Taken from google photos You may not ask yourself why Ralph from Disney's Wreck-It-Ralph acts so peculiar. Well, if you didn’t before you sure are now. Ralph is dealing with behavioral and social-cultural dilemmas. Ralph is Impulsive, has chronic emptiness, is afraid of abandonment, has intense anger, and much more. It can be seen that at the start of the movie he is unable to accept himself and the role that he plays. But as the story progresses he learns that he's "a bad guy but that doesn't make him a bad guy."(Zangief) As I mentioned before Ralph is very impulsive: he lets his emotions get in the way of his rational thoughts, pushing him toward decisions that don’t make sense and virtually have no logic. He is trying to be accepted for what he thinks others want him to be. This pushes him to “jump games” to try and become “a hero.”
Another big element would be chronic emptiness. At the beginning of the movie when we meet Ralph he looks like he has completely given up. His job doesn't bring him the same joy that it use to. Everyone hates him simply due to the fact that he's a "villain". "Man, it sure must be nice to be the good guy," he says. By the end of the movie, Ralph finds a way to accept and love himself. Whereas at the start the only thing he feels is empty. As I just mentioned Ralph has an unstable self-image. Ralph lets himself be defined by the means of his environment, that he is trash just because he lives in a dump, or that he's a "villain" just because people labeled him as such. A big problem that Ralph runs into is a lack of self-confidence. Ralph lets himself change from moment to moment based on many elements, specifically how others treat him. Ralph's mood jumps constantly; he's sad, he’s happy, he’s angry, he’s scared. I quickly lost count of how many different times his emotions jumped randomly. His biggest emotion is anger. As his name is “Wreck-It-Ralph”, he destroys stuff for a living. We see him smash all sorts of things from cakes to giant bugs to the landscape around him. Ralph often loses his temper over even small things. He lets his anger control him. Ralph is a character with many problems but by the end of the movie, he learns how to cope with most of them. This problem is not exclusive to Ralph, it’s something many people suffer from every day. But it is something that can be handled as Ralph has shown. It’s a solvable problem if you know you have a problem.
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