Janet's Behavior in The Storm by Knight Malmar
- Dinan Fuzianti
- Jan 19, 2022
- 2 min read
The Storm portrayed the narrative of Janet, a woman who is currently living alone at home. She arrives a week later to find their house deserted. She was home alone with the storm outside, and hearing noises and seeing disturbing things made her nervous. Throughout the story, the atmosphere that can be felt was thrilling and suffocating. Even Though this short story is not in completely about horror and thriller genre type.
Now, consider Janet's attitude toward the story and more towards his husband, Ben. It could ppssibly talk about the strangeness in her behavior. Take a look at Jane's predicament and condition in that occurrence. She was alone at home and hadn't seen her husband in a long time. Much more, there was a storm outside, and her house was in the dark, with no neighbors to be found. Janet would have been terrified and anxious by this circumstance, which might be called anxiety.
She creates her own worry by focusing on the issue, as stated in the sentence,
"there was no light anywhere in the home."
"Ben was not at home,"
"the storm was intensifying."
So the fact that her spouse is not around, as well as the darkness, make her anxious in her home. When enough people agree on this circumstance, it will start to establish the unconsciousness to appears on the mind. The unconscious is a state of mind in which the contents are not available for a human being to recollect because they are kept out of their conscious awareness. In Janet’s behaviour, she may be undergo the process of her unconscious mind or the Id.
These events may appear to be Janet's hallucinations, but when examined using psychoanalysis, they can be identified as actual happenings. Janet had been aware that her husband was unusual all along, but she ignored her thoughts because Ben is the one she loves and the man she lives with. Janet's concern throughout the storm is actually bringing the id ego and unconscious into her awareness. Those are drawn out by threatening impulses, strange noises, and disturbances.
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