GEMMA’S PERSONALITY RELATED TO HER MAGICAL GIFT IN LIBBA BRAY’S A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY

Abstract: This study, entitled Gemma’s Personality related to her magical gift
in Libba Bray’s A Great and Terrible Beauty, intends to analyze personality of the
major character by using Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality which is a apart of
psychoanalytic theory. Gemma is chosen to be analyzed based on personality point of
view. This study focuses on the structure of personality base on three part of
personality; the id, the ego, and superego and the dynamic personality discusses about
anxiety.
Moreover, this study is conducted by using a qualitative design, the writer is the
key instrument and the data are described in the form of words. The data of this study
are the utterances of the characters and the narrations of the author in Libba Bray’s A
Great and Terrible Beauty. Hence, the data collection was done simultaneously with
the data analysis.
The result of this study, in structure of personality the id is a Gemma’s
supernatural power, the ego is Gemma, and the superego is the advices and
suggestions from other characters such as Kartik, Gemma’s mother, and the man who
has already died. Dynamic of personality Gemma’s anxiety is appeared because of
conflict between id, ego, superego.