Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 hit “Psycho” presents a character with dissociative identity disorder. Norman Bates, owner of the Bates Motel, alternates between two distinct personalities, that of his mother and his own personality. The movie’s portrayal of DID is similar to the depiction in “The Three Faces of Eve.” Both Eve and Norman began showing symptoms after a traumatic event in their lives. Eve started experiencing DID after her mom made her kiss her dead grandmother. Similarly, Norman’s DID emerged when he felt threatened by his mother’s fiancée. Norman’s father died when Norman was young and he spent years living alone with his mother. Then, 10 years before the movie takes place, Norman’s mother decided to remarry. Norman killed both his mother and her fiancée as he was jealous of his mother’s relationship. Feeling guilty for killing his mother, Norman embodied his mother’s personality to keep her alive, which became his second personality. Norman uses projection to rationalize his own feelings of jealousy toward his mother’s fiancée. His mother part of his personality is jealous of Norman’s relationships with other women, causing him to kill any woman he is attracted to. “Psycho” is consistent with “The Three Faces of Eve” which is based on a real person with the disorder. There are a few differences between the depiction of dissociative identity disorder in “Psycho” and “The Three Faces of Eve.” In “The Three Faces of Eve,” Jane, the personality most able to function remains. In Psycho, the more unstable mother personality ultimately endures. Also, one of Norman’s personalities is his mother, whereas none of Eve White’s personalities are related to her. Overall, “Psycho” provides an entertaining fictional look at dissociative identity disorder. -Martha
For the project, I chose to watch Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller, Psycho. In this movie, one of the main characters, Norman Bates, is portrayed with two personalities. Norman’s father died when Norman was a child, and he lived alone with his very controlling mother ever since. When Norman’s mother found a lover, he became very jealous of the two and murdered them. However, Norman was so guilty about his actions that he tried to keep his mother alive, by preserving her through taxidermy, and also incorporating her personality into his own. The mother personality of Norman is jealous of any woman Norman is attracted to, causing “Mother” to kill those who come to the Bates Motel.
There are similarities between the personalities of Norman Bates and those of Eve. Like Martha said, in both circumstances, the multiple personalities seem to arise from childhood, and later adult, traumatic experiences. Eve’s three personalities appeared after her miscarriage, and seemed to stem from when she was a girl, and was forced to kiss her deceased grandmother. Similarly, Norman started becoming strange after his father died, and the new personality came after he murdered his mother. Another similarity is that the two, or three, personalities are extremes of the other. Eve White and Eve Black are complete opposites, while Norman is a charming gentleman and Mother is a raging murderer. A final parallel between the depictions is that both Norman and Eve experience confusion between their two personalities because they cannot remember events from one personality to the next. Norman is horrified when he sees the dead body of Marion (a character who happens to stay in Bates Motel) but does not remember that he killed her.
There are some differences in the depictions of the dissociative identity disorder of Norman and Eve. I agree that one of the main differences is that Norman’s second personality is based on a real, live person, his mother, whereas Eve’s personalities are not. Also, one of Eve’s personalities, Eve Black, knows about the other personalities but the others do not know about her. The two personalities of Norman do know about each other, and he sometimes has conversations between the two. Ultimately, The Three Faces of Eve and Psycho are more similar than different in the portrayal of dissociative identity disorder. -Lauren Ziemer
The Showtime series, “United States of Tara,” follows a fictional woman, Tara, and her struggle to maintain normalcy despite the fact that she suffers from DID. Similar to Eve in “The Three Faces of Eve,” Tara has three alternate personalities. The most exciting perhaps is “T,” a wild teenage girl who is both vulgar and abrasive. Second is “Buck,” a middle-aged Vietnam veteran who is prone to drinking beer and getting in bar fights. Lastly, there is “Alice,” a 1950s era housemother who is always well-kept and presentable. When transitioning between personalities, both Eve and Tara have the same physical reaction: closing their eyes, taking a deep breath and then opening their eyes again as if waking from a deep sleep. However, Eve is able to summon her different personalities at will, whereas Tara is not. When Eve was asked to be a different personality she can control it. In addition, Eve’s personalities appear at seemingly random moments without provocation. Tara’s personalities, on the other hand, appear when they are needed. If Tara feels as if she needs to connect to her children because she is not getting through to them, she becomes “T,” and can immediately relate to them. When Tara feels as if she needs to protect and stand up for her children or family, she becomes “Buck” and confronts anyone who offends her family. And lastly, if Tara is insecure with her mothering skills, she becomes “Alice,” and is suddenly the “perfect mother.” Both Eve and Tara experience some kind of trauma in their childhood which forces them to turn to alternate personalities for comfort. Tara is insecure with her identity and feels as if she needs to be multiple people at once. Eve is somewhat less developed, but it is likely that kissing her dead grandmother and her miscarriage made her uneasy with death and thus, she tried to evade it by becoming many people at once.
The hit comedy from 2000, “Me, Myself, and Irene” starring Jim Carey, does a splendid job of portraying the affects of a DID, dissociative identity disorder, similar to “The Three Faces of Eve.” In “Me, Myself, and Irene” Jim Carey plays Charlie, a kind and easygoing man who is somewhat of a pushover. In addition, Charlie has problems with his wife who apparently cheated on him. He tries to deny this fact, and suppresses this and all of his feelings of anger and frustration for some time. However, when his wife finally leaves him his second personality comes out. This resembles Eve White in “The Three Faces of Eve” because it takes a distressing life event for this other personality to be revealed. Both Charlie and Eve’s second personality is the total opposite of their normal one. Charlie becomes “Hank” who has no problem displaying his anger and letting his inner emotions come forth. Eve White first becomes “Eve Black” who behaves in more of a promiscuous manner than her conservative self and then “Jane” a more stable and reasonable young woman. “Me, Myself, and Irene” affectively shows how a person with DID is unable to control which personality they are going to have. This can be very frustrating for the other people in the movie, like Irene, because Irene wants to have a relationship with Charlie, but she does not like “Hank.” This was also a problem in “The Three Faces of Eve” where Eve’s husband, Mr. White, had issues with “Eve Black.” Continuing, another concern regarding a person with DID is that they are often dissatisfied with the actions of their “second self.” This is evident in both films. Overall, “Me, Myself and Irene” and “The Three Faces of Eve” depict dissociative identity disorder in a very similar manner.
Although the example may differ slightly from the more “classic” Jekyll and Hyde-type cases of multiple personalities, Jason Bourne from the Bourne Identity (book) series displays characteristics that reflect the disorder. In the books, a government assassin by the name of David Webb assumes the alias of Jason Bourne in order to eliminate his target. Unfortunately, after being shot, he can no longer recall his true identity, but retains his unique fighting and thinking skills acquired through his training. As in The Three Faces of Eve, Bourne’s personalities “split” after a traumatic event (though in this case, it is being shot in the head…). Similar to in The Three Faces of Eve, Bourne often feels confused and scared at his mysterious other life. For example, he wonders why he is able to defend himself so well and why the first thing he notices upon entering a room is the location of the exits. In fact, at one point during the series, Bourne has a mental argument with his other subconscious (David Webb) about how to approach a situation. Although there are many similarities in the multiple personality cases, there are also some distinct differences. For example, Bourne knows nothing about his other life while Eve has some ideas about her other personalities. Also, as he goes about his daily life, Bourne only acts as one person, albeit with a different subconscious, while Eve acts as three distinct people contained within the same body.
Also, Jason Bourne is really cool and is a secret agent, whereas Eve is not. :)
David Fincher’s Fight Club tells the story of a man who is introduced as “Jack.” He is the narrator of the film, and is played by Edward Norton. The film begins with the story of how Jack came to know a man called Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt. From the beginning, we learn of Jack’s problems, including being an insomniac, which drives him to attend many different support groups. While away for business, Jack meets Tyler Durden for the first time on an airplane. Tyler wants Jack to fight him, which drive them both to form a “fight club” in the basement of a bar. This fight club soon escalates into something much larger. After forming an army of men, Tyler introduces Project Mayhem, which involves many bombings throughout the city, and attacking society in general. Jack is completely unaware of the project, and after Tyler suddenly leaves him, he decides to find him. While going after Tyler, Jack soon realizes that many people are referring to him as Tyler. This is when he realizes that Tyler is his other personality. After this realization, he is still able to have conversations with Tyler. Tyler states that he was made by Jack because he is what Jack wants himself to be like—handsome and fearless. Jack struggles with his two personalities, as they often butt heads. In comparing Fight Club’s portrayal of DID with that of The Three Faces of Eve, I would say that Fight Club is much less accurate of the disease in real life. The Three Faces of Eve depicts a true story, and Eve is aware of her separate personalities. However, in Fight Club, Jack believed that Tyler is a separate person. A similarity between the two films were the black outs that each character went through while they were another personality. Their loss of time created a very similar feeling in both films. Overall, I would conclude that The Three Faces of Eve is a much more accurate portrayal of DID than Fight Club. I believe the actual disease was not really the focus of Fight Club, but was used to drive the plot. Fight Club’s use of DID is similar to what John has described with the Bourne Identity; it is focused around a lot more action and suspense in storytelling.
For this assignment, I watched Me, Myself and Irene as well. I think Lauren made a good point connecting the movies saying that Eve’s husband and Irene both did not like Charlie and Eve’s second personality. It must be very difficult because for them, because it is like they are dating two different people who have opposite personalities.
In this movie, the main character, Charlie Baileygates has two personalites. His dissociative identity disorder began when his wife cheated on him, leaving him responsible for his three kids. Charlie was very calm and friendly, while his new personality, Hank, is the opposite; it is very mean and angry. In the Three Faces of Eve, Eve has three personalities. Eve White was calm and quiet, yet Eve Black was free-spirited and more energetic, and the third personality, Jane, was more stable. Eve went to a psychiatrist, helping her create Jane, her third personality, by thinking about more positive things in her life. In both movies, there were hardships in their lives that triggered their original personalities. In Charlies life, his wife had cheated on him and in Eve’s life her grandmother had died. Both of these events had affected both of their lives, splitting them away from their original happy selves. Eve also had to deal with her husband who was not very nice to her. Both these movies paralled in many ways portraying dissociative identity disorder.
I watched Fight Club from 1999 which is about a man named Jack who has DID. He is different from Eve White from the Three Faces of Eve in many ways, the first of which is the cause of his DID. There was no one traumatic event that spurred it, it was an accumulation. He had a difficult childhood because his parents were divorced, he had a dead-end job at a car company travelling to register car crashes, he had no friends, and he developed severe insomnia. Without knowing it, he reached a breaking point. Unlike Eve, he did not black out or have a personality that would take over his body, he thought his personality was a different person named Tyler Durdon. Tyler was everything he wanted to be, they started living together and started a club for men called fight club. Jack himself felt unequal to Tyler in just about every way, Jack was very dissociated from life and his emotions. Tyler was able to do things without Jack knowing and they did not spend all their time together. During the movie, Tyler drops hints that they are the same person, but he is only warning Jack so that Jack does not find out and panic. Eve knew of her other personalities, unlike Jack, and the took turns and sometimes fought over having control, or being “out”. Like Eve, Jack and his other personality had different interests. Jack finds out that Tyler is actually him when Tyler “leaves” and Jack tries to chase him down. He realizs that he has made phone calls and started fight clubs all over the country without his knowledge, everyone calls him Mr. Durdon, and Tyler has been all the same places he has at the same time in his travel records. Like Eve, Jacks other personality knew they were the same person at first. Unlike Eve, the other personality is, it seems, external. The way it ends is similar to the story of Eve; Eve’s dysfunctional personalities die and dissappear, and one whole, functional personality is left. Jack, who has been captured and is being held captive by Tyler, realizes that the gun Tyler is holding is actually in his hand, and Jack puts the gun in his mouth and shoots himself to kill Tyler. He blows a whole in his face, but Tyler dies. Jack is the only one left, but he is more stable and does not need Tyler anymore. In a way, they became integrated, but Jack also forcibly had to kill his other half. -Eva
I have seen many of the movies that my classmates have decided to talk about. Fight Club was an especially good movie but as Leah said the movie was not solely focused on the disease, it was used more to drive the plot and allow for one of the best twist endings around. However to put a different point of view in I decided to watch an episode of Psych called Who Ya Gonna Call. In the show the main character named Shawn is hired to try and find a ghost that is haunting a man. However Shawn comes to realize that the reason for the moved furniture and the perfume is because this man has a split personality, with his other one being a female. The actual portrayal of the disease is very similar to that of Three Faces of Eve. The main identity has no idea about the other ones but the other two identities know about each other. The fact that one of his personalities is of the opposite sex makes it slightly different but I have also seen an episode of Law and Order SVU where a female has another male personality so it could be possible to have both. Although the show is a comedy the actual portrayal of the disease was well done however do to the fact that the show was meant to entertain they did not focus much on the treatment of the patient. All they mention is that he ends up going to one of the top psychiatric institutes in the country.
For this particular assignment, I chose to compare the Three Faces of Eve with the show Heroes on NBC. In the show, the character Niki Sanders is a wife and a mother who suffers from DID. During her childhood, Niki lived with her sister and her father, who was an alcoholic. During her time growing up, her father would often abuse her and her sister in the midst of his drunken rages. One time, her father gets so angry at Niki's sister, Jessica, that he chokes her and kills her. Soon after, Niki was abandoned by her father. As Niki grows up without her father on her own, she also gets involved with alcohol and becomes an alcoholic. Although she becomes an alcoholic, she is able to turn her life around and attends an alcoholics anonymous meeting. At this meeting, she runs into her father who has also turned his life around and he is there to make things right with his daughter, Niki. Niki forgives him at first, but when her father yells at her son (his grandson) for not appreciating a gift he gave him, Niki's other personality comes out for the first time. Niki's other personality calls herself Jessica, the name of her sister. In the show, Niki confronts her dad while in the state of her other personality. In later episodes, Niki blacks out, becoming Jessica, who has superhuman strength.
In comparison to "The Three Faces of Eve", "Heroes" depicts DID accurately. Niki does not go into her altered personality unless she blacks out, just like Eve. Also, Niki never remembers anything that happens during her blackouts which is also true for Eve. Lastly, both Niki's and Eve's disorder can be traced back to traumatic events during childhood. For Niki, it was the murder of her sister by her father and for Eve, it was when she was forced to kiss her grandma. - Zach Lee
I definitely think that everyone has touched on a lot of really relevant and interesting subtopics. Ryan, I especially like your inclusion of the possible phenomenon of a person with DID having a personality that differs from the gender of the person’s body. I think that it’s a really interesting example of how confusing the idea of gender identity is and how a person who bears one set of physical characteristics can act and feel like another. This is briefly touched upon in the anime series, YuYu Hakusho, that I chose to watch for this assignment - one of a male character's several personalities is a girl. *Please feel free to make comments about the dorkiness of this post after I am done!* Without going into too much detail, the show is from the early 90s and is about a teenager (Yusuke Urameshi) who comes back from the dead and now battles supernatural demons with malicious intent to harm humans. In the third saga, Chapter Black, Yusuke faces a human, Shinobu Sensui, with supernatural powers like his who wants to open a portal between human and demon worlds to eradicate humans. Sensui once played Yusuke’s role until he witnessed some humans violently torture and kill demons that were undeserving of such treatment. After the incident, Sensui developed six alternate personalities that were wildly different from each other but who are all united in their goal. First of all, most of the pop culture that we have seen so far seems to include a scenario in which a person’s DID is triggered by some traumatic event like Eve and Sensui. Sensui seems to display characteristics that resemble a melting point of Tara from The United States of Tara from what I can tell from Katia’s post and of Eve. Sensui, like Eve, is aware of his multiple personalities but he, like Tara, does not really control which personality manifests itself and when. Rather Sensui’s personalities seem to manifest themselves whenever it is convenient for a particular one to do so. One personality, Kazuya, is violent and aggressive and manifests himself when Sensui is cornered and needs to use force to escape from a situation. Minoru, on the other hand, is cunning and is able to use his wits to convince others to help him to commit his sinister acts. Strangely, Sensui is aided by these extra personalities because some can perform tasks that others cannot. While the anime series takes this scenario a bit far by giving different supernatural powers to different personalities – the essence of this trait is not too far-fetched. Perhaps it is this trait is why DID manifests itself in the first place. In fiction at least, DID allows people to do things that they normally could not bring themselves to do. Take Eve White for example; while she could never have brought herself to physically harm Bonnie, Eve Black was unfortunately mentally capable and able to commit such atrocities. DID is all about becoming someone who you're not - it's just interesting to see how many ways entertainers choose to depict this phenomenon.
Like Katia, I’ve seen Showtime’s “The United States of Tara,” about a middle-aged mother with DID. Like Eve in The Three Faces of Eve, who developed the disorder after having to kiss her dead grandmother, Tara’s DID developed after a traumatic experience in her youth (still undiscovered as of season one). DID is portrayed very similarly in both USoT and TTFoE. Both Eve’s and Tara’s multiple personalities are completely different than their own. Eve White’s meek, quiet personality is the polar opposite of “Eve Black,” the wild party-loving personality, and “Jane,” the stable and likeable personality. Calm and level-headed Tara’s “alters” are “T,” a wild, promiscuous fifteen year old, “Alice,” a housewife straight from the ‘50s, and “Buck,” a tough, combative man (like Ryan and Aaron said, the different-gendered identity gets confusing). For both Eve and Tara, and, it seems, the majority of the characters everyone else has explored, the alters serve as an involuntary defense mechanism in stressful situations. Unlike Eve, Tara has been aware of her DID since she first developed it as a teenager. Eve, on the other hand, is completely unaware of her condition for many years. This makes sense because TTFoE takes place in the ‘60s, when DID or multiple personality disorder was a relatively new and unheard of condition, while USoT takes place in present day, when DID is more widely known, more easily recognized, and more treatable. Tara has the advantage of medication and knowledgeable doctors, while Eve did not. Unlike Eve, whose husband is unsupportive and unhelpful, Tara’s family is fully aware of her condition and interacts with her alters. Her husband, children, and sister can easily tell which of her alters is “out,” and know the proper way to handle each one. Each family member has a different relationship with each alter. “T”, for example, wants to sleep with Tara’s husband, goes shopping/shoplifting with Tara’s daughter, hooks up with the boy Tara’s son is secretly in love with, and constantly antagonizes Tara’s sister. Eva noted that Jack had to physically kill his alter to get rid of him in Fight Club, while Eve’s alters eventually died on their own when they were no longer needed. In contrast, Tara’s alters have been part of her life for so long that, as of the end of season one, they look like they are here to stay.
Fight Club, a film adapted from the 1996 book by Chuck Palahniuk, begins by depicting the life of the seemingly boring character "Jack". Jack is a run-of-the mill person who is a cost appraisal expert at accident sites. The one diagnosed problem that Jack has is that he is an insomniac. Jacks doctor refuses to give him medication and instead instructs him to attend different therapy groups, which he does. While away on a business trip, Jack meets a man named Tyler Durden who is played by Brad Pitt. Durden is another unassuming person who lives his life as a soap salesman. They become friendly with each other to the point that Durden is the one who Jack calls when arrives home to find his apartment has been blown up. Jack meets Tyler at a bar where Tyler agrees to let Jack stay with him on the sole condition that Jack hits him. This Jack does and the punch turns into a fist fight which spills into the bar parking lot. The fight attracts a crowd and a fight club is started up in the basement of the bar. As the story progresses, Tyler gathers the men in the club and, without Jack's knowledge, starts what he calls "Project Mayhem". Project Mayhem basically wrecks havoc across the city in all sorts of vandalistic act including things as bad as bombings. To get to the end of it, Jack ends up realizing that Tyler is a part of his own consciousness and shoots himself through the cheek to be rid of his alternate personality. There are several differences between the movies depictions of DID. The first of which is the fact that, until the end of the movie, Jack has no idea that Tyler and he are the same people. Eve on the other hand was aware of her alternate personalities and had to sit tight and cope with them. Another difference is the way in which the disease is portrayed in both movies. In "The Three Faces of Eve", Eve's alternate personalities might do some strange things, but they are not too crazy. In Fight Club, however, the things that Jack and Tyler do are completely out of the ordinary and something like that would probably never happen. The endings of both movies are very similar, however. In both movies, all other personalities die out and leave only one remaining.
I also watched the film "Fight Club". As Eva has already mentioned, the movie is about a man named Jack who suffers from dissociative identity disorder, whose personality becomes separate from reality. After developing severe insomnia, and loosing touch from his family, friends, and co-workers Jack begins to live his life through the personality of Tyler Durdon. Jack views Tyler as having the ideal personality. Tyler appears strong both physically and emotionally, and has the confidence Jack envies. After Jack meets Tyler at a bar, Jack and Tyler start what is called "Fight Club". Located in the basement of a bar, men have the opportunity to gather in the basement and either participate or watch a fight. Tyler and Jack started Fight club together, but Tyler is always seen as the ring leader of the crowed, with an assertive and sly personality. Towards the end of the movie Jack realizes that Tyler Durdon is not another person, and in fact he is just another personality. As the pressures from his job, family and friends began to add up; Tyler's personality took over Jack. Knowing the two personalities were actually himself was unbearable for Jack. However, after the two personalities clashed, Jack's true persona was able to overpower Tyler Durdon, and Jack changed back to his initial personality.
Similar to the struggle of Jack, Eve White is a character who had been overpowered by DID. Parallel to Jack, Eve shared two separate personalities as Eve White and Eve Black. Both had entirely different qualities. Eve White was a loving mother and wife, while Eve Black was a cynical, insensitive woman. Eve's change in personalities was triggered by blackouts. When Eve returns to the personality of Eve White, she is apologetic and cannot remember what happened, but can recognize that she had switched personalities. Contrary to this, Jack's personality change was not triggered by a hallucination or blackout. In the end, both Jack and Eve were able to battle through their separate personalities, and ultimately return to having one personality. I found it interesting to see the difference in how each film portrayed DID, while making a valid point on the severity and reality of this disorder.
Although this may be a stretch, I chose Doug from the TV show, Doug on Nickelodeon as a character with DID. In the show, Doug’s “alter-ego” and second personality is Quailman, a superhero who is accompanied by his dog, Quaildog (whose real name is Porkchop). The two try to fight all evil together, and face their arch-nemesis, Roger Klotz. Doug/Quailman is similar to Eve in The Three Faces of Eve because of the change in characters. Both Doug and Eve are able to change their personalities when prompted; Doug changes when he realizes he must face evil, while Eve can switch personalities when the doctor asks her to, as we see in the film.
Doug and Eve also change into characters that are very different from their original personalities, a trait that many with DID have. Doug is usually quite quiet, subdued, and relaxed; however this all changes when he turns into Quailman. He is more outgoing, louder, and makes himself known. Similarly, Eve has two other personalities that differ from her own real one: she has her quiet, passive side, her outgoing, attention-seeking side, and she has her normal, in between side. Her passive versus outgoing side parallels Doug's quieter versus crime-fighting side, respectively.
The two characters differ though on several levels. Doug is a cartoon character who transforms into a superhero, making his “multiple personalities” seem more fictional. However, on the other hand, Eve’s transformation, while still seemingly outrageous, is based on a true DID case. Yet both seem extreme, showing the extend of DID and how confusing and unbelievable the disease is.
Fight Club is an awesome choice and seems to be familiar to lots of people! I chose to look at an episode of Batman the Animated Series. The episode features Harvey Dent, a prosecutor in Gotham. A scandal leads him to be burned in a chemical accident. Like in The Three Faces of Eve, it is a traumatic event that leads to his personality split. Dent takes on the name of Twoface. His DID is also visually represented by half of his face being scarred by acid, literally splitting him down the middle. Unlike in All About Eve, Twoface’s evil personality seems to dominate his being. His schema’s change, as he starts to leave everything up to chance. Eve also does not develop an outright evil personality. In the end of Three Faces of Eve, Eve is cured of her disorder. Twoface is not as lucky, and while he will continue to be a menace in Gotham, he still has DID.
Another interesting way that Twoface’s DID is explored is through his interactions with Batman. Batman knows that Twoface does have kindness in him, and Batman is constantly appealing to Harvey Dent. In this sense, Batman is playing the same role as Lee J. Cobb’s character in All About Eve. Harvey Dent does sometimes break through Twoface’s consciousness, however it is the evil split personality that controls most of Twoface’s actions.
Another interesting facet to Twoface’s DID is that his personalities seem to have knowledge of eachother. This is similar to Eve’s DID, in the sense that one of her personalities knew a lot about the other. Both Eve and Twoface have similar negative opinions about their other personalities, and both split personalities are more rule-breaking and conniving than their “better halves”.
i didn't post on time and this also might be a minor stretch. However, timmy from the fairly oddparents could potentially suffer from DID. At home and in reality he is Timmy Turner, unlucky kid that has god parents. On the other hand, he then dives into comic books and becomes Cleft-the-boy-chin- wonder, the crimson chins sidekick of course. Also, he thinks he is a super-hero on planet eugopatamia.
This is similar to "The Three Faces of Ever" because she thought she felt she could be three different people, and so does timmy. They also sort of both experienced relative discomfort in their upbringing. Eve-- when she had to kiss a dead grandmother. And Timmy when he was voted miserable enough to have Fairy God parents so he wants to be important which is why he always thinks he is superheros.
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Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 hit “Psycho” presents a character with dissociative identity disorder. Norman Bates, owner of the Bates Motel, alternates between two distinct personalities, that of his mother and his own personality. The movie’s portrayal of DID is similar to the depiction in “The Three Faces of Eve.” Both Eve and Norman began showing symptoms after a traumatic event in their lives. Eve started experiencing DID after her mom made her kiss her dead grandmother. Similarly, Norman’s DID emerged when he felt threatened by his mother’s fiancée. Norman’s father died when Norman was young and he spent years living alone with his mother. Then, 10 years before the movie takes place, Norman’s mother decided to remarry. Norman killed both his mother and her fiancée as he was jealous of his mother’s relationship. Feeling guilty for killing his mother, Norman embodied his mother’s personality to keep her alive, which became his second personality. Norman uses projection to rationalize his own feelings of jealousy toward his mother’s fiancée. His mother part of his personality is jealous of Norman’s relationships with other women, causing him to kill any woman he is attracted to. “Psycho” is consistent with “The Three Faces of Eve” which is based on a real person with the disorder.
There are a few differences between the depiction of dissociative identity disorder in “Psycho” and “The Three Faces of Eve.” In “The Three Faces of Eve,” Jane, the personality most able to function remains. In Psycho, the more unstable mother personality ultimately endures. Also, one of Norman’s personalities is his mother, whereas none of Eve White’s personalities are related to her. Overall, “Psycho” provides an entertaining fictional look at dissociative identity disorder.
-Martha
For the project, I chose to watch Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller, Psycho. In this movie, one of the main characters, Norman Bates, is portrayed with two personalities. Norman’s father died when Norman was a child, and he lived alone with his very controlling mother ever since. When Norman’s mother found a lover, he became very jealous of the two and murdered them. However, Norman was so guilty about his actions that he tried to keep his mother alive, by preserving her through taxidermy, and also incorporating her personality into his own. The mother personality of Norman is jealous of any woman Norman is attracted to, causing “Mother” to kill those who come to the Bates Motel.
There are similarities between the personalities of Norman Bates and those of Eve. Like Martha said, in both circumstances, the multiple personalities seem to arise from childhood, and later adult, traumatic experiences. Eve’s three personalities appeared after her miscarriage, and seemed to stem from when she was a girl, and was forced to kiss her deceased grandmother. Similarly, Norman started becoming strange after his father died, and the new personality came after he murdered his mother. Another similarity is that the two, or three, personalities are extremes of the other. Eve White and Eve Black are complete opposites, while Norman is a charming gentleman and Mother is a raging murderer. A final parallel between the depictions is that both Norman and Eve experience confusion between their two personalities because they cannot remember events from one personality to the next. Norman is horrified when he sees the dead body of Marion (a character who happens to stay in Bates Motel) but does not remember that he killed her.
There are some differences in the depictions of the dissociative identity disorder of Norman and Eve. I agree that one of the main differences is that Norman’s second personality is based on a real, live person, his mother, whereas Eve’s personalities are not. Also, one of Eve’s personalities, Eve Black, knows about the other personalities but the others do not know about her. The two personalities of Norman do know about each other, and he sometimes has conversations between the two. Ultimately, The Three Faces of Eve and Psycho are more similar than different in the portrayal of dissociative identity disorder.
-Lauren Ziemer
The Showtime series, “United States of Tara,” follows a fictional woman, Tara, and her struggle to maintain normalcy despite the fact that she suffers from DID. Similar to Eve in “The Three Faces of Eve,” Tara has three alternate personalities. The most exciting perhaps is “T,” a wild teenage girl who is both vulgar and abrasive. Second is “Buck,” a middle-aged Vietnam veteran who is prone to drinking beer and getting in bar fights. Lastly, there is “Alice,” a 1950s era housemother who is always well-kept and presentable.
When transitioning between personalities, both Eve and Tara have the same physical reaction: closing their eyes, taking a deep breath and then opening their eyes again as if waking from a deep sleep. However, Eve is able to summon her different personalities at will, whereas Tara is not. When Eve was asked to be a different personality she can control it. In addition, Eve’s personalities appear at seemingly random moments without provocation. Tara’s personalities, on the other hand, appear when they are needed. If Tara feels as if she needs to connect to her children because she is not getting through to them, she becomes “T,” and can immediately relate to them. When Tara feels as if she needs to protect and stand up for her children or family, she becomes “Buck” and confronts anyone who offends her family. And lastly, if Tara is insecure with her mothering skills, she becomes “Alice,” and is suddenly the “perfect mother.”
Both Eve and Tara experience some kind of trauma in their childhood which forces them to turn to alternate personalities for comfort. Tara is insecure with her identity and feels as if she needs to be multiple people at once. Eve is somewhat less developed, but it is likely that kissing her dead grandmother and her miscarriage made her uneasy with death and thus, she tried to evade it by becoming many people at once.
-Katia George
The hit comedy from 2000, “Me, Myself, and Irene” starring Jim Carey, does a splendid job of portraying the affects of a DID, dissociative identity disorder, similar to “The Three Faces of Eve.” In “Me, Myself, and Irene” Jim Carey plays Charlie, a kind and easygoing man who is somewhat of a pushover. In addition, Charlie has problems with his wife who apparently cheated on him. He tries to deny this fact, and suppresses this and all of his feelings of anger and frustration for some time. However, when his wife finally leaves him his second personality comes out. This resembles Eve White in “The Three Faces of Eve” because it takes a distressing life event for this other personality to be revealed. Both Charlie and Eve’s second personality is the total opposite of their normal one. Charlie becomes “Hank” who has no problem displaying his anger and letting his inner emotions come forth. Eve White first becomes “Eve Black” who behaves in more of a promiscuous manner than her conservative self and then “Jane” a more stable and reasonable young woman. “Me, Myself, and Irene” affectively shows how a person with DID is unable to control which personality they are going to have. This can be very frustrating for the other people in the movie, like Irene, because Irene wants to have a relationship with Charlie, but she does not like “Hank.” This was also a problem in “The Three Faces of Eve” where Eve’s husband, Mr. White, had issues with “Eve Black.” Continuing, another concern regarding a person with DID is that they are often dissatisfied with the actions of their “second self.” This is evident in both films. Overall, “Me, Myself and Irene” and “The Three Faces of Eve” depict dissociative identity disorder in a very similar manner.
-Lauren Duddy
Although the example may differ slightly from the more “classic” Jekyll and Hyde-type cases of multiple personalities, Jason Bourne from the Bourne Identity (book) series displays characteristics that reflect the disorder. In the books, a government assassin by the name of David Webb assumes the alias of Jason Bourne in order to eliminate his target. Unfortunately, after being shot, he can no longer recall his true identity, but retains his unique fighting and thinking skills acquired through his training. As in The Three Faces of Eve, Bourne’s personalities “split” after a traumatic event (though in this case, it is being shot in the head…). Similar to in The Three Faces of Eve, Bourne often feels confused and scared at his mysterious other life. For example, he wonders why he is able to defend himself so well and why the first thing he notices upon entering a room is the location of the exits. In fact, at one point during the series, Bourne has a mental argument with his other subconscious (David Webb) about how to approach a situation.
Although there are many similarities in the multiple personality cases, there are also some distinct differences. For example, Bourne knows nothing about his other life while Eve has some ideas about her other personalities. Also, as he goes about his daily life, Bourne only acts as one person, albeit with a different subconscious, while Eve acts as three distinct people contained within the same body.
Also, Jason Bourne is really cool and is a secret agent, whereas Eve is not. :)
John Jantz
David Fincher’s Fight Club tells the story of a man who is introduced as “Jack.” He is the narrator of the film, and is played by Edward Norton. The film begins with the story of how Jack came to know a man called Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt. From the beginning, we learn of Jack’s problems, including being an insomniac, which drives him to attend many different support groups. While away for business, Jack meets Tyler Durden for the first time on an airplane. Tyler wants Jack to fight him, which drive them both to form a “fight club” in the basement of a bar. This fight club soon escalates into something much larger. After forming an army of men, Tyler introduces Project Mayhem, which involves many bombings throughout the city, and attacking society in general. Jack is completely unaware of the project, and after Tyler suddenly leaves him, he decides to find him. While going after Tyler, Jack soon realizes that many people are referring to him as Tyler. This is when he realizes that Tyler is his other personality. After this realization, he is still able to have conversations with Tyler. Tyler states that he was made by Jack because he is what Jack wants himself to be like—handsome and fearless. Jack struggles with his two personalities, as they often butt heads. In comparing Fight Club’s portrayal of DID with that of The Three Faces of Eve, I would say that Fight Club is much less accurate of the disease in real life. The Three Faces of Eve depicts a true story, and Eve is aware of her separate personalities. However, in Fight Club, Jack believed that Tyler is a separate person. A similarity between the two films were the black outs that each character went through while they were another personality. Their loss of time created a very similar feeling in both films. Overall, I would conclude that The Three Faces of Eve is a much more accurate portrayal of DID than Fight Club. I believe the actual disease was not really the focus of Fight Club, but was used to drive the plot. Fight Club’s use of DID is similar to what John has described with the Bourne Identity; it is focused around a lot more action and suspense in storytelling.
-Leah B.
For this assignment, I watched Me, Myself and Irene as well. I think Lauren made a good point connecting the movies saying that Eve’s husband and Irene both did not like Charlie and Eve’s second personality. It must be very difficult because for them, because it is like they are dating two different people who have opposite personalities.
In this movie, the main character, Charlie Baileygates has two personalites. His dissociative identity disorder began when his wife cheated on him, leaving him responsible for his three kids. Charlie was very calm and friendly, while his new personality, Hank, is the opposite; it is very mean and angry. In the Three Faces of Eve, Eve has three personalities. Eve White was calm and quiet, yet Eve Black was free-spirited and more energetic, and the third personality, Jane, was more stable. Eve went to a psychiatrist, helping her create Jane, her third personality, by thinking about more positive things in her life. In both movies, there were hardships in their lives that triggered their original personalities. In Charlies life, his wife had cheated on him and in Eve’s life her grandmother had died. Both of these events had affected both of their lives, splitting them away from their original happy selves. Eve also had to deal with her husband who was not very nice to her. Both these movies paralled in many ways portraying dissociative identity disorder.
-Becca O’Quinn
I watched Fight Club from 1999 which is about a man named Jack who has DID. He is different from Eve White from the Three Faces of Eve in many ways, the first of which is the cause of his DID. There was no one traumatic event that spurred it, it was an accumulation. He had a difficult childhood because his parents were divorced, he had a dead-end job at a car company travelling to register car crashes, he had no friends, and he developed severe insomnia. Without knowing it, he reached a breaking point. Unlike Eve, he did not black out or have a personality that would take over his body, he thought his personality was a different person named Tyler Durdon. Tyler was everything he wanted to be, they started living together and started a club for men called fight club. Jack himself felt unequal to Tyler in just about every way, Jack was very dissociated from life and his emotions. Tyler was able to do things without Jack knowing and they did not spend all their time together.
During the movie, Tyler drops hints that they are the same person, but he is only warning Jack so that Jack does not find out and panic. Eve knew of her other personalities, unlike Jack, and the took turns and sometimes fought over having control, or being “out”. Like Eve, Jack and his other personality had different interests. Jack finds out that Tyler is actually him when Tyler “leaves” and Jack tries to chase him down. He realizs that he has made phone calls and started fight clubs all over the country without his knowledge, everyone calls him Mr. Durdon, and Tyler has been all the same places he has at the same time in his travel records. Like Eve, Jacks other personality knew they were the same person at first. Unlike Eve, the other personality is, it seems, external. The way it ends is similar to the story of Eve; Eve’s dysfunctional personalities die and dissappear, and one whole, functional personality is left. Jack, who has been captured and is being held captive by Tyler, realizes that the gun Tyler is holding is actually in his hand, and Jack puts the gun in his mouth and shoots himself to kill Tyler. He blows a whole in his face, but Tyler dies. Jack is the only one left, but he is more stable and does not need Tyler anymore. In a way, they became integrated, but Jack also forcibly had to kill his other half.
-Eva
I have seen many of the movies that my classmates have decided to talk about. Fight Club was an especially good movie but as Leah said the movie was not solely focused on the disease, it was used more to drive the plot and allow for one of the best twist endings around. However to put a different point of view in I decided to watch an episode of Psych called Who Ya Gonna Call. In the show the main character named Shawn is hired to try and find a ghost that is haunting a man. However Shawn comes to realize that the reason for the moved furniture and the perfume is because this man has a split personality, with his other one being a female. The actual portrayal of the disease is very similar to that of Three Faces of Eve. The main identity has no idea about the other ones but the other two identities know about each other. The fact that one of his personalities is of the opposite sex makes it slightly different but I have also seen an episode of Law and Order SVU where a female has another male personality so it could be possible to have both. Although the show is a comedy the actual portrayal of the disease was well done however do to the fact that the show was meant to entertain they did not focus much on the treatment of the patient. All they mention is that he ends up going to one of the top psychiatric institutes in the country.
-Ryan Russell
For this particular assignment, I chose to compare the Three Faces of Eve with the show Heroes on NBC. In the show, the character Niki Sanders is a wife and a mother who suffers from DID. During her childhood, Niki lived with her sister and her father, who was an alcoholic. During her time growing up, her father would often abuse her and her sister in the midst of his drunken rages. One time, her father gets so angry at Niki's sister, Jessica, that he chokes her and kills her. Soon after, Niki was abandoned by her father. As Niki grows up without her father on her own, she also gets involved with alcohol and becomes an alcoholic. Although she becomes an alcoholic, she is able to turn her life around and attends an alcoholics anonymous meeting. At this meeting, she runs into her father who has also turned his life around and he is there to make things right with his daughter, Niki. Niki forgives him at first, but when her father yells at her son (his grandson) for not appreciating a gift he gave him, Niki's other personality comes out for the first time. Niki's other personality calls herself Jessica, the name of her sister. In the show, Niki confronts her dad while in the state of her other personality. In later episodes, Niki blacks out, becoming Jessica, who has superhuman strength.
In comparison to "The Three Faces of Eve", "Heroes" depicts DID accurately. Niki does not go into her altered personality unless she blacks out, just like Eve. Also, Niki never remembers anything that happens during her blackouts which is also true for Eve. Lastly, both Niki's and Eve's disorder can be traced back to traumatic events during childhood. For Niki, it was the murder of her sister by her father and for Eve, it was when she was forced to kiss her grandma.
- Zach Lee
I definitely think that everyone has touched on a lot of really relevant and interesting subtopics. Ryan, I especially like your inclusion of the possible phenomenon of a person with DID having a personality that differs from the gender of the person’s body. I think that it’s a really interesting example of how confusing the idea of gender identity is and how a person who bears one set of physical characteristics can act and feel like another. This is briefly touched upon in the anime series, YuYu Hakusho, that I chose to watch for this assignment - one of a male character's several personalities is a girl. *Please feel free to make comments about the dorkiness of this post after I am done!* Without going into too much detail, the show is from the early 90s and is about a teenager (Yusuke Urameshi) who comes back from the dead and now battles supernatural demons with malicious intent to harm humans. In the third saga, Chapter Black, Yusuke faces a human, Shinobu Sensui, with supernatural powers like his who wants to open a portal between human and demon worlds to eradicate humans.
Sensui once played Yusuke’s role until he witnessed some humans violently torture and kill demons that were undeserving of such treatment. After the incident, Sensui developed six alternate personalities that were wildly different from each other but who are all united in their goal.
First of all, most of the pop culture that we have seen so far seems to include a scenario in which a person’s DID is triggered by some traumatic event like Eve and Sensui. Sensui seems to display characteristics that resemble a melting point of Tara from The United States of Tara from what I can tell from Katia’s post and of Eve.
Sensui, like Eve, is aware of his multiple personalities but he, like Tara, does not really control which personality manifests itself and when. Rather Sensui’s personalities seem to manifest themselves whenever it is convenient for a particular one to do so. One personality, Kazuya, is violent and aggressive and manifests himself when Sensui is cornered and needs to use force to escape from a situation. Minoru, on the other hand, is cunning and is able to use his wits to convince others to help him to commit his sinister acts.
Strangely, Sensui is aided by these extra personalities because some can perform tasks that others cannot. While the anime series takes this scenario a bit far by giving different supernatural powers to different personalities – the essence of this trait is not too far-fetched. Perhaps it is this trait is why DID manifests itself in the first place. In fiction at least, DID allows people to do things that they normally could not bring themselves to do. Take Eve White for example; while she could never have brought herself to physically harm Bonnie, Eve Black was unfortunately mentally capable and able to commit such atrocities. DID is all about becoming someone who you're not - it's just interesting to see how many ways entertainers choose to depict this phenomenon.
-Aaron S.
Like Katia, I’ve seen Showtime’s “The United States of Tara,” about a middle-aged mother with DID. Like Eve in The Three Faces of Eve, who developed the disorder after having to kiss her dead grandmother, Tara’s DID developed after a traumatic experience in her youth (still undiscovered as of season one). DID is portrayed very similarly in both USoT and TTFoE. Both Eve’s and Tara’s multiple personalities are completely different than their own. Eve White’s meek, quiet personality is the polar opposite of “Eve Black,” the wild party-loving personality, and “Jane,” the stable and likeable personality. Calm and level-headed Tara’s “alters” are “T,” a wild, promiscuous fifteen year old, “Alice,” a housewife straight from the ‘50s, and “Buck,” a tough, combative man (like Ryan and Aaron said, the different-gendered identity gets confusing). For both Eve and Tara, and, it seems, the majority of the characters everyone else has explored, the alters serve as an involuntary defense mechanism in stressful situations.
Unlike Eve, Tara has been aware of her DID since she first developed it as a teenager. Eve, on the other hand, is completely unaware of her condition for many years. This makes sense because TTFoE takes place in the ‘60s, when DID or multiple personality disorder was a relatively new and unheard of condition, while USoT takes place in present day, when DID is more widely known, more easily recognized, and more treatable. Tara has the advantage of medication and knowledgeable doctors, while Eve did not.
Unlike Eve, whose husband is unsupportive and unhelpful, Tara’s family is fully aware of her condition and interacts with her alters. Her husband, children, and sister can easily tell which of her alters is “out,” and know the proper way to handle each one. Each family member has a different relationship with each alter. “T”, for example, wants to sleep with Tara’s husband, goes shopping/shoplifting with Tara’s daughter, hooks up with the boy Tara’s son is secretly in love with, and constantly antagonizes Tara’s sister.
Eva noted that Jack had to physically kill his alter to get rid of him in Fight Club, while Eve’s alters eventually died on their own when they were no longer needed. In contrast, Tara’s alters have been part of her life for so long that, as of the end of season one, they look like they are here to stay.
-Carey McDermott
Fight Club, a film adapted from the 1996 book by Chuck Palahniuk, begins by depicting the life of the seemingly boring character "Jack". Jack is a run-of-the mill person who is a cost appraisal expert at accident sites. The one diagnosed problem that Jack has is that he is an insomniac. Jacks doctor refuses to give him medication and instead instructs him to attend different therapy groups, which he does. While away on a business trip, Jack meets a man named Tyler Durden who is played by Brad Pitt. Durden is another unassuming person who lives his life as a soap salesman. They become friendly with each other to the point that Durden is the one who Jack calls when arrives home to find his apartment has been blown up. Jack meets Tyler at a bar where Tyler agrees to let Jack stay with him on the sole condition that Jack hits him. This Jack does and the punch turns into a fist fight which spills into the bar parking lot. The fight attracts a crowd and a fight club is started up in the basement of the bar. As the story progresses, Tyler gathers the men in the club and, without Jack's knowledge, starts what he calls "Project Mayhem". Project Mayhem basically wrecks havoc across the city in all sorts of vandalistic act including things as bad as bombings. To get to the end of it, Jack ends up realizing that Tyler is a part of his own consciousness and shoots himself through the cheek to be rid of his alternate personality.
There are several differences between the movies depictions of DID. The first of which is the fact that, until the end of the movie, Jack has no idea that Tyler and he are the same people. Eve on the other hand was aware of her alternate personalities and had to sit tight and cope with them. Another difference is the way in which the disease is portrayed in both movies. In "The Three Faces of Eve", Eve's alternate personalities might do some strange things, but they are not too crazy. In Fight Club, however, the things that Jack and Tyler do are completely out of the ordinary and something like that would probably never happen. The endings of both movies are very similar, however. In both movies, all other personalities die out and leave only one remaining.
~Conor
I also watched the film "Fight Club". As Eva has already mentioned, the movie is about a man named Jack who suffers from dissociative identity disorder, whose personality becomes separate from reality. After developing severe insomnia, and loosing touch from his family, friends, and co-workers Jack begins to live his life through the personality of Tyler Durdon. Jack views Tyler as having the ideal personality. Tyler appears strong both physically and emotionally, and has the confidence Jack envies. After Jack meets Tyler at a bar, Jack and Tyler start what is called "Fight Club". Located in the basement of a bar, men have the opportunity to gather in the basement and either participate or watch a fight. Tyler and Jack started Fight club together, but Tyler is always seen as the ring leader of the crowed, with an assertive and sly personality. Towards the end of the movie Jack realizes that Tyler Durdon is not another person, and in fact he is just another personality. As the pressures from his job, family and friends began to add up; Tyler's personality took over Jack. Knowing the two personalities were actually himself was unbearable for Jack. However, after the two personalities clashed, Jack's true persona was able to overpower Tyler Durdon, and Jack changed back to his initial personality.
Similar to the struggle of Jack, Eve White is a character who had been overpowered by DID. Parallel to Jack, Eve shared two separate personalities as Eve White and Eve Black. Both had entirely different qualities. Eve White was a loving mother and wife, while Eve Black was a cynical, insensitive woman. Eve's change in personalities was triggered by blackouts. When Eve returns to the personality of Eve White, she is apologetic and cannot remember what happened, but can recognize that she had switched personalities. Contrary to this, Jack's personality change was not triggered by a hallucination or blackout. In the end, both Jack and Eve were able to battle through their separate personalities, and ultimately return to having one personality. I found it interesting to see the difference in how each film portrayed DID, while making a valid point on the severity and reality of this disorder.
Kate Rielly
Although this may be a stretch, I chose Doug from the TV show, Doug on Nickelodeon as a character with DID. In the show, Doug’s “alter-ego” and second personality is Quailman, a superhero who is accompanied by his dog, Quaildog (whose real name is Porkchop). The two try to fight all evil together, and face their arch-nemesis, Roger Klotz. Doug/Quailman is similar to Eve in The Three Faces of Eve because of the change in characters. Both Doug and Eve are able to change their personalities when prompted; Doug changes when he realizes he must face evil, while Eve can switch personalities when the doctor asks her to, as we see in the film.
Doug and Eve also change into characters that are very different from their original personalities, a trait that many with DID have. Doug is usually quite quiet, subdued, and relaxed; however this all changes when he turns into Quailman. He is more outgoing, louder, and makes himself known. Similarly, Eve has two other personalities that differ from her own real one: she has her quiet, passive side, her outgoing, attention-seeking side, and she has her normal, in between side. Her passive versus outgoing side parallels Doug's quieter versus crime-fighting side, respectively.
The two characters differ though on several levels. Doug is a cartoon character who transforms into a superhero, making his “multiple personalities” seem more fictional. However, on the other hand, Eve’s transformation, while still seemingly outrageous, is based on a true DID case. Yet both seem extreme, showing the extend of DID and how confusing and unbelievable the disease is.
-Ali
Fight Club is an awesome choice and seems to be familiar to lots of people! I chose to look at an episode of Batman the Animated Series. The episode features Harvey Dent, a prosecutor in Gotham. A scandal leads him to be burned in a chemical accident. Like in The Three Faces of Eve, it is a traumatic event that leads to his personality split. Dent takes on the name of Twoface. His DID is also visually represented by half of his face being scarred by acid, literally splitting him down the middle. Unlike in All About Eve, Twoface’s evil personality seems to dominate his being. His schema’s change, as he starts to leave everything up to chance. Eve also does not develop an outright evil personality. In the end of Three Faces of Eve, Eve is cured of her disorder. Twoface is not as lucky, and while he will continue to be a menace in Gotham, he still has DID.
Another interesting way that Twoface’s DID is explored is through his interactions with Batman. Batman knows that Twoface does have kindness in him, and Batman is constantly appealing to Harvey Dent. In this sense, Batman is playing the same role as Lee J. Cobb’s character in All About Eve. Harvey Dent does sometimes break through Twoface’s consciousness, however it is the evil split personality that controls most of Twoface’s actions.
Another interesting facet to Twoface’s DID is that his personalities seem to have knowledge of eachother. This is similar to Eve’s DID, in the sense that one of her personalities knew a lot about the other. Both Eve and Twoface have similar negative opinions about their other personalities, and both split personalities are more rule-breaking and conniving than their “better halves”.
Aaron A.
i didn't post on time and this also might be a minor stretch. However, timmy from the fairly oddparents could potentially suffer from DID. At home and in reality he is Timmy Turner, unlucky kid that has god parents. On the other hand, he then dives into comic books and becomes Cleft-the-boy-chin- wonder, the crimson chins sidekick of course. Also, he thinks he is a super-hero on planet eugopatamia.
This is similar to "The Three Faces of Ever" because she thought she felt she could be three different people, and so does timmy. They also sort of both experienced relative discomfort in their upbringing. Eve-- when she had to kiss a dead grandmother. And Timmy when he was voted miserable enough to have Fairy God parents so he wants to be important which is why he always thinks he is superheros.
-molly
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