Achilles MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Achilles? Achilles is an ISFP personality type in MBTI, 4w3 - sx/so - 487 in Enneagram, RLUEN in Big 5, ESI in Socionics.
Achilles is no 3. Achilles' endgame isn't success or recognition (3) but personal significance (4). For some time, Achille's wrath is justified, because he has been wronged. It only becomes unjustified when greeks comes to him with lots of gifts, with Briseis (untouched) and with Agamemnon offering his own daughter in marriage. The party selected for this is composed of Achilles most trusted friend-kings and Phenix, a father figure of Achilles. Everything has been made so the offer shows utmost recognition, respect and value to Achilles, several kings, lots of gifts, Agamemnon losing Briseis (untouched) AND his daughter. Achilles reaction? **** you and **** Agamemnon in particular. Because recognition, respect is not his end game. Achilles is disproprotionate, vindictive (4). His suffering prompts him to go too far. He doesn't want to go on the fold. He is diferent, those gifts are great for anybody but him, he won't let himself be bought. The greeks will feel despair before he acts, because he feels despair because of them (4) ("the greeks must really be people of naught for suffering such a greedy king"). It's everybody's fault. It's 4 disproportion all around. This hybris is the same when he refuses at first a grave for Hector. Achilles doesn't give a **** about how he's perceived by other. The whole Iliad begins on Achilles not being able to keep his mouth shut, that's why Agamemnon takes his prize (Briseis girl) rather than other kings prizes. When Agamemnon announced this, Achilles first reaction is utmost anger, he begins to unsheathe his sword and is considering striking agamemnon down, in the middle of the king council, in front of everybody, Athena prevents him. This makes him part of the REACTIVE TRIAD (4,6,8) not the competency triad (1,3,5). 3s are savy people, who keep their cool in front of a problem, because they are always aware and molding how they are perceived by others. Achille is a romantic at heart. He's in love with Briseis. That's part of the problem, there were marriage talks prompted by Patrocleus' himself. Achilles is a poet. He plays the Lyre and composes sad songs. Achilles is a poet because Homer is one too, and it's a theme in both the Iliad and Odyssey that poets are favored by gods even more than priests (self-interested homer). Achilles cries, a lot. He flaunts his emotions, he's very open and honest about them, like a 4. He refuses to eat because of his suffering and tells it so: "my pain is so great, I can't eat before Hector meets his fate", it's very dramatic, no care for how he appears (greeks were starving and needed to eat after fighting a lot without achilles, but he wants them to fight on empty stomachs). He only gives back Hector's body for 2 reasons: 1- order of the gods 2 - Priam managed to tap into his suffering. He cames to Achilles and deliberately makes him think of Achille's father, Peleus, and the fact he won't be able to bury him because he won't return (he knows his fate is to die in this war). They both cry for hours near each other. Priam over his dead son, Achilles over his poor father. So yeah, the 3w4 argument is very weird. The sx 3 argument would be good, except sx 3 are still 3 who find value in the eyes of others. Achilles finds value in his own eyes, in his heart, in his fate, that's the only way to explain his super individualistic reactions at every turn, in spite of everybody's opinion of him.
Biography
The son of King Peleus of Phthia and the sea nymph (and sometimes his great-grandmother) Thetis. A powerful Greek warrior best known for his heroics and later death during the Trojan War. Also for being the namer for the Achilles' Heel.
