Originally posted by: fria319
@ bold: I disagree about Raghav being primarily responsible but I agree with everything else you said for your #2 point. This may be an unpopular opinion here, and I'm willing to discuss with others about it & be open minded, but in general, I'm tired of everyone acting as if Pallavi isn't an adult who can't make her own decisions and doesn't have her own free will and agency.
Whether it's the characters deciding things for her (i.e. SKB & Raghav deciding if Pallavi should or should not go to D house - like what in the world was that. She was standing RIGHT THERE) or people on this forum saying she's being emotionally manipulated and thus shouldn't be "blamed" for her actions, I wish everyone would recognize that Pallavi is an adult woman who is capable of deciding things for herself.
You and only you can decide how you react to other people's actions & statements. You have to know yourself really well and be cognizant of the situation to really stop yourself from being manipulated. And even then, often as humans we let ourselves be emotionally manipulated by those we love because we give them that power over us, it's pretty natural. But just because someone is emotionally manipulated doesn't mean they're not responsible for their actions. We all have our own brains that we can use to think and decide whats best for ourselves.
I'm not saying its 100% her fault for thinking what she's thinking, but I'm also saying she has her own choices she can make and she chose what she chose. We can't "blame" that on anyone or anything but her.
I've been emotionally manipulated before, I know how it feels, I understand how it can happen without you realizing it. I looked back at myself and asked myself how I could have ever let that happen. My own family had asked me how I could ever let that happen because they would've never thought a woman who was educated, smart and successful (LOL NOT tooting my own horn but I hope the point makes sense) would ever let that happen to her. They would've never guessed in a million years that I would let someone who I was ready to marry do that to me. So I get that part of it. Of not recognizing when or how it started. But it never absolved me from the decisions I made during that time. And it could never, because in the end I still consciously made those decisions.
It doesn't of course mean she's not unforgivable or should be written off as a lost cause. Or should be bashed and trashed and dragged. But IMO, we need to hold characters responsible for their own decisions.
Yes Raghav was wrong to take it as far as he did in that moment, but Pallavi can choose to react that way or not. We get to decide for ourselves what we let affect us and influence our decisions. And even then, I get why she left at that moment. I don't even really blame her for that. A lot of it was her anger speaking. What really upset me was her accepting SKB vachan as if her mother was not also saying at the same time, you don't have to do this.