04-28-2015, 05:43 AM
(04-28-2015, 01:06 AM)droid327 Wrote: Wouldn't have mattered. She's not upset about Nick not accepting her, because obviously he does. She would have just kept giving him ever more ridiculous tests until he "proved she was right", I think. The problem is *she* was having problems with what happened to her, and everything else is a projection of that.
If you want to put it in the classic stages-of-grief progression, she was going from bargaining (I can change back, I just need help from Nick/Henrietta/Sean/Rosalie/etc.) to depression, or in her case more like manic-depression.
You might actually be on to something there. I think it all boils down to Juliette simply being a weak person, and I mean "weak" in terms of mental fortitude. I'm convinced that if someone like Rosalee had suddenly become a Hexenbiest, she would make a more conscious effort to override her Hex-impulses (or at least the more destructive ones).
In stark contrast, it just takes a little prodding by Kenneth to make Juliette go completely apeshit, and that's why I feel she fails as a "tragic" character. The best tragedies are supposed to evoke the emotion of pathos, or pity, in the audience. Juliette should remain sympathetic even as she careens out of control. But all the writers seem to want us to do is to root for Nick to decapitate her.