The Fall Of Cersei Lannister

With the last and final season of Game of Thrones currently going on, people have sported mixed emotions about it.

I'm afraid this is an article that is not going to be spoiler free.

The last and final episode of Game of Thrones is going to be out next week, and I have no idea what to expect now that almost all of the big players of the story are gone. The powers remaining are only 5 people, Danaerys Targaryen, Jon Snow, Tyrion Lannister, Sansa Stark and Arya Stark, who might make a difference with whoever is left, because the dragon burned everyone else. However, I think we can agree on some characters have come full circle with what they did in the past.

One such character was Cersei Lannister

Almost every person who has seen Game of Thrones, hated Cersei for all that she had done, simply because she was filled with too much hatred. She was vile, manipulative, lying and a horrible woman to fall in love with. I'm looking at you, Jaime Lannister.

People have claimed that the only thing redeeming about Cersei was that she loved her children and would do anything for them. However, being a mother isn't something redeeming for all the despicable things that a person has done. Being a mother was her duty and loving her children was her right. It wasn't something exceptional. Furthermore, it seemed as if everyone around Cersei reaped the repurcussions of her mistakes. She managed to get away all the time. She always survived while others got the short end of the gold stick.

It is possible to speculate that Cersei was so foul because of all her suffering that she had lost hope in humanity, but it still stands that she was a blithe and loathsome woman even before all of her trials.

Cersei was humiliated when she was stripped of all clothing and forced to walk through the city as she was found guilty of engaging in incestuous relationships with her twin brother, Jaime Lannister. Yet, she didn't think twice about getting Margaery out of the Sept's control, after all the scorn that she had gone through. Margaery was her son's wife, whom he loved dearly. However, Cersei didn't bat an eye and went so long as to murder her with wildfire. If she did love her son so much, why take away something from him that he held dearer than his whole life.

Not a great motherly move, if you ask me.

Going back further, Cersei was also the person who might have been responsible for Jeoffrey's perversions and his mad nature. While she had two other children with her brother after him, Jeoffrey was still her favorite. Jeoffrey might have been the only person who could sway Cersei and get what he wanted through her. Cersei's constant encouragement and blatant ignorance for his dark nature, though it brought his downfall might have been the catalyst that pushed her to a darker end.

Not to mention that Cersei refused to help the North during their most important fight to save all of humanity. With her betrayal to the living, we can truly speculate if Cersei is a person who can even be called human. Although her plan seemed brilliant, as she counted on Dany's forced to get depleted in that battle (which it did,) she didn't count on them making it back alive, nor did she expect that Dany would come back, mirroring the mad king to destroy everything.

Cersei's prophecy did come true, after all.

You'll never wed the prince, you'll wed the king.
You'll be queen, for a time. Then comes another, younger, more beautiful,
To cast you down and take all you hold dear.
The king will have 20 children and you will have three.
Gold will be their crowns . . . gold their shrouds.
When your tears have drowned you,
The Valonqar shall wrap his hands about your pale white throat and choke the life from you.

The prophecy does make sense. Cersei's life comes full circle that everything that she has ever done comes back to haunt her. She wedded Robert Baratheon, but her children through him didn't live. Robert did father many bastard children. She had 3 children through her brother, and all of them had golden hair. Like the witch Maggy predicted, Cersei witnessed their deaths before hers, and all of them were buried with Lannister robes.

Then came a younger and more beautiful queen, which people speculated to be Margaery for a while, but now it seems to point more towards Danaerys, with the way things ended. Dany, quite literally cast Cersei down to the lowest chambers underneath the Red Keep and took everything that she had.

And with Cersei sobbing during her last moments, pleading with Jaime that she didn't want to die, her brother, who was her younger brother, during their last moments, did have his hands wrapped around her throat. Although that was more out of love, where he says, "Nothing else matters, only us." The cavern collapses on them and they die together as they had come into the world.

I think we are safe to say that Cersei did come full circle.