based on Sigmund Freud’s theory 1949. Freud contains that the personality consist of three major structures, the id, ego, and super-ego.
1.5 Significance of Analysis
The significance an analysis of the character in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde written by Robert Louis Stevenson are describes view on the relation between
literature and psychology in term Sigmund Freud’s theory. Trough referring Sigmund Freud’s theory in analyzing characters personality and human mind or
psychology in the main character of this novel, the writer hopes that this analysis can be as primary source and useful for those you want to study literary work in relation
to psychology. Also will enrich our knowledge and can become a valuable reference for the readers and writer herself.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1 Literature
The world literature is frequently used in very general sense of the work to refer the whole body of writing in a culture regardless of his purpose. In this sense
both informative writing, such as books on history or geography and imaginative writing belong to the realm of the literature.
Literature sprang up from the imaginative mind of people who have the talent to create the stories, they created it from their experience in their life, and they made
it become a literary work as a reflection of a real life, we can see all social problems in the real life through the literary work.
One genre of literary work is the novel. Novel present as a documentary picture of life. Alongside the fact, that the novel look at people in society. In fact, the
people in the novel, was the character even it major or minor character, protagonist and antagonist character. A lot of novel have and use to look for the young people as
the main character in a story, because as a young man, the people felt that they could to be most to face odds as usually and character in novel dominated by people. The
writer thought that novel also as a mirror of our life, because the entire story in the novel took from the real life of human by the professional authors or a people who
have a talent to write novel, it can be called novelist or authors.
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2.2 Character
