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Cady a Monster?

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This brings us to Cady as Regina’s double. “It looked like I was becoming a bitch but that’s only because I was acting like a bitch.” Cady said during an inner monologue when visiting with Janice. She was trying to prove that she wasn’t acting the same way Regina did. Regina was the embodiment of the Plastics including being mean, and manipulative. At this point Cady was dressing and acting the part of Regina, she was even nominated for spring fling queen. Cady had a crush on Regina’s ex and in most of the movie actual boyfriend Aaron Samuels. Part of the reason that Cady begins to mess with Regina is because she took him back. Cady attempted to become involved with Aaron even though he was with Regina, at the same time Regina was cheating on him with Shane Omen. Cady even kissed Aaron when he was still in a relationship, which is something that Regina would do. When Regina wants something she gets it with little to no regard of anyone else’s feelings. Aaron noticed the change in Cady, he was interested in her before she became a double after the kiss he said “you are just like a clone of Regina.” At this point it is apparent that she has caused the downfall of Regina as queen of the plastics, Gretchen and Karen look to her for guidance and direction and Regina is kicked out of the plastics table because she didn’t follow the dress code. At the time of Regina’s demise she and Cady were having an argument where Regina said “You are just a less pretty version of me.” At that time Regina was hit by a bus making Cady the “uncanny harbinger of doom.” (Freud, 235)

The cybernetic system in this high school is fascinating and most likely the same as it is in a typical high school. The system revolves around The Plastics. They give and feedback to the other clicks, shaping the opinions of the student body as a whole. The subsystem in that of the Plastics. It revolves around Regina she gives feedback to Karen and Gretchen who give each other feedback. The only entity that gives Regina feedback that she values is the student body as a whole. There are multiple examples of Regina giving an order and one of them accepting it. “Stop trying to make fetch happen it’s never going to happen.” When Regina said this to Gretchen she stopped saying fetch, you could tell that she was hurt but she followed protocol and did what she was told to do. When Regina was gaining weight she said “I really want to lose three pounds” she waited for someone to say something, gave them a look and Karen and Gretchen responded “OMG you’re so skinny.” The look that she gave was her requesting a response and they gave it to her. Cady noticed this system she made a comment about being plastic, “Being with the plastics is like being famous. People looked at you all the time and they know things about you.” This is proven multiple times through the movie. The students crave the attention of plastics positive or negative, one went so far as to say “one time Regina punched me in the face. It was awesome.” When Cady saw the burn book for the first time and told Janice their conversation was also reminiscent of that.

Janice said “What does it (the burn book) say about me?”

Cady responded “Nothing you’re not in it.” Janice replied “Bitches”

The school ran smoothly when this system was functioning at full capacity. This system had been in place since junior high which is apparent when a group of preteens walk past. This point is made in Andrew Ure’s paper. The introduction of Cady who hasn’t been socialized with other American students introduces a teenager who isn’t conditioned to blindly accept the order. Cady prevents the system from working at maximum capacity and eventually completely breaks the system down.

The beginning of Cady not fitting into the cybernetic system happened when she asked Regina to help hook her up with Aaron. Regina takes that opportunity to feed Aaron false information about Cady and restart their relationship, simply to prove to Cady that she could. When Regina was talking to Aaron Cady’s inner monologue was going “how could Janice have Regina she’s such a good” then she saw Regina kiss him and gasped “Slut!” At that point someone conditioned to fit into this system would simply move on to another click, Cady had revenge in mind and decided to continue to associate with the plastics specifically to sabotage Regina. A good portion of her attempts at sabotage didn’t have the desired effect, one simply started a new fashion trend. The more Cady fought the system the easier it was to tell it was breaking down, if one cog doesn’t work correctly it can destroy the system. The act that finally took Regina down was when Cady was able to have Regina gain weight. This began Regina’s downward spiral and caused the breakdown of the system that had been perfected over many years.

When Regina realized she no longer had control of the system that she had been ruling since its formation she fought back in typical Regina fashion, with no regard for anyone. She released the “Burn Book” which was a book where the Plastics wrote all the interesting gossip they knew about the entire school. This showed not only the breakdown of the cybernetic system but the blurring of the boundaries dividing the clicks. When a click read a page it came out that one of them broke the boundary of their unit and told someone a secret that should have never left their click. Aside from the dissolving of boundaries the cybernetic system lost its primary leader and completely shut down. The school was in a state of riot. One of the teachers went into the principal’s office and said “they’ve gone wild, the girls have gone wild.” When the principal walked into the hallway there was infighting in all the clicks there was no order anywhere in the building. Cady created that havoc whether or not she meant to, her constant transgressions while crossing boundaries and breakdown of the cybernetic system caused chaos.

Bibliography

Douglas, Mary. Purity and danger: an analysis of concept of pollution and taboo. London: Routledge, 2010. Print.

Freud, Sigmund, David McLintock, and Hugh Haughton. The Uncanny. New York: Penguin Books, 2003. Print.

Ure, Andrew. Philosophy of Manufactures or an Exposition of the Scientific, Moral, and Commercial Economy of the Factory System of Great Britain. 3rd Ed. New York: Burt Franklin, n.d. Print.

Michaels, Lorne, Tina Fey, Mark S. Waters, Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Tim Meadows, Amy Poehler, Ana Gasteyer, Lacey Chabert, Lizzy Caplan, Daniel Franzese, Neil Flynn,

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