and desires and that sometimes being impulsive or selfish can hurt us in the end. It is the egos job to meet the needs of the id, while taking into consideration the reality of
the situation. The Superego is the moral part of us and develops due to the moral and ethical restraints placed on us by our caregivers. The three aspects are controlled by
desire or libido. The writer chooses To Kill the Mocking Bird as object of analysis, because the
writer would like to find characters personality related with human mind or psychology in this novel based on Sigmund Freud theory, consists of three major structures; Id,
Ego, and Super – ego. It is also the reason why the writer use or chooses Sigmund Freud’s theory, as an object of analysis because the writer thought it is applicable to
analyze this novel, and especially to analyze their characters personality in this novel.
1.2 Problems of Analysis
During the process of analysis, it is important for us to make or to find some problems that are going to be analyzed in that novel, and also by finding the problems,
the writer tries to make good description about the object of analysis itself. So in this analysis, the writer finds some problems that became to be analyzed
and have the objective answer. Thus, the problems are: 1. How is Atticus, Jem, Scout’s Id described in this novel Harper Lee’s to Kill the Mocking
Bird based on Sigmund Freud’s theory? 2. How is Atticus, Jem, Scout’s Ego described in this novel Harper Lee’s to Kill the
Mocking Bird based on Sigmund Freud’s theory? 3. How is Atticus, Jem, Scout’s Super - ego described in this novel Harper Lee’s to Kill
the Mocking Bird based on Sigmund Freud’s theory?
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1.3 Objectives of Analysis
The objectives of analysis one thing that we must achieved or are the statements about what we done in object that we are going to analysis depend on the problem of
analysis. So, the writer makes an objective of analysis, they are: 1.
To find out Atticus, Jem, and Scout’s Id in this novel Harper Lee’s to Kill the Mocking Bird based on Sigmund Freud’s Theory.
2. To find out Atticus, Jem, and Scout’s Ego in this novel Harper Lee’s to Kill the
Mocking Bird based on Sigmund Freud’s Theory. 3.
To find out Atticus, Jem, Scout’s super - Ego in this novel Harper Lee’s to Kill the Mocking Bird based on Sigmund Freud’s Theory.
1.4 Scope of Analysis
When doing analysis of literary works, actually there’s should be a scope of analysis, so that the object that are be analyzed become clearly and the purpose of the
analysis easy to understand by the readers being. In this thesis, the writer makes a scope of analysis is confined the characters
personality in Harper Lee’s novel to kill the mocking bird, based on Sigmund Freud’s theory 1949. Freud contends that the personality consist of three major structures, the
id, ego and super – ego. Actually in this novel there are so many characters who acted this story, but here the writer would like to analysis characters personality of the main
characters namely, Atticus, Jem, Scout’s Id, Ego and Super- ego in this novel. That is a scope of analysis in this thesis.
1.5 Significance of Analysis
