Brooke Davis and Blair Waldorf: Icons of Resilience

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Imagine finding out your boyfriend is cheating on you with your best friend. Your best friend doesn’t tell you because she wants to save you from a heartbreak, but she wants you to forgive her for stabbing you in the back. You focus your negative energy into your work, only to be told you can’t accomplish anything on your own. Brooke Davis, a female character from One Tree Hill, and Blair Waldorf, a female character from Gossip Girl, are two women that went through these difficulties without giving up. Blair once said, “If you really want something, you don’t stop for anyone or anything until you get it.” Brooke and Blair go through many lessons throughout their life on the show, becoming positive role models for viewers. While Brooke Davis and Blair Waldorf live two completely different lifestyles, Brooke and Blair are both confident, forgiving, and resilient. Brooke is portrayed as a wild, popular high school girl that …show more content…

Brooke is constantly told she can’t achieve her goals, but she doesn’t let other people stop her. Brooke uses the negativity in her life to motivate herself. After being told by a professional in the clothing industry that she will never create her own line, Brooke says, “She said your chances are one in a million, and I said, maybe I'm that one. She said you're not. She was wrong, and whatever she thought she saw in me was wrong, because I am that one in a million.” Brooke creates her own clothing line and becomes a multimillionaire, all because she believed in herself and her work. Blair also has a great deal of self-confidence. Blair is told by a countless number of people she couldn’t take over her mother’s clothing company. Blair took the challenge and not only succeeded, but she made the company better. She told the women who doubted her, “Ladies you can give your tiny brains a rest. Once again the world has proven that anything you can do, I can do

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