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Narcissism Of Ants In The Film A Bug's Life

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The movie A Bug 's Life is the story of a colony of ants which are trapped in a vicious cycle of gathering food for the "powerful" grasshoppers every year. One of the ants, Flick decides to rebel against the grasshoppers to end the harsh work forced upon the colony. The primary motivator for continuing to obey the grasshoppers under such horrible circumstances is the fear of the grasshoppers and their dominance. The head grasshopper, Hopper, is shown as being narcissistic, a psychological disorder that involves the lack of empathy for other people and only caring about oneself. Hopper is fully aware that the ants are afraid of him and he uses that to motivate himself to continue his control. Since Hopper is a very narcissistic character he uses his power to help broaden his self-image because he is very vain and only cares about himself. In the movie, Hopper forces the ants to gather food for all the grasshoppers, even though he and his followers are very capable of gathering the food, themselves. He even states that ants were put on this earth to serve the grasshoppers. He further notes "It 's not about food, it 's …show more content…

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