Comment by KittyCat on Under The Oak Tree - Chapter 147

@KittyCat  you have not read the story if u r calling her weak bro...it's not one or two days, She's been abused and repressed HER WHOLE life, u see these 5-6 chaps we have been seeing? That was her whole life for YEARS until riftan married her...prolly even WORSE thn the situation rn cz she was a child. Self supression, Questioning self worth, Self hate and self harm doesn't disappear in one year or two year cz u js found a man and u love him. And throughout the chapters we SEE the way she has GENUINELY TRYING to improve herself..have self worth..and make herself a stronger person, sure that might have led to sh** situations but obviously cz she dk sh** and she's trying out for the first time in her life and let's face it...riftan is a bit too protective. I'll give u a simple example: sometimes u have been called a loser ur whole life and finally u have found people of comfort and u js wanna prove urself atleast to them and they stop u...well u sneak out and try...(Sure outcome led her to loose her child but these r obstacles she faced to become stronger) So idt she's weak at all...if anything she's a human trying to be stronger when she has been told otherwise her whole life

@Neha that's indeed weakness as a character is what I'm talking about bout. Granting she was abused and all and now have experience comfort and happiness. It is all the more reason to be stronger and hold on and not draw back to her old life in which she perfectly knows how it is.

@KittyCat

 her "weakness" as you're calling it is what makes her human. Don't you have doubts and fear in your everyday life ? Don't you try to improve yourself when you are lacking knowledge or power ? That is what she's doing. And the environment Riftan offered her allowed her to blossom.
Do you realise the change in colour palette between Anatole et Croyso ? A flower needs sun and croyso is full of shadow. Calling Maxi weak just shows that you indeed didn't read the novel. And even without reading it you can't qualify her like that because you just look at her like her father.

@Mina you're all missing the point. You're all missing the point. That's why I'm asking for a bit of determination. Because everything is just perspective. She is in a gloomy place then step in the sun by means of changing perception. She's lived her life in croyso and Anatole, she only need to choose which life she wants, a bit of determination to choose how she wanted to live. Because no one will live it for her. No one can help her if she doesn't help herself. No one can hear you struggle if yourself felt defeated. You have to fight and struggle. Scream! And start it with even your silent voice that stems in determination.

@Mina I think as the story progresses she'll be saved and be reunited with Riftan. But what's the point of being saved when she is prisoner of her own thinking that she is nothing, a left over. She needs to break free of the caged she enclosed herself that she doesn't amount to anything. She needs determination to do that.

@KittyCat

 I see your point but as someone that read the novel please have faith in her, she has been a prisoner in her home for all her life and a year has not even passed since she arrived in anatole. It is not because she doesn't scream that she lacks determination, not evrybody has the same needs and personality. She will find and do great for herself. HAVE FAITH !

And please take into accounts her environment, we are between the end of Middle age and the Renaissance time and husbands could divorce their wife for every "good" reason like miscariage. Moreover, nobody told her she had one but her monster of a father so who should she trust ? 

Once again making mistakes is human but the fact that she tries again is what shows her determination. For example languages, magic, castle management, stammer all that she has improved in LESS than a year. 

@Mina I don't know how the author plays out her character development in the next few chapters. She indeed grows up in a horrible environment but she did lived a good life with riftan and its people. I don't belittle her grief on the loss of her child. She needs to grieve , but after that what's left for her? Is she going to wallow in sorrow and live her life drowning with it? She needs a will and determination to live, without it feels like living awaiting death.

I didn't read the novel, and I won't actually because I wanted to see how the story goes as it adapted in colors . If I read the story beforehand, for me it takes away the excitement I will feel in the twist and turns of the story. And I wanted to read every chapters in blank slate and relish every emotions it serves.

@Mina and my first comment only applies to this chapter not on the whole story

@KittyCat

 i agree with your point of view. I also dislike the lack of determination they give to a lot of female leads in novels like this, not truly helping them develop a strong personality until well over half the story is already done. 

It is obvious that she will eventually develop some sort of back bone but the way they always make her dwell in her own sadness not being able to realize her current circumstances can be a little bit frustrating for the reader. At least for me. Makes her one of the many female leads that follows a similar formula and doesn't really add a lot of dimension to her overall character.