Cruella De Vil is a fictional character and the primary villain in the book and film, 101 Dalmatians. Cruella is emotionally volatile, over the top eccentric and evil to the point of sociopathy. Whatever she does, she does flamboyantly, and wherever she goes she brings chaos. Her name is a play on the words cruel and devil, an allusion which is emphasized by having her country house be nicknamed “Hell Hall”.
She treats others as of they are beneath her and has no respect for anyone but herself.
She has no close friends only her henchmen, Jasper and Horace who she treats horribly and they only obey her for fear of what she might do to them. As a child Cruella was a notorious student with black and white plaits and scared all the students around her leaving her with no friends. Later on she got expelled from the school for drinking ink. Reflecting back on her own youth makes her so angry at other people’s youth that she has to destroy it.
Cruella’s main aggressive act is stealing the Dalmatian puppies and later plotting to skin them alive to make herself a spotted fur coat thinking that spots would look much better on her. She has no sympathy for the puppies and only thinks of her love of fur not how the pups might need their fur to survive.
Another act of aggression quite minor compared to the stealing of the puppies is her treatment and actions towards her pet white Persian cat.
She shows it no love or affection but instead forgets to feed it and leaves it outside most nights in the cold. The cat is abused quite a lot by Cruella and is helpless in saving itself. But Cruella’s most broad aggressive acts would just be the general way in which she interacts with and treats people, especially her henchmen whom she orders around like slaves threatening them if they don’t do what she wants them to.
Cruella’s actions are most definitely anti social behaviour because they harm people in a deliberate manner. The first action that Cruella performs is her abuse of her pet Persian cat. This is the first form of animal cruelty she does and I feel it is anti social behaviour because first of all she is harming the cat and not treating it the way it should be treated. Secondly animal cruelty is viewed negatively by society meeting the second criteria for anti social behaviour. Her abuse toward her cat also isn’t done out of personal defence or risk and she does it deliberately wanting to harm the cat.
The second action that Cruella does and does quite frequently is threatening Jasper and Horace if they don’t do as she says and treating them as slaves, reflecting fear onto them. She uses them to get what she wants and then just throws them away. I think this is antisocial behaviour because again she is harming Jasper and Horace emotionally by projecting the feeling of fear onto them and making them afraid of her. This is obviously viewed negatively by society as society believes everyone should be treated equally and Cruella also performs these action purposefully and doesn’t do them out of personal defence as Horace and Jasper are totally and utterly scared of her making it very unlikely that they would turn against her. This shows how this particular action meets the four criteria for antisocial behaviour.
The third and most immense anti social action Cruella performs is the stealing of the Dalmatian pups and her scheme to skin them alive for her own personal pleasure of making a spotted fur coat. This I feel is her highest form of anti social behaviour because once again it is harming the pups to the extent that they are first being taken away from their parents and then planned to be killed to make a fur coat. This is the first of the four criteria that is met by this action. The next criterion that is most definitely met is that it is viewed negatively by society. Just like I have stated earlier on it is animal cruelty and society doesn’t view it as a good thing. Cruella does not perform this action out of personal risk to herself as the pups are helpless, meeting the forth criteria for anti social behaviour. Lastly her actions are deliberate because she is deliberately stealing them to make a fur coat.
I think Cruella’s aggressive behaviour is explained quite well by two psychology theories:
I don’t think Cruella has shown any form of pro social behaviours but I do think that knowing about the pro social factors could help make her more pro social. One factor that I believe might help her be more pro social is that if someone was in a state that she remembers herself being in or she sees someone in trouble that triggers a very dark memory of her own childhood she may try to help them because she feels compassion or empathy for them.
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