Unit 5: Personality

As Good As It Gets
Yasoda Rijal

Mr. Ring

Please complete the character analysis while watching the film.

Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson)
Identify and explain the Defense Mechanisms the character uses? (Freud)
Melvin Udall utilizes a number of Defense Mechanism in dealing with his feelings of anxiety.
Repression, obsession, and compulsion being the primary defence mechanism, is utilised a great
deal by Melvin.
Explain the Inferiority Complex the character exhibits? (Adler)
His relationship with his father could relate to his mental illness. He said his father made his life
stressful when he was a child. His dad is so strict about following the rules and other small
things. This is one of the family risk factor for the feelings of inferiority.
Explain how the character views themselves and how do others view them? (Rogers)
**High or Low Regard**
He seems to hate everything and everybody. He have the intense dislike of people and the dog.
But he seems to like himself and he is so obsessed about his stuff.
Where does the character fall on Eysneck Personality Table? Explain where you put them.
(Eysneck)
He has the unstable and introverted personality because he gets anxiety and he is unsociable, and
sober. He gets anxiety because of his disease, obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Identify where the character falls on the scale of The Big Five.
Extraversion - High because he is very outgoing and like to talk with people.
Agreeableness - Low because he is cruel and he dont believe anyone.
Conscientiousness - Low because he is unconcerned and dispassionate.
Openness to Experiences -Low because he is straightforward and skeptical.
Emotional Stability -Low because he cant control his emotions.
Carol Connelly (Helen Hunt)

Unit 5: Personality

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Mr. Ring

Identify and explain the Defense Mechanisms the character uses? (Freud)
Carol Connell use a replacing or displacement because she always throw out her madness at
Melvin whenever she become angry or mad.
Explain the Inferiority Complex the character exhibits? (Adler)
She is incapable and weak when it comes to her blood, her son.
Explain how the character views themselves and how do others view them? (Rogers)
**High or Low Regard**
People viewed her as an amazing woman who is very hardworking and self-reliant. She viewed
herself as a doubtful and an self-conscious women.
Where does the character fall on Eysneck Personality Table? Explain where you put them.
(Eysneck)
Choleric because her personality is active, and impulsive.
Identify where the character falls on the scale of The Big Five.
Extraversion - High because she is very outgoing and social person and talkative.
Agreeableness - High because she is easy to use her by showing our emotions and she is softheartened.
Conscientiousness - High because she is self-conscious so she is so serious and careful about
herself.
Openness to Experiences - Low because she is very empirical; she is not so theoretical.
Emotional Stability -Low because she is not secure about herself and she have some basic
anxiety.
Simon Bishop (Greg Kinnear)
Identify and explain the Defense Mechanisms the character uses? (Freud)
This character use repression because throughout the movie, he is trying to forget the incident
about and with his parent.

Unit 5: Personality

As Good As It Gets
Yasoda Rijal

Mr. Ring

Explain the Inferiority Complex the character exhibits? (Adler)

He is weak and powerless when it comes to his parent because he dont want to remember that
incident.
Explain how the character views themselves and how do others view them? (Rogers)
**High or Low Regard**
Other viewed him as a outgoing and experience person who knows what he wants in life, but he
feels himself as a shy and helpless for other.
Where does the character fall on Eysneck Personality Table? Explain where you put them.
(Eysneck)
He falls in Sanguine (Stable and extraverted) because he is carefree and responsible about his
things and his works.
Identify where the character falls on the scale of The Big Five.
Extraversion - High because he is active and he have the quality of being a leadership.
Agreeableness -High because people can trust him and he do trust other.
Conscientiousness - High because he is loving and want and like to be around people.
Openness to Experiences - High because he is creative and imagine lots of new things.
Emotional Stability - High; Calm and suppress his feelings and he knows how to use his
emotions effectively.
Frank Sachs (Cuba Gooding Jr.)
Identify and explain the Defense Mechanisms the character uses? (Freud)
This character is totally related to the Defense Mechanism definition because if he dont get or
happen in the way he wants, he always do bad things or act in an immature way. Its a regression.
Explain the Inferiority Complex the character exhibits? (Adler)
He acts like he is superior and confident because in real, he is inferior and have less self sense.
Explain how the character views themselves and how do others view them? (Rogers)

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As Good As It Gets
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Mr. Ring

**High or Low Regard**

He has a high thoughts about himself like he feels like his stands at the peak and he is superior.
Other also view same for him.
Where does the character fall on Eysneck Personality Table? Explain where you put them.
(Eysneck)
I put him between extroverted and unstable because he is aggressive, impulsive, and changeable
person.
Identify where the character falls on the scale of The Big Five.
Extraversion - High because he likes to talk with people and feel them everyday.
Agreeableness - High because he is easy to convince him for something.
Conscientiousness - Low because he is impulsive.
Openness to Experiences - Low because he is obsessed with routines like Melvin.
Emotional Stability - Low because he is bitter and not controllable.
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