PANOPTICON: Journal of English Studies
Vol. 1 No. 1 (2022): PANOPTICON: JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES

THE REFLECTION OF INFERIORITY COMPLEX IN THE SUN AND HER FLOWERS BY RUPI KAUR




Article Info

Publish Date
15 Jun 2022

Abstract

This thesis is entitled “The Reflection of Inferiority Complex in The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur”. The topic of this study is the inferiority complex. The object for this thesis is a book of the poem by Rupi Kaur entitled The Sun and Her Flowers (2017). The book tells about the speaker’s life as an immigrant, about her family, love life, and society around her. The aim of this study is to analyze the speaker who suffer from an inferiority complex. In conducting this study, the writer used Alfred Adler’s theory in a book The Individual Psychology by Alfred Adler: A Systematic Presentation in Selection From His Writings (1956). And this thesis also used the qualitative method. The result showed that from the data analyzed it was found that the cause of the speaker’s inferiority complex is the bad memories from childhood and during she grows up. The symptoms the speaker shows include anxiety, sorrow, despair, insecurity, and weakness.Keywords: adler, inferiority, poetry, rupi kaur

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PNP

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Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

PANOPTICON: Journal of English Studies is a scholarly journal published by English Letter of Universitas Pamulang. It was founded in 2024, with registered number E-ISSN: 3047-8693. PANOPTICON has commitment to exchange and share ideas as well as research findings from researchers. Also, it provides ...