Personality Of Emma Reflected In David Nicholls One Day Novel (2009) : A Psychoanalytic Approach

• Main Authors: Purwaningsih, Ratna (Author), , Drs. Abdillah Nugroho, M.Hum (Author), , Nur Hidayat, S.Pd (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: 2013.
• Subjects: Thesis; NonPeerReviewed
• Online Access: Connect to this object online
• Notes: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/25035/9/JOURNAL.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/25035/1/COVER.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/25035/2/CHAPTER_I.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/25035/3/CHAPTER_II.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/25035/4/CHAPTER_III.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/25035/5/CHAPTER_IV.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/25035/6/CHAPTER_V.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/25035/7/BIBLIOGRAPHY.pdf; https://eprints.ums.ac.id/25035/8/APPENDIX.pdf
• Keywords: PN Literature (General)

The main aim of this study is to find personality reflected in David Nicholls's One Day by correlating the structural elements and the psychoanalytical perspective presented by Sigmund Freud. This study uses qualitative method. This method takes the data from both primary and secondary data source. The primary data source is the novel One Day written by David Nicholls through the sentences, dialogue, conflict, and events from this novel. Meanwhile, the secondary data sources are the others related to the primary source. Data collecting technique in this study is library research. In analyzing the data the researcher uses descriptive analysis. The outcome of this study is that the human personality depends on the condition as reflected on the major character, Emma Morley. Here, the major character changes from a little self-confidence to be a self-confident because her struggle to get a good life after graduation in university. Nicholls also shows that Emma has three characteristics of personality so she is able to have good personality based on her two universal observation of personality change, the feeling process and the personal relationship.