Daria and Politics: Difference between revisions

In the internal character bios for the production crew, seen in the ''Complete Animated Series'' DVD, Helen and Jake were given political leanings, as well as being hypocrits when it came to them. Helen was said to be "a little more obviously right wing" than Jake and a constant volunteer in the community, and "believes her work on the Coat Drive should exempt her neighbourhood from having to put up with the half-way house". Jake was said to "consider himself pretty liberal, but that's mostly just a sentimental, nostalgic view of his old self" and that he was now apolitical "unless something threatens his money, or a neighbour is running for the school board". Most of this wouldn't make it into the show itself.

 

===Angela Li===

Principal Li is best known in the series for her grossly authoritarian and ruthless management style. While her character is generally acknowledged as being over the top for comic effect, the actual governing system she commands within [[Lawndale High]] borders on being a paranoid Stalinist police state that glorifies both herself and the school, in that order. A school memo from her that appears in ''[[The Daria Diaries]]'' is highly revealing of her reactionary attitudes and practices, and she and other characters make numerous off-hand remarks in the TV series about the school being outfitted with hidden cameras and bomb-sniffing dogs ("[[Jake of Hearts]]"), polygraph machines ("[[Fair Enough]]"), and bullet-proof skylights ("[[Too Cute]]").