Sheldon Cooper Character Traits
Tara Poole
Character Analysis
April 18, 2012
Dr. Sheldon Cooper and Narcissistic Personality Disorder
The Big Bang Theory is a fictional television show centering on Dr. Sheldon Cooper and his roommate Leonard Hofstadter. Leonard and Sheldon meet when Leonard answers an ad for a room for rent. They both work in the physics department of The California Institute of Technology often called Caltech. From the beginning it is clear that Sheldon is not going to be a typical roommate, he has a detailed roommate agreement he expects Leonard to sign and follow to the letter. Leonard and Sheldon’s friend group is rounded out by Howard Wolowitz an aerospace engineer who still lives with his mother and Rajesh Koothrappali who cannot speak in …show more content…
Sheldon assumes that with just one week of his time he will be able to revolutionize biology. When Sheldon arrives at the biology lab he expects to be conducting ground breaking work, instead he is tasked with washing some beakers. His response demonstrates his narcissistic personality disorder.
Sheldon: What? Excuse me, you have Dr. Sheldon Cooper in your lab. You’re gonna make him do the dishes? That’s like asking the Incredible Hulk to open a pickle jar. (The Vacation Solution 2012)
Although Sheldon sees himself as infallible, his task of washing the dishes shows that he is not in fact superior at all tasks. When faced with failure his response is to blame others for his shortcomings, and to deny he has any shortcomings at all.
Sheldon: Here you go. This is now the only lab with glassware washed by a man with two doctorates and a restraining order signed by Carl Sagan.
Amy: Soap spots. Wash ‘em again.
Sheldon: Y-you’re being ridiculous. Those are perfectly clean.
Amy: Sheldon, this beaker used to contain cerebral spinal fluid from an elephant that died of syphilis. If it’s, in fact, perfectly clean, drink from it.
Sheldon: Biologists are
Character Analysis
April 18, 2012
Dr. Sheldon Cooper and Narcissistic Personality Disorder
The Big Bang Theory is a fictional television show centering on Dr. Sheldon Cooper and his roommate Leonard Hofstadter. Leonard and Sheldon meet when Leonard answers an ad for a room for rent. They both work in the physics department of The California Institute of Technology often called Caltech. From the beginning it is clear that Sheldon is not going to be a typical roommate, he has a detailed roommate agreement he expects Leonard to sign and follow to the letter. Leonard and Sheldon’s friend group is rounded out by Howard Wolowitz an aerospace engineer who still lives with his mother and Rajesh Koothrappali who cannot speak in …show more content…
Sheldon assumes that with just one week of his time he will be able to revolutionize biology. When Sheldon arrives at the biology lab he expects to be conducting ground breaking work, instead he is tasked with washing some beakers. His response demonstrates his narcissistic personality disorder.
Sheldon: What? Excuse me, you have Dr. Sheldon Cooper in your lab. You’re gonna make him do the dishes? That’s like asking the Incredible Hulk to open a pickle jar. (The Vacation Solution 2012)
Although Sheldon sees himself as infallible, his task of washing the dishes shows that he is not in fact superior at all tasks. When faced with failure his response is to blame others for his shortcomings, and to deny he has any shortcomings at all.
Sheldon: Here you go. This is now the only lab with glassware washed by a man with two doctorates and a restraining order signed by Carl Sagan.
Amy: Soap spots. Wash ‘em again.
Sheldon: Y-you’re being ridiculous. Those are perfectly clean.
Amy: Sheldon, this beaker used to contain cerebral spinal fluid from an elephant that died of syphilis. If it’s, in fact, perfectly clean, drink from it.
Sheldon: Biologists are