2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
I would like to talk about the personality of Don Draper, the protagonist of the drama series Mad Men.
We are faced with a talented PR man who is constantly running away from his past and that part of his personality that he refuses to accept. The very idea of an advertising business, it seems, was not chosen by chance. After all, doing advertising is selling someone the illusion that you need it. This, in fact, is what fills his own life. Deception and pretense wrapped in pretty packaging …
The show itself and the events in it quite successfully demonstrate to us Don's enormous tendency to escape into an illusory world. He runs away from wives to endless mistresses. And nothing seems to change. He still needs illusions and new ways to escape his story and his helplessness. And now, again, it seems that he found his dream and decided to change. And very quickly the viewer falls with him into illusory desires and begins to think that this is possible. It's just that before he was surrounded by inappropriate people who did not allow him to open up and trust, and he is only a victim of this cruel world. One of the phrases in the series: “But what is happiness. It's a moment before you need more happiness. His insatiability and constant dissatisfaction with what he has is due to the fact that he does not feel it as something of his own. All this cannot be acquired by him. His inner hunger cannot be satisfied in any way. And you need a constant pursuit of a new dose of pleasure.
But Don didn't get it. At the slightest frustration, he runs to destroy all the good that he had. And he does it in a skillful way. He finds mistresses, abandons the company, does not find time for children. Why does he live?
He will never be able to find this place where he will hide from himself and from the shameful story of his birth. He tries to forget all this, only by changing his name and ignoring his relatives. But it doesn't go anywhere …
It seems to me that we were successfully shown how Don was never able to come into contact with that inner pain and defeat, from which he always ran away. He ran away into new relationships, new jobs, new travels and constant alcohol. In the last episode, one of the group therapy participants says, "People are trying to give you love, but you don't even know what it is."
In the course of 7 seasons, we see how, with small pieces of memories, Don is trying to collect his life, his inner world, to find meaning in it. But does he really want to change something. Even in the last episode, he gives advice to the girl: "You need to forget everything and move on." And again we fall into the trap where we so want Don to change and come into contact with his pain, as he is in group therapy, but this is just another trap …
He never once was able to immerse himself in a relationship, trust someone and reveal to himself his dark sides. And so, he finds himself completely alone, despite the presence of children and successful work, and once again does not know what to do with all this. Where to run…
Can you think that Don is recovering from his internal trauma? I think we were clearly given to show that it is practically impossible for him. Don's ex-wife, dying of cancer, asks him not to take his children after her death: “Let everything remain as usual. And your absence is a common thing."
And he only drowns in his illusions and self-deception, while trying to maintain the mask of success and indifference.
He lives someone else's life, under a false name, and this is not accidental, since it seems that he has nothing of his own …
And you just need to hide in someone's skin.
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