A Characters personality is an important part within a novel so intertwined as Brave New World or Eragon.  Personality of a character brings depth and perception to a novel. The authors of both books have made the reader understand and relate to the main characters. Personality is highly associated with Sigmund Freud’s personality theory of “id”, “ego”, and “super-ego”.

“Brave New World’s” John the Savage and “Eragon’s” Eragon has had theid, ego, and super-ego factors implanted within them since birth. The id factor is in each one of us; it controls our primitive impulses like sex, hunger, and anger. John and Eragon never correctly fit in to their worlds.

All people, except those conditioned in the Brave New World, have some type of ego.  Ego is the knowledge of self that is influenced by the world around us.  Ego can be good or bad.  A positive form of ego is to promote self-worth, as Eragon and John the Savage display.  A bad form of ego is when you think more highly of yourself than others think of you.

A super-ego acts as a person’s conscience internalizing the father figure and cultural backgrounds. Both characters are affected by their super-egos. John’s super-ego was his mother Linda, and Pope who acted as a father figure, but John’s real father was never part of his life. John therefore had a very weak super-ego. Where Eragon, although he never knew his mother and father, had a strong super-ego enforced by his uncle and older cousin. Their differences in their super-ego affect their reasoning throughout the novels. John acts very irrationally whereas Eragon acts with reason.

John the Savage is an enforcer in the Brave New World. He clearly has all three of Sigmund Freud’s personality theories; where the people within Utopia only have the id factor. John shows his id factor when is mother Linda dies. I believe a person could quickly express their inner id factor at the time of death. John quickly and effortlessly releases and expresses a part of his id factor.  John the Savage becomes very angry and tries to throw the people’s soma away. He believes soma will be the death of them and making them kid-like by not allowing anxieties. John the Savage is always considered an outsider because he is from both worlds. John is very faithful to Jesus Christ and shows his religion through the rituals he does.

Eragon is an outgoing character in Eragon. You can truly notice that Eragon also has the id, ego, and super-ego factor within him, but the Ra’zac and the Urgals only know and live by the id factor.   Eragon has strong values of family, faith and self.  Eragon leaves home to protect Saphira (his dragon), and to learn how to become a dragon rider.  This shows Eragon’s his denial of his super-ego because he is leaving his father figure to learn his own way.

Everyone has the initial personality theory of Id.  Id soon develops into ego by the acceptance and learning to cope with anxieties.  Super-ego has an effect on the developing ego because of rules and cultural beliefs.  Therefore these three personality theories make each one of us and each characters of a novel, the unique individuals that we are.