Dexter Morgan Character Analysis
Over the years, many people have been diagnosed with psychological disorders, whether they were right or wrong. With the knowledge of these psychological disorders, authors and directors have made thousands of movies and television shows based on certain disorders to give an inside scoop of how it feels to be diagnosed with the specific, or more, diseases. But, besides movies and television shows, there have also been footage of real life people today with these disorders. One fictional character has played a part of not one, but many disorders. This fictional character is Dexter Morgan; He is the main character of the series Dexter that lasted 8 seasons long. Dexter Morgan is labeled as a “sociopath” that murders people but never gets caught
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Police found Dexter and Brian in a room that was covered in blood from walls to floor. Dexter Morgan was then adopted by detective Harrison “Harry “ Morgan’s family where Dexter then had an adopted mother, which is not spoken about a lot, and a sister named Debra Morgan who is like his best friend. Harry Morgan in the show is often brought up in Dexter’s flashbacks of memories when he was alive for the first two seasons. He watched Dexter grow up and has seen varies events of Dexter killing simple animals which then progressed into killing bigger animals and soon having the urge to kill humans. Harry taught Dexter a code where it is only okay to kill people if they have done something seriously wrong, for instance, killing another person. Harry also taught Dexter how to set up the killing area which consisted of covering an area in plastic and how to properly dispose the body. But after the two seasons, Dexter appears to have hallucinations of harry telling him what to do which would label him as schizophrenic. In season three, episode one “Our Father”, Miguel Prado first appears in the show as an Assistant District Attorney because he feels as if many cases had been slipping through his fingers. He is a character with varying feelings towards people, sometimes he even gives off as if he is bipolar. But, upon meeting Dexter, Miguel feels as if he should befriend Dexter and “break through” the safety shield Dexter puts up. Later into the season, they become best friends and murder partners; which is when Dexter starts having his schizophrenic moments of Harry. Harry often warns Dexter that Miguel is not someone to trust which Dexter ends up killing Miguel in season three, episode ten “Go your own way”. Miguel becomes a obvious threat to Debra Morgan and tries to kill Dexter Morgan’s lieutenant, Maria LaGuerta, which Dexter then injects
Police found Dexter and Brian in a room that was covered in blood from walls to floor. Dexter Morgan was then adopted by detective Harrison “Harry “ Morgan’s family where Dexter then had an adopted mother, which is not spoken about a lot, and a sister named Debra Morgan who is like his best friend. Harry Morgan in the show is often brought up in Dexter’s flashbacks of memories when he was alive for the first two seasons. He watched Dexter grow up and has seen varies events of Dexter killing simple animals which then progressed into killing bigger animals and soon having the urge to kill humans. Harry taught Dexter a code where it is only okay to kill people if they have done something seriously wrong, for instance, killing another person. Harry also taught Dexter how to set up the killing area which consisted of covering an area in plastic and how to properly dispose the body. But after the two seasons, Dexter appears to have hallucinations of harry telling him what to do which would label him as schizophrenic. In season three, episode one “Our Father”, Miguel Prado first appears in the show as an Assistant District Attorney because he feels as if many cases had been slipping through his fingers. He is a character with varying feelings towards people, sometimes he even gives off as if he is bipolar. But, upon meeting Dexter, Miguel feels as if he should befriend Dexter and “break through” the safety shield Dexter puts up. Later into the season, they become best friends and murder partners; which is when Dexter starts having his schizophrenic moments of Harry. Harry often warns Dexter that Miguel is not someone to trust which Dexter ends up killing Miguel in season three, episode ten “Go your own way”. Miguel becomes a obvious threat to Debra Morgan and tries to kill Dexter Morgan’s lieutenant, Maria LaGuerta, which Dexter then injects