Shutter Island is a movie that gets its name due to the place that it is set up in: that is, it is based on Shutter Island, which is a place with a criminal prison where the criminally insane are held. Upon the disappearance of an inmate within the jail, Teddy Daniels and his friend are brought in to investigate and find the child murderer. The movie unfolds as the audience follows Teddy in his investigation as he has to unmask so many things and secrets before he can manage to find the escaped detainee. It is within this escape that viewers get to see his different set of personality characteristics (Beckmann, K. M. 2010). We also get to see his life and how he does cope with the various instances that he faces a roadblock. The primary purpose of this paper is to uncover the personality of Teddy Daniels through the lens of Sigmund Freud, a psychoanalyst, and Hans Eysenck, a psychologist who took a genetic approach to studying personality. Teddy Daniels manages to pull off his character, and it is not until it is revealed at the end of the movie, which he is, that we learn the truth. The film does manage to capture the audience sort of a horror movie that unveils itself.
Description of Personality Characteristics
Observably, Teddy is very short-tempered as he showcases within the flow of the film. He does not take well to instances that he is caught surprised or unprepared. When he is giving rounds in the cells, he gets to meet a guy, and he asks who he is. As the guy takes his time in turning, Teddy almost loses it and shots him until he realizes that it is George Noyce. At the same time, there is evidence that as he was growing up, his relationships and environment greatly influenced his personality traits. Undoubtedly, the characteristics that he gained while growing up were greatly influenced by his environment, mainly due to his involvement in world war 11 as it is shown in the movie. From the coverage of his life, we can tell that he had a rough experience, and a better part of his life was in the midst of violence and chaos. We cannot ignore the traumatic events that he encountered while in Germany.
Another instance where he portrays short temperedness is when he gets to the hospital. He asks for the patient's records but is denied, and at that moment, he almost quits his mission. The fact that his father has been a fisherman, yet he feared the sea, speaks a lot to his personality. Teddy Daniels is a man who has endured as much, and this has taken its toll on his behavior, causing his short temperedness.
Curiosity
Teddy believed Andrew Laeddis was a confined firebomber who set his home on fire and blamed his friend, Dolores Chanal, for her death. He admits later that he chose just the scenario for Andrew Laeddis. Laeddis was alleged to have been staying in C-ward, which houses the most violent offenders. Throughout the study, during his stay in the hospital, Teddy gets migraines, delusions, and hallucinations.
Teddy starts to think of medical experiments in the brain of these patients, such as ice-pick lobotomies, due to the visions and hallucinations (Visser, 2010). He becomes fascinated with the thought of being intentionally taken to the hospital so that they can preclude him from learning the veracity about the clinic (Visser, 2010). As the film progresses, Rachel Solano will gain details about the nature of the lobotomies in the old light. Teddy breaks into the house to locate Solano and other suspects that leads him to meeting a therapist, who finally informs him he really is Andrew Laeddis. He denies it and believes that it is a tall tale.
Determined
Teddy's adulthood life was a descriptive combatant, but after he was part of the liberation force at Dachau concentration camp, he became a changed man (Visser, 2010). There were the most severe and horrific tortures of the inmates, and the soldiers who were open-minded and witnessed the happenings at the camp with no hesitation in padding and shooting the SS officials. Later, however, Teddy was accused of killing unarmed people and agreed that he would only fire in the future if his life hinges on it (Visser, 2010).
Stubborn and Observant
He believes that the staff are messing with the residents ' minds and trusts Chuck in attempts to collect ample information to show the system what it really is. He asked chucks to get him the files, and when chucks decline, he seeks out a way to get to the patients and interview them on the experiments that land him to the lighthouse (Visser, 2010). Though he only has dreams in his past, he hardly accepts them as a reality. He visits the word c and denies the allegations that George passes. George has a clear memory of what happened, and he really knows who teddy really is.
Hardworking
He is an intelligent, highly functioning person, to the point that his traumatic experiences during World War II merely dented his coping abilities instead of making him overwhelmed. But the moderate, socially appropriate alcoholism and the workaholic that he displayed as a family man only gave him emotional isolation from the violent madness in which his psychotic wife was bursting. Teddy's strategic astuteness is renowned among the Marshals; he has recently broken up a high profile case (Visser, 2010). During the war, he spent time at an internment camp.
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