Carrietta White’s Personality in Carrie by Stephen King

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Hibtiyah, Mariyatul (2018) Carrietta White’s Personality in Carrie by Stephen King. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

The thesis focuses on the personality of the main character named Carrie and the factors that affect her personality. This thesis uses personality theory of Carl Jung that focuses only on archetypes that includes Persona, Shadow, Anima & Animus and Self to be able to find Carrie's personality. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. The result of the research finds that Carrie's personality is strongly influenced by her religious fanatical mother and her schoolmates who always bully and avoid her, so that Carrie’s personality grow and generate 1) Carrie's persona is quiet and watchful to her friends and obedient to her mother. Persona occur on the basis of the demands of the environment and the people around her. 2) Carrie’s shadow characterized by rebel, anger, revenge, physical harm and murderous act. Shadow happens because she feels imperfect and too many bully and mockery she got so she can not see the good side of herself.3) The animus of Carrie appears in the form of forceful argument. It happens because exhaustion and boredom to her life that is always arranged by her mother. 4) Self from Carrie through three phases, namely, the first phase, the discovery phase of the goal of life from three of the previous archetypes to become a normal girl, the second phase, the phase to actulize that goal but she fails, so that it creates a new goal for revenge on those who have destroyed her goal, and the last phase, consciousness phase, Carrie realizes and feels guilty for her revenge. All three phases are due to the strong desire of Carrie to turn her life into the life she wanted. Eventually Carrie’s self is unbalanced because she can not actualize her goal of life.