THOMAS’ PERSONALITY IN DASHNER’S THE DEATH CURE

The Death Cure is a novel by James Dashner. This novel tells about a story of a group of young people against a big organization. The main character in this novel is a teenage boy. Basically, the main character’s personality is good. The goodness is inherited from his parents, but he lives in bad environments and full of wickedness. The purpose of this research is to find out and analyze more deeply about nature and nurture which influence the development of the main character’s personality. Those factors influence the concept of id, ego, and superego from the main character. This research uses psychoanalysis theory by Sigmund Freud; it uses qualitative research method. Close reading technique is applied to collect the data. This research concludes that the main character’s nature influences the id and the main character’s nurture influences the superego. Here, the ego tends to defeat the id and win the superego. The main character can controls the id’s desires and behave based on rules or norms.