Madame de Volanges Personality Type, MBTI
What is the personality type of Madame de Volanges? Which MBTI personality type best fits? Personality type for Madame de Volanges from Les Liaisons Dangereuses Dangerous Liaisons and what is the personality traits.
ESTJ (2w3)
Madame de Volanges personality type is ESTJ, and her description of the relationship with her sister-wife in the novel is a fairly typical description of an ESTJ sister-wife relationship.
I was struck by how similar the two descriptions are. In fact, I think Madame de Volanges personality type could be represented as the "I" of the first description, and the narrator of the second as the "E" of the first. The first description is "I like my sister-wife; but she is not perfect, and I have to be very cautious." The second is "My sister-wife is a beautiful woman; but she is not perfect, and I have to be very careful."
A few years ago, I read an article that argued that an ESTJ sister-wife relationship is the most common type of relationship in Jane Austen's novels. This seems to fit the description of the ESTJ role in the novel very well. If you have a look at the list of characters in Pride and Prejudice, you can see how often an ESTJ is depicted as having a sister-wife relationship.
Jane Austen's novels can be difficult to read without some background in psychology.
