What Is The Theme Of Intimacy Vs Role Confusion

Brian (dork): I believe Brian to be in both the identity vs role confusion and intimacy vs isolation stages. Identity vs role confusion comes in for Brian because he doesn't have any real friends right now. He is considered a dork and has only has people to talk to in his educational clubs. His parents aren't a big help either because of the pressure they have on him to be nothing less than above average. He even planned to commit suicide because of the F he got in shop class. The fact that he wanted to end his life because of a grade shows how confused he is in who he is or wants to be in life. Intimacy vs isolation is shown through the fact that he is a virgin. He obviously doesn't get much attention from girls which is probably a stage where
In the movie, Bender shows Claire his wallet, full of pictures of different girls. This portrays to me that he isn't able to connect with just one partner yet. He constantly hangs out with different girls, probably at the same time and isn't committed to any of them. I'd say he is promiscuous and doesn't think that real relationships are important. He isn't trying to find love, which tells me that he's developing at a later pace. Also, he doesn't seem to have good friendships either, which goes along with the intimacy vs isolation stage. He acts rude to anyone he meets, regardless of the their authority. He also has difficulties in the identity vs role confusion stage. I know this because he's a criminal. He has no sense of direction in his life, or even an attempt to find what he wants to be as an adult. This could be due to the fact that his parents don't care about him and even abuse him. This horrible home life is what probably caused him to not want to search for an identity. I believe Bender to be in level 3, stage six of Kohlberg's moral development stages. This stage is called the Post-developmental stage. I think this because he's the only person that has hosted and led any wrong-doing among the group. For example, he's the one that enables privacy by taking the screw out of the door and forcing it to close. Bender thought that it wasn't right for the teacher, Mr. Vernon, to peep in on them whenever he wanted so he took matters into his own hands, by breaking school rules. Another example was when Bender led the group to his locker. This is definitely against Mr. Vernon's rules of detention. In the hallway, Claire asked him questions like “Do you know when he'll (the principal) be returning?” and “Do you know where he went?, Bender didn't know any of those answers which goes to show that he will do what he wants for his own sake. Also, in the beginning he kept