, an indication that she will not be able to reach her home and family soon, even going to Braavos... The content of the third dream is unknown, but we understand that she saw the Red Wedding. Our topic is the 4th dream.
So far, we've seen that all three of Arya's dreams are filled with dreams about the future, not just dreams that deal with her fear and psychology. Therefore, we have a basis for thinking that the 4th dream would not be the other way around.
The wolf dreams were the good ones. In the wolf dreams she was swift and strong, running down her prey with her pack at her heels. It was the other dream she hated, the one where she had two feet instead of four. In that one she was always looking for her mother, stumbling through a wasted land of mud and blood and fire. It was always raining in that dream, and she could hear her mother screaming, but a monster with a dog's head would not let her go save her. In that dream she was always weeping, like a frightened little girl. Cats never weep, she told herself, no more than wolves do. It's just a stupid dream.
It's from Cat of the Canals.
Arya dismisses it as a silly dream, and Bran similarly dismissed the dream about Robb by 'ignoring' it. It was a true dream though.
When we first read it, we can see that the dream has a scene that will cause us to think that it is "Red Wedding", especially in this dream seen in the 4th book; We do not think of any reason to think otherwise with the fact that Sandor, whom we thought to be dead in the 3rd book, prevented her from saving her mother and with the pouring rain...
If so, you can see that Arya continues to suffer from her mother, she has a feeling that she couldn't save her while she could, etc. We can think maybe. However, it may not actually be so.
Arya was closest to her father among her two parents, but we didn't read that she had a similar dream about Ned in which Ned was in front of Arya's eyes and Arya ran to get to him, but that was not the case for Cat, Arya never saw her mother and older brother. Arya didn't even know exactly where her family was in the castle, and most importantly, Arya never heard her mother's scream.
Shouldn't Arya have had similar dreams for her father? This dream has not been seen once, it has been seen more than once. However, I think there is an interesting situation here; For Arya, Ned's execution scene must have been more traumatic because it happened right in front of her, within reach of him, but it's not the same for Cat and Arya doesn't include Robb in the dream, just her mother. Doesn't she love her brother? Of course she does, but no Robb, and he's a victim of the Red Wedding.
In fact, it draws my attention to the fact that Cat is called "she screaming", she doesn't say "she screamed", that is, she screams, screams non-stop, she doesn't shut up... Arya tries hard to find, reach and save her mother, but Sandor stops her. Cat is in mortal danger, in pain and screaming nonstop... Why would Sandor stop her? Look at the description of the environment. BLOOD AND FIRE... Not mud, fire and smoke; mud, blood and fire.
We know that the words fire and blood belong to the Targaryens, so an inverted word as blood and fire may not be very important at first, but for careful readers it is very meaningful because “blood and fire” was first introduced in book 3 by Dany's Astapor scene. We see it in her thoughts when she goes to . When Jorah tells Dany that she will take the throne like Aegon and that she will eventually have blood on her hands, she thinks of "blood and fire" and expresses that she will not hesitate to spill the blood of her enemy. Later, we see the same sentence in her conversation with Xaro in book 5; When he praises Dany and tells her that she is surrounded by the army she had grown in her dreams, Dany thinking, "no, with blood and fire." says. In the same book, she hears Viserys' voice and says that she was born to serve blood and fire to her enemies. Green Grace later told her, “I fear that your reign will end as it began; with blood and fire,” she says.
In a nutshell, blood and fire, Dany's army fighting to destroy and the power of destructio of her enemies; a kind of war motto that expresses the use of her dragons against her enemy.
Now we come back to Arya's dream; there is a battle scene scene; There's blood and fire, Cat screams and Arya rushes to protect her, but Sandor won't let her. Is the scene now formed in your head? Sandor won't let her go to protect her mother because it's too late for Cat, presumably as Cat burns into the flames of Dany's dragon. That's why we read that she keeps screams. Sandor is already an enemy of fire and afraid of fire; Just as he abducted Arya to protect her at the Red Wedding, he prevents her from trying to save her in the second time. Recall the interpretation of Dany's Green Fork dream and the scene where Arya crosses the same place with Sandor. They're all interconnected. Arya struggles to save her mother from the dragon flames, but Sandor stops her and Arya cries as she watched her mother die. Here we see a scene from book 7, we see how Cat is going to die. It would be ironic for a fire wight to die by dragon flame.
Thank you for read.
