What I like about Rebeka and Cayetana is that they are two characters that oppose each other. Cayetana is an example of a declassed person, someone willing to sacrifice the integrity of the people who love her (like her mother) in order to socially escalate, who renounces what she really is (someone from the working class) to blend in with an environment oppressor she wants to belong to. It is, as we would say in Spain, one “I want and I cannot have”.
Cayetana is what many would call a class traitor, she allies with the oppressors and despises the oppressed (which she basically does when joins Lucrecia or despises her mother repeatedly) while Rebeka is the other side of the coin.
Rebeka was originally a working class person who has ended up being rich, but that has not made her forget her origins or the social class she has always belonged to. Rebeka retains her class conscience, rejecting school snobbery, classist attitudes and immediately join those she identifies as her equals (Nadia or Samuel) rejecting those she recognizes as oppressors or natural enemies of her original social class. For me, one of the most important moments for Rebeka this season, which gives the final brushstroke to her profile as a character, is when she accuses her mother of having become an ‘oppressor’ and also of being 'one of them’ in reference to the people who use their privileges to exploit others. That scene was gold because it shows us how Rebekah, first and foremost, is faithful to her principles and origins, quite the opposite of Cayetana.
Cayetana and Rebeka are two characters with points in common but each one in an opposing team. These differences are, in turn, what defines them as characters and what also defines my opinion about them. I can’t forgive Cayetana for being a class traitor, I can understand that she wants to fit in, that she needs to be cool in the high school, but she doesn’t have some basic principles for me. On the other hand, I love that Rebekah, despite everything, be faithful to the person she has always been, regardless of the zeros in her account and always keep in mind where she comes from.
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