Development and personality on Skipper from Madagascar 2

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1. According to Maslow, Skipper is on the love and belongingness level of Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs. Skipper is so in desperate need of love that he falls in love with a hula dancer doll to fulfill his love need. Skipper need to fulfill his love need because according to Roger, his environment at the zoo made him want to fall in love. At the zoo, Skipper was able to find love because at the zoo there were only male penguins. Skipper is a male and he refuses to fall in love with another male penguin, so he instead loves a hula dancer doll that he eventually marries at the end of the movie. 2. According to Kohlberg, Skipper would be at the conventional level, stage 4. That stage is described as the stage when people follow low and order to do their duty to support society and to avoid dishonor and guilt. Skipper is the leader of a group of penguins in the movie. He is similar to a commander in the army in the sense that law rules. Skipper’s moral development is shown when the monkeys, that the penguins contracted to help build the plane after the wreck, were missing, so Skipper wanted to call them to a court marshal to punish them for their crime. This would show Skipper following law and order and forcing others to do the same. According to Gillian, Skipper is trying to be individual because he is a male. This is true because he is the leader of the penguins in the movie and he shows it by ordering people around. Ordering people around is a very much male idea, as well as being the leader. Skipper does all of this which is a show of his manliness. There is only one leader and that is Skipper. He is showing his individuality by being the only leader. This is another show of Skipper’s manliness according to Gillian. 3. Skipper is very much attached to his group of penguins. It shows because he never leaves them once throughout the movie. He

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