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First of all, in Travis’ loneliness, there are roughly two kinds of others, who have influences to him, loathed persons and deified persons by him. Both of them are completely opposite being from his point of view, but those two kinds being finally make him so lonely.

Specifically, the film is especially good to outline what happens when an individual lacks the traits of the "Big Five", a widely used test created by trait theorists in order to address how to describe the person. The vast majority of the characters score respectably on this test, however there is one character, Dallas Winston, who, throughout the movie, who seemingly does not possess the majority of the characteristics outlined by the "Big Five". These characteristics are extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and openness to experience. Dallas therefore has developed aspects of each of the three unstable personalities; Machiavellianism, Narcissism, and Psychopathy. Dallas exemplifies some aspects of the Machiavellian personality, which centres around instilling fear in others, manipulation and power.

Travis is a character that represents far more than his part in the play. He is a minor character, but the outstanding meaning behind his personality is the future of the Younger family. His father proclaims, “just name it, son… and I hand

He accepts isolation and you can see this intensity and insanity conveyed in the rearview mirror shots where we see his bold and struggling brown eyes. He’s the lonely man of the night wondering as an indirect psychopathic cabbie weirdo. He watches pornos for regular movies and loathes around in his lonesome so cut off from the outside world in his own head. There are numerous times in the film where Travis can’t seem to hear what people are saying; trying to ask him a question or something, he’s just that isolated. He has seen everything, emphasis on everything despising the scum of the city, and filth of the streets. He spectates’ amongst this day in and day out. Among prostitution, hatred, lowlifes, scum, drunks, criminals, drug dealers, the lowest of the low. He believes this has got to be cleaned up and that good has to be done yet doesn’t have a good ground on any particular political party or politics in general. In fact, his only motive in my opinion to assassinate Palantine is to tear the heart out of Betsy like she did to him earlier in the film. This is

The tendency to be emotionally reactive, anxious, susceptible to stress, hostile, and insecure would describe the traits of a person with neuroticism or neurotic tendencies, neuroticism is rated low on effectiveness according to the Factor Five Model. Goodall’s attempts to gain access to chimpanzee’s habit required hours of quiet reflection and meditation, she sat for weeks before the first chimp approached her. This kind of diligence and perseverance is not expected from a person with neurotic tendency. Nor do I see neurotic qualities in myself.

Loneliness is seen a lot with the character Paul. I don't know what I'd do without you. There's no one else to look after me. And it's not just that.

It also has a rather high rate of comorbidity, especially when conceptualized “as extreme Neuroticism” (Widiger

The film Taxi Driver (1976) directed by Martin Scorcese tells the story of Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro), a Vietnam war veteran who takes a job as a night-time taxi driver in New York City. Travis’ views the city negatively, referring to it as an “open sewer”. This establishes his perspective that crime is environmental; a by-product of New York City itself. Taxi Driver is set in the 1970’s, a period which saw the aftermath of the Vietnam War and New York City suffer from an economic recession, considered one of the worst time periods in the history of the city due to the increased crime rates (Bobbe, 2013). Taxi Driver is a direct commentary on these environmental conditions that can create crime.

He presumes that this act of violence will give him a title of a hero and also give him an identity that he lacks. Travis also discusses with Palantine in the taxi cab that someone should clean up the city because it is “like an open sewer” and is “full of filth and scum” (Scorsese, Taxi Driver). Travis realizes that he should be the one to clean up the city of its’ repulsiveness because the ones in authority are not doing an adequate job of removing it themselves. By obtaining these two ideas that assassination will permit him to be a hero and his vigilantism is justifiable, he is convinced he will be considered important and desired. With him convinced he should clear the filth, it urges him to assassinate the Presidential candidate and rid the city of the scum himself, thus forming him to be a hero and receiving Betsy as his prize.

Film is an art form that has the power to move its audience emotionally and intellectually by creating impactful messages. Martin Scorsese creates depth and meaning in his 1976 film, Taxi Driver by employing various film techniques. There are many theories on the film Taxi Driver and its intended meaning. The films mise-en-scène invites the audience to enter Travis’ state of mind, arousing an array of interpretations on Travis, and consequently the central message of the film. However, I would argue that there is a dominant message of loneliness and alienation that is made particularly clear by the camerawork in the first scene in the night diner when Travis joins the other taxi drivers.

Although the film was voted as being one of the best films for the decade, Scorsese was having trouble deciding whether or not it was going to be successful or not. He wondered if it would ever be released: “We felt like we were making it for ourselves.” Scorsese and De Niro had been reading the autobiography of Jake LaMotta, the middleweight champion whose duals with Sugar Ray Robinson were a legend in the 1940s and '50s.( Ebert Roger). They asked Paul Schrader, who wrote “Taxi Driver,” to do a screenplay. At one point Sorceress had a big drug issues which caused De Niro to push even harder for this film. With the effort of visiting Scorsese in the hospital, De Niro finally got the idea to go through causing this movement to be both a re birth

Moreover, Travis' fury that arouses the last shootout is a calculative one and he gets his fury from the failure and revulsion toward to his city; the city that is tainted in each angle and brimming with scums. He follows up on his collected disinclined. Travis is an untouchable to be sure, yet he's unique but he doesn't adjust, nor stay nonpartisan/isolates however takes activity to change something in the way that he supposes it's privilege. He doesn't conceal like the others at some blind side corner; he watches his city and makes arrangements to assault sooner or later where all these furious actions are the left over results of the war that he come back

To understand personality there are three main aspects that must be looked at: LArsen and Buss Definition of personality, The Six Domains of knowledge of personality, and Costa and McCrae's Five Factor Theory. In this essay I will first break down larsen and Buss definition and connect it to the domains, then connect the domains to the five factor thoery (FFT).

Personality is a large part of being human, as each person has a unique set of characteristics and traits. One person can be kind and patient and another can be rude and ill tempered. This variability is both what makes the study of personality fascinating and incredibly difficult. Although there are a myriad of different personality traits that can be used to describe a person, psychologists have narrowed it down to five overarching ideas. These are commonly referred to as the “Big Five” personality traits and they consist of, neuroticism, extraversion, agreeableness, openness, and conscientiousness. In particular, this study will focus on neuroticism, the trait that is characterized by high emotionality and instability, anxiety, and irritability (Soto, John, Gosling, & Potter 2011). Of the five, neuroticism is the only one with a negative connotation, which separates it from the others. Nonetheless, despite its poor reputation, neuroticism is an incredibly important trait to study as it is often linked with anxiety and depression (Soto et al., 2011). For example, one study found that participants who were clinically depressed and those who were not but scored highly on the neuroticism scale both had significantly greater negative self-perceptions (Thomson, 2016). Although currently there is only a correlation between these mental disorders and neuroticism, further experimentation could lead to more conclusive result. Recently, mental health has