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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis concerns with Nora Acton?s and Clara Banwell?s anxiety as the
main female characters in Jed Rubenfeld?s The Interpretation of Murder and their
efforts to deal with it. In discussing the anxiety and the efforts to overcome it, the
thesis writer applies psychological approach. Through the psychological
approach, the thesis writer uses the theories of anxiety and defense mechanism by
Sigmund Freud. The main problem of this thesis is finding out what the main
female characters? anxieties are, why they are suffering from them, and their ways
in dealing with them. The thesis writer analyzes their psychological problem,
particularly their anxiety, based on their behaviors and the way both of them try to
overcome it by defense mechanisms based on their actions. In the conclusion, the
thesis writer finds out that Nora Acton?s anxieties are caused by her own fears, her
parents, and her relationship with Clara Banwell and George Banwell. Clara
Banwell?s moral anxiety is caused by her marriage with George Banwell and her
inability to fulfill her role as a wife. The thesis writer also finds out that Nora?s
efforts to deal with her anxieties are by applying repression and displacement.
Meanwhile, Clara?s efforts in overcoming her anxiety by applying are
compensation and projection.