Thesis
Name: Aditya Hartono W
NIM: 112014708
Abstract
Andersen’s fairy tales are considered children’s literature although they contain an element that may not really fit to be presented as children’s literature. These tales also share some similarities or repeated parts. As literary works may depict human life, it is interesting to analyze how an individual life experience influences his/her work and vice versa, how a character represent the author’s behaviour. Therefore, this study would like to analyze and describe what motivate Hans Christian Andersen to write his tales, particularly the similar parts they share by applying Freud’s psychoanalysis theory. The analysis results in a finding that the author’s motivation and past experience is expressed through his works while his works itself reflects the repressed desire and motivation of the author’s unconscious feeling.
