What is the personality type of Count Rugen? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Count Rugen from The Princess Bride 1987 and what is the personality traits.
Count Rugen personality type is INTJ, as INTJ is one of the four base personality types of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). This personality type is associated with the letters J, I, and P.
In the book A General Theory of Personality Structure and Growth, two researchers, Isabel Myers and Katharine Briggs, identified sixteen personality types, which they then categorized into four pairs of opposites. The four pairs are E/I, S/N, T/F, and J/P.
The INTJ personality type is characterized by its rational approach to life, its independence and self-reliance, its analytical capability, its introversion and ability to focus on the details, its ability to use its imagination and creativity, and its sensitive and understanding nature. These personality traits have been described as the symbiosis of introverted (I) traits and extraverted (E) traits; the INTJ personality takes in different information from the environment, analyzes it and then projects it back out in a new form. In other words, INTJ personality types can use logical deductive reasoning to build theories and understandings of abstract topics such as human behavior, abstract principles, mathematical formulas, etc.
Tyrone Rugen, a Count in the court of Prince Humperdinck, has a disturbing interest in the scientific study of pain and created a machine to suck the life out of a person. In other words, he is a sadist, deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on others. As he tests it on Westley, he takes careful notes on its effect on him. He is the secondary antagonist of the book and the film.