In the film The Breakfast Club, five high school students varying in personality are forced to spend their Saturday together in detention. All of them are from different social groups as well. John Bender “The Criminal,” Claire Standish “The Princess,” Brian Johnson “The Brain,” Andy Clark “The Athlete,’’ and Allison Reynolds “The Basket Case.” The movie was an accurate portrayal of psychological concepts and topics. Claire “The Princess.” She is everything you could ever dream of being. She’s the most popular girl in school, she lives a rich lifestyle, and lives a seemingly perfect life, but is that who she wants to be? Claire’s parents are divorced and they often use her as weapon to get back at each other. The way she is treated at home affects her thoughts and self-worth which leads to her seeking approvals from others. Claire is also someone to give into the influence of others. When them teens are sitting around in a circle, Allison Reynolds starts telling them about her sexual encounters. During this she asks Claire if she has ever …show more content…
Always breaking rules and causing trouble and the source of it being his bad home life. He shows very many impulsive behaviors. He lashes at every other student because he feels as though he has it worse than they do. He lashes at Claire a lot due to the fact that she has money, but he is not taking into consideration that even though her life seems “better” than his, it does not mean it is the life she wants to live. He bottles up a lot of his feelings and tries to seem as though he is unbothered by his living situation. Although, in the scene where he talks about his father he expresses how he is actually bothered by it. When he put up his front about not caring, he was just living up to the persona he has seemed to develop in front of others. He is going through Marcia’s stage of identity diffusion. He has an attitude of not caring with no commitment to