The cult classic movie, Mean Girls, revolves around a sixteen year old girl named Cady Heron. Cady has been homeschooled in Africa for her entire life and is gifted in STEM. She moves to a small town in Evanston, Illinois, and meets an array of people as she assimilates to public school in the United States. She learns new skills that guide her social survival in an American high school. In the beginning, Cady is a sweet and quiet girl who keeps to herself. She meets Janice and Damian who coach her on how to fit in with the popular crowd. Together, they fabricate a vengeance plan against the most popular girl at school, Regina George. This revenge plan requires Cady to infiltrate The Plastics, Regina’s close social circle; this included becoming
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These behaviors lead to complications with her true friends, Damian and Janice, and her cover is blown. Subsequently, Cady’s exposure leads to the loss of her friends, disinterest in academic pursuits and the drastic change in her personality. This also prompts Regina to make her own scheme. Regina pins the contents of the Burn Book on Cady. To make matters worse, Regina anonymously printed copies of the Burn Book’s content and posted fliers around the school. Students and teachers read about each other and soon enough, the entire school falls in disarray. Cady is pinned as the mastermind, and is despised by the school. Adding insult to injury, Cady is seen arguing with Regina on the street right outside the school. Unfortunately, Regina is hit by a bus. Although Cady did not physically push Regina, many people believe they saw Cady push her. Cady is left to answer to her peers, parents, and …show more content…
I will discuss these later on in this paper. For now, I will analyze how she exhibits high Neuroticism and low Extraversion. Janis is easily irate. She holds a grudge against The Plastics because they annoy her in various ways which affects her daily moods. This is the reason why she convinced Cady to execute different plans to sabotage Regina’s life. These actions all point to high Neuroticism.
Janis presents low Extraversion. She is avoiding the risky behavior that may get her in trouble, by convincing Cady to execute her own ideas against Regina. Before Cady and Janice became friends, Janice only had one other friend, pointing to the fact that she does not make friends easily or prefers to be alone. When she was approached by an interested boy in high school, she rejected him coldly; she lacks interpersonal
These behaviors lead to complications with her true friends, Damian and Janice, and her cover is blown. Subsequently, Cady’s exposure leads to the loss of her friends, disinterest in academic pursuits and the drastic change in her personality. This also prompts Regina to make her own scheme. Regina pins the contents of the Burn Book on Cady. To make matters worse, Regina anonymously printed copies of the Burn Book’s content and posted fliers around the school. Students and teachers read about each other and soon enough, the entire school falls in disarray. Cady is pinned as the mastermind, and is despised by the school. Adding insult to injury, Cady is seen arguing with Regina on the street right outside the school. Unfortunately, Regina is hit by a bus. Although Cady did not physically push Regina, many people believe they saw Cady push her. Cady is left to answer to her peers, parents, and …show more content…
I will discuss these later on in this paper. For now, I will analyze how she exhibits high Neuroticism and low Extraversion. Janis is easily irate. She holds a grudge against The Plastics because they annoy her in various ways which affects her daily moods. This is the reason why she convinced Cady to execute different plans to sabotage Regina’s life. These actions all point to high Neuroticism.
Janis presents low Extraversion. She is avoiding the risky behavior that may get her in trouble, by convincing Cady to execute her own ideas against Regina. Before Cady and Janice became friends, Janice only had one other friend, pointing to the fact that she does not make friends easily or prefers to be alone. When she was approached by an interested boy in high school, she rejected him coldly; she lacks interpersonal