The Silent Heroine of The Simpsons: Maggie Simpson

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For more than a quarter of a century, the American animated series The Simpsons has been on the screen. The restless yellow family from the small town of Springfield all this time continues to be the favorites of the whole world. The main characters are Homer, Marge, Bart, Fox (Lisa) and Maggie Simpson. They have become iconic for a long time. Each of them has their own fans. Most of the audience's love goes to Homer and Bart, the housewives love Marge, and the A's love Lisa. However, the youngest of the Simpson family, Maggie, is loved by absolutely everyone.

The Simpsons animated series: plot and characters

Starting in the late eighties, the Simpsons cartoon soon gained millions of fans. Over the years of its existence, he was able to survive many other cartoon and television projects. This series has earned phenomenal popularity thanks to the irony and self-irony of the cartoon. Its creators joke, parody, and sometimes harshly criticize absolutely everything: the modern way of life, culture, new technology, various religions, social institutions, and even themselves. And the Simpsons is always on.in step with the times and raise current topics. No matter how much trouble The Simpsons gets into, they always manage to keep their troubled family together.

At first, the main character of the animated series was the eldest child of the Simpson couple - a ten-year-old tomboy and inveterate bully Bart (Bartholomew). However, after a few seasons, it turned out that the uneducated, short-sighted glutton, the father of the Homer family, was more interesting to the public. Therefore, the plot centered around his antics.

To attract a female audience, quite often in some episodes, Homer's wife, a housewife and caring mother of three children, Marge (Margery), comes to the fore. And for more feminist viewers, some episodes are dedicated to the eldest daughter of the Simpsons - an eight-year-old excellent student, a Buddhist, a vegetarian and just a good girl, Lisa. Standing apart from all other members of the yellow family is Maggie Simpson from The Simpsons. She concentrates in herself almost all the main character traits of her relatives. At the same time, little Maggie, unlike others, always manages to get out of the water dry. Moreover, this little girl has an attempt to kill a person with a firearm on her account. And not alone.

Margaret Evelyn (Maggie) Simpson

Maggie's age ranges from eight months to one year. As a baby, she crawls, sometimes walks, but never talks. For all the seasons of the cartoon, Maggie Simpson spoke only twice: she said "dad", but no one heard it, and also made a speech in one of the stories,narrated by Marge.

An essential attribute of this baby is a red pacifier. Parting with her is very painful for the girl, so she always tries to return her, while showing unchildish resourcefulness. So, once Maggie even organized a riot among the kids to return the pacifier.

All the little Simpsons - Bart and Maggie and Lisa - were unplanned. However, Homer learned about Margaret last of all. The fact is that, having paid off all the loans, he quit his hated job at a nuclear power plant and got a job at a bowling alley. But suddenly Marge became pregnant. A family with three children needed more money than was paid at the bowling alley. In order not to upset her husband, Marge hid her position for many months. As a result, it was because of Maggie that Homer had to return to his old job.

Features of the heroine

Despite her young age, Maggie is as smart as Lisa. She is implied to be a genius. In addition, the younger Simpson is well aware of the surrounding reality, although sometimes she is childishly sentimental. When unable to speak, Maggie often expresses her thoughts and needs through pacifier smacking and gestures. Despite his cuteness, the baby is very good at handling many types of weapons.

Relationships with relatives

Homer often forgets that he has a third child. He does not remember her name, although in some episodes he enjoys spending time with his youngest daughter. She even saved his life a few times. All the resttime Margaret Evelyn (Maggie) Simpson next to her mother, to whom she is incredibly attached. So, during Marge's vacation, the baby ran away from home and went in search of her mother.

In some episodes, the girl proves her independence and maturity, without the help of Marge. Maggie Simpson gets along well with her brother and sister. It is noteworthy that they are almost not jealous of her parents. With her mother's sisters, the evil smoking twins Patty and Selma, Maggie doesn't like to spend time. Therefore, he tries his best to avoid it.

Criminal past

The biography of Maggie Simpson is full of interesting episodes related to violations of the law. In one of the seasons, she fired a revolver at a local antagonist - old man Burns. It happened when he wanted to take away her lollipop. Subsequently, everyone considered this an accident, but the expression on the baby’s face makes it clear that she did it on purpose.

Also, it was this innocent little girl who wounded members of the gang of mafiosi who came to kill her father with a rifle. However, no one knew about this. In the feature-length cartoon The Simpsons Movie, Maggie Simpson saved her dad again, as well as her brother Bart, by shooting a man about to kill them. This act was again considered an accident.

Rebel future

In some episodes of the TV series dedicated to the future of its characters, a grown-up baby is also shown. Maggie Simpson is meant to grow up to be a rebel and a singer. Although the audience never heard her vocals, the local priestLovejoy claims Maggie's voice is like an angel.

In the more distant future, Maggie became a famous singer in a rock band. She also gave birth to a daughter who looks like herself. And she named her little copy Maggie Jr. The child is very similar to his mother.

Maggie Simpson's character is the most versatile in the entire project. This is due to the fact that in different series the baby was credited with various character traits. Smart like Lisa, brave and independent like Bart, fun like Homer, Maggie became the favorite of not only her family, but also millions of viewers.