Nora Helmer and Eliza Doolittle both go through major transformations, as does Cady Heron from the film Mean Girls. Nora’s transformation, in a nutshell, is that she becomes braver, she stands up for herself, and realizes she has a duty to herself. Eliza, similarly, realizes she deserves love, and to be treated like a duchess.
Cady, in the film, starts off quiet, likeable, and smart, but when she has a run in with the Plastics, a group of super mean and superficial girls, she becomes one of them accidentally. She begins to be rude to her friends Damian and Janis, blowing them off to go to parties and be with the leader of the Plastics, Regina George. She starts wearing more makeup, different clothes, even talking like Regina does by copying signature phrases. Not only that, she begins to pretend to be stupid to impress a boy she likes. This brings her math grades lower and lower until she is failing.
But Cady continues to transform, and by the end of the film, she has gone through a positive transformation. She learns that The Plastics are not her real friends, and she has become a mean person. She says, Miss Caroline Krafft seriously needed to pluck her eyebrows. Her outfit looked like it was picked out by a blind Sunday school teacher. And she had some -cent lip gloss on her snaggletooth. And that’s when I realized, making fun of Caroline Krafft wouldn’t stop her from beating me in this contest.” This is when Cady begins to understand that when she was hurtful or said rude things, it was because, deep down, she was the insecure one, and she was tearing other people down to bring herself up. Cady, after this discovery, even goes as far to make a speech at the dance, giving a homecoming crown piece to people in the audience so they could feel special too.
Ultimately, Cady Heron goes through a transformation as significant as Nora and Eliza. They all have revelations as to why they should change their ways. Their veiw-points and actions have been altered forever.
Brodie Sharpe 