The Analysis of Main Character’s Anxiety on “Confessions of A Shopaholic” Novel through Freudian Theory written by Sophie Kinsella Presented as a partial fulfillment of the requirement For the Undergraduate

Wijaya, Dewi (2019) The Analysis of Main Character’s Anxiety on “Confessions of A Shopaholic” Novel through Freudian Theory written by Sophie Kinsella Presented as a partial fulfillment of the requirement For the Undergraduate. Bachelor thesis, Universitas Buddhi Dharma.

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Abstract

The title of this research is “ The Analysis of Main Character on Confessions of A Shopaholic Novel through Freudian Theory written by Sophie Kinsella”. Confessions of A Shopaholic novel is tells about a women named Rebecca Bloomwood who has bad behavior that are shopping addiction to fulfill her desire but she gets anxiety because of her debts and it disturbs her psychological. This research will focuses on Rebecca’s anxiety. The data are taken from the novel in the form of dialog and monolog. The writer using psychoanalysis theory from Sigmund Freud that related with anxiety theory. Sigmund Freud theory has 3 kinds of anxiety, there are realistic anxiety, neurotic anxiety and moral anxiety. This theory is used to analyze the cause and effect of Rebecca Bloomwood’s anxiety. Last, the writer found the proved from Rebecca experiences three kinds of anxiety. First is neurotic anxiety caused by her bad habit that are shopping everything that she wants not what she needs. Second is realistic anxiety caused by her bad habit in shopping, that makes Rebecca has a lot of debts and that makes she becomes panic everytime met her debt collector. And the last moral anxiety caused by she felt guilty of her shopping behavior. And she becomes a liar to defense herself. Keywords: Rebecca, Character, Anxiety, Psychoanalysis, Defense Mechanism.

Item Type:	Thesis (Bachelor)
Subjects:	000 Karya Umum > 002 The Book/Buku 300 Ilmu Sosial > 301 Sosiologi dan Antropologi, Manusia, Masyarakat 300 Ilmu Sosial > 304 Faktor-faktor yang Mempengaruhi Tingkah Laku Sosial
Divisions:	Fakultas Sosial & Humaniora > Sastra Inggris
Depositing User:	Iskandar Iskandar
Date Deposited:	20 Dec 2019 07:59
Last Modified:	24 Feb 2023 03:53
URI:	http://repositori.buddhidharma.ac.id/id/eprint/519

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