Character Analysis: Teddy Daniels

An improved alcoholic, troubled by the recollections of his late wife and World War II images, Teddy Daniels is the movies main character. Teddy isn’t who he thinks he is because Teddy Daniels is actually Andrew Laeddis an irrational killer. Teddy is currently a patient at a mental hospital for murdering his wife who had drowned their three children and believes he is a cop who is on assignment to find Andrew Laeddis for murding his wife. In reality his so thought assignment is actually part of his therapy at the asylum.
The type of therapy this character was part of is called role play. Role play therapy is used in hope that the individual can act out a situation in their life to achieve new awareness and achieve emotional liberation. (Leisure, …show more content…
To avoid the truth of his situation from crushing his recently created intellect of self, Teddy rely on any information offered by his doctors is simply part of the plot to keep him in the institute. This altered sense of reality serves as a guard method, which Teddy defends himself from the pain of his past experiences. Even with several indications and relations deliberately uttered throughout the intervention, Teddy’s delusions continue until the concluding scene.
While the disorder is described in a very realistic way, it might be difficult for someone with no background in psychology to believe the extent of Teddy’s delusional disorder. I have viewed this movie many times and truly thought the main character suffered from severe post-dramatic stress disorder leading from the war, the death of his children and the murdering of his wife. I’m still not 100% if I understand his diagnoses completely seeing how this movie is known for the twists and turns throughout. The average viewer of this movie may question Teddy’s delusions and mistaken them for a different