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content of thought that can influence one’s attitude and personality Cloninger, 2004: 34. Thus the main character’s thought can be used to figure out their personality.
Psychodynamic Theory is used to reveal one’s personality. This theory concerns with one’s behavior or reaction toward some situation or problems related to
one’s mind in which ID, Ego, and Superego are involved. This way will make it easy to find out how the characters’ reaction and attitude towards problems or certain
situation can influence their personality. The way a person perceives self and experiences his world in their society probably different from one another. It depends
on the environment or the society around him or her, the way others treat or judge him or her. Therefore one may have subjective experiences and feelings. For the
deeper understanding of one’s subjective experiences caused by environment and others, Phenomenological Theory is preferred to use.
Talking about one’s personality, it will be also related to the relationship an individual builds with. In another word, friendship will also influence one’s
personality. The Theory of Friendship is used to analyze what kind relationship that the two main characters have. It has motivated them to find their identity and to solve
their problems. The relationship between psychology and literature is used to give a brief
explanation about the connection between those two fields in order to help the readers perceive the characters as the real human who have real personalities and experience
the real life so that it can be proved that psychology and literature can complete each other.
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