Inner Conflicts in “Happening” Novel by Annie Ernaux: An Overview of Literary Psychology

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10.2991/978-2-38476-251-4_51How to use a DOI?

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Inner conflicts; Psychology; Abortion; Annie Ernaux

Abstract

This research aims to describe the inner conflict of the main character in the novel “Happening” by Annie Ernaux and the main character's attitude in dealing with his inner conflict through literary psychology. Happening is one of Annie Ernaux's best autobiographies that describes her very spectacular journey when she was a 23 year old who underwent an abortion in a country where it was still illegal and considered shameful. She wrote her story from when she was a university student. She is a student who are really enthusiastic, intelligent, has dreams and strong determination to achieve all her dreams. She chose to continue her education for a better life, she wanted to get out of the middle class life which gave her many limitations. During the summer on July, she felt it was the beginning of the lowest point in her life, she discovered the fact that she was pregnant. It was as if her world and everything in it collapsed and hit her right then and there. The results of this research are a psychological picture of the bad situation she felt before she was pregnant, when she was pregnant, her persistence in having an abortion in a place that was still illegal in order to return to her life and the psychological impact she experienced after the abortion, how she continued her life and achieved her dreams. Throughout the novel, we can observe that Annie is a brave young woman who never allows failure happen to her, when she does not find a solution to her problem, she diligently creates her own solution. She has written about her life story in her own way and brings the readers to feel the emotions and sensations she experienced in the story.

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AU  - Rahmi Usman
AU  - Herawaty Abbas
AU  - M. P. Amir
AU  - Harlinah Sahib
PY  - 2024
DA  - 2024/05/22
TI  - Inner Conflicts in “Happening” Novel by Annie Ernaux: An Overview of Literary Psychology
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Linguistics and Culture (ICLC-4 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 349
EP  - 353
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-251-4_51
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-251-4_51
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