Rumple Personality

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Once Upon A Time is primarily a television series about various enchanted lands with actual people. Many of these enchanted lands have magic, giants and fairy tale characters known from stories viewers read and heard while growing up. Unlike the stories, these situations are really happening. Unlike in the stories we remember, these fairytale characters struggle to keep their "happily ever after." While the stories viewers heard growing up ended, the stories in “Once Upon A Time” are continuous. Rumplestiltskin, called Rumple, is one of the central villains in Once Upon A Time. The television show showed him plotting to cast a dark curse over the land called Enchanted Forest to try to reunite himself with his son, Baelfire (also called Bae). Enchanted Forest is tied to the newer town of Storybrooke. Rumple demonstrates various psychological and personality traits that will help us understand him as a villain. Rumple demonstrates narcissistic traits by being persuasive and constantly plotting. He displays selfish behavior, need for respect, and lack of sympathy for others sacrifices (Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-IV., 1994, p. 661). This diagnostic list for Narcissistic Personality Disorder lists the main villain’s personality traits. I will reveal how Rumple’s actions fit this, and other, personality disorders.
Acquiring magical infinite powers, Rumple is asked to make deals with others, but many of those deals always end up being difficult for the person asking. This difficulty involved many learning that all magic used comes with a price. It was revealed that Rumple was the one who presented Regina, the other central villain, with the curse that was used to send characters to Storybrooke; ho...

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...ity needed by an individual who does not feel adequately equipped or inclined for life’s problems (Ciccarelli & White, 2012, p. 512). Rumple has demonstrated many of these traits and others of Alder’s theory.
Another of Adler’s theories discusses that there are a several pathological personalities which can be formed, however, Rumple is the dangerous ruling dominant type, which is characterized by an active and aggressive attempt to master their lives and the people in them. Having this type of personality impairs his ability to form as Adler’s, which is known as social interest, the sense of linking to and empathy for other individuals (Bickhard, 1976, pp. 29-30). Rumplestiltskin’s long-lasting anxiety set in when he was left powerlessness, yet, also afraid of being weak again. He would rather lose everything than agree to take anything less than absolute power.

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