The Isle of the Dead Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of The Isle of the Dead? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for The Isle of the Dead from Famous Artworks and what is the personality traits.
INFJ (XwX)
The Isle of the Dead personality type is INFJ, the one that is told to “give up”. Oh, and I am not using “true self” here, or “real self”. I am using the Ni-Ti-Fe theory, which is a way to help understand the inner workings of the INFJ.
So, when the INFJ personality type is told to “give up”, it is not giving up its true self, or its real self. It is merely giving up on the false self that society has created for it. As an INFJ, you are not supposed to show emotion. But even if you try to hide your feelings, they still get in there.
Wait, before you ask – yes, INFJ’s do feel emotions. They just don’t express them.
I was taught as a child that being an INFJ personality type was a serious flaw. So serious that I shouldn’t even be alive. That telling me that I’m “unlucky” or “broken” is actually a compliment.
All versions of Isle of the Dead depict a desolate and rocky islet seen across an expanse of dark water. A small rowing boat is just arriving at a water gate and seawall on shore. An oarsman maneuvers the boat from the stern. In the bow, facing the gate, is a standing figure clad entirely in white. Just ahead of the figure is a white, festooned object commonly interpreted as a coffin. The tiny islet is dominated by a dense grove of tall, dark cypress trees—associated by long-standing tradition with cemeteries and mourning—which is closely hemmed in by precipitous cliffs. Furthering the funerary theme are what appear to be sepulchral portals and windows on the rock faces.
Böcklin himself provided no public explanation as to the meaning of the painting, though he did describe it as "a dream picture: it must produce such a stillness that one would be awed by a knock on the door". The title, which was conferred upon it by the art dealer Fritz Gurlitt in 1883, was not specified by
