I’m seeing a lot of people call Angela the new Mielle, but honestly she’s even worse. Mielle already had all the power and wealth in the world. She hated Aria because she was raised with the idea that commoners were lowly and beneath her (like most noble children), but then one day she suddenly had to welcome two commoners of the lowest social rungs (a prostitute and the child of a prostitute) into her house, and be told that one (Aria) was equal status to her, and the other one (Aria’s mom) was of a higher status (because she became her stepmom, Mielle would have to be obedient to her). Not to mention, her dead mom just got replaced by her father’s mistress. While it’s shitty and no excuse for what she had done, at least she had a legitimate reason (for the time period and her social status) for plotting the downfall of Aria. In her eyes, it was restoring everything to its rightful place.
Angela, on the other hand, is just an ungrateful bitch. She had nothing, and this kind family welcomed her in as one of their own. They gave everything she could have ever wanted and treated her with nothing but kindness, and she just stabs them in the back just because she can. Like, she was literally going to become the queen even without framing the Bellachateur family. She killed the people who saved her from poverty just because of some stupid inferiority complex she was projecting onto Jayna. Like, what a bitch.