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Full Metal Jacket Stereotypes

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The most innocent individual has the ability to flip their morality code to fit a role they could be given. Someone suddenly reflecting a role given to them is referred to as the Lucifer Effect. (Myers 2014, p. 461) In the film, Full Metal Jacket, Sergent Hartman played his role as the drill instructor both intensely and aggressively.(Kubrick) Hartman perfectly reflected the stereotype of both verbally and physically abusive drill instructors as he used his role as the instructor to frequently undermine and harass the new cadets. Hartman’s goal as a drill instructor was to have all of the cadets to conform into the ideal type of soldier for war, even if that meant possibly shattering their beliefs and mind. Both Joker and Gomer Pyle suffered

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