In agot Arya threw an orange on Sansa head and it's sticky juice flowed over her. In acok Dontos beats Sansa with a melon on hee head and it's juice flowed over her head. Later in vale, she rejects the pomogrenate by LF but eat pear and it's juices dripping on her fingers and chin. Do you think these fruits symbolism and juices on Sansa had connection?
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I do think this is likely some kind of intentional symbolism or foreshadowing, and it isn’t just employed on Sansa.
To use just one other example, just before her death foreshadowing scene with the howling wind on the way up the Eyrie, Catelyn has this interesting moment, where she eats charred meat, which is otherwise symbolic of Dany’s turn toward a more violent path.
"Stone," Mya announced cheerily, dismounting. Iron spikes were set along the tops of formidable stone walls, and two fat round towers overtopped the keep. The gate swung open at Mya's shout. Inside, the portly knight who commanded the waycastle greeted Mya by name and offered them skewers of charred meat and onions still hot from the spit. Catelyn had not realized how hungry she was. She ate standing in the yard, as stablehands moved their saddles to fresh mules. The hot juices ran down her chin and dripped onto her cloak, but she was too famished to care. (AGOT, Catelyn VI)
The close proximity to her death foreshadowing in connection with that symbolism certainly works to touch on her later fate as Lady Stoneheart.
The examples you cite for Sansa have fruit symbolism. The blood orange and melon are violently enacted on her, the pomegranate she rejects, the pear she accepts.
The pomegranate symbolism is clear: shove off, Hades.
The pear has very lovely connections to motherhood, as shown in this post by @sansakatara and augmented by @aegor-bamfsteel, as well as this lovely illustrated post by @butterflies-dragons. This is the fruit Sansa chooses for herself.
The blood orange symbolism I’m less clear about, but it’s obviously connected to Sansa’s marrriage and fertility arc, as well, considering how the betrothal dress is affected by it. Petyr eats a blood orange, or rather, he cleanly squeezes the juice into his mouth.
"Did I say that?" Lord Petyr cut the blood orange in two with his dagger and offered half to Sansa. "The lads are far too treacherous to be part of any such scheme . . . and Osmund has become especially unreliable since he joined the Kingsguard. That white cloak does things to a man, I find. Even a man like him." He tilted his chin back and squeezed the blood orange, so the juice ran down into his mouth. "I love the juice but I loathe the sticky fingers," he complained, wiping his hands. "Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean."
Sansa spooned up some juice from her own orange. "But if it wasn't the Kettleblacks and it wasn't Ser Dontos . . . you weren't even in the city, and it couldn't have been Tyrion . . ." (ASOS, Sansa VI)
Arya, Sansa, Petyr... and fertility and marriage. I sense a triple connection tied to his upcoming end at their joined hands.
Apart from Dontos’ “morningstar”, water melons are also a part of Penny’s pig and dog jousting act. A helmet is knocked off, red spatters, gasps, but oh - it’s only a melon. A trick performed at the Purple Wedding with Groat and later in Essos with Tyrion. The knight who is killed by Wun Wun has his head compared to a melon, just before Jon is stabbed. There’s something to do with false violence, false death.
I mean, all of these are just guesses, but I don’t think it’s all coincidence.
