Ummi Kholifah , 2211411038 (2016) PERSONALITY CHANGES AS A RESULT OF THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF NECESSITY AGAINST THREATS AS FOUND IN LORD OF THE FLIES BY WILLIAM GOLDING. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Each human being lives on his style of behavior and personality, either good or evil. Personality arises from within and makes someone who really he is different from others. It determines the way of someone has to act. It is influenced by some aspects just like psychological conditions, emotional stabilization, and the surroundings circumstances. Somehow, those aspect are able to change human behavior and personality too. This final project discusses about personality changes that occurs among the characters in Lord of the Flies a story about English school boys who have got scattered on uninhibitant island far off in the Pacific Ocean. That condition forced them to maintain their viability by themselves: without help of an adult. Somehow, each one of them has their own defense mechanism to maintain their viability. Their action and reaction are completely influenced by their thinking of how to survive and stay alive. According to those statements the research question of this study are how is the characters’ personality reflected in Lord of the Flies by William Golding?, What is the relation between circumstances and the encouragement of necessity as found in the novel?, and What kinds of personality changes as the result of the encouragement of necessity that portrayed in the novel? The object of the study is a novel entitled Lord of the Flies. The method applied in this research was qualitative. The writer used phrases, sentences, and paragraph found in the short story as the data of this final project. The theory applied is Freudian theory of psychoanalysis: personality theory by Sigmund Freud. Procedure of data analysis included reading, identifying, classifying, selecting and interpreting the data. The result found from the research is that personality changes occur not only because of under pressure condition but also because of human willingness to change and their psychological condition. Personality changes that occur among the characters in the novel is building on Surroundings circumstances and human-self factors.

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