Dominant Fe: Danielle is quick to express her opinions and does so very fervently. Though she often talks in what she believes to be facts, everything she says is somehow connected to her emotions. She immediately punishes Henry for stealing her father’s horse, because the animal holds strong emotional connotations with her past experiences. She usually considers others before herself and is willing to put herself in dangerous illegal Continue reading
Dominant Se: Pippin is forever in this moment, right now, having fun. He wants everything to involve fun, and has a hard time understanding that there’s a time and a place for everything. He loves to prank and get into trouble and rarely considers the consequences of his actions. Because he thinks so little about the future, it takes Pippin Continue reading
Dominant Ti: Magnussen collects and analyses information, and refers to his process of reviewing information as “reading.” He needs a way to organize information, thus the “mind palace” (my theory is that he has a photographic memory, but uses a memory palace in addition in order to organize his thoughts). Magnussen gives extremely short answers for everything, not giving out any information until he knows the people he’s giving Continue reading
Dominant Ni: Sherlock is wired for problem solving, He frequently makes logic jumps to pinpoint future occurrence and then works his way backwards to develop a strategy to prevent the outcome. His talent for reading people is almost supernatural, and because of his quickness to anticipate other people’s actions, he is able to adjust his plans accordingly. Though he loves problem solving, he isn’t overly fond of surprises because he’s used to being able to accurately predict everything. For instance, when Magnussen turns Continue reading
The Byronic hero so byronic that Byron himself begins to notice!
Totally stoked for the mini-series to come out!
Dominant Extraverted Intuition (Ne): Jonathan Strange is fascinated by new ideas and loves to explore. He firmly believes that magic should be looked at as a wide, free expanse that is to be explored. This is where he differs from Mr. Norrell, who views magic as a wide expanse, that should be controlled and maintained. In his younger days, he is extremely indecisive about his career. He has thousands of ideas as to what he might like to be, but isn’t overly motivated to pursue any of them. His solutions to problems are always readily creative, and he’s able to Continue reading
Dominant Fi: Juliet finds it very important to stay true to herself, and though at times she feels guilty for it, she is not afraid to willingly disobey her parents orders to follow her heart. In fact, she is willing to let them believe that she is dead in order to follow her heart. Juliet makes choices based purely on her feelings –she does what feels authentically right to her, whether or not others believe it is right or not. In a sense, she doesn’t believe Continue reading
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Dominant Ni: Kurt Wallander instinctually knows when something isn’t right. He can typically tell which direction a case is headed before he’s even examined the clues in depth. This, of course, doesn’t stop him from checking to make sure he’s right, but he typically is fairly close to the truth. He’s open to possibility, and frequently brings up possibilities that no one else considered. As he says, “it’s a possibility –everything’s a possibility.” He has laser Continue reading
Dominant Ne: Mr. Teatime is a pro at reading people. He quickly figures out their weaknesses and uses these to manipulate them. He lives in the realm of possibility so much that when asked whether he might be able to kill personifications, he has already considered the possibility and analyzed the ways to go about it. He’s a planner, but willingly deviates from said plan whenever better possibilities present themselves. He views life in terms of the big picture, and rather than trying an conventional Continue reading
Dominant Te: Othello expresses his feelings and desires best through action. Though the audience does not get to witness it, Othello is clearly organized and task oriented enough to work his way up through the ranks of the Venetian military. He jumps into action as soon as he recognizes a quick and direct solution to a problem. Instead of stopping to consider possibilities of falsehood in Iago’s words, he immediately instigates a punishment on Desdemona. His criticisms of others and himself are frank and objective. He doesn’t appoint men in his army Continue reading
Dominant Si: Gatsby is obsessed with and living in the past. Everything he does is either aimed toward bringing back the good things in his past or from eliminating the bad. Daisy is a good memory from his past, and so he works hard to recreate the experiences he had with her during the war. “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can.” His parents and penniless childhood is a bad memory that he not only rejects, but does everything to get away from. He’s changed his name, and isn’t guilty doing illegal jobs in order to avoid being poor. Continue reading
Dominant Si: Mr. Norrell easily discerns changes in people’s behavior and countenances, but does not always make accurate judgements based off of these observations. For instance, after Chilldermass is shot by Lady Pole, he is able to discern the servant’s disagreement with him about magic, but takes offense at it, wrongly assuming that Chilldermass intends to abandon him and join ranks with Jonathan Strange. Without unrefutable evidence, Mr. Norrell refuses to see any piece of knowledge as legitimate. Yet, at times, fear prevents him from actually seeking out proof (he won’t go to faery or summon faeries). Mr. Norrell lives in the past, present and future simultaneously. He has a clear vision of what he wants to accomplish (bringing magic back to England), but that goal translates to turning the future into the past. Continue reading
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Dominant Fe: Bilbo, despite the fact that he doesn’t want the dwarves in his house, is reluctant to send them away. Notwithstanding his dislike for the idea of adventuring, he still decides to help the dwarves out with their quest. He carefully thinks before speaking because he doesn’t want to offend others and finds it easy to adapt his behavior to suit the needs of people/creatures very different from himself. This comes in very handy when Continue reading
Dominant Si: Ophelia knows how life was in the past, and likes it to stay that way. Unlike Hamlet, who “goes mad” mainly because he can’t handle the fact that others are apathetic about his father’s death, Ophelia goes mad purely because she cannot handle the abrupt changes in her life. Within hours of her father’s death, she has literally fallen to pieces. She knows when people are different than they used to be, and she can easily pin-point exactly what has changed. Rather than accusing Hamlet for mistreating her, she Continue reading
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