Arranged Marriage: Difference between revisions

* In [[C. S. Lewis|CS Lewis]]'s ''[[Narnia|The Horse and His Boy]]'', [[Rebellious Princess]] Aravis's [[Wicked Stepmother]] had arranged a marriage for her to get rid of her ''and'' win power within Calormen (the fiance was a high-ranked [[Smug Snake]]). She was at first [[Driven to Suicide]], but after her [[Talking Animal|mare]] Hwin talks her out of it, her inner [[Tsundere]] kicks in and she and Hwin run away to Narnia.

** In that same book, Queen Susan the Gentle and her younger brother King Edmund the Just travel to Tashbaan (the capital of a neighboring kingdom) to consider an offer of marriage to Susan from Crown Prince Rabadash. She ultimately doesn't want to marry the Prince, [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|having seen his true colors]], but Rabadash [[Scarpia Ultimatum|plots to force her go through with it anyway]]. They escape back to Narnia, and when Rabadash attempts to seize her by force he ends up failing [[Humiliation Conga|in the most humiliating way possible]].

* [[George R. R. Martin]]'s ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' series includes several, as befits a fantasy series with somewhat higher pretensions to historical accuracy than the average. The first volume devotes much effort to contrasting the marriage of Ned Stark and Catelyn Tully with that of Robert Baratheon and his queen Cersei Lannister; while both were arranged to form political alliances, the former grew to love each other and build one of the least dysfunctional families of the series, while the latter shared a mutually abusive and adulterous relationship. Somewhere in between we find the marriage of Daenerys Targaryen and the barbarian warlord Khal Drogo, which grows from something terrifying if not outright abusive into mutual respect and considerable passion. The series being what it is, however, there's a good chance for all of these to end badly.

** {{spoiler|End badly? I'll say - all three men are dead by the end of the first book...}}