![]() ![]() If Jules were to just be the show’s manic pixie dream girl, not only would that flatten her humanity it would flatten her relationships. But before this point, he’s been manipulative and aggressive toward her, targeting Jules for emotional blackmail because of the place he was in – so again, the way he acts toward her has a lot to do with her being a symbol for him. ![]() Similarly, when Nate delivers the recording of Jules and his dad to Jules, it’s one of the few times we see him acting vulnerable, loving, and self-reflective because she is the person who can bring out this side of him. Jules wasn’t the solution to her sobriety that’s something she has to find within. And while Rue idolized Jules, the couple didn’t actually work in a lot of ways. Īnd the people who look for this from Jules are expecting something no one can provide.Īt the end of Season 2, Rue seems to be finally walking away from Jules, and as she narrates in the past tense, it’s clear that a lot of what Jules meant to Rue in this difficult period of her addiction, was really about Rue. Susan Kavaler-Adler says that dysfunctional love relationships often see people “constantly seeking to have an inner emptiness filled up by the relationship with the romantic partner”. In addition to a manic pixie dream girl, then, we can also call her a Love Object – which, in psychoanalysis, is a thing or person that inspires an idea of fulfillment or consummationīut the love object idea is flawed, of course: No adult’s sobriety or freedom should hinge upon the presence or absence of somebody else. For Nate, she arguably represents some sort of freedom that he feels he cannot access. For Rue, she’s at first a fascinating friend and then a tantalizing lover – whom Rue feels her sobriety hinges upon. At the beginning of Season 1, Jules is seen by others as this trope, and sometimes purposefully embodies it. This trope casts an eccentric woman who comes into people’s lives to fill them with color and joy and quirkiness as if her only purpose is to inspire and heal other people. How She Avoids The Manic Pixie Dream Girl TrapĮuphoria’s deconstruction of how the world sees Jules, through how Jules sees Jules, helps audiences reconsider the Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope. So here’s our Take on how Jules became a new kind of love object. She represents an openness and facility with complexity that’s in part her personality’s special gift and in other ways something she’s had to cultivate in order to survive as a transwoman. And that’s likely why everyone is made to be so obsessed with her: She’s in touch with a kind of aliveness that many are not yet ready to face. She follows the advice that director Sam Levinson gave Jules’ actor Hunter Schafer: “Feel everything”. On top of everything, though, she is mature in a way most other characters aren’t: She is open to knowing all parts of herself outside of socially-prescribed norms, insecurities, and all. These overwhelmingly come from people projecting their own ideas onto her – including the gender binary. Through her own eyes though – which we don’t see as clearly until her special episode in-between seasons 1 and 2 – Jules has her insecurities, traumas, doubts, and demons. Through Nate’s eyes, she’s also some sort of mystical, innocent, perfect being – not unlike a manic pixie dream girl. ![]() Whimsical and wild, but also stable and sweet. And in others’ eyes, especially Rue’s, Jules is pretty much an angel – at least at first. ![]() Jules Vaughn is just one of the many magnetic characters in HBO’s Euphoria – so why does everyone seem to be obsessed with her? From Rue, to Nate, to Anna, to Elliot to the show’s audience – as Cosmopolitan’s Hannah Chambers writes, it’s impossible to watch the show “without becoming ridiculously obsessed with Jules Vaughn”īut who is Jules, anyway? In Euphoria we see her first through everyone else’s eyes. ![]()
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