Fiction

Arvid – Swing Kids: INTJ

Arvid Walton

Swing Kids

Arvid Swing Kids INTJ MBTI

Ni: Arvid has a natural affinity for predicting how the future will play out as a result of current events. He has a huge picture view of the world that allows him to recognise subtle patterns in what is happening around him (such as Nazi control). When other people fail to recognise the same patterns that he does, he grows increasingly disillusioned, and eventually lashes out in anger. He can be a bit arrogant at times, which gets on Thomas’s nerves, causing conflict between them. When he realises that other people lack the visions Continue reading →

Rose MacClare: ESFP

Arvid Walton

Downton Abbey

Rose McClare ESFP | Downton Abbey MBTI

Se: Rose loves dancing and partying and doesn’t enjoy the slowness of Downton. She wants to live in the moment, doesn’t really plan ahead but doesn’t have a problem with surprises. She is highly stimulated by her surroundings, particularly when the setting is lively and there’s music playing. Rose loves spontaneity and beauty and enjoys a good chance to Continue reading →

ISTJ Stereotypes in “The Imitation Game”

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ISTJ Stereotypes in

ISTJs are frequently stereotyped as whining, OCD, rule-obsessed intellectuals with no social skills. Either that, or they’re portrayed as evil, emotionless cyborgs with no sense of humour. As someone with a close ISTJ friend, I understand exactly how terrible those stereotypes can be on a person. Unfortunately, such stereotypes are ever present in the media, and have found their way needlessly into the recent film, The Imitation Game. Continue reading →

Edgar Allan Poe: INTP

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Edgar Allan Poe INTP MBTI

Ti: Edgar Allan Poe was meticulous and methodical in his writing. He had a specific method for everything, and wrote using many a long word (specificity was of utmost importance). Organisation wasn’t his strong suit, but losing jobs was. He was pro at maths while in school (to the point of being known for it), but due to disillusionment and frequency of missed classes, was expelled from West Point. Continue reading →

Ralph Waldo Emerson: INTJ

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Ralph Waldo Emerson MBTI INTJ

Ni: In multiple of his essays, Emerson focuses specifically on intuition as a source of intelligence, also specifying that for him, it always comes before analysis. Emerson had many very specified focuses, which he was able to obsess over until he had fully fleshed out the ideas to the point where there were few logical fallacies. The structure of his arguments was always such that it’s clear he spent hours Ni-logic-jumping all over the concepts in a chaotic fashion before he organised them into an easy-to-follow Te structure. Continue reading →

Robert Crawley: ISFJ

Arvid Walton

Downton Abbey

Robert Crawley ISFJ | Downton Abbey MBTI

Si: Robert is a man of the past. He’s quite upset by the changing times because it means doing away with tradition and predictable lifestyle. He holds on to the past like a life vest to the point that it becomes more of a sinking weight, holding him down. He doesn’t want to change the way the estate is run because in the past, the way they’ve done things has worked. During the war he feels inferior to the younger soldiers because he feels he’s not living up to traditional Continue reading →

Spock: ISTJ

Arvid Walton

Star Trek

Spock ISTJ | Star Trek MBTI

Si: Let’s just put it this way. Spock has the entire starfleet rulebook memorised. And fear not, he’ll inform you if you violate even the most minute aspect of these rules. It doesn’t matter how strong your friendship with Spock is; he will still cop at you if you break rules (not to say he isn’t extremely loyal). Details are embedded in Spock’s brain like women are in Kirk’s. Image is important to Spock, enough so that he he pretends not to assign Uhura to the Enterprise in Continue reading →

John Nash: INTJ

Arvid Walton

A Beautiful Mind

John Nash A Beautiful Mind INTJ MBTI

Ni: John Nash was a bit of a workaholic. He was so focused on his vision of what he wanted to accomplish that he had difficulty refraining from that focus to attend lectures, socialise, or date (until compelled). He had an incredibly big picture view of things, to the point that he saw little value in attending classes while in college. He saw fitting into the system as a waste of time, and valued innovation and original thinking instead. Nash’s hallucinations presented themselves in such a way that he believed himself to be a code-breaker, a man paid to Continue reading →

Ford Prefect: ENTP

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Ford Prefect ENTP | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy MBTI

Ne: Ford wants to do everything, see everything and he sort of gets his wish –aside from the boring 15 years he spends trapped on earth. His writing (for the Hitchhiker’s Guide) is rambling and doesn’t stick to one topic or even come to conclusions most of the time. He improvises a lot, Continue reading →

Jack Dawson: ESFP

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Titanic

Jack Dawson ESFP | Titanic MBTI

Se: Jack is spontaneous, living in the present and observant of his surroundings. He pays attention to little things in his environment and can use them to his advantage at the spur of the moment. He says he wants to make each day count, not the future, not the past –each day. He jumps into action quickly, acting to save Rose’s life and slipping into first class dining halls last minute. He’s a visual person, an artist in fact (but sadly doesn’t Continue reading →

Thomas Berger – Swing Kids: ESTP

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Swing Kids

Swing Kids MBTI - Thomas Berger

Se: Of the hep cats, Thomas is definitely the most physically active, and the quickest to act. He’s always the first to jump into a fight and the last to stop dance. He loves to improvise and the thrill of the moment is of utmost pleasure to him (thus, we shall steal a radio). He gets particularly excited when the gestapo award him with a motor bike, and loves to pop out and frighten people to get a reaction out of them. He punishes immediately, Continue reading →

Elsa – Frozen: ISTJ

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Frozen

Si: Elsa is perpetually in a self-made cage haunted by the past. Even after she professes to having “let it go” she’s really still holding on to it. Elsa is afraid of what her people will think of her for being different and practices social graces with astute determination to try to hide it. She is often so detail oriented that she fails to recognise the big-picture implications of current events as well as her own actions. For instance –freezing the entire kingdom goes beyond her notice because Continue reading →

Zaphod Beeblebrox: ESFP

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

Zaphod Beeblebrox ESFP | The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy MBTI

Se: Zaphod’s primary goal in life (if you want to call it a goal) is to make a scene –a very big scene. “Zaphod loved effect: it was what he was best at.” He’s a performer who loves to show off his skill and talent luck and charm. He’s that guy who gives the party soul, but is also the most likely to forget to think before acting and end up burning down the house (without consuming alcohol). He’s all about action, risk, and never thinks before he acts, and never has a reason for doing anything at all. Continue reading →