Author’s note: If you realize it or not, real people have connections to fictional characters. Sometimes, they’re only alike in personality, other times they’re alike in their actions and things that reflect themselves. Also, a conflict with a real person can resolve in a way a fictional character may handle it. Today, I will be analyzing the conflict and resolution that made Lady Gaga into who she is today, and while doing that I will be comparing Lady Gaga (AkA Stefani Germanotta), to a character from one of my favorite Manga’s, Princess Jellyfish.
Situations in reality can often times result in a resolution that is similar to a fictional characters. For example, let’s take a situation that the author has been through. The author was bullied for quite some time, and with bravery and perseverance, she showed the bully that she was stronger, and made him go away. This resolution is similar to Maka Albarn’s way of defeating a terrible Kishin, who was known to be undefeatable. But, by using bravery, Maka defeated the Kishin with ease. The person and character this piece will analyze is Lady Gaga, and Kuranosuke, otherwise known as Kurako.
Lady Gaga, otherwise known as Stefani Germanotta, had been raised with music. She grew up with it, embracing it and loving it like it was her own child. Once she turned 14, she went to a very prestigious Catholic school in upstate New York, where she began to be bullied relentlessly. She got pushed into garbage cans, in lockers, and verbally abused also. Kuranosuke was bullied also, but not by his peers. Kuranosuke was bullied by his parents. He was verbally and physically abused by his father to be a politics buff like himself, even though he’d prefer to go into fashion. Stefani, a real person, and Kuranosuke, a fictional character, both have been through different types of bullying, both of them having to suck it up and deal with it. But, their resolutions aren’t what would be expected in this type of situation.
Both of these people, real and fictional, resolve their problems by improving their self esteem in a funny way. Stefani lets her talent envelope her, and she becomes Lady Gaga, the confident, self assured person that she had wanted to be for all of her life, but the school had held her back. She becomes fashion savvy, and vocally amazing, all with a little help from nightclubs and producers. Kuranosuke decides to basically tell his dad that he doesn’t care about politics, and he decides to start cross dressing as Kuroko, a fashion savvy rich girl who is confident, and friendly. As Kuroko, Kuranosuke becomes friends with new people, such as Tsukumi, who is the main character in the story. Kuroko is the person that Kuranosuke wishes he could be all the time, but around his dad, he still has to be Kuranosuke, thus the conflict comes back.
The resolution for both of these people, fictional and real, is to put on an alternate persona to the person they really are. For Stefani, becoming Lady Gaga is her safe haven, a person that she becomes where she can be herself with no limits, no restrictions. And for Kuranosuke, becoming Kuroko is the way to get away from his dad, and to be friends with girls who typically wouldn’t look twice at him. These people’s conflicts where almost exactly the same, and so was their resolution. For them, putting on an alternate persona fixed their problems that they had at school, or at home.
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