Few characters were more restless, critical and captivating than this Argentinian girl created by the great cartoonist Quino. But what made it so special that it reached half a century without getting old?Mafalda is more alive than ever: the strength of her humanity, her questions and her concerns allow her to retain the same charm as before. The wind takes no sincere words and rebellion never loses its desire to change the world.
“It’s not true that the past was better, what’s going on is that those who were in a bad situation didn’t notice.
- Mafalda is a curious and provocative middle-class Argentine girl.
- A rebellious and conscious character who.
- While representing idealism and a utopian view of the world.
- Does not accept destructive criticisms that emphasize anarchism.
- Her struggle has a purpose and aims to be part of that change.
- He wants to study languages to work at the United Nations so that he can create a better and more human world.
- For her.
- Her struggle has a simple aspiration: peace and harmony in our crazy world.
Mafalda is generous and patriotic, but his patriotism not only covers his beloved Argentina; she thinks of the whole world. The problem is that the world is too big and too small. His precocity is able to awaken minds and open borders, starting with his parents, usually passive and conformist.
He hates injustice, nuclear weapons, racism and incomprehensible conventions created by adults, but is there anything he hates most?It’s the soup.
The legacy left to us by this bangs girl is the awakening of consciousness, no matter if she was born in the turbulent sixties, the years have passed, but we still feel the same emptiness and misunderstanding, if Mafalda’s mascot was a turtle is called “bureaucracy” because it moves slowly, does it seem that little has changed since then?
Quino has left us a social archetype of non-compliance that we all need to develop, to have a critical view of the world helps us to value and improve our reality, Mafalda lives today and will continue to live as long as there is injustice everywhere in the world.
Social incompetence, injustice and evil will always exist. However, a small voice is often enough to take away our passivity, to challenge ourselves through insistent questions to this static system, things that we often don’t even notice. Mafalda represents our aspiration to idealism, with a shadow of pessimism, but strong enough to change the world.