ANALYZE THE PERSONALITY OF CHARACTERS IN THE SHORT STORIES OF DEUANWAD PIMWANA

Abstract

          This documentary research study aimed to analyze the personality of the characters and to study the self-defence mechanisms of the 50 characters in 4 volumes of 47 short stories by Duanwad Pimwana by applying the Theories of Personality in the analysis, and the findings were presented in analytical descriptive method.

          The results of study were found that the personality of the characters from the highest to the lowest level consists of: 1) the life attitude 2) the love attitude 3) the social attitude 4) the family attitude and 5) the occupation.

          The self-defence mechanisms of the characters found that there were 15 types from the highest to the lowest level consists of: 1) the rationalization 2) the projection   3) the reaction formation 4) the repression 5) the fantasy  6) the denial 7) the substitution   8) the compensation 9) the identification 10) the sublimation 11) the introjection                       12) the regression 13) the somatization 14) the dream and 15) the undoing.

          The study of the personality and self-defence mechanisms of the characters is the cross-disciplinary support by applying the psychological theory, which is the different fields of science, in the analysis of the characters in the literature to understand human behaviour because the character behaviour is like the mirror reflecting the current human society.