Victor Hugo MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Victor Hugo? Victor Hugo is an ENFP personality type in MBTI, 4w5 - sx/so - 458 in Enneagram, RLUAI in Big 5, ESE in Socionics.
**Edit** After watching a couple of documentaries about his life, I started to perceive his ENFPness though I do not have much evidence apart from a gut feeling and on account of his artistic versatiliy. I'll leave my old argument for ENFJ below as a counter: I could swear Victor Hugo is ENFJ. He seemed kind of controlling and dominant, which isn't quite enough to type him, as all unhealthy types can demonstrate controlling qualities. But I can't quite perceive any form of laid-backness or the democratic leading style more characteristic of ENFPs. For instance, when he built Hauteville House on Guernsey Island, while in exile, he expected his whole family, adults children included, to inhabit it with him, without asking them beforehand if a life in exile, further and away from France, was to their liking. It's not like ENFP 4w5 can't virtue-signal, but Victor Hugo was the king of virtue-signaling. While I align with many of his fights, he often had a point, I also find that he could carry points to unhealthy extremes, in an unreasonable demagogic Fe dom way. For instance, placing all the weight on society to make people good, while totally exculpating individuals of personal responsibility "There are no weeds and no bad men. There are only bad cultivators". His work exhibit neither the kind of fluidity proper to Ne doms nor its self-derisive, ironical distance, such as Dickens': while he goes on tangents, there's also a pontificating undertone to a lot of his writings. His poetry seems imbued with tertiary Se as well, with many brilliant, vivid details, almost raw but always striking. Finally, the decoration of Hauteville House seems tinted of dark tertiary Se too. His decors seem to come straight out of Gustave Moreau's paintings (INFJ 4w5), only more exuberant. I am open to be wrong, because, of course, I would love him to be ENFP, I just don't think it's the case.
Biography
Victor Marie Hugo (French: [viktɔʁ maʁi yɡo] ( listen); 26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. Hugo is considered to be one of the greatest and best-known French writers. Outside of France, his most famous works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (French: Notre-Dame de Paris), 1831.
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