Breakfast Club Psychology

In the movie The Breakfast Club, parents vs teens, drug abuse, and sexuality all play a role. The five main characters in the movie all of some issue or conflicts at home with their parents. Drug abuse takes part in the movie from hiding marijuana in lockers and getting high. Throughout the movie sexuality takes a role by the characters talking about sex and making girls feeling insecure. The Breakfast Club represents multiple adolescence development stages throughout the movie to show what situations were like in that time period. During the movie, John explained how his parents and himself did not get along. John’s parents will call him worthless and they are verbally and physically abusive to him. An example would be John’s father once took his cigarette

When John asks Claire what her name is he tells her Claire is a fat girl’s name and she is suppose to be considered a princess. In the movie Claire and Brian are virgins and John ends up giving Claire a hard time about that. John makes many sexist remarks to Claire like how she is a prom queen and calling her richie. Throughout the movie John implies that he has had sex multiple times, sex education typically begins at home and John did not have that support at home. Every study finds that explicit parental communication influences adolescent’s behavior. Many parents will wait too long to discuss sex, and they tend to express cliches and generalities unaware are their adolescent sexuality. The Breakfast Club has many examples of parents vs teens, drug abuse, and sexuality. Out of all characters John is the character that experienced all these areas the most such as verbal and physical abuse at home, having marijuana in his locker, and having sex at a young age. Claire is the Character who was always harassed by John the most because of being a “princess.” The Breakfast Club represented real life situations that took part during that time