Yes she chose her freedom, but can you really deny that you would have done something different in that situation? When you’ve been manipulated and locked up and abused your entire life, and you’re in “mutual love” with you savior, who brought you out of the situation. To her, Medea didn’t even love the prince, which she thought was extremely unfair.
Perhaps if she prioritized the friendship over EVERYTHING else, she might have first told Medea about how she’s wanted to be with the crown prince and asked her to step down. But emotions are more complicated than that, so she hid the fact. Even then, Psyche never cheated, it was the crown prince who did so. Finally, even if Psyche had told Medea in the beginning, do you really think Medea would have stepped down?! IMO, Media’s goal above everything else was power and she needed to be the empress. She valued that more than her friendship as well. She would never have simply agreed to the request, and their relationship would most definitely have soured.
Personally, I believe Psyche is an amazing character. She has her faults and mistakes, but no human being is perfect, and that just makes her much more realistic. In fact, her character flaws are much more easily forgivable than Medea’s, but no one ever mentions Medea’s flaws.
Pysche was more sheltered when growing up, but when confronted without the harsh realities of life, when didn’t just give up and despair. No, she worked up her courage and continued to persevere. She’s demonstrated great will and perseverance, as well as adaptability to her new role. Finally, when Pysche is confronted with her mistakes, she never ignores or shrinks back from them. Instead, she apologizes, faces them, and vows to do better.
In the end, it’s really easy to criticize since we are readers, and know everything that goes on. But when you place yourself in a character’s shoes, it’s much harder to do so. Can you really say that you would have done as well or even better in Psyche’s situation, and have demonstrated her strength of character despite her upbringing. I most definitely feel that I wouldn’t have been able to do that.
Is this an essay on “why we should not hate psyche”?
Idk man, but I think the OP is telling psyche to suck it up and live with it, since it comes on the side with her “order of freedom” and for me. Idk, I can’t stop hating her. I get it, she’s sheltered and everything, but I can’t get over what she did “in the past” (〜￣△￣)〜
So circumstance doesn’t matter? I mean I guess what I’m more irritated about is the hypocrisy. Like Psyche obviously has some flaws in that she didn’t confront Medea when she first found out about the prince, but like why are people just ignoring everything Medea’s done as well? like she’s killed Psyche’s servants and others, as well as hurt a lot of other people. But that somehow doesn’t matter?
Honestly yeah it doesn't matter, not because medea is a killer, but because psyche herself just got gloomy for a little while even though the knight who served her family got killed by medea, otherwise medea is obviously still can't moving on from nanny's death.
Medea being a killer is morally not okay of course, but people symphatize with her so much, that what makes all her evil doings don't matter. Readers also can see the reason why she kill/hurt people.
Honestly i agree that psyche also has her reason, if people can view medea and psyche neutrally, they'll obviously understand both medea and psyche. But unfortunately, people emphatize with medea much more than psyche. Psyche is basically not a likable character for common readers, i saw other webtoons with weak, naive, and crybaby FL get so much hateful comments, means even without medea, character like psyche will still get hated, people will always find more reason to hate her, whether it's her own flaws or even more irrelevant matter like ship-related thing, readers just love to hate her since she's simply unlikable character.
I used to hate psyche because of nanny's death, but i forgive her after this chapter since she regret it so much, so i think i don't hate her anymore (honestly i know well that she doesn't mean any harm, but nanny's death is too hurtful for me, it's just somehow unforgivable before psyche herself finally realized the truth and regretted it). I thought other readers will stop hating her too, but apparently the hate is getting even worse, so i can't think of any reason why readers hate her other than she's simply 'unlikable character' for them.
Dude. I didn’t say “circumstances didn’t matter” lmao. I said “I get that she was sheltered and everything, but I can’t get over what she did”, in other words, I literally just don’t like her. I don’t really wanna explain why I dislike psyche ╮(￣▽￣)╭
It wasn't Medea who gave up their friendship for the title. It was YOU, you stupid ignorant girl. You Chose your freedom over anything else. Suck it up and live with the blame..you got out of that cage like you desperately wanted. What, you thought the world was all flowers and rainbows? Experience both sides of living and stop wailing like a child.