Debora Pasaribu : Anna’s Personality Through Sigmund’s Freud Theory In Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper, 2009.
CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Analysis
There have been various attempts to define what literature is. Wellek and Austen Warren 1962:94 said that “literature is said to be creative, an art, what an
author has been produced.” It means literature is a product of author’s imagination that imitates the reality into the art of writing.
Besides, Taylor 2004:2 states that “literature is said to be the school of life that authors tend to comment on the conduct of the society and of individuals in
the society.” So, Taylor means that literature may become tool of valuing people in their behavior both collectively and individually. Literature is like a mirror in
which people or individuals can see their faces and judge what are in them. Thus, literature is the means of looking the good or the bad side of man’s of life through
insight it refers. In general, literature has some different kinds. Each of them has its own
characteristics though they have much in common such as they have characters, theme, setting, and style.
Jhon Peck 1984:38 divide literature into three genres of types; they are: poetry, drama and novel. Poetry is dominated by the rhythm and melody; drama is
Debora Pasaribu : Anna’s Personality Through Sigmund’s Freud Theory In Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper, 2009.
the combination of dialogue and stage; and novel is a narrative kind of fictitious writing.
This thesis deals with novel as the main source of analysis. It is Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper. Novel is supposed to be a sort of fictitious kind of
writing or fiction. Fiction has been regarded as the most prominent literary kind for its imaginative power. It is literature because it is far from reality or factual
events though some novels have not in such kind. Irrespective of what the content of novel is, this thesis analyzes the character.
Characters in a novel are usually dominated by human. Every human has their own personality. The personality will lead the characters to act such emotional,
behavioral, and logical things deal with the problems that be faced by the characters.
This case is inspired me to analyze the personality within a character. The character that will be discussed in this research is Anna in Jodi Picoult’s novel My
Sister’s Keeper that is described as a young girl who struggle her rights for having
her own body. To analyze Anna’s personality, I have been referring to Sigmund Freud’s
personality theory where it divides the structure of human’s personality into three aspects; Das Es the id which refers to biological aspects of human, Das Ich the
ego which refers to the psychological aspect, and Das Ueber Ich the super-ego
Debora Pasaribu : Anna’s Personality Through Sigmund’s Freud Theory In Jodi Picoult’s My Sister’s Keeper, 2009.
which refers to the sociological aspect. These three aspects are controlled by the libido.
I choose Sigmund Freud’s theory because it is applicable to analyze this novel, especially to analyze Anna’s personality.
From the reason above, I would like to conduct a research entitled Anna’s Personality Through Sigmund Freud’s Theory in Jodi Picoult’s My Sister
Keeper.
1.1 Scope of the Analysis
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