I know that she spent her childhood in exile, impoverished, living on dreams and schemes, running from one city to the next, always fearful, never safe, friendless but for a brother who was by all accounts half-mad... a brother who sold her maidenhood to the Dothraki for the promise of an army. I know that somewhere upon the grass, her dragons hatched, and so did she. I know she is proud. How not? What else was left her but pride? I know she is strong. How not? The Dothraki despise weakness. If Daenerys had been weak, she would have perished with Viserys. I know she is fierce. Astapor, Yunkai and Meereen are proof enough of that. She has survived assassins and conspiracies and fell sorceries, grieved for a brother and a husband and a son, trod the cities of the slavers to dust beneath her dainty sandaled feet.
Daenerys says to the Khals: “You are small men. None of you are fit to lead the Dothraki, but I am, so I will.”
So she kills them and burns down their holy place.
And forgive my ignorance (and if I overlooked something), but if those Khals are men who think they can possess women like they possess horses, who rape women because they want to and to prove that they can, and who think that women are just for their pleasure,
Why is what she did so wrong?
And is there any other way Dany could have tried to escape her situation?
Counter question: What about what she does is right?
This is not an "escape plan". Daario and Jorah already offered to help her escape. She rejects that plan. Instead, they will lock the doors or the building from the outside to help her violent coup. When she burns their holy place and murders the khals, it is not out out of necessity, it is a deliberate and serenely executed choice.
And while the show made a ham-fisted point about their sexual violence (over and over, to erase any sympathy for them), Dany's actions are not about that, either.
She doesn't reform their culture in a way that makes it less predatory and more compatible with peace. All she does is replace a collection of several leaders with only herself to gain control over the Dothraki warriors. To serve the conquest plans that match her own preference.
All those women who watch her come out of the inferno also don't really accompany her to Westeros the way they normally would a proper khalasar in Essos. They presumably stay behind in the Dothraki Sea, separated from their men and left to carry on with life alone. So what we're talking about is uprooting and potentially destroying a whole culture for her own political benefit on an entirely different continent. A continent where she will also have to kill in order to take control. The Stallion that Mounts the World.
Dany colocó los otros dos huevos junto al negro, sobre el fuego. Se alejó del brasero y contuvo la respiración.
Se quedó mirando hasta que las ascuas se convirtieron en cenizas. Algunas chispas flotaron en torno a los huevos, y el calor dibujaba ondulaciones sobre ellos. Nada más.
«Vuestro hermano Rhaegar fue el último dragón», le había dicho Ser Jorah. Dany contempló los huevos con tristeza. ¿Qué había esperado? Los huevos habían estado vivos hacía mil años, pero ya no eran más que piedras hermosas.
Her handmaids trailed along as Dany resumed her stroll through the market. "Oh, look," she exclaimed to Doreah, "those are the kind of sausages I meant." She pointed to a stall where a wizened little woman was grilling meat and onions on a hot firestone. "They make them with lots of garlic and hot peppers." Delighted with her discovery, Dany insisted the others join her for a sausage. Her handmaids wolfed theirs down giggling and grinning, though the men of her khas sniffed at the grilled meat suspiciously. - Daenerys VI, aGoT
Dany and her companions at the Western Market in Vaes Dothrak :) In the upper row: Jhiqui, Rakharo, and Quaro; In the lower row: Doreah, Dany, and Irri
Drew Rakharo a bit skinnier and shorter than he is described in later books because it describes him growing and gaining muscle, implying he is still a teenager. I also wrapped the sausages in little flatbreads so they are easier to eat.
