Shacary wrote...
On discussig the Varania topic the other day, I must say I am still having a very difficult time finding any sympathy kindness for her, even on the arguement that slavery was an easier way of life when compared to the struggle of being a free woman. Her betrayal smacks of poison worse than anything even Isolde could have pulled off.... as far as slavery is concerned ; I cannot imagine absolute power over someone being beneficent, while I figure she had to struggle with a new freedom to provide food and what not for herself that perhaps she didnt as a slave, well, think of the sexual abuse, physical abuse slaves face, How about a beating simply becuz they were playing tag and made to much noise? that sort of thing must have happened, becuz unfortunately in my job I have seen evidence of the atrocities humans do already THE same as that on children.
Fenris had no idea what freedom meant, only that it might mean the oppurtunity for her and their Mum to escape the brutality they had endured already and ANY more they might have. It was a gift she was given, except like Goldana she rather thought it would be like getting a gold instead of a copper. It didnt measure up to her rose colored reality. She had to have contacted Danarius when she got the letter. She seems to indicated that she recognized he had no memory after the ritual, and perhaps to salvage her guilt that may assauge her, she figured he would forget the betrayal of this pain and she would have a good world better than she hoped, while he would still be alive and without regret... knowing nothing other than the time forward from the latest mind wipe. Cuz of course that is exactly what happens to him if he is returned to Danarius..
I view her actions more as a comfortable life for herself as more important than the lives of anyone else, even her brother .... I'd kinda like more insight, if it doesnt derail the thread LOL
I don't think it's only slavery you have to consider, when you're considering this sort of comparison. Because you have to think about the sheer social and cultural differences dividing the Imperium from Ferelden. Even Orlais, since you mentioned Isolde, too.
It seems to me that slavery and the mentality towards enslavement is so utterly pervasive in the Tevinter Imperium that the people there can not conceive of what freedom truly is. So much of Fenris' story, in fact, involves his learning and discovering what it means to be a free man. You have to think what it means to be raised in that sort of society, one where freedom doesn't truly exist, where the only ones in power are those strong enough to control others around them, to beat them down into utter subjugation and submission.
Fereldens abhor slavery, even those who're poor enough to live in the worst slums the country has to offer. There is opportunity in Ferelden that those in Tevinter can never begin to imagine. It's the sort of insight that Goldana has, that Isolde has, but it's one that Varania never ever has and Fenris only begins to have the longer he's in Kirkwall with Hawke, the Ferelden who teaches him. I always imagine Fenris grew to understand what Hawke meant when she said, emphatically, "Fenris is a free man," while Varania never did.
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