CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1. Conclusion
After analyzing Charlie’s personality in Stephen Chbosky’s novel The Perks of Being A Wallflower, by using Sigmund Freud’s Theory with the three structures:
the Id, the Ego, and the SuperEgo, the writer takes some conclusions that: 1.
The Id tends to legally all ways just to reach what it wants without seeing negative side which occur other people. Which in this case, the Id of Charlie is
described in order to hit Sean that shows his anger, and kiss Sam that shows his selfishness. It is also due to the pleasure principle performed by Charlie slightly
unrealistic and did not realize it. Because of the unrealistic nature, Charlie is no longer able to think logically to satisfy thoughts that contradict one another.
2. While the Ego tends to stand between Id and SuperEgo. The Ego is a control of
balancing and neutralizing the strength of Id’s driving and the strength of SuperEgo’s driving. His Ego stands to defending himself from Sean who intends
to hit Charlie first that shows the anger, and trying to be honest to other people about his love feeling to Sam that shows the selfishness. It also basically shows
that the Ego is partly conscious, partly subconscious and partly unconscious, then the Ego can make a decision in three levels.
3. Then, the SuperEgo tends to bring the moral principle to the front. Charlie’s
SuperEgo here is feeling remorse fully after the events that show the anger and
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selfishess of Charlie have been defeated by his SuperEgo to have the moral
aspects and ideal of personality.
The writer also concludes that in this analysis, Charlie is described as the melancholic person. This is caused by the libido that has brought Charlie to use his
Id dominantly in taking any decisions, until the two incidents that exist in the analysis happened.
5.2. Suggestion
Based on the conclusion that the writer has explained above, the writer would like to suggest that the readers will be motivated to use this analysis as their review
on making another analysis about the personality of a character with the psychology approach in a poem, short story, or even the other novel.
The writer also expects that this thesis can provide the additional knowledge about analyzing the personality of a character portrayed in the novel by using
Sigmund Freud’s theory. This is because, the writer realizes that the personality as the part of human being’s life that needed to be learned by the readers and the other
researchers.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
In this part, the writer discusses about the related theories in literature that has been chosen. There are some important books and other sources related to the
psychology of literature and the related to the personality of a character in a literary work. The books and sources are talking about the theory which related to the
psychological elements in literary work, such as the problems of leading character’s personality which include the “Id, Ego, and SuperEgo”, the impact of the leading
character’s psychology problems to be a moral person in living the life without having bad feeling to face people arround himself. The writer introduces the relation
between literature and psychology, and also explains about the problems of the leading character’s personality in the novel The Perks of Being A Wallflower.
2.1. Psychology of Literature
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