Penulis / NIM
SHESI MEILAN ERGISA DOE / 321417019
Program Studi
S1 - PENDIDIKAN BAHASA INGGRIS
Pembimbing 1 / NIDN
RUSNI PODUNGGE, S.Pd, M.A / 0017127603
Pembimbing 2 / NIDN
NOVI RUSNARTY USU, S.Pd., MA / 0011018001
Abstrak
Shesi Meilan Ergisa Doe. 321417019. 2022. Defense Mechanism of the Main Character in Khaled Hosseini's Novel A Thousand Splendid Suns. An Undergraduate Thesis. English Department, Faculty of Letters and Culture. Universitas Negeri Gorontalo. Advisor (1): Rusni Podungge, S.Pd., M.A. Advisor (2): Novi Rusnarty Usu, S.Pd., M.A.
This research aims to see how Mariam as the main character in the novel A
Thousand Splendid Suns can defend herself against the conflicts she faced. Khaled
created the character of Mariam to support the storylines, which actually focuses
on showing the war conditions in Afghanistan around the 1970s. The research
uses psychoanalysis approach and Freud's defense mechanism theory to analyze
Mariam's personality and see how she can survive all the conflicts. This is also
use qualitative method to analyze the data. The data is taken from the novel A
Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini itself by looking at the text,
narration, conversation, plot and setting in the story. Thus, the result of this
research indicate that there are several conflicts faced by Mariam, namely social
conflict where she is not accepted in the society because of her status as an
illegitimate child, conflict with her mother who regrets giving birth to her, conflict
with her husband who commits domestic violence and also remarry and conflict
with herself where she often blamed herself for all the bad things in her life. In
dealing with some of the conflicts above, the researcher found that Mariam
overcomes her anxiety and fear problems using defense mechanisms including;
repression, reaction formation, denial, displacement, projection, rationalization,
undoing, and fantasy. Those defense mechanisms keep her alive and accept the
fate that God had been gave to her.
Keywords: A Thousand Splendid Suns Novel, Main Character, Defense Mechanism, Psychoanalysis
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