Henry Barthes

Mr. Henry Barthes is the main protagonist of the 2011 psychological-drama film .
He was a troubled high-school substitute teacher who hid his depression whilst teaching apathetic students in a deteriorating public school with no redemption. During his time there, students considered him a role model without him realizing he positively altered many lives while doubting his usefulness.
He was portrayed by , who also played Jack Driscoll in the King Kong remake, and Royce in Predators.
==Personality==
Henry Barthes, as he described himself, is a hollow man devoid of emotional attachments and feelings to everyone he came across. He becomes agitated in several situations whenever his childhood trauma leaks in a troubling scenario, with one being that his grandfather Gramps is being neglected of his needs at his care facility, and threatens to mess with her life as a result. Another example of him being tensely agitated was being confronted by his teacher love interest, Ms. Madison, where she insinuated that Barthes was inappropriately touching Meredith as a child, while he reinstated he was trying to comfort her through a very hard time. He'd then go over the top and expressing how traumatic his past was by throwing a tantrum over the classroom desks and papers as a result. However, when he felt agitated in tense situations, he stopped, recollected, and controlled himself in disbelief.
Inside his soul, he's tragically fragile, yet tried to keep his composure as to prevent any emotional connection towards anyone, let alone Erica (who he had Child Protective Services take her away for her safety and expressed remorse despite doing the right thing) and Meredith (who later took herself out with a poisonous cupcake, and Barthes tried saving her to no avail). He's constantly reminded of the terrible past he had as a child, with most recurring themes that revolve around the failing educational system, apathetic student body, and disgruntled staff and administration. Erica's background also affected him the most, since it's implied his mother went through the same burden as Erica, and he wants to prevent that from happening by providing needs and care for Erica, who's slowly picking up pieces of her life.
Despite his negative oddities, he doesn't seem to believe what he did is beneficial to the public school and the student body. In reality, his life lessons about doublethink and ubiquitous assimilation inspired many young students to focus more on their future opportunities, and this reflects on how Barthes truly cares about people's feelings. Every tragedy as a high-school teacher he came across (I.e. Gramps' passing, Erica's protest of leaving with the CPS, Meredith's suicide), he felt genuine remorse and thought he couldn't save anyone, and would think for himself to blame for all those events. To summarize, he lacked self-compassion and feels worthless in society. Contradicting his detached emotions, he is emotionally distraught with pain seeing or hearing those he cared be taken away.
==Skills==
*Oral communication & Persuasion: His experience in public speaking swayed many of his students, including Meredith, despite others who scoffed his speeches. It would come later in the story that his students grow accustomed to how he taught them unlike other teachers. This is a major benefit that allowed him to become a voice of reason, a leader, and hope bringer, since he motivated kids to think of what is optimistic for themselves in a harrowing society.
*Charisma: Despite being awkward in social situations, since his emotional detachment affects him of creating bonds and friendships, his inept social skills have strengthened his ability to make more allies with the troubled students and misunderstood colleagues by experience.
*English knowledge: Barthes' knowledge of English literature (i.e. by and by as his reference material) is also beneficial to his class lectures, and made them relevant to how his students perceive today's society. He also demonstrates the concept of "ubiquitous assimilation" by having his students define both words separately, and later proving the relevance of "doublethink." It built his persuasion and teaching skills, making him a wise philanthropist.
**Poetry: Barthes also has a fascination to write poetry about his life in short words, and is heard reciting to himself his words in art to his mother, stating "I'm young and I'm old, I've been bought and I've been sold..." His knowledge in English literature is a prerequisite to this skill.
*Authority: His position as a substitute teacher speaks itself. More or less, he has power over the students in a calm fashion.
*Compsoure: No matter an extremely agitating situation where he loses his mind, he recollects and stops himself before anything worse happens. This occurs where he stopped himself for hurting Erica or his love interest Madison in two completely different situations, before deciding to do something safely reasonable.
==Gallery==
HenryBarthes_child.png|Barthes as a child.
HenryBarthes_future.png|Barthes in the future.
==Quotes==
==Trivia==
* To be added.
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