In the TV series Game of Thrones, one scene resonates for its emotional brutality.
Queen Cersei is accused of adultery, incest, and regicide. As punishment, the Faith of the Seven, a fundamentalist cult that has seized control of the city, forces her to do a ‘walk of atonement’. Naked, her long golden hair cropped short, she stumbles down the streets of King’s Landing as a stern female minder rings a bell and cries out, “Shame! Shame! Shame!” Members of the public gleefully shout, “Whore!” as they pelt her with fruit and vegetables.
Queen Cersei is no meek lamb: she is a brutal, murderous, incestuous character consumed with her own ambition. Yet the scene speaks to us for one
