Introverted Personality in Jules Verne Around the World in Eighty Days

Abstract

This research aimed at finding out the main characters’ personality in the novel of Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne based on Carl Gustav Jung’s psychoanalysis. The method used in collecting the data was close reading, note-taking and highlighting. Then the researchers analyse the data by Jung’s personality theory. The focus of the research was the introverted personality of the main character. The results revealed that the main character has the four types of the introverted personality; introverted thinking type, introverted feeling type, introverted sensing type, and introverted intuitive type. The dominant type was introverted sensing type. His calmness always appears when he is faced with obstacles that hinder his journey and it is the personality of introverted sensing type.

Keywords

• introverted personality
• psychoanalysis
• psychology of literature