Mike Wheeler's Self-Conscious Emotions
Throughout the four seasons of Stranger Things, Michael Wheeler displays all four of the self-conscious emotions. For the sake of this last blog post, we will be analyzing how Mike specifically displays both guilt and shame in the TV show. We will look at the emotion experienced and what appraisal/attribution that triggered the emotion. One self-conscious emotion Mike experiences during the first few episodes of season two is guilt. Mike specifically is experiencing guilt after Eleven disappears at the end of season one. Mike is seen in several scenes like in episode one where it is mentioned he has spent months trying to reach her with the walkie-talkie. In this scene and others, Mike experiences the self-conscious emotion of guilt as he feels like he could have found and protected Eleven but he has not, so he feels guilty like he should have. In the first few episodes, Mike's attributions are that it is an internal, unstable, and controllable situation, as he feels like h...