Since I was a teenager, I have heard guys whine about how
nice guys finish last and Blah Blah Blah. Girls like guys who treat them like
crap, girls like bad boys. And yeah,
that's true in SOME cases, just like anything is sometimes true. I won't deny that this does seem to be the
trend, at least for younger girls who haven't figured out that marrying a guy like this is a really bad idea. Note to girls:
You can't fix guys, so stop trying. Love
them as is or don't try at all. It doesn't mean you're awesome if you can get a bad boy to fall in love with you, it means you're stupid. All men are fickle, and when he is bored of you, he will revert. PLUS, you liked him bad, and if he goes good you'll be bored. It's simply a bad idea. Anyway, I have
something to add to this, something that has been overlooked. Guys, a lot of you like bitches just like a
lot of us like bad boys. A lot of you
don't like sweet girls and if you get one, you have no boundaries and therefore
take advantage of them and treat them like crap. Seriously.
We have to TURN INTO bitches. You
want girls who torture your soul and keep you physically begging, just as we
like guys who do the same thing to us.
All this does is make me want to become something that I have never
been....a person who hides myself, stuffs my feelings, and
pretends to be callous....but I will never do it. I wouldn't know how to shut up. One last thing, if this theory isn't true,
then PLEASE EXPLAIN ANGELINA JOLIE.
Yep. I know. I am right.
I was telling a friend that I saw "Gatsby" over
the weekend and we were talking about Daisy and how 2-dimensional she is. I said that in the new movie, they humanize her
a bit, which I liked. There isn't any
background info to support her or give a reason for her shallowness in the book
or the first movie. I have a theory that
it's because she is a metaphor for the era.
Greed is shallow and cold, plain and simple, so therefore so is Daisy. So then we started discussing other bitches
of literature. I thought about this a while
and knew that this would be today's Top 10.
Things you have to consider when looking at the list.....Who is the
author? A man or woman? Are they creating the women to be
2-dimensional or 3-dimensional and why would they do this? These things make a difference. Did the
authors give the women a reason for being a bitch or are the authors simply
scorned men who are probably misogynistic bastards themselves and take it out
on paper like Taylor Swift does with a guitar?
How do the female authors differ in the way they present these
characters? Do we feel sorry for them?
Let us look at the Greatest Bitches of Fiction, well, in MY opinion:
1.Estella, Great
Expectations, Charles Dickens. This girl
knows exactly what she is doing, because she was taught to do it. She meets Pip as a child and because the
woman who looks like a waxy skeleton raises her (Miss Havisham), she doesn't
know how to love. Pip is tantalized by
her games and lives for her even though she will never be free to love
him. She is beautiful and uses her
sexuality to reel him in. As soon as she has him right where she wants to keep
him, she messes him up in the head and darts away.
I feel a little sorry for Estella because she is indeed, wounded, and
she probably loves Pip in a way.
Nevertheless, she is written as a cold-hearted bitch.
2.Miss Havisham,
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens. It
wouldn't be fair to put Estella on this list without Miss Havisham, because she
is the reason Estella is the way she is.
She has stunted Estella
emotionally and this character is totally two dimensional because there isn't a
good reason why someone would be like this.
As I always say, you can't reason with crazy.
3.Daisy, The Great
Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald. "Her voice was full of money, that was the
inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it…High in a white
palace the king’s daughter, the golden girl.”
Ok, so first of all, Gatsby builds a life for Daisy and she wants to run
away with him because she is a coward.
This crushes him. THEN, this
bitch lets Gatsby take the blame for hitting and killing Myrtle and then when
he was murdered because of what she did, she didn't even come to the
funeral. Her voice was full of money
because she was an empty, cold, bored, snobbish, bad human being. Nothing anyone could do for her would ever
be enough because she was soulless. The
only thing that I can say to defend Daisy is that maybe when you are raised in
such a wealthy, shallow environment and everyone tells you what to do and
teaches you to care about status, whether it's moral or not, you end up losing
your soul. Still, no doubt that if Daisy were a real person, she wouldn't
deserve Gatsby and would rot in hell with her snobby, rich, bored friends.
4.Marquise Isabelle
de Merteuil, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos. I'm not sure there is another female
character who plots more than this one.
Vicomte de Valmont is in love with her and therefore acts as a chess
piece in her evil games, games that destroy the innocence of other girls simply
because she enjoys it. For those of you
who have never read this book, the movie "Cruel Intentions" was based on Dangerous
Liaisons.
5.Scarlett O'Hara, Gone With the Wind, Margaret
Mitchell. I love Scarlett. I think that she is very smart. She knows she's cute, and is it her fault
that she can use her beauty and brains to her advantage? No.
Guys use what they have all the time to get ahead, and Scarlett had her
looks. If she were a man, no one would
say anything but "What a resourceful and charming man!" Plus, every guy but Rhett bored her silly
without giving her a slight challenge.
(Well, and Ashley, but he is so dull I don't even think I should mention him.) I prefer to think of her as spunky. She doesn't do things maliciously, but she
does do things without others in mind.
She is careless with people and their hearts, but there is innocence to
her logic, or lack thereof. I find it
interesting that a woman wrote her and therefore, she is more endearing. Did I mention that Scarlett (in the book) has
three babies with three different guys?
I mean, that's an unspoken rule for girls even today: Don't do that! (unless you're on Maury Povich). You're allowed two baby daddies, but three
and your friends aren't saying anything to your face about it.
6.Medea, Medea, Euripides. Medea isn't just a bad girl, she is really sick. She lives in an unfair world where her
butthead husband, Jason, replaces her and her children with a younger
model. To get even, she kills their
children. Euripides was, in my opinion,
one of the first feminists. He is really remarkable considering he was a man
and wrote this play back in I don't know, the year 400 BC? This play was sprung from his compassion for
women and was trying to tell everyone, "Look. Start treating them fairly or they'll
snap!" This really is one of the
most amazing things I have read simply because the Greeks truly did
"get" everything and much sooner than anyone else. Maybe what he was saying is "Deep down
there's a crazy bitch in every woman. Do
not scorn them or you will regret it."
7.Eve, The Bible. How
can Eve not be on here? Whether you
believe she existed or not (I believe she did), this woman is the reason for all
of the other women on the list. Not to
mention, Man's Excuse for why the world is so bad. We rolled in all beautiful with the apple,
seduced Adam, and now look at the world.
Thanks for that, Eve. We'll never live it down.
8.Countess Olenska, The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton. The
Countess is a girl who likes to have sex in the 20's, she doesn't give a damn
what people think of her, and she sleeps with a married man. Not only does the man sleep with her, he
falls in love with her. She is
complicated where his wife, May, is a simple-minded socialite. Is it just me or do those women always get
cheated on?
9.Emma Bovary, Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert. Emma has
affairs to escape a mundane existence.
She is careless, deceitful, and lusts often. She is aware, completely, of what she is
doing and hurts innocent men while searching for her next high. Flaubert was not kind to Emma in this novel. Her fate is very sad and karma bites her right where she deserves it. She is a cautionary tale. You chase the wrong things, you will die alone and unhappy.
10.Dolores Haze "Lolita", Lolita, Vladimir
Nabokov. I hesitate to put this young
lady on here because she's a child, but if we are talking strictly text,
Nabokov writes her as if she is intentional with her seduction and she is definitely written as a bad
girl. The disturbing thing about this novel,
and when I say disturbing I mean I was physically ill at points while reading
it, is that it's written in first person and through the eyes of her molester. It's written to make you feel sorry for the
man, a man who is "tortured" by this young girl.
It's pretty hard to read.
However, Lolita has become a term to describe naughty young girls, so
here she goes, on the list.
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