Syntax Literate: Jurnal Ilmiah Indonesia
p–ISSN: 2541-0849 e-ISSN: 2548-1398
Vol. 9, No. 4, April 2024
ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN CHARACTER’S PERSONALITY IN “THE MIDNIGHT LIBRARY”
NOVEL BY MATT HAIG
Devilina Sihotang1*,
Zia Hisni Mubarak2
Universitas Putera Batam, Batam, Riau Indonesia1,2
Email: [email protected]1*, [email protected]2
Abstract
This research has
the purpose of finding out the personality of the protagonist in the novel
entitled “The Midnight Library” written by Matt Haig. The researcher had used
the theory of psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud in order to analyse on Nora’s
personality, the protagonist of the novel. Freud had introduced psychoanalysis
on human psyche, which consisted of three aspects, they are the id, the ego,
and the superego. The design of this research is descriptive qualitative
research, which the data collection is using the method of library research and
data analysing is using descriptive analysis method, both theorized by Ratna (2004). It results on the findings of 4 data of id aspect, 3
data of ego aspect, and 5 data of superego. It can be concluded from the
analysis result that the main character of the novel, Nora Seed, was controlled
the most by her superego, where she built her superego personality through her
experiences and journeys in finding the right life for herself. The aspect of
superego shown by Nora reflected to ideal standard of society’s moral and rules
Keywords: Personality, Psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud
Introduction
Human’s personality is regarded as a person’s pattern
of unique thinking, behaviour, and emotions. It refers to the self-identity in
the past, present, or even future, which blended with some special traits such
as habits, talents, loves, hates, hopes, and values (Coon & Mitterer, 2010). In order to evaluate a person’s personality, the
approach of psychology is needed. Kalat (2008) had compromised to define psychology as a systematic
study on a person’s behaviours and experiences, which can be concluded that the
reasons behind human’s behaviour can be understood through psychology as human
emotional is involved. Psychology is one approach that can be beneficially used
in analysing literature. According to Wellek and Warren (1948), psychological approach in literature is a study on
the psychological types and laws that presented in the literary works, and also
on how the literature effects the readers’ psychology state.
In this research, it directed to the use of
psychological approach in order to discover the psychological aspect found
within the work of literature, mainly on human’s personality psychologically on
a character found in a novel. Stated by Klarer (1999), novel is characterized by the words of individualism
and realism, grounding on realistic and individual traits of the novel’s
protagonist and the other characters. A novel or fiction is a world that is
specially made by authors through words (Gill, 1995). Therefore, there would be some parts that are
unrealistic while maintained the realistic world as the author themselves are
also affected from the real world where they lived, including their
descriptions on the characters, plot, and settings.
The title of
the novel is “The Midnight Library” written by Matt Haig, published by
Canongate Books in the year of 2020. It had won the prize of Goodreads Choice
Award for Fiction, and was known as a bestseller book by The New York Times
Bestseller, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. The novel centred on the
protagonist, a young British woman whose name is Nora Seed. She is unhappy with
her life because of the choices she had made in her current life. During a
night, she tried to kill herself, but she ended up in a library rather than the
expected other world. She was introduced by her school librarian, Mrs. Elm, to
the library that situated between life and death (Rehan, 2021). It was filled with million books that contained her
life stories that she had made different life choices. In the library, she
tried to find a life that she felt more contented of. This research used the
theory of human psyche by Freud to analyse the novel’s protagonist, Nora’s
personality, which consisted of the id, the ego, and the superego.
The researcher had discovered two previous researches
as comparison with the present research. The first study is a journal article
that conducted analysis on to find out the personality the characters in a
short story. Bilalia (2019) used a short story entitled “Fantastic Mr. Fox, The
Twits, and The Witches” by Roald Dahl as the data source of the research. It
focused to analyse the personality of the novel’s characters, by using the
Maslow’s theory, hierarchy of needs. The analysis result showed the characters
from the short story had fulfilled all the psychological needs in their lives,
step by step from psychological needs to self-actualization needs.
The next journal article is written by Situmorang and Evyanto (2020), which is an analysis of the id aspect shown by the
main character of the novel chosen entitled “Gone Girl” by Gillian Flynn. The
study has the purpose to analyse the character named Amy in the novel, by using
Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis. The research is qualitative descriptive
research. The research concluded that the aspect of id is more dominant than
the other two aspects, therefore the research had focused to find out the id
aspects on Amy. The main goal of id on Amy is clearly carried out, as her
desires for her pleasure principle are fulfilled along the novel. From her
successful plan of revenge on her husband, murder, and to her lies. Both
previous researches had conducted analysis of the same aim, which is to find
out the character’s personality. The first study used Maslow’s hierarchy of
needs theory, while the second study used Freud’s psychoanalysis theory.
Comparing to the previous studies, the present research had conducted analysis
by using the same theory as the second study, which is theory of psychoanalysis
by Freud, while the differences situated on the object analysis and with
different novel as data source.
Theoretical Framework
Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic is a theory that had been developed by
Sigmund Freud during the years of 1890s, in which the early year of 1896, he
offered and used the name of ‘psychoanalysis’ in order to explain the
psychological phenomena (Freud, 1989). His contribution for psychology in modern era is the
emphasis on the aspect of unconscious from human psyche (Guerin et al., 2005). He had convinced that human’s actions are motivated
from the forces of psychology, with limited control. Human’s mind is structured
for its unconsciousness placed below the level of consciousness, which meant
that most of human’s actions are based of their unconsciousness, as the
conscious proceed in a short time. Therefore, according to Freud of human’s
mental process, he had assigned three psychic zones which start from the id,
the ego, and the superego.
1.
Id
The id aspect as explained by Freud, is entirely to be unconscious other
than two other aspects. The id is the base of libido, the primary source of
human’s psychic energy. It has the functions to fulfil a person’s life
principle, which is the pleasure principle. As it’s naturally came from human’s
true nature, it has the characteristics of not knowing values, the difference
between good and bad, morality. The id can be concluded as the source of human
desires and aggressions, which is asocial, amoral, and lawless. The force of
the id is known to be able to force and lead into destruction from one’s greed
and satisfaction.
2.
Ego
From the id’s possibilities of hazardous, it is necessary for the other
two psychic aspect to guard the individual. Ego is the psyche aspect that would
protect individual even it lacks of vitality against it, but it helped onto the
release of non-destructive behaviours. The ego was based only small portion of
consciousness and had governed on the principle of reality, which it stands for
a good sense or reason. The ego acted as the middlemen of within the world nor
without the world. Ego is the way how to satisfy Id. Ego works based on reality
principle
3.
Superego
The superego aspect is the psychic aspect which was based on the
consciousness to protect society. It is an aspect that keep the pride and
conscience. The function of superego is to serve moral perfection and block off
the id with unconscious and impulsive behaviour from society that apparently
were unacceptable. Superego is dominated by the principle of morality. Even
though superego might be the one aspect that had driven on a person’s good
behaviour for the society, it might lead to un-comfortability of being
themselves. Therefore, the ego who acted as the repository has the important
role in order to balancing and maintaining human’s healthy mental between the
forces of opposite aspect.
Research Method
This research had applied the design of descriptive
qualitative to conduct the analysis. The data source of the research is a novel
entitled “The Midnight Library” written by Matt Haig. Descriptive qualitative
is research done by describing and analysing research’s data by using words and
sentences narratively (Creswell, 2014). This research used Sigmund Freud’s theory of
psychoanalysis to analyse Nora’s personality through finding out the id, ego,
and superego. The methods that are used to collect and analyse data are library
research method and content analysis method.
The data is collected by having the primary source
which are the novel “The Midnight Library”, and the secondary source are theory
books, research journal articles, and others. Several steps are taken to
collect the research’s data, which started with reading the book while at the
same time highlighting the sentences of the narratives as related to the
research’s objects (Sugiyono, 2020). It followed by organizing the data to each category
of object. In the other hand, the analysis was analysed by using the method of
descriptive analysis, which is the method of describing the validity of data
and followed by analysing it using explanation. Firstly, the data was
classified into each part as theorized, and continued by analysing according to
the theory.
Results and Discussions
The research had been resulted by the findings of “The
Midnight Library” novel’s main character, Nora’s personality by using Freud’s
psychoanalysis of human psyche. The novel of “The Midnight Library” focused on
telling the life of the female main character, Nora Seed. Nora is a clerk of a
music store, whose age is 36-years-old (Kusumaningrum, 2021). Overall, Nora had filled with regrets regarding of
her life choices. She felt that it is meaningless to continue to live her life
as she was left nothing as the reason of living. It started with sudden death
of her beloved cat, losing her only job, met her former bandmate that blamed
her for leaving the music band that could went big, and losing her only piano
student. She also found that her brother had been avoiding her, her best friend
that lived in Australia did not respond her text, and even her old neighbour
said he won’t ask Nora’s help for his medications anymore. To add it all, she
does not have any family, as both her parents had passed away, and she had been
living alone after she left her ex-fiancé two days before their supposed
marriage. She looked back on her life, it was nothing but regret, grief, and
pain.
Id of the main character
The id is human psyche
that principled on self-pleasure. The first aspect of id that Nora had shown
from the novel is when she had decided to end her life once she realized that
she had no reason to live anymore. It is as shown on the quotation below.
“The
time was now twenty-two minutes past eleven. She knew only one thing with
absolute certainty: she didn’t want to reach tomorrow. She stood up. She found
a pen and a piece of paper. It was, she decided, a very good time to die.” (Haig, 2020, p. 31)
The quotation
above indicated to the moment before Nora tried to suicide by overdosing
herself using sleeping pills. She had felt that every choice she had made
previously were mistakes, which led her to the life that is a far from how she
wanted and imagined. She was lifeless and thought that there is no reason for
her to continue living her life anymore. She thought of not wanting to reach
the day, and then she decided to end her life in the midnight. The aspect of id
on Nora can be seen on her great desire to not continuing her life literally,
and to do so, she decided to end her life by overdosing herself. However, as
the story goes, Nora did not end up neither in the heaven nor the hell. She was
stuck in a space, which is a library. She then met a person who was also in
that library, which looked exactly the same as the school librarian that she
knew.
“There
was absolutely nothing wrong with this life, but she felt inside her a craving
for other things, other lives, other possibilities. She felt like she was still
in the air, not ready to land. Maybe she was more like Hugo Lefèvre
than she had realised. Maybe she could flick through lives as easily as
flicking pages.” (Haig, 2020, p. 199)
After Nora’s
encounter with Mrs. Elm in the midnight library, she had entered several of her
lives through the possibility of her choices from the library’s books. She had
personally experienced the life that she felt regret for not choosing it,
however it did not end up as what she expected to. So far, Nora has not found
the right life for her to stay. It is either she felt disappointed, felt
despair of losing someone in a life, or she did not feel happy. The quotation
above situated when Nora had gone through a lot of lives, but she did not feel
contented of the life she currently lived on. The id shown on her desire and
craving to experience more of her other living possibilities, as she felt it
was not enough that she could not found the right life for her. The id centred
on her dissatisfaction on her lives, and her desire to find the most perfect
life for her to live.
“‘This
is the best life,’ she told herself, a little desperately now. ‘This is the
best life. I am staying here. This is the life for me. This is the best life.
This is the best life.’ But she knew she didn’t have long. And the words echoed
in Nora’s mind. They’ll be okay. They’re looked after . . . And then Ash said
something about going to the cinema tonight and how the babysitter was all
arranged and Nora had forgotten completely but just smiled and tried really
hard to hold on, to stay there, but it was happening, it was happening, she
knew it from within every hidden chamber of her being, and there was absolutely
nothing she could do to stop it.” (Haig, 2020, pp. 242 & 244)
After several travels to Nora’s living possibilities,
she finally found a life where she could live the happiest and quietly. Nora
had chosen to experience the life where she did not refuse Ash’s, the male
surgeon, invite to have a coffee date. They managed to get married and had a
cute little girl named Molly, and a dog named Plato. Nora had never felt of
loving someone, even the feel of being loved by someone, until she experienced
it in that life. She felt that she finally found the most perfect and right
life for her to live, until she had the urge and feel that she might soon went
back to the library. The id aspect that was shown by Nora in the quotation
above is her desire of staying in that life. She had tried to insisted and
forced to forget about the midnight library, but eventually she was forced to
be back to the library. At this moment, Nora had only thought herself, her
wellness, her feelings, without thinking about other risks that might happened.
“‘Take
me back . . .’ ‘You know it doesn’t work like that.’ ‘Well, take me to the
closest variation. Give me the closest possible thing to that life. Please, Mrs
Elm, it must be possible. There must be a life where I went for the coffee with
Ash and where we had Molly and Plato, but I … I did something slightly
different. So it was technically another life. Like I chose a different dog
collar for Plato. Or . . . or . . . Or where I – I don’t know – where I did
Pilates instead of yoga? Or where I went to a different college at Cambridge?
Or if it has to be further back, where it wasn’t coffee on the date but tea?
That life. Take me to the life where I did that. Come on. Please. Help me out.
I’d like to try one of those lives, please . . .’” (Haig, 2020, pp. 245-246)
On the quotation above, it was the continuation from
the previous quotation. It situated after Nora was forced to be back to the
library after the life with Ash and her daughter. The id of Nora is when she
desperately showed her desire to have the similar life where she could live
with Ash and their daughter, with a dog. She continued to appeal and beg Mrs.
Elm to grant her and find the book that was closest to the life of what she had
desired. Even after Mrs. Elm explained that it was not possible as the library
slowly started to break down, it did not stop Nora desperately requesting to
have the life that she had found to be perfect. However, it was clear that
Nora’s desire of having that life led to a conclusion, which is she did not
want to die. That is why the library had broken down as it meant that it tried
to give another chance to Nora to live.
Ego of the main character
The ego is the aspect of human psychic that has the
role as medium between the one’s id and superego. In the novel of “The Midnight
Library”, Nora was controlled by her ego less than her id controlled herself.
It is as quoted below.
“‘He
loved you, Nora. You looked after him as well as anyone could. Go and look at
the last page of The Book of Regrets.’ Nora could see that the book was lying
on the floor. She knelt on the floor beside it. ‘I don’t want to open it
again.’ ‘Don’t worry. It will be safer this time. Just stick to the last page.’
Once she had flicked to the last page, she saw one of her very last regrets –
‘I was bad at looking after Voltaire’ – slowly disappear from the page. The
letters fading like retreating strangers in a fog.” (Haig, 2020, p. 71)
The quoted part
above situated when Nora had gone to the life she chose of where her cat was
still alive. However, her cat Volts was still dead in that life. She found out
that Volts was destined to be dead as it had uncured disease as Mrs. Elm told
her. When Nora felt awful that she could not take good care of her cat, Mrs.
Elm comforted her. Nora’s id was shown when Mrs. Elm asked her to check “The
Books of Regrets” once again, she refused to open it as she was afraid that she
would feel nauseas again just like the first time she opened that book.
However, Mrs. Elm assured her to open it, and due to her ego, she listened to
Mrs. Elm to open the last page of the book, which she found that the one regret
about her cat slowly disappeared from the page.
“As
time stood still, Nora’s curiosity about the lives around her slowly grew. It
turned out to be near impossible to stand in a library and not want to pull
things from the shelves. ‘Why can’t you just give me a life you know is a good
one?’ she said suddenly. ‘That is not how this library works.” (Haig, 2020, p. 72)
After Nora had experienced another Volts’ death, she
confronted Mrs. Elm and insisted that it is pointless to go through the life
chances where she only experienced more sadness. Mrs. Elm then challenged Nora
to sit still rather than go through her life possibilities. Even though Nora
agreed and said yes to it, she could not stay still and it was getting bored
because time did not flow there. Nora’s id in this moment is she wanted Mrs.
Elm to choose a life for her, which she could not bear to go to a life where
she suffered. When she asked Mrs. Elm to choose a good life for her, Mrs. Elm
refused as the library offer the choice that the owner made. This time, Nora’s
ego controlled over her, as she decided to give up on asking Mrs. Elm’s help
and tried to think over what kind of life book she wanted to choose.
‘You
know what the matter is. This whole place exists because of you. You are the
power source. When there is a severe disruption in that power source the
library is in jeopardy. It’s you, Nora. You are giving up at the worst possible
moment. You can’t give up, Nora. You have more to offer. More opportunities to
have. There are so many versions of you out there. Remember how you felt after
the polar bear. Remember how much you wanted life’… The lights had come back
on, but still flickered. ‘I’m sorry,’ said Nora. She started trying to pick up
the books and put them back in place. ‘No,’ snapped Mrs Elm. ‘Don’t touch them.
Put them down.’ ‘Sorry.’ (Haig, 2020, pp. 178-179)
In the quotation
above, Nora was faced by her only brother’s death in another life that she had
chosen. She could not continue the life with that fact, and it pained her to
know that there is a life where her brother had really gone. She went back to
the library and plead Mrs. Elm to stop as it was too painful for her to go
through other life opportunities more, in which she does not want to experience
painful and sad life anymore. As she had that determined mind, it slowly
crumbled down the library. Her id shown at the moment of her strong desire to
stop all of what had happened in the library. When Mrs. Elm assured Nora by
reminding her about the polar bear incident and how she deep inside still
wanted to stay alive, it calmed her down and stopped the little earthquake that
happened in there. Nora’s ego had dominated after she heard about what Mrs. Elm
had said and reasoned. She calmed down and her id which is stopping to try on
her other life opportunities had gone.
Superego of the main character
The superego
aspect is the human psyche which has the consciousness to protect society that
is based on morality. Superego functioned to serve moral onto the society and
prevented the behaviours of id. Out of three of human psyche, it was found that
Nora’s personality was more controlled by superego other than the two aspects.
It can be seen in the quotations below.
“And
it became astoundingly clear to her, finally, in that moment: She didn’t want
to die. And that was the problem. In the face of death, life seemed more
attractive, and as life seemed more attractive, how could she get back to the
Midnight Library? She had to be disappointed in a life, not just scared of it,
in order to try again with another book. There was death. Violent, oblivious
death, in bear form, staring at her with its black eyes. And she knew then,
more than she’d known anything, that she wasn’t ready to die. This knowledge
grew bigger than fear itself as she stood there, face to face with a polar
bear, itself hungry and desperate to exist, and banged the ladle against the
saucepan. Harder.” (Haig, 2020, p. 129)
The quotation
above situated in a life where Nora became a glaciologist in Arctic, focused in
researching. She was chosen as the spotter of the polar bear, while the other
scientists conducted the fieldwork of climate. As time passed, she was faced by
a large white bear that slowly walked towards her. Nora was seen by the bear as
a food, and it scared Nora that made her to think that death is coming near
her. At that moment, her nature made herself realized that she did not want to
die yet. She thought about staying alive more than her fear at the time. Nora’s
realization about staying alive considered to be superego as her choosing to
stay alive did not hurt the people around her, such as her brother, her best
friend, neighbour, and anyone who know her.
“Maybe
that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.
Maybe it wasn’t the lack of achievements that had made her and her brother’s
parents unhappy, maybe it was the expectation to achieve in the first place.
She had no idea about any of it, really. But on that boat, she realised
something. She had loved her parents more than she ever knew, and right then,
she forgave them completely.” (Haig, 2020, p. 133)
In Nora’s life, it
was filled with regrets and fears. She thought that it was passed from what her
parents had experienced in their lives. They had expected a great success from
their both son and daughter, so they will not suffer just like when they were
young. Young Nora and her brother did not notice that and detest the burdens
given by the parents. After experiencing the polar bear incident, it occurred
in Nora’s mind that she now understood her parents’ expectation on both of
them. The superego that was shown by Nora in the quotation above is when she
understood her parents’ mindset about their success and willingly to forgive
them of what they have done.
“The
shock hadn’t been that she’d thought she’d been about to die. She had been
about to die ever since she first entered the Midnight Library. No, the shock
was that she felt like she was about to live. Or at least, that she could
imagine wanting to be alive again. And she wanted to do something good with
that life.” (Haig, 2020, p. 134)
The bear encounter
incident had made Nora realized something. Her colleagues that witnessed the
incident might know how shocked Nora was, but Nora was shocked not because of
the bear, but on how her mindset changed after that encounter. While normal
people might be shocked by how close death is, Nora was shocked by her wanting
to stay alive because death was near to her when she first went inside the
Midnight Library. The superego in the quotation above is Nora’s urge of desire
to do something good and better in her life for herself, instead of trying to
escape from her distress.
“And
also, Dylan deserved the other Nora. The one who had managed to fall in love
with him. This was a new feeling – as if she was taking someone’s place… She
stroked the large dog who’d been licking her and whispered a ‘goodbye’ into the
Newfoundland’s wide, warm brow as she left Dylan and his dogs behind.” (Haig, 2020, p. 196)
This time, Nora
went into the life of her working in an animal shelter. She was also working
along with a man named Dylan, who turned out to be her boyfriend in that life.
As she spent time with him, she found that Dylan is a good man and is rare to
be found, which she liked that about him. However, she realized that she did
not feel attracted to Dylan as much as the other Nora in that life. Nora felt
that she does not deserve Dylan, and the superego that Nora had shown in the
quotation is by how she decided to leave that life so the other Nora could
continue living her life. It considered to be superego as she was being
considerate and gave back the good life to the other Nora that was supposed to
live in that life.
“‘No
one plays here,’ she told Nora. ‘I’m so pleased you came to see me. It was such
a surprise.’ ‘Well, I can come every day if you want, Mrs Elm?’ ‘Louise, please
call me Louise. And don’t you have work to do?’ Nora smiled. Even though it had
only been twenty-four hours since she had asked Neil to put up her poster in
String Theory, she was already inundated with people wanting lessons. ‘I teach
piano lessons. And I help out at the homeless shelter every other Tuesday. But
I will always have an hour . . . And to be honest, I have no one to play chess
with either.’” (Haig, 2020, p. 269)
After Nora got out
from the Midnight Library and managed to stay alive in her actual life, she
stayed in the hospital and got rehabilitation for her health. She reconciled
with her brother, Joe, who then told her about his problems all the time. Nora
also received a text from her only best friend, Izzy, which made her felt the
joy of living after experience enough journey to be able to feel a new
perspective. After she was feeling better, she decided to visit Mrs. Elm. She
felt the need to spend time with Mrs. Elm as she found the other life that Mrs.
Elm had gone early. The superego that was shown in the quotation above is where
she willingly to spare her time to accompany the lonely Mrs. Elm to play chess.
Even though she has not secured a job for her living, she still chose to be
with Mrs. Elm, wanting to give her a good memory, and trying to repay her for
what Mrs. Elm done for her back in her school life.
Conclusion
The analysis of Nora’s personality in the novel of
“The Midnight Library” had resulted on the findings by using Sigmund Freud’s
theory of psychoanalysis on human psyche. Based on the theory, human psyche
consisted of the id, ego, and superego. From the analysis above, it can be
concluded that Nora’s personality had dominated the aspect of superego, even
though the id and ego had dominated her for a few times. The id that appeared
in Nora’s personality was at the start of the novel, when she was feeling
depressed over her life with 4 data, and the ego appeared in the middle of her
trying to satisfy her id with 3 data. As the story went on, Nora experienced a
lot of her life possibilities which made her able think about the values of
life. It caused the superego aspect inside her to dominate more than the other
aspects with 5 data, which the superego Nora had shown in the novel reflected
to ideal standard of society’s moral and rules.
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