Starting today is the Lost character personality traits. I’m starting in alphabetical order. I will cross compare-characters when both have been analyzed. I hope you enjoy.

Charlie Pace. Charlie is a very interesting character in my opinion. Charlie almost has two different personalities, one while he was on drugs, and one after. Lets start with the first. He’s a good person, but he just has some issues that he’s struggling with. In his case, a heroin addiction. His shady past, his secrets, and his addiction just messes him up. But as stated, he’s a good guy. We can kind of relate parts of our lives to that. I think we all have things in our lives that we regret, and things that causes us to make impulsive decisions, there’s no doubt about that. Of course our situations aren’t as serious as a drug addiction would be; nevertheless, we all have things that we don’t want people to know about. Think about it, there are plenty of things in your past that is better left untold. But I have figured something out, and that is, if you are with a caring person, such as a friend, or lover, they will accept that and understand that it was a mistake.

Charlie isn’t one of the bravest guys on the island, but he defends what is closest to him. That is something else that we can learn from his personality. He is willing to fight for what he believes, no matter the cost. I mean he killed someone for what he believed, and that’s a pretty big step.

As the show progressed though, we definitely see how Charlie became more willing to stand up for what he believed, and became even braver. His heroin addiction is almost like a weak spot though. It’s hard, and that’s another way we can relate his life to ours. There are things in life that we know aren’t right, and know we shouldn’t do, but we do them because it feels good. Is it logical when you analyze it? Definitely not, but it pleases us. It gives us that feel good notion, and we don’t think about the future, just the moment. And we can all admit, it’s a great feeling sometimes. Take his drug addiction as an example of how easy it is to fall back into something that you thought you were free of. Near the beginning of the season, you see a flashback of the plane in the air, just before they crashed. Charlie was heading to the restroom because he wanted a heroin fix. He didn’t care what was going on, he had 100% tunnel vision. There was massive turbulence, and that didn’t stop him a bit. Yet another excellent example of how we can compare his life to ours. He had one objective, and that was to get that fix. He past right through some people, ignored all the warning signs about the turbulence, and went for that restroom for his fix. So how can we relate? Because situations in our lives are the same way. We, as humans, see things as how we want them, not necessarily the best outcome. It’s hard for us to respect decisions that some people make, but we have to. We get blinded by that “fix” we need, that one thing that we have our mind set on. Everything else is irrelevant, until later, when we realize our mistake.

Aside from the fix on the plane, the same thing happened in his past. Also early in Season One, we see Charlie steal something of great value from a girl’s father, simply so he could give it to his dealer just to get a fix. This wasn’t any ordinary girl either; it was someone that he truly cared about.

And then of course his rocker personality comes out, and from his past you can gather that he was a bit cocky, but definitely had the right to be. In the same episode mentioned above, about the theft, he’s talking to this girl that invited him back to his apartment for tea, and his arrogant/funny response is classic. It was “Lucy, if you’re going to invite me back to your house for sex, don’t say tea, say sex!” Perfect example of a stereotypical cocky kid. Seedy pasts don’t make us bad people, it helps us learn. It helps us prepare for the future, and prepare for the unexpected in life.

Charlie feels the need to take care of people because of the guilt from his past. We definitely see that with his relationship with Claire, and his desire to give her exactly what she needs. I think Charlie is similar to Jack in that one aspect. He feels like he can fix certain things. Charlie thought he could deliver Claire’s baby by himself, and he was prepared for it when a false labor arose in one episode. That to me is very courageous, and demonstrates just how eager he is to take care of the people that he really cares about.