Maleficent is a Role Model.

Natalia Camargo González

Maleficent was born in an enchanted forest kingdom. In that place humans killed her parents and
for that reason she is an orphan. She is a famous villain because she was the person who cursed
the Sleeping Beauty (Princess Aurora), but it is important to understand what was the reason
behind that spell. At the beginning, she was in love with Stefan, an ambitious man who only
thought about his power and money. Stefan betrayed Maleficent with the intention of being the
successor of the king and taking the power, the task was cutting her wings to make sure that she
did not have power. The wrong thing is that Stefan did not care for the feelings of Maleficent, so
her reaction was anger and a desire to take revenge. Consequently, she decided to curse Stefan’s
daughter, known as Sleeping Beauty, but then she realized that it was not a good decision and
decided to take care of the princess Aurora. In spite of all the things that occurred, I think that
Maleficent is a role model because of 1 her self-confidence and 2 her willingness to admit
mistakes.

First, Maleficent is a role model because she is a self-confidence person, she did all she could to
get her goals done. That behaviour shows the determination of that character and the passion she
has with the things she does. Odyssey (2016) said that “Maleficent, the saltiest of all villains, was
able to win over the whole kingdom with a simple spell. Now that’s what I call a strong female
character.” Some people think that Maleficent is not a self-confident person because she did not
agree with being without her wings, so that makes she feel weak. But I think that wings are part of
her essence, is a normal reaction to feel bad if you lose a part of you body. Despite of being with
with her body incomplete she continue showing her strong personality and fighting to realized all
the things she want.

Second, I think that Maleficent is an example that inspire children because of her willingness to
admit mistakes. We can appreciate it in the movie when she felt that was a wrong decision to spell
Aurora and then began to take care of she like a mom. I heard that some people are agree thinking
that Maleficent is impulsive and that she makes decisions depending of her feelings. For example,
Margareth Perry (2014) said that “she gets a little too wound up over not being invited to a party.”
Contrary, I believe that she show us how to act before a bad decision, she passed of feel angry to
show true love and security to the same person. Additionality, she teaches that did not mind your
past, you could be theperson you want, no matter the circumstance you could be a good person.

To conclude, I believe that villains are an excellent example of role model because we always
watch them but we don’t know the things they passed to be the person they are. In the case of
Maleficent she shows the strong character of a woman, the love we must have with ourselves and
she teaches that we must do all we can to make our dreams came true. Maleficent is an example
for girls, to make her personality strong and have their dreams in mind and do all they can to be
happy. On the other hand, she is an example of how is the love of a step-mother, how this love
could be show and that it really exist. Sometimes you takes some decision based on your feelings
of the moment but feeling are trick and drive you to do things that you don’t want, Maleficent
show that mistakes are not wrong if you do things to repair that mistake. So, is important to be
sure of you value and that you are in the capacity of do all the things you want, the unique
requirement is have attitude to get it.

References

Margareth Perry (2014). 5 Disney Villainess Role Models.Took of:

http://margaretperry.org/5-disney-villainess-role-models/

Odyssey (2016). Disney Villains As Role Models. Took of:

https://www.theodysseyonline.com/disney-villains-role-models