An Analysis of Hester from the Perspective of Freud's Personality Dynamics

Elizabeth Jolly, a contemporary Australian female writer, analyzes Hester's realistic anxiety, neurotic anxiety and moral anxiety caused by internal conflicts of personality system, and expounds the countermeasures including similarity seeking mechanism and defense mechanism in her work The Well. Accordingly, Hester's inner entanglement is revealed and the survival predicament of marginal characters is displayed, thus arousing public's concern for marginal characters.