Mean Girls Transformation Analysis

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Oana Purcar English 1102 Professor Lockaby October 9th, 2013 Revenge and Transformation Sometimes revenge goes hand in hand with transformation. How? A person who wants to get revenge on someone can be transformed in this process; out of hurt, anger, and by holding grudges, they can slowly turn into something they never wanted to be. Sometimes I think only forgiveness can set us truly free, and that is a win-win situation even though sometimes we can’t view it like that because in that moment we are caught up in our own anger and the natural thing that comes to mind is to pay back to the person who hurt us. When we want to revenge it is most likely that we will end up transformed and bitter. I recently watched the movie “Mean Girls…show more content…
That person is Jo. Her character portrays the opposite of the “Plastics” at the beginning of the movie. She hates drama and is very reserved. She is not seeking popularity and she minds her own business. However Jo’s transformation begins when she meets Abby's father, a successful infomercial entrepreneur, and he offers to pay her college tuition in exchange for remaining good friends with Abby. Jo accepts, motivated by her desire to attend university, and as stated before, this act marks the starting point in her…show more content…
I believe that this process was made possible with the help of her friends and father. In Mandi’s case I do not think this process would be as easy because she grew up being with the grudge and hatred in her heart and it would be harder for her to change and become a better person. In this movie we are witnessing many transformations created by revenge. Mandi is transformed in time because she wants to revenge on Abby, Jo is transformed because she wants to revenge on Mandi, and the Anti-Plastics are transformed into the Plastics because they want to revenge on the Plastics for the way they are treating the people around them. The moral of this is that when you are trying to avoid something you hate be careful not to become what you actually hate. Sometimes we become something we are trying to stay away from probably because we are so obsessed with revenge or staying above that person, other times because we are so obsessed with revenge with turn into the person who hurt us. This movie helped me realize that the only way we can help the situation is by acting in the opposite spirit. As it was mentioned in the introduction in most cases the forgiveness is the key even though it doesn’t seems like it would help us in a situation when we’ve been hurt by someone. As Marcus Aurelius wrote: “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the

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