Lena Duchannes’ triumph toward her dread revealed in Beautiful Creatures novel by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

In this study, the researcher analyzed the main character in the Beautiful Creatures novel written by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. Beautiful Creatures tells about Lena Duchannes's fear of her Claim at the age of sixteen. The aims of this thesis is first to know the characteristics of Lena Duchannes, the researcher uses the theory of new criticism as a supporting theory that focuses on characterization. Secondly to find out why Lena is afraid of her sixteenth birthday. And third to find out Lena Duchannes overcome her fear. This study uses psychoanalysis theory of Sigmund Freud with the concept of id, ego, and superego to analyze the two problems. This thesis uses descriptive method. The author reads the novel several times. The first reading aims to understand the content of the story. Then the author determines the interesting part of the novel story to be analyzed. The second reading and so on is done to collect the data needed for further analysis and drawn conclusions from the results of the analysis. The results show that Lena has the characteristics of a coward, strange, and withdrawn person. The reason Lena is scared by her sixteenth birthday because she know that she is the daughter of the most evil Caster. So she always be claimed that she will turn into Dark during the night of claims. In addition, Lena looks for the book of the Moon and understands its contents to find a way to destroy the curse so that her fears can be overcomed. Although, her decision made her to give up her uncle