Abstract Stephanie Meyer is acclaimed as a wonderful writer with a fascinating and original mind. One of her best-known works Twilight is intellectually incisive and full of original insights. Scholars at home and abroad have mainly focused on romanticism reflected in the text, but ignore the protagonist’s self breakthrough process. Therefore, this thesis analyzes the Twilight from Freud’s personality theory. Firstly, it gives a brief introduction of Stephanie Meyer and Twilight. Then from the perspective of the Freud's personality theory, it analyzes the vampires’ id, ego, superego, revealing the conflicts between the protagonist’s twisted inner world and social environment. Freud's personality theory discloses the deep meaning of the novel. Thus, the personality reading enhances the novel’s readability and profundity, and helps us to understand the reasons why the novel has become a classic. 60059

Key words: Freud; Twilight; id; ego; superego 

摘要 斯蒂芬妮·梅尔是一位具有新颖思想的大作家。其代表作《暮光之城》思想深邃，见解独到，启迪读者。国内外学者主要侧重于研究文本所体现的浪漫主义，却忽视了主人公突破自我的过程。因此，本论文从弗洛伊德人格结构理论的视角分析《暮光之城》。首先简介斯蒂芬妮·梅尔，其作品《暮光之城》,其次从弗洛伊德人格结构理论的视角探析小说中吸血鬼本我、自我、超我三重人格,,揭示社会环境与其内心世界之间的冲突，揭示小说的深层内涵。因此人格解读增强了小说的可读性与深刻性，并且帮助我们理解之所以该小说成为经典的原因。

毕业论文关键词：《暮光之城》；弗洛伊德；自我；本我；超我

Contents

1. Introduction 1

2. Literature Review 2

3. The Introduction of Freud’s Personality Theory 3

4. An Analysis of Twilight from the Perspective of Freud's Personality Theory 6

4.1 The Id Reflected in the Main Characters 7

4.2 The Ego Reflected in the Main Characters 8

4.3 The Superego Reflected in the Main Characters 9

5. Conclusion 11

Works Cited 13

1. Introduction 

Stephanie Meyer was born in America Connecticut, graduated from Brigham Young University, majoring in English literature. She is a full-time housewife with 3 children and has no writing experience. One night in 2003, she made a fateful dream: a girl and a handsome, charming man sitting in the sunny grass to be concerned with love and romance. The man is a vampire, but they have been falling in love, he is my lover to suppress her desire to hunt, tell her how difficult it is for him. This dream eventually became a chapter of her first best-selling novel Twilight.

Now Stephanie Meyer is a famous American contemporary fantasy fiction writer. Compared with other contemporary writers, her work is not much, but her work has been a favorite of readers, especially young people, especially her Twilight series of novels. Twilight series of novels includes four: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn. Twilight was published after 2005, has aroused widespread concern, just as the Harry Potter, as soon became a bestseller. May 2008, Stephanie Meyer was named Time magazine world's hundred most influential figures. Twilight series of novels not only describes some version of the love story of Cinderella, but also reflects the confrontation between man and nature to live in harmony relationship. It captures the pulse of the times, the relationship between man and nature in the world today-depth insight. The series with Isabella Swan and Edward Cullen one pair of hardy duck emotional entanglements main line, unfolding a variety of intricate intertwined relationship, the integration of vampire legends, werewolf stories, campus life, terror a variety of eye-catching element of suspense, comedy adventure and so on. Contains the author's novel concept and the natural ecological value recognition. At the same time, we can realize from her on how to establish and maintain harmony between man and nature, great care.