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call_me_snakeDoes your muse express anger in a healthy way? Do you ever feel that maybe they need some therapy or something, because they go overboard when crossed? Talk to us, or your muse, about anger management.
You got to be kidding. This is Snake I’m supposed to be talking about right? To give you a good picture… close your eyes and imagine a white hot fire. Now take a tea kettle full of water that is hermetically sealed and stick it on the fire. Wait for it. Wait for it. When the gas pressure of the steam within the kettle becomes too high… BOOM and if you are close enough you might get burned by scalding water. That is Snake’s temper. The frightening thing is his kettle is reinforced and takes extra long to explode.
I think he needs therapy. Even Snake himself at certain moments thinks he needs it. The honest answer is after being tortured by psychiatrists I can understand the man’s loathing of any sort of mental help.
He does do some self mediated anger management. One of them is he never or really tries to never let the cops/authorities/government see him lose his temper. He keeps it as a bit of a mystery behind a cold, in control front. I think it is merely to catch people off guard when the tea pot does blow but he has no comment on what I think of this. He does drink often to keep his anger under control. Snake is odd in that his temper becomes more, not less controlled as he drinks. (At least to a point) I think his paranoia overwhelms his temper but that is just an educated guess.
Some quotes in the novel clearly express the severity of Plissken’s anger issues.
”He rapped his knuckles on the side of the boiler. It came back, a deep, tinny echo. The way his insides felt right now, he could most probably take just a little of his own internal fire and stick it in the boiler to heat the entire building.”
He is continually biting back his anger, readjusting his thinking. While Snake has a temper his name is fitting. He is a viper, one full of anger but he only bites when he knows he can take his enemy down. There are times his patience overrides his anger. It stews, he broods and it gets worse. He boils right under the surface. When it comes down to it Snake isn’t all that violent in the usual physical way unless he is attacked first. All of his anger comes out as cunning. He would prefer to watch an enemy pushed to the point where their own will tear them apart (Brain and President Harker.. case in point) than slug them in the face.
His military training I think has given him the tools to be so enraged and yet not act physically. Then again the military is a big reason for his anger so it is hard to say. The only thing I am certain of is that if he is pushed to the point he has to get physical someone dies. He’s an expert gunslinger, can break necks both with his hand and a head butt; I’d prefer not to see him mad if it is all the same.
He does get overboard on a few issues. He loathes being manipulated or used. You are better off verbally trying to force him to agree to something opposed to manipulating him behind his back. Blackbellies in his presence make his anger harder to control. Worst of all is the rage created by the few who dare to injure, kill or threaten those he considers family. The whole time from Leningrad to presumably he finds Berrigan he stews on his hatred of the man. For 26 or more years he obsesses over the hate. Snake NEVER forgets or forgives for what really make him furious.
One final note on his temper. It is Taylor in the book that comments on how his eye pain affects his temperament. Taylor is afraid to startle Plissken because his pain drives his temper. I’m assuming this has to do with being startled raises the blood pressure. Any raise in blood pressure causes Snake’s eye to hurt more. The eye aggravates him and he becomes volatile. Anything that intensifies his eye pain (including rain and stormy days) causes his rage to be that much worse. I think the constant pain must make anger management difficult for him.
All in all though, while he is an extremely angry man it rarely shows to the outside world. His anger management is all about deceiving his enemies and patience instead of reducing the fury. It works well for him but I can’t even imagine how.
You got to be kidding. This is Snake I’m supposed to be talking about right? To give you a good picture… close your eyes and imagine a white hot fire. Now take a tea kettle full of water that is hermetically sealed and stick it on the fire. Wait for it. Wait for it. When the gas pressure of the steam within the kettle becomes too high… BOOM and if you are close enough you might get burned by scalding water. That is Snake’s temper. The frightening thing is his kettle is reinforced and takes extra long to explode.
I think he needs therapy. Even Snake himself at certain moments thinks he needs it. The honest answer is after being tortured by psychiatrists I can understand the man’s loathing of any sort of mental help.
He does do some self mediated anger management. One of them is he never or really tries to never let the cops/authorities/government see him lose his temper. He keeps it as a bit of a mystery behind a cold, in control front. I think it is merely to catch people off guard when the tea pot does blow but he has no comment on what I think of this. He does drink often to keep his anger under control. Snake is odd in that his temper becomes more, not less controlled as he drinks. (At least to a point) I think his paranoia overwhelms his temper but that is just an educated guess.
Some quotes in the novel clearly express the severity of Plissken’s anger issues.
”He rapped his knuckles on the side of the boiler. It came back, a deep, tinny echo. The way his insides felt right now, he could most probably take just a little of his own internal fire and stick it in the boiler to heat the entire building.”
He is continually biting back his anger, readjusting his thinking. While Snake has a temper his name is fitting. He is a viper, one full of anger but he only bites when he knows he can take his enemy down. There are times his patience overrides his anger. It stews, he broods and it gets worse. He boils right under the surface. When it comes down to it Snake isn’t all that violent in the usual physical way unless he is attacked first. All of his anger comes out as cunning. He would prefer to watch an enemy pushed to the point where their own will tear them apart (Brain and President Harker.. case in point) than slug them in the face.
His military training I think has given him the tools to be so enraged and yet not act physically. Then again the military is a big reason for his anger so it is hard to say. The only thing I am certain of is that if he is pushed to the point he has to get physical someone dies. He’s an expert gunslinger, can break necks both with his hand and a head butt; I’d prefer not to see him mad if it is all the same.
He does get overboard on a few issues. He loathes being manipulated or used. You are better off verbally trying to force him to agree to something opposed to manipulating him behind his back. Blackbellies in his presence make his anger harder to control. Worst of all is the rage created by the few who dare to injure, kill or threaten those he considers family. The whole time from Leningrad to presumably he finds Berrigan he stews on his hatred of the man. For 26 or more years he obsesses over the hate. Snake NEVER forgets or forgives for what really make him furious.
One final note on his temper. It is Taylor in the book that comments on how his eye pain affects his temperament. Taylor is afraid to startle Plissken because his pain drives his temper. I’m assuming this has to do with being startled raises the blood pressure. Any raise in blood pressure causes Snake’s eye to hurt more. The eye aggravates him and he becomes volatile. Anything that intensifies his eye pain (including rain and stormy days) causes his rage to be that much worse. I think the constant pain must make anger management difficult for him.
All in all though, while he is an extremely angry man it rarely shows to the outside world. His anger management is all about deceiving his enemies and patience instead of reducing the fury. It works well for him but I can’t even imagine how.
