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Hail Amrlyin Palpategwene chandra Send a noteboard - 06/11/2010 02:05:09 AM
If you look at her behavior and thoughts in this book, it's obvious what she wants - to control everything and everyone. She has become a manipulative version of Darth Rand, who only cares about obedience, shows little or no respect to anyone around her, and who is convinced that she has the right to impose her will on everyone because she believes she knows everything. The contrast between her "leadership" style and Rand's in this book is glaring; Rand has become a true leader, showing the utmost respect to those following him, listening to them when they have advice to offer, but remaining firm about things he knows are correct. On the other hand, we have Egwene, who forces her friends to use her title even in private, constantly goes on about how she knows best, plots against those who pose a threat, and wants absolute obedience from everyone.

Hehehe, she could learn from Rand, and she will :D I never understood why does she force friends to use the title even in private? Is she insane?

Egwene has, in effect, become the very thing Nynaeve warned her about after the testing. She has set herself so far above and apart from everyone that she sees everyone as pawns in her own personal game of power. What Nynaeve told her was right, but she didn't hear it and refuses to acknowledge it because behaving that way serves her purpose of making the WT the ruling organization of the world (and her the tyrant, ruling all), that no one dare disobey.

Does she realise how her nature has changed?

There was a reason the Hall could convene without the Amyrlin - if she becomes a tyrant (which she is well on her way to being), they could deliberate about it and try to limit her power. What she did, in effect, was to ensure that no one can move against her - ever - no matter how bad she gets because she can be there to bully them into backing off. There have to be checks on her power, yet she is removing them all. That is a huge problem, as is the fact that she seems to be turning into another Emporer Palpatine. I don't like the Seanchan, and likely never will, but Tuon, at least, has someone at her side who will slap her ass down if she gets out of control. Egwene has nothing of the sort. There is no one to stop her, and she has never been one to question whether she has the right to do what she wants; she just does as she pleases and justifies it in her mind, no matter how deluded she ends up sounding (like her claim that Rand "wants" her to stop him when we see, from his POV, that he wants nothing of the sort and will break the seals no matter what she says).

Um, the other poster said something nice about the effects of this law. I am still in two minds about this. Undue importance and self-delusion have been Egwene's hallmarks since TEotW. Egwene has met the Aiel, the Aes Sedai, and the Tinkers. And still, she behaves the way she does. . As does the ass slapping, birching is long due for this Amrylin, eh? :P I will sacrifice 72 goats if that happens in the next book.
Isn't everyone in WoT re-born?
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"She knew Egwene wanted Cairhien..." - 05/11/2010 03:22:29 AM 2713 Views
Do you have a reference that we can look at? - 05/11/2010 03:24:39 AM 1167 Views
Chapter 45 - A Reunion, Page 669 - 05/11/2010 03:59:25 AM 1373 Views
Ok, now I've checked it. - 05/11/2010 04:07:20 AM 1237 Views
Re: "She knew Egwene wanted Cairhien..." - 05/11/2010 03:49:16 AM 1428 Views
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except... - 05/11/2010 03:49:45 AM 1287 Views
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We all know Egwene is going to save the day while getting everything she wants and more - 05/11/2010 04:14:55 AM 1337 Views
Egwene also needs to talk to her mother and father - 05/11/2010 04:25:43 AM 1134 Views
Re: Egwene also needs to talk to her mother and father - 05/11/2010 01:53:17 PM 1198 Views
Re: Egwene also needs to talk to her mother and father - 05/11/2010 02:00:37 PM 1242 Views
Re: Egwene also needs to talk to her mother and father - 05/11/2010 02:04:47 PM 1124 Views
she's the youngest child - 07/11/2010 07:51:20 PM 1054 Views
why? - 05/11/2010 03:10:39 PM 1256 Views
Re: why? - 05/11/2010 04:23:16 PM 1216 Views
That didn't sound like madman's ramblings at all.... - 05/11/2010 05:00:59 PM 1324 Views
Re: That didn't sound like madman's ramblings at all.... - 05/11/2010 11:10:46 PM 1178 Views
Hail Amrlyin Palpategwene - 06/11/2010 02:05:09 AM 1248 Views
They're the ones who raised her this way! That's the last thing she needs. - 06/11/2010 03:38:17 PM 1258 Views
Um, can we assume her parents raised her that way? - 08/11/2010 04:57:05 AM 1090 Views
She's a short, female, youngest child of influential parents. Arrogance would come naturally to her. - 09/11/2010 02:08:29 AM 1219 Views
Huh - 09/11/2010 07:56:15 AM 1209 Views
Wow. What the fuck did your parents do to you? *NM* - 09/11/2010 03:35:07 PM 582 Views
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I try to avoid projecting myself onto fictional characters. Or real people. - 09/11/2010 06:45:14 PM 1088 Views
too bad - 09/11/2010 08:20:04 PM 1038 Views
Why don't you compare her to a summer's day while you're at it? *NM* - 09/11/2010 07:45:20 PM 509 Views
well... - 09/11/2010 08:18:08 PM 978 Views
I'm teasing you because you lay it on a little thick sometimes *NM* - 10/11/2010 01:10:39 AM 631 Views
You are seriously mis-perceiving a number of things. - 10/11/2010 01:30:47 AM 1249 Views
So? - 05/11/2010 09:53:22 AM 1122 Views
Re: So? - 05/11/2010 07:59:12 PM 1125 Views
Re: So? - 06/11/2010 09:06:49 AM 1027 Views
She didn't say that. You changed the wording and read it without context. - 05/11/2010 03:29:27 PM 1257 Views
So? - 05/11/2010 04:04:54 PM 1097 Views
The engima that is Egwene - 06/11/2010 01:41:43 AM 1267 Views
I wonder if... - 06/11/2010 05:17:45 AM 1100 Views
You might have paid more attention than me when reading - 06/11/2010 06:50:46 AM 1099 Views
The reason rand didn't tell Egwene about why he needs to break the seals is simple - 22/06/2011 10:49:25 PM 1171 Views
That's the problem with Elayne that has emerged. - 06/11/2010 03:31:41 PM 1326 Views
Or, you know, she's being cleverer than you give her credit for... - 06/11/2010 04:45:10 PM 1174 Views
This is the problem with rulers - what is smart for them equals increasing their power. Which is bad - 06/11/2010 08:40:19 PM 1111 Views
So fragmentation is the reply? - 06/11/2010 09:59:47 PM 1114 Views
Checks and balances IS diluting power. - 09/11/2010 02:16:18 AM 1129 Views
The Andoran houses should ask one question of Elayne - and remove her if she answers wrongly - 08/11/2010 02:03:08 AM 1176 Views
Hear, hear. - 09/11/2010 02:18:49 AM 1153 Views
Maybe it's typo - 08/11/2010 06:38:26 PM 1341 Views
Yes, I'm pretty certain it is. - 09/11/2010 09:00:32 AM 1052 Views
Agreed - 09/11/2010 07:05:09 PM 991 Views
i thought it was a typo too *NM* - 10/11/2010 09:11:10 AM 707 Views

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