EXPLORING WENDY TORRANCE’s PERSONALITY IN KING's THE SHINING (1977) = EXPLORING WENDY TORRANCE’s PERSONALITY IN KING's THE SHINING (1977)

Winnifred "Wendy" Torrance is the main female protagonist in the legendary horror novel The Shining (1977) by Stephen King. The purpose of this research is to find out Wendy’s conflict that portrayed in the novel using psychoanalysis perspective, and also to find out the causes of her complexity of personality by using Id, Ego, and Super Ego within the novel. The approach used by the researcher in this study are structuralism approach, as well as psychoanalytic study proposed by Sigmund Freud, namely Id, Ego, and Superego. In this research, the researcher used a descriptive qualitative method. The data sources for this research are The Shining by Stephen King, and data related to the research and the novel such as journals, articles, and websites to assist this research. The researcher has found that Wendy has a very complex personality, influenced by her past, her closest people such as her husband and child, to the hotel they stayed in with their family during the winter season. The researcher also found that her Id, Ego and Super Ego really influenced Wendy's personality and actions for their survival while staying at the Overlook Hotel throughout the winter.

Keyword : Personality, The Shining, Psychoanalysis