Another CONTROVERSY erupts for 'Game Of Thrones' with the treatment of Sansa's character

It would be safe to say that the final season of Game Of Thrones is getting a lot more 'criticism' than 'applause' due to various reasons. What began with the immense flak about the loopholes on the third episode, the Battle Of Winterfell continued with an error of having a coffee cup in one of the scenes of the fourth episode. 

But now, yet another criticism occurred with popular actresses Jessica Chastain and Ava DuVernay highlighting the treatment of Sansa's character in the show.

According to a report in Variety, Chastain criticized  the show for using the rape and torture that Sophie Turner’s character, Sansa Stark, endured in previous seasons as the reasons for her strength.

“Rape is not a tool to make a character stronger. A woman doesn’t need to be victimized in order to become a butterfly. The little bird was always a Phoenix. Her prevailing strength is solely because of her. And her alone,” the actress wrote.

Turner plays the role of Dark Phoenix in the upcoming X-Men film, in which Chastain is also her co-star. As known, Throughout the eight seasons of “Game of Thrones,” Sansa has undergone a massive transformation just like every character. She went from the Lady of Winterfell asking to be wed to Prince Joffrey, to the strategic ruler of her family’s house. However, the motivation explaining her rise to power in the previous episode, “The Last of the Starks,”  left some viewers, like Chastain, unhappy.

During her conversation with The Hound in the episode, the latter remarked that when he first met Sansa, she couldn’t look at him, and he had since heard she was “broken in rough” by Littlefinger and Ramsay Bolton. In Season 5, the manipulative Littlefinger brokered a marriage between Sansa and Ramsay, the psychotic usurper of Winterfell who raped her multiple times. “You’ve changed, little bird,” he said.

“Without Littlefinger and Ramsay and the rest, I would’ve stayed a little bird all my life,” she replied.

Some “Thrones” fans believe the lack of female writers and directors led to the unsatisfying depiction of Sansa as a survivor of sexual assault. In the entire run of HBO’s series, only one female director has been brought on, Michelle MacLaren, who helmed four episodes, the last of which was in 2014.

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