THE NARRATOR’S DEFENSE MECHANISMS ON H.G. WELLS’S THE WAR OF THE WORLDS

Abstract

This thesis analyses a novel by H.G. Wells entitledThe War of the Worlds. The aims of the thesis are to explain and to analyze the defense mechanisms of the ego and their effects to the Narrator’s life, the main character in this novel. The theories that underly this thesis are the self defense mechanisms of the ego proposed by Sigmund Freud and the more modern defense mechanisms forms from various modern psychologists. The methods used in this study are library research andinternet sources. The analysis shows the Narrator on this novel performs various self defense mechanisms such as intellectualization, regression, acting-out, rationalization, and repression in order to stay alive and to be reunited with his wife again.