INNER CORE OF PATHOS
Robin Williams has gone. After Charlie Chaplin, Rowan Atkinson and Jim Carrey，Robin Williams became yet another comedian virtuoso being slowly consumed by a gnawing mental illness，and chose the extreme way, suicide, to end his life. The whole world including his family, colleagues and fans could not comprehend his option, since he was so cheerful and humorous, bringing numerous laughing to the world. However, although he owned all love from his family, from the whole world, he still couldn’t find a reason to stay.
Robin’s passing away raises profound question about whether mental illness always goes with great comedians? Or the comedians group itself has the traits of mental illness？This article will be based on mental …show more content…
Actually, the majority of comedians are mental healthy，in the neuroticism measurement of Big Five, we concludes that comedian are relatively stable. Because in most cases, comedians need to have strong emotional stability to control their stage (not their performance style), and to better interact with audiences. This being the case，what’s the Achilles' Heel of Robin William？And why does his emotional condition is unexpectedly terrible？
The answer is hidden within the control group “actor ”in Psychotic traits study. Robin Williams is both a comedian and an actor，just as the statement of the beginning article，these two artistic occupation does not share the same personality traits. The most significant distinction is that comedians score much higher in Introversive Anhedonia than actors. The high score in IntAn implies that comedians have unsociable, depressive traits, meantime their ImpNon also grades high, which means extraverted, manic-like traits. Obviously, these two traits exist …show more content…
“If you were alone with Robin,” says Zmuda, who had known Robin for 35 years, “It would be like being in an elevator with a stranger. But if there were two people in the room, then he would snap into performing. I think he was a guy who had a very difficult time if he was alone.” Of all the interviews and parties, he was always the most outgoing and talkative. All the people consider Robin Williams is an optimistic and humorous man, but they forget, that’s just the Robin Williams on the stage.
Robin had the quality of being a great actor，but he had gone too far, eventually, he lost in finding himself between the true self and performing. Even his family and friends rarely saw the real Robin Williams. Two of his failed marriage both caused by ”different valuation and unable to communicate”，and when Robin told stories to his daughter，his daughter said “don’t perform, just stick to the