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Self-Acceptance In Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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In “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” Buffy is a attractive teenage female at Sunny Dale High School. A secret hero known to slay vampires and demons. Buffy is the main character in the show. Buffy excels in her agility to fight with strength, leadership, psychic abilities, super strength, danger senses and great super speed in order to fight the villains in town. This is a life about a teenage student who is characterized to play two roles but is stuck between trying to save people from vampires and trying to have a normal teenage life. In Buffy's life we see a teenage girl who wants to have a normal life and do teenage things with friends, frat parties, secretly drinking, cheerleading and dating etc. In the the article of “Multidimensional Family Functioning: Predicting Personal Growth Initiative says: (Ryff, 1989; Ryff & Keyes, 1995) resulted in a model of psychological well-being that consists of six dimensions: self-acceptance, positive relations with others, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and personal growth” its clear Buffy craves the acceptance of these qualities of self- acceptance, positive relations, and …show more content…

so she surprises her emotions and hold in any kind of emotions towards her father like it doesn't bother her, and as usually she plays the tough role and set all emotions aside. I feel like her personal growth has as normal teenage inflicted with her being a slayer a women with independence and not need any protection from any man or person. in the show “Helpless” she expresses that she can take of her self with any protection of anyone but also being vulnerable to vampires since she lost her super strengths. but in t`he mist she was lost and wanted her power back to not feel vulnerable to the darker world. I she she scared of loosing her powers of fighting vampires for two reason of be vulnerable and yet aging not know how to live a normal

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