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What do you
think of when you hear the word villain? Our whole life, we have been told that
the guys with black mask and unbearably harsh voice are always the bad ones.
Now, growing up, we often realize that people’s appearance does not always
match with their personality. Everyone can be a villain or a hero. But they
were not born, they were created by the people around them, and maybe, their
past.
Rosalie Hale,
the beautiful blonde from The Twilight Saga, is one of those so-called
villains. She came up so annoying on the movies. This adoptive daughter of The
Cullen Family was formerly turned into a vampire in the age of 18 by Carlisle Cullen
with the hope that she would be Edward’s soul mate. However, the two of them had
never been more than siblings. Then, when Edward finally met Bella and fell in
love with her, Rosalie appeared second after Edward to oppose Bella's desire to becoming a vampire. At first, nobody knows what that thing mattered to her
but there was actually something behind it.
Rosalie was
known as the young elegant woman during 1900s. Born to a rich and wealthy
family, she enjoyed the constant praise she got from the people around her. The
admiration then left her as a self-centered and materialistic girl. A man named
Royce King II then showed an interest to her and soon the couple became
engaged. Unlucky Rosalie, she later found out that Royce was not the perfect one.
Being beaten, brutally gang-raped, and left to die in the streets, she then
realized that her desire of living a fancy life in an expensive house and
having children on her own remained a dream.
Awoken as a
vampire, Rosalie found it hard to accept things, especially after having known
Edward’s rejection toward her. Her anger was even worse. She was badly drunk in
jealousy by the fact that Edward did not show the slightest interest to her,
who had been admired by most men she had met, and could fall for Bella, a mere
human, instead. The fact that human life only existed 18 years to Rosalie got herself sad. Ever since she knew that her body would be cold as ice and that she
would live forever, far from she had been dreaming of. The illusion of her
grand children playing around her just blinked away. That way, Bella should
have appreciated her humanity rather than desiring to be a vampire which would
never let her go through pregnancy.
Now, what lesson
could we learn? People have past, whether it is good or not. Yet, we can not
ignore the fact that the past they have been through can affect their whole
life. In this case, Rosalie is just a victim of her bitter past. She did not
have a choice. Even if she was given one, she would have chosen to die rather
than to be a vampire. Bella had a choice whether to turn into a vampire or stay
as a human. Yet, she chose to be a vampire, which according to Rosalie, was
wrong at any prespectives. From this we find out that Rosalie had never wanted
to have hostile feelings toward Bella. She was just upset that her life as a vampire stopped her from undergoing
the normal changes of life and did not suit her to have children on her own. Her
desire to be human was so strong that she would give up her immortality and
beauty for it. The way people
treat her influenced her as well. The compliments she received make her believe
that beauty and perfection were the key to everything. Later when she realized,
it was all too late.
We are who we grow up with. Sometimes we do not realize ho big a person's impact on our lives is. Rosalie was constantly being adored by people, so it is natural that she was irritated by Edward's ignorance. Human see things, get used to it, and then forget how it was before all got started. Finally, I agree with the opinion that Rosalie Hale is not a real villain. She chooses to be rude not because she was born rude, but because she knows how hurtful it is to not have her dreams reached and does not want anybody else feels so.
Moreover, we are all heroes in our own story.
Villains exist only if we see it from one point of view.
