AN ANALYSIS CHARLIE’S PERSONALITIES IN THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER BY USING PSYCHOANALITICAL APPROACH

Abstract

This article is an analysis about human personality, especially about the correlation between adult personalities
with childhood life. There are two research problems in this article; (1) How are Charlie’s personalities in the novel The
Perks of Being a Wallflower ?, (2) What are the correlation between Charlie’s personalities with his Childhood
life?.Whereas, for the object of the research, this article just focused on the analysing of Charlie’s personalities that belongs
to psychoanalysis aspect. This article looked deeply through Charlie’s id, ego, and superego in order to identify Charlie’s
personalities. This article also analyzed the correlation between Charlie’s personalities with his Childhood life. This article
used the novel The Perks of Being a Wallflower written by Stephen Chbosky as the object of the research and only focused
on the main character named Charlie. To support the analysis, the researcher uses psychoanalysis theories comes from
Sigmund Freud. The researcher also uses the other theories that are related to the analysis which are gathered from books
and websites. This article uses qualitative research to analyze and collect data from the sources. It is because the data is
collected based on words form and the data is analyzed for description and theme using text analysis and interpreting the
larger meaning of the finding. The result of the analysis shows that Charlie’s personalities are Shy, Emotional, Honest,
Caring, Uncommunicative, Hard Working, and High Sexual Desire. It also shows that Charlie’s childhood life has a big role
for developing Charlie’s adult personalities.