TY  - THES
ID  - digilib9508
UR  - https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/9508/
A1  - CANDRA IRWANTO, NIM. 09150002
Y1  - 2013/09/16/
N2  - The main character?s personality in a literary work is central to the
development of the story, and it is especially true of the main character in Edgar
Allan Poe?s ?The Black Cat.? He has good nature, but he lives in bad nurture that
has turned him into a person with abnormal personality. This research is intended
to more deeply analyze how the factors of nature and nurture build his personality
and to elaborate the development of the main character?s personality based on
Freud?s concept of id, ego, and superego. Thus, this research uses Sigmund
Freud?s psychoanalytic theory, and for the method, it applies qualitative research
method.
Based on the data analysis, it is found that the main character?s personality
in ?The Black Cat? is very complex. He inherits his parents? personalities which
are humane and docile (nature). However, he gets bad influences from the
environment, such as his companions, his parents, his wife, but most importantly
his pet: the black cat (nurture). Both factors are often in conflicts. The id and the
superego often do not agree, and the main character?s personality is more
dominated by the id than the superego. He used to treat all his pets very nicely,
but after he learned about the supersitition of black cat, he respects black cats
more while deep inside him, he was frightened and threatened by the presence of
his black cats. It is his extreme fear that finally drives him to kill his black cats
brutally. Also, he kills his wife because she does not believe in the superstition. In
conclusion, he tends to behave according to his uncontrollable desire. Finally, his
life becomes worse.
Keywords: personality, nature and nurture, id, ego, and superego.
PB  - UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA
M1  - skripsi
TI  - THE MAIN CHARACTER?S PERSONALITY IN EDGAR ALLAN POE?S SHORT STORY ?THE BLACK CAT?
AV  - restricted
EP  - 62
ER  -