“A Game of Thrones” – a New Classic?
Magdalena Łapińska
The University of Bialystok, PolandAbstract
The following paper depicts George R. R. Martin’s A Game of Thrones as a novel worthy of receiving the title of a classic. Classics are presented as a section of literature to which permission is granted based on particular criteria which is full of prejudice, especially towards specific genres. Fantasy is shown as a genre having particular difficulties entering the ‘restricted’ section of literature reserved for classics. A Fantasy novel A Game of Thrones is analyzed in terms of characters and symbols discerned as the paramount elements of a classic. Presented characters and symbols demonstrate that A Game of Thrones possesses the elements characteristic of all classics and despite the fact that it belongs to genre of Fantasy it is feasible it will become a classic.
