Personality has been a subject matter of interest and controversy for decades; there are various theories and theorists that have been developed because of this. Theory and research however has become more complex due to conceptual and methodological limitations. It can be said that psychoanalytic roles can change for a brief amount of time before eventually the individual’s personality will revert back. In the film ‘Mean Girls’ Cady demonstrates a distinct personality; one that undergoes change throughout the film. Alport’s hypothesis phenotypes , further supports Cady’s personality change; due to the environmental change her personality altered to find acceptance within her surroundings. (0:04:30) Firstly, Cady wants to find her immediate …show more content…
gratification through acceptance within society. During her first week at Shore’s high Cady skips health class simply because Janis told her ‘we’re friends’, (06:13) Janis provides Cady gratification because she has paid attention to her and is being accepted by somebody. Cady doesn’t question getting in trouble or any of the consequences she could face with skipping class. This demonstrates social compliance and her high level of agreeableness, and how Cady would go to any lengths to be acknowledged. That being said Cady is very open to new experiences, being open to the new change of cultures and homes. Furthermore, it is proven that she is insecure hence why she became so obsessed with being a plastic; they are popular, and everyone idolises Regina and strives to be like her (07:52).
An example of Freuds defence mechanisms would be in one scene (41:33) where it shows all four plastics walking in a row, all wearing pink and with their hair down; all because Regina told them. Cady follow’s Regina, watching how she receives everything she wants by what she wants. She in turn begins to imitate her image, from the way she dresses to the way she acts. This is also an example of identification; the girls want to be someone else to mask their own insecurities. This is further displayed when Cady told her friends she would be joining the mathletes and they tell her that it was social suicide resulting in her not joining. (15:44) In support of this theory Cady loses sight of her conscientiousness when she becomes a cold shiny plastic. Towards the end she works to regain her conscientiousness; she knows she’s done wrong and she knows she needs to fix it once again proving whilst her personality altered she reverted back into her innocent and naïve self. The various circumstances provide profound evidence as to why her personality underwent change. The limitation with the Five Factor Model is that doesn’t explain all of the human personality; compare Cady and Regina it’ll be easier to analyse Cady’s personality with the Five Factor Model than Regina due to the fact that the model neglects majority of Regina’s personality
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The film Mean Girls is about a young girl, Cady Heron, born and raised in Africa by her zoologist parents, who were also her homeschool teachers for sixteen years. When Cady moves to the United States, she enrolls in a public school for the first time. Here she realizes that high school students have the same hierarchy as the animals she observed in Africa. The lowest ranking group in this high school hierarchy is the outcasts, who also happen to be Cady’s first friends in the U.S. The highest on the high school food chain are the “plastics”. The “plastics”, are the most popular girls in school. The plastic’s notice Cady’s charming personality and stunning good looks and invite her to join their clique. In order to avenge her first friends,
The film Friday Night Lights, directed by Peter Berg explains a story about a small town in Odessa, Texas that is obsessed to their high school football team (Permian Panthers) to the point where it’s strange. Boobie Miles (Derek Luke) is an cocky, star tailback who tore his ACL in the first game of the season and everyone in the town just became hopeless cause their star isn’t playing for a long time. The townspeople have to now rely on the new coach Gary Gaines (Billy Bob Thornton), to motivate the other team members to be able to respect, step up their game, and improve quickly. During this process, racism has made it harder to have a success and be happy and the team has to overcome them as a family.
Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger is a story about a football town. The name of the town is Odessa. It is a small town on the west side of Texas and football is the only thing that matters. Bissinger gives the reader a glimpse of what life is like at an area high school called Permian. Very few towns are obsessed with sports like Permian and Ringgold when it comes to sports programs. In this essay, Permian and Ringgold sports will be compared by their programs and values that they place on sports.
"Cold, shiny, hard, PLASTIC," said by Janice referring to a group of girls in the movie Mean Girls. Mean Girls is about an innocent, home-schooled girl, Cady who moves from Africa to the United States. Cady thinks she knows all about survival of the fittest. But the law of the jungle takes on a whole new meaning when she enters public high school and encounters psychological warfare and unwritten social rules that teen girls deal with today. Cady goes from a great friend of two "outcasts", Janice and Damien to a superficial friend of the "plastics", a group of girls that talks about everyone behind their back and thinks everyone loves them. Adolescent egocentrism and relationships with peers are obviously present throughout the film. I also noticed self worth in relationships, parenting styles, and juvenile delinquency throughout Mean Girls.
This essay will explore one of the possible combinations of theories on personality and explain how it can be applied in practical therapy.
Amy Heckerling’s movie Clueless focuses on an upper middle class 16-year-old girl, Cher, who lives in a nice neighborhood with her father and stepbrother, Josh. Cher and her friend, Dionne, take in a new girl, Tai, to help her fit into their high school. All of the major characters in the movie are in adolescence, which ranges from 10-19 years of age. In adolescence, teenagers undergo cognitive and emotional development. According to Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, adolescents are in formal operational period from 11-20 years of age. During this period, adolescents develop abstract thinking and rational decision making. They experience two aspects of adolescent egocentrism, imaginary audience
High Noon (1952) starring Gary Cooper is an American western film directed by Fred Zinnemann and is considered, both culturally and historically, as being one of the most significant films ever produced. The plot begins with Cooper's character Will Kane, the longtime marshal of Hadleyville, New Mexico, turning in his badge in order to marry Amy Fowler, a pacifist Quaker, played by Grace Kelly. His intention is to become a storekeeper and lead a peaceful life with his new bride. However, fate will not make this as easy to do as it may sound.
A personality is a combination of various attributes that belong to a single person. Each one has its own unique qualities and traits that create an individual that is different from any other human being. How this individuality is formed depends on the environment that a person has lived through and their experiences. Alison Bechdel grew up in a home with a father who alienated himself from his family so that he could conceal a dark secret from his life. Nevertheless, Bechdel was able to take from her past so that she could become a strong and independent women who kept true to who she was. Likewise, straying from the expected path of her family, Dorothy Allison was determined to become the person who she wanted to be. Expressing who she is and not changing to match others expectations has become high priority in Allison’s adult life. It was through a journey of hardship in their childhoods, both Allison and Bechdel were able to discover their individual identities in their adult life.
Both Footloose movies are almost the same, they were just created almost 30 years apart. The original Footloose came out in 1984, and in 2011, the remake of Footloose followed. Although there is hardly ever a remake that’s better than an original, this one seems to be an exception. If the viewer takes into consideration the acting and dancing of the characters, the plot and racial diversity, and the advancements in technology, they will find that the newer version is much better than the older one.
Klimstra et al. (2009), explains how certain traits may hinder or benefit lifespan development “Extraversion refers to dominance and activity in interpersonal situations; Agreeableness refers to the willingness to maintain positive and reciprocal relationships with others; Conscientiousness refers to organizational and motivational aspects of a person’s behavior; Emotional Stability indicates the ability to deal effectively with negative emotions; and Openness to Experience refers to how a person deals with new information at a personal and experiential level”. Extraversion is seen in the beginning; Cady is a very introvert person when she eats lunch by herself. Agreeableness is portrayed when she begins to agree to do anything to fit in and gain acceptance. Conscientiousness, she had a very good conscientious from starting off as a good daughter, student, and friend but she begins to lose sight of it all. However, gains recognition of her conscientiousness, self-identity, and overall self-worth in the end. Her emotional stability is weak because she gives in to her social norms that change her character. Cady’s openness to experience is high because she is not shy to new experiences out of the ordinary. Her experiences throughout the film hindered and benefited her moral character and her development. However, she gained a whole new perspective from her experience with
One of the major conflicts is the intrapersonal conflict Cady has with herself. Cady goes from being home-schooled in Africa to entering the “girl-world” in high school. Throughout the movie, Cady is trying to fit in, become popular and to get the attention of her crush, Aaron Samuels. This causes Cady to ultimately lose herself in the process of becoming Plastic. In the effort to take revenge on Regina for taking Aaron back, Cady loses her own self by attempting to be Regina. This gets Janis to notice Cady’s transformation especially when Cady throws party the same night of Janis’s art show and doesn’t even show up to the art show. Janis came to Cady’s house tell her: “You think that everyone is in love with you, when actually, everyone hates you.” Cady then has to decide whether she wants to become a better person or become someone she’s
The romantic comic drama film Pretty Woman began on Hollywood Boulevard and progressed to Beverly Hills which transitioned from the impoverished areas to the richer area in Los Angles California during the 1990s. The film stars Richard Gere, who played Edward Lewis and Julia Roberts, who played Vivian ward. In this film, Vivian is a Los Angeles prostitute battling with her way of life associated with sexuality and poverty and needing money to pay the rent. Edward is a rich businessperson who purchases companies that are in difficult financial situations and sell them in pieces. On a business trip to Los Angeles, Edward proposition Vivian to be his escort for business, personal, and social functions while he accompanied his wealthy groups of
Horney makes use of the term ‘neurotic trends’ to account for an individual’s “behaviours and attitudes towards oneself that express a person’s needs” (Schultz & Scultz, 2008). These neurotic trends include the movement away from people (the detached personality), movement against people (the aggressive personality) and movement towards people (the compliant personality) which are evident in the movie and account for Precious’ personality development (Schultz & Schultz, 2008). Neurotic needs are seen a coping devices used to confront one’s anxiety (Harris, 2012). Those with a detached personality are desperate for perfection and independence, while those with an aggressive personality crave power, social recognition, personal achievement and administration (Harris, 2012). In contrast to this, those that have a compliant personality crave approval and affection (Harris, 2012). The movie begins in a dream like setting where the main...
Feminist theory was derived from the social movement of feminism where political women fight for the right of females in general and argue in depth about the unequality we face today. In the aspect of cinema, feminists notice the fictitious representations of females and also, machismo. In 1974, a book written by Molly Haskell "From Reverence to Rape: The treatment of Women in Movies" argues about how women almost always play only passive roles while men are always awarded with active, heroic roles. Moreover, how women are portrayed in movies are very important as it plays a big role to the audience on how to look at a woman and how to treat her in real life due to the illusionism that cinema offers. These images of women created in the cinema shapes what an ideal woman is. This can be further explained through an article 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema' written by a feminist named Laura Mulvey in 1975. She uses psychoanalysis theories by Sigmund Freud to analyze 'Scopophilia' which is the desire to see. This explains how the audience is hooked to the screen when a sexy woman is present. In a bigger picture, where Scopophilia derives from, 'Voyeurism' is also known as feeling visual pleasure when looking at another. Narcissism on the other hand means identifying one's self with the role played. It is not hard to notice that in classical cinema, men often play the active role while the women are always the object of desire for the male leads, displayed as a sexual object and frequently the damsels in distress. Therefore, the obvious imbalance of power in classical cinema shows how men are accountable to moving the narratives along. Subconsciously, narcissism occurs in the audience as they ...
To most people the movie Mean Girls is simply a silly teen chick flick and is not good for anything but pure entrainment. Even though Mean Girls is slightly dramatized, high school in reality is perfectly portrayed through this movie. Every high school varies but there is always a domain group of students. The socially powerful are the rich and beautiful girls and everyone else are the loyal subjects to their castle. However, there is a twist in Mean Girls, the message is actually positive. Mean Girls is sending a message that women should not criticize one another to feel empowerment, it is unattractive to men to be mindless, and that White Americans have domains over other races. This movie also implies that nothing wrong with being different from what society accepts.