Character Analysis Of Mona Vanderwaal's 'Pretty Little Liars'

Pretty Little Liars is a television show based on a popular book series about group of five friends named Alison, Hanna, Aria, Emily, and Spencer. The girls began to separate after the leader of the group, Alison, went missing one summer.. They began to get threatening messages from an anonymous source a year after her disappearance. The person sending the messages went by the alias “A”. “A” threatened to expose their secrets and blackmailed them to get what she wanted. Some of the secrets were things that they thought only Alison knew. The four friends banned together to find out who “A” was. There were many different “A’s” throughout the show. The original “A”, the one who started it all, was a girl by the name of Mona Vanderwaal. Mona Vanderwaal is one of the most interesting characters in the show Pretty Little Liars. She has a lot of different sides to her. Mona started out as a smart, nerdy girl when she was in middle school. Despite being treated badly by Alison, Mona seemed to be obsessed with her and …show more content…
Mona exhibits the concept mastery through reversal role because she repeated in an active role what she previously experienced in a passive role. As I mentioned earlier, Mona used to be very unpopular. She was bullied and rejected by the popular girls, particularly Alison, the most popular girl in school. Mona wanted to be like Alison. Every chance she had, she tried to talk to Alison and be her friend. However, she was rejected every time. Once Alison went missing Mona befriended Hannah. Mona even gave Hannah a makeover which made her look very similar to Alison. Once they became the pretty popular girls, Mona began to treat people the way Alison used to treat her. She even began to call her old, unpopular friends the names Alison used to call them. So, she used mastery through reversal role because she began to bully others because she used to get