Seven I of soul. 7 roles of the team. 7 faces of the soul. 7 types of character (english edition)
TekstHARDNESS
Another feeling connected with the Villain’s role is a feeling of hardness.
The feeling of hardness generates such features of character as frankness, firmness, severity, rigidity, harshness, restraint and headedness. These features of character are considered as male features of character. Therefore when there is suggested to show courage, it is about these sincere qualities.
People with a strong character are people of an iron will. Inflexible, indestructible, hard as a rock. They say about them: “tough kid”, “tough nut”.
People with strong character are cool-headed. They are restrained and silent. If they speak, then rap out words, briefly, laconically. They sharply answer. They know how to say “no”.
The main internal contradiction of the Villain’s role is that in this role, at the same time, is combined irascibility (anger) and coolness (restraint). When they urge “to show hardness, but to constrain negative emotions”, mean to constrain rage – just it is considered as “negative emotion”. Such appeal appears because that the feeling of rage goes with the feeling of hardness, – they are connected with one Villain’s role.
Hardness and inflexible people are called strong people. At the same time are meant not physical force, but “the power of will”, “force of character”, “strength of mind”, “lustihood”, “stiff upper lip”. Just about the strength of the spirit is sung in a famous song:
Hardily comrades we go —
Will’s getting stronger in the fight
When they say about a person: “He is strong and angry”, – then in this case under the word “strong” is meant again not physical strength, but “strength of mind”. The strength of mind, (lustihood, stiff upper lip) goes near with the rage – cause they are connected with one Villain’s role.
“Get stronger” – means to get hardness and conviction. They say: “Not in the force is the truth, and in the truth is a force”, – i.e. strength of mind is derived from confidence in its rightness.
The strength of mind is also called the feeling of the truth, feeling of justice. People with strong character – are honest, direct, correct and incorruptible people. They do not compromise on principles, because they are convinced in their rightness. They say so: “Our case is right”.
The feeling of truth is also called the “feeling of duty”. “A strong in spirit” person says to himself: “Who, if not me”. The strength of mind, hardness are called “an internal core in the person”. Strong people are lonely, but they are not afraid of loneliness. They say to themselves: “I am stronger, when I am alone”.
People with strong character are characterized with pathological honesty. They absolutely do not accept any compromises with their conscience. For example, to sell more expensively, than have bought, and even more, to increase the price significantly – this from their point of view is dishonest. Because of the honesty, they are incapable for trade and business. Because, the main rule of trade: “if you do not deceive – you will not sell”.
The motto of people with a strong character: “do not lie and do not be afraid of”. These are brave people. They are afraid of nothing. Such person – and he is “one soldier in the field”. He can go alone to the crowd and will fight to the end, to the last drop of blood, to the last breath.
The person with a strong character is a defender of the truth (as he understands it), the defender of bases and foundations.
These people have a strong hand. They have no doubts and hesitations. The hardness of the hand is needed not only for the executioner, but also for the surgeon, the dentist, the captain of the ship, to keep the helm with his strong hand, to lead the ship through storms and reefs.
The credo of people with a strong hand is “truth and order”. Every time when is growing confusion and anarchy, there are cries about the necessity to “put things in order with a strong hand”. There is a need for a severe person with a “heavy hand” who will not liberalize, but will apply to the troublemakers all the strictness of the law: “The law is severe, but it is the law”.
People with a strong character tend to solve problems radically, totally, once and for all. Their favourite decision is the death penalty. “No person – no problem”.
Hardness is also called rigidity, and rigidity often turns into cruelty. Very often “bringing order with a strong hand” such people break into hatred. They begin to behave heinously – “burn out with a hot iron”, “pull out with a root”. This is due to the fact that hardness and hatred go together, because they are connected with one of Villain’s role.
Strong people are strong-willed people. “To show will”, “to show the strong-willed qualities of the soul” means to show hardness and persistence, then means to do “through impossibility”. When they say, that it is “need to exercise will in yourself”, – that is about developing this hardness, inflexibility and so forth.
People with a strong character are people of “long will”. They are always ready to make a strong-willed effort to achieve the goal. They are always ready to “squeeze”, “press”, are ready to commit violence. When something does not work out, does not go as it should be, then you have to do everything “on clenched teeth”. Without the ability to “squeeze”, no one case will be brought to an end. It is not for nothing to say that “violence is the midwife of history”.
Such people of the old temper were – strong, convinced and inflexible:
Nails should be made of these people —
The hardest nails in the world!
(V. Mayakovskiy)
Such people are capable to endure pain hardly and courageously. They burn out their warts with a cigarette and do operations on themselves without anaesthesia. They do not bend, do not give up, do not break down, do not “split”, do not become limp, do not cry:
If to show in the museum
one crying Bolshevik,
all day long the gawks would stick out in the museum.
Sure, you will not see this in the century!
Five-pointed stars
lord voivodes burned out on our backs.
(V. Mayakovskiy)
People with a strong character are severe, “right” people. Correctness is the lifestyle of the Soviet Stalin era: the right people in the ironed jackets clasped on all buttons, in clean peak-caps and the polished boots. They say the right words in the right movies. In those days for being late at work, the employee can be sent to court and prison. For a deviation from the “line of the party” – shooting, “step to the right, step to the left – shooting”.
The rigid style is the general style of all totalitarian regimes. To match this style and the personal characteristics of the members of the National Socialist Party: “sustained character, hard, Nordic, persistent… ruthless towards the enemies of the Reich… did not have connections discrediting him” (see the film “17 Moments of Spring”).
Leaders with ruthless character are called despots, satraps, tyrants, dictators, but only they can bring an order with a strong hand.
A strong despotic government style is also found in families. In the villages of the owner with a strong hand that keeps the family “in the fist”, they call it a fist. In the fist farm, everyone works from dawn to dusk, there is neither slackness nor sloppiness.
There are also women with a strong character. It happens that the family is held by the mother or the grandma with a despotic character. For example, such a woman was Napoleon’s mother.
“Keep in the fist” means not to allow anyone to squeak, not let anyone raise their heads. The monarchic state with a single owner (the monarch, the tsar) is reasonably called “derzhava”. The monarch “keeps” everything and everyone in the state.
The feeling of hardness generates such feature of a character, as severity. A hard person is a severe person. He has a strict suit, a strict hairstyle and strict order in everything. His life is subject to the strict order. Such people live in the “strict access zone”, which they created for themselves.
They have a strict style of clothes. They usually have a tightly buttoned suit without embellishments and excess details. All things are kind, durable and reliable. They prefer a strict black colour. They are wearing black glasses. Villain – this is “black person”.
To understand this type of character it is enough to recall the images of villains from movies. This is a reserved, short-spoken person with a short crop or with smoothly combed back hair, in black clothes and black glasses. He stubbornly, persistently confronts the main hero and suffers a defeat from him only in a decisive battle at the end of the film. In reality, victory often goes not to the Hero, but to the Villain – to the hard, rage and hard person.
Black glasses, as a sign of serious, severe intentions – this is long-established “stamp” of Hollywood insurgents. It is enough to recall such films as “Terminator”, “Matrix”. The harsh style is the style of the main characters in the movie “Matrix”: black glasses, strict black raincoats, black coats, short haircuts, shaved heads.
Harsh style is called classical style. There is nothing superfluous in the classical style, there is nothing ostentatious, there is no splendour (no baroque or rococo). Classics are noble simplicity and severity; this is an emphatic rejection of any decorations, from vulgarity, from excess.
In Russia, a strict, restrained style is called the St. Petersburg style. Petersburg style is resisted to the Moscow style – magnificent and luxurious, with merchant vulgarity and flashiness. The severity of the St. Petersburg style was sung by Pushkin:
Love you, Peter’s creation,
Love your severe, slim appearance.
Neva’s power flow,
Its coastal granite…
The motto of hard, severe people: “To be, and not to seem”. They do not tolerate any show-off, no empty external effects, no self-embellishment. As the hairstyle is a self-embellishment, they or just comb hair back, or cut very short, and even refuse a hairstyle – shave the head bare.
SERIOUS MOOD
Another feeling connected with the Villain’s role is the feeling of seriousness, concentration. This feeling better to call the mood of the soul or the state of the soul. They say: “He is ready seriously”. They appeal: “Be adjusted on the serious relation to business. Be adjusted on a serious harmony”.
When a person has a serious mood, then he “knits his eyebrows” – shifts his eyebrows. Therefore, a serious mood is called a gloomy mood. If a person is serious, then they ask him: “Why are you so gloomy, so moody?”
People whose character is dominated the Villain’s – are serious people. They have serious business, serious relationship and serious talk. Therefore, the Villain’s role can also be called the Serious’s role, Gloom’s role or Moody’s role.
Serious mood and hardness often go along, because these feelings are connected with one role. The serious mood has no clenched teeth, as a feeling of hardness, but there is mindfulness and concentration. Serious mood creates the desire to find the truth, to get to the truth. And the feeling of hardness that comes next to it – the desire to protect and defend this truth.
The serious mood generates such feature of the character as attentiveness, concentration, meticulousness, corrosiveness, accuracy, neatness and scrupulousness. The set of such spiritual qualities is called pedantry. Therefore, the Villain’s role can still be called the Pedant’s role.
Such people have all thought over and debugged – tools are honed, footwear is cleaned, a suit is pressed, and in a pocket, there is certainly a neatly folded handkerchief. Their style – is the style of “a person in a box”, because of accuracy they tend to put every thing in a box. They take good care of things (just do not confuse frugality with selfish stinginess), so they keep things in good shape for a long time. They are wearing old, but well-preserved things and therefore look old-fashioned.
Seriousness, concentration generates such qualities as studiousness and diligence. Sometimes, when working, Pedant groans from studiousness. And some of them, with diligent work, stick out the tip of the tongue.
Pedants have a thirst for an order and systematization. They seek to order everything, to place everything in places, to compartmentalize everything. Pedants know: order – is when each thing has its own place. If ask the grabber: “Do you have … (something)?” – “Yes!” – “And where?” – “Well, it is necessary to look for…” – will reply grabber. grabber has a mess, and Pedant has things in their places. He does not need to look for anything.
They have all carefully thought out and planned. At meetings and at the service, they come a little beforehand. They get up early and go to bed early. With age, they get up earlier and earlier in the morning, also, in order to be able to sit in the toilet without interference, the sensitivity of the excretory system of the organism affects. They are different in good health. Long-livers often occur among them.
There are no cockroaches and other insects in the Pedant’s house, because they do not survive – there is nothing to profit there, there is no mud. There is no mud even in the cracks. There is cleanliness and order. Barracks, bachelor order. There is nothing superfluous.
The serious mood generates aspiration finally to understand something, “to put the end in the business”. In other words, generates aspiration to completeness.
Every case should not only begin, continue, but must be brought to the end – put a point in the business. If the Hero’s role is intended to start the affairs, and the grabber’s role – for continuation and implementation in practice, then the Villain-Pedant’s role is designed to complete the affairs. Finishing and debugging – here those final stages for which the Pedant’s role is intended. He does not need to be hurried up; he will bring the matter to the end. It will be very long, but in the end, it will be a masterpiece.
If the Pedant has begun “to dig” in some question, then he “will surely get to the bottom”. And if Pedant has put a point in some question, then there really is nothing more to do.
Often confuse skill and professionalism. Professionalism is an art to do the work of the required quality in the shortest possible time, with the minimum expenses and efforts. And the skill is an art to do a masterpiece, to do work of the highest quality without restriction on term, forces and means. In other words, professionalism is a manifestation of selfish pragmatism, and skill is a manifestation of diligence and pedantry. Professionalism is the lot of grabber, and skill is the path of the Pedants.
Negligent, self-congratulatory moods are not peculiar to serious people. They don’t like improvisation. They do not like jokes and do not wish to understand. However, they are not stupid and not silly. But they do not like hasty conclusions. They carefully weigh all the pros and cons. Because they are considered slow-witted. They learn slowly, but firmly. They “are strong back mind”.
It is dangerously to joke with serious people. It is possible to reply for an inappropriate joke from a rack. They will find out for sure what the joker meant.
The Pedant’s character is called grave. They say about such a person: “difficult person” or “a person with a grave character”.
Pedants do everything carefully, neatly, thoroughly, but slowly and leisurely: they carefully separate the skin from the sausage – so that there is not a piece of sausage left on the skin, and the wax is also separate from the cheese. They do not eat from paper or from a frying pan, but only from plates. Bulk stocks always pour into a specially designed container. For example, Pedant will never pour tea into the teapot from the pack. At first, he will pour tea into a tea can, and from a can – into a teapot. No one single tea will be lost. It is not greed, but accuracy.
Fussiness and meticulousness is the reason why Pedant is called a bore. If Pedant started to speak, then he will certainly tell what he decided to tell. Tell to an end. It is useless to change the subject of conversation. If you interrupt him and start a conversation on another topic, he will patiently listen, but after all, he will say: “Now, I have not finished…” – and will continue his story from the place where he was interrupted.
Unlike the restless Heroes, Pedants are assiduous. They are capable to sit for a long time in one place and pore with concentration over some subject. The hero will not be able to sit for a long time – he will constantly jump up.
One of the activities where it is need perseverance, accuracy, meticulousness, cautiousness and patience is the writer’s work. Without persistent, painstaking and persevering work on the text, the writer does not become. For example, Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin lacked persistence:
Wanted to write – but work persistent
Was stubborn to him; nothing
Did not work out from his feather…
There is a certain pedantry in character of each accomplished author. It is not necessary that Pedant’s role dominates in character, but pedantry is necessarily an overabundance. However not each pedant – the writer. A pedant can rewrite a thick book many times by hand, but it is ruined by tediousness. He can stretch a short story into a multivolume collection of works. Every attempt by Pedant to write a piece of art inevitably ends with graphomania.
There are three types of writers: journalists, fiction writers and technical writers. If journalists and novelists “play” with words, strive for polysemy of words, phrases and verbal turns, then Pedants, on the contrary, always strive for clarity, unambiguity and unambiguousness of the text. Therefore, journalists and novelists of the pedant do not come out. But they can be good technical writers, authors of instructions, manuals, directions, rules, regulations, laws, codes – in short, all those works and documents that require thoughtfulness, clarity, uniqueness, certainty, logical coherence and completeness. The pedantic style of pedants is a heavy official language of instructions and manuals.
Pedants are able to read carefully and work with text. Usually, they have their own style of underlining and highlighting of phrases. The handwriting is smooth and firm, letters without curls and rounded corners, the lines are clear. Sometimes they write letters in words separately from each other. It happens that people in thoughtfulness draw something on paper. Pedants do not have dashed sketches or curls. Their drawing always consists of clear firm lines.
Pedants are not able and don’t to do anything bad. They say: “If you want it to be done well, do it yourself”. From their point of view all around potboilers who are not able and do not wish to do serious work as it is necessary. They consider it is impossible to trust anyone around them, – will surely spoil, turn out potboilers, will leave unfinished something or will not make not as should be. They do not botched, low-quality work themselves. The pedant – this is a lonely master, this gloomy bore is always something dissatisfied, grumpy and grouchy.
A pedant can not become a boss. Suggesting that all around the potboilers, Pedant will strive to do all work himself. He will work round the clock, without sleep and rest, without days off and holidays.
Pedants use only good, reliable, high-quality things. They do not save on quality. It is by accident, when they want to emphasize that the thing is made good and reliably, then they say that this thing is for serious work. Every thing, and especially the tools for their serious work (and otherwise they can not work and do not want to work), they choose very carefully.
People with meticulous, pedantic character can not often come in top place. For meticulousness and fussiness, they are not liked by chiefs. Very often Pedants work as a chief specialist – harmful, meticulous and fussiness verbalist and caviller but to subtleties and details knowing a profession.
In the movie of Soviet period, “the Major “Whirlwind” is a scene in which the Villain-Pedant’s style is very well reflected. The SS man, who was charged to blow up Krakow, enquired of his revolutionary proletarian origin and decided to shoot himself in order to be honest in front of the nation. He has already brought a pistol to a temple, but has recollected about the glasses which were not washed up in the kitchen. He put aside his pistol, went into the kitchen, washed it, wiped the glasses, carefully put them in the cupboard. And only after it came back into the room and shot himself. He could not shoot himself, left something in a mess (the glasses were not clean). Of course, he had an ideal order in the house. His shape and appearance were perfect. He had short, combed hair back. Is it possible to imagine an SS man with a shock of hair or flash hairstyle?
The Villain’s role is actively exploited in his work by a Japanese actor and filmmaker Takeshi Kitano. He plays people in all movies whose character is dominated with the Villain-Pedant’s role.
The character of Villain-Pedant is reflected very well in the movie “I have had enough!” (Falling Down – 1993) with Michael Douglas in the main role.