Human Behavior In Literature

Psychology

Why Characters act the way they do?

Authors project their buried feelings and desires into the characters.

Readers read and learn to apply these insights to their own lives.

This helps us understand ourselves and others around us better.

Dreams, Creativity, Power, Hysterias, Happiness are some of the emotions projected to the characters.

They reveal the disturbing dreams, fantasy and secret wishes in form of literature.

Readers get the chance to live their own desires vicariously through these characters.

This illuminates the complexities of humans and texts in general.