INTPs in literature

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INTPs in literature

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1wunderkind
Aug 6, 2008, 10:42 pm

Has anyone ever run across any characters that acted suspiciously like INTPs? Did you like them all the more for it, or was it like seeing yourself from an unflattering angle?

The most INTP-ish character I've ever found is Professor Stuart Treece in Eating People is Wrong by Malcolm Bradbury. He's almost painfully INTP-ish.

2OhneDich
Sep 11, 2009, 8:25 pm

Late to reply, but Ada in Poisonwood Bible is most certainly INTP. People have told me her thought process (whatever that is) is very much like mine, an extreme INTP, and I'd have to agree.

3ilprinze
Jan 24, 2010, 4:59 am

I know this thread has been dormant for a while, but I'll share my 2c.

Surely, Mersault (from Camus' The Stranger) is an INTP. Intellectual and passive, or more accurately, a genius deadbeat.

Also, Esther Greenwood(?), the narrator of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. She must be an INTP too. She spends way too much time thinking about how she and others are behaving without acting much (apart from attempting to kill herself). I read on an INTP forum few comments from people convinced that INTPs are more susceptible to depression. I generally agree, I mean, where is the lightness in thinking to yourself? Of course, Edward de Bono would disagree.

4shrew
Jan 24, 2010, 2:18 pm

Catherine in David Auburn's "Proof" strikes me as INTP (that is, if you read the play or see a good version of it, not watch the incredibly stupid movie with Gwyneth Paltrow).