This post contains spoilers For "Vampire Diaries".

In Season 3 of the "Vampire Diaries", the original vampire Elijah Michaelson (Daniel Illillis) writes Elena Gilbert (Nina Dobrev) letter darkened with regret. "Your compassion is a gift, Elena. Wear it with you, because I will quarrel my regret," Elijah writes, drawing to Humanity of Elena and her conscious choice to forgive/sympathize. This is just one of the many cases that highlights how crucial the humanity of Elena's "vampire diaries", especially while it is surrounded by Vampires of Undead with distorted, suspicious moral compasses.

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These supernatural creatures are also complex in their motivations, as well as its Love Bowl - Vampires Brothers Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) Salvatore - have different attitudes towards human lives and wish Elena for different reasons. Although Elena carries the best (and worst) in brothers and sisters in Salvatore, she is also sharply aware of the foolish bloodshed that comes with vampirism and how tragic such existence can be. So when Elena becomes a vampire after an unexpected twist of events, the solid moral anchor of the show is completely dismantled. Because vampirism increases any visible emotion, Elena's innate empathy struggles with her new thirst for brutality, leading to moral noise that leaves her completely broken.

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Unlike White Swan's persistent desire to sparkle under the sun in the "Twilight" sagaElena never wanted to be a vampire, even after they are for Inuubi in their kind. Although Elena is originally presented as just another teenager who navigated intense sadness, she is soon revealed that she is Petrova Dopelganger, condemned to repeat the past cycles of loss and trauma. This discovery is linked directly to its possible vampirism, which becomes inevitable once we realize that it cannot overcome fate. Given this, let's consider when and how Elena becomes a vampire and whether she can handle this new phase of existence throughout the play.

A series of convoluted events occur by the end of season 3 of the "Vampire Diaries", inadvertently leading to Elena's tragic death. A short story, the original hybrid Klaus Michaelson (Josephoseph Morgan) targets Elena because her blood is the key to creating a line of hybrids that will be subsidized. While Klaus kidnapped Elena to drain all the blood of her system, Tyler (Michael Trevino) saves her at the last minute, taking her to the hospital. After re -recovery, Elena makes a difficult decision to return to mystic waterfalls and stay with her friends (even if it means being in constant danger), so her friend Matt (Zac Roerig) is driving her home. However, Rebecca (Claire Holt) deliberately causes the vehicle to crash, making the car from the Vicker Bridge and thrown into the water below.

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Although the upset Stephen arrives on time to save them, Elena calls for her to save Matt first. He does it, but over time Stephen pulls Elena out of the water, she breathes the last. Unknown to all involved, Elena had vampire blood in her system when she died, as Dr. Meredit fell (Tori Devito) injected into her system to save her from fatal injuries inflicted by Klaus. There are several factors involved in this complex state, but the essence of matter is that regenerative vampire blood in her bloodstream prevents it from dying really, causing it to return as a vampire in season 4, episode 1, "growing pain".

What Elena is subjected to this episode is really her worst nightmare. To complete her transformation, Elena must insert human blood, but she tries to do so without taking life. It undergoes every stage of sadness as she moves with increased emotions and faces choice or to live with her choices or to "exclude" its humanity and become a monster without remorse. What is happening next is a decision to change the life that completely changes the status quo of the show, with Elena's basic person being gradually erased by malicious, self -serving instincts.

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Halfway through the show, we got acquainted with a cure, a highly coveted potion that can restore immortality and vampirism, turning the user back into a mortal. An interesting blend is presented with this McGufin, as the existence of treatment is tempting even the most militant vampires to give humanity another chance. As it turns out, even the original vampires as Rebecca desperately want to be human, because it longs for a simpler existence that does not involve constant conflict and (literally) back -to -back, so it often passes decades in the casket. In the end, only a small number of people choose to introduce the drug, including Elena and Damon, who decide to reject their immortal nature and grow old together.

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Although Elena's decision to drink the drug in Sseason 6 (after which Dobrev left the show) It is not unexpected or controversial, it is surprising that Damon, who has always accepted his blood impulses without remorse, decides to become human. It can be argued that for Falling in Elena has changed something fundamentally in it, but the 4-6 seasons paint the couple in a fairly complicated light. After all, Damon and Helen mirror each other, bringing passion and toxicity in a relationship that feels terrible co-dependent, and that is unlikely to change once they accept mortality. The show shines over these shades anyway, because their decision to be human together is wrapped in a neat "happy after" nail polish that is not very interesting to start (even when They are mentioned several times in the short-lived spin-off series, "Heritage").

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If you ask me, Elena Gilbert's true tragedy lies in the fact that she was robbed by her inherent compassion and struck in the existence marked by sadness and massacre without her consent. Although most vampire transformations in the show are involuntary, Humanity of Elena eroding in real time changes her personality into something completely unrecognizable. In the end, it cannot be felt that Elijah's sincere words in his letter to Elena predict the terrible price not to stick to compassion as firm as it should have.