Family In Literature

In this text I find that there is a topic that is always present in our lives, but we don’t always manage to express it well or to talk about it. Many times I feel this topic is left behind because we try to not see it as a big thing or because we think if we touch it everything will turn into a soap opera. This topic is family. Family is always there in our minds, even when we don’t think about it the influences from these people are there behind every little thing we do. Even if it is not the biological family, the people that were around us for the first years of our lives always had an effect on us, and as Freud says, our personality is the internalization of these very people. In A Simple Soul Felicite has a personality that I think reflects many things from her childhood, and the hard times she had to get through. There is also the presence of her sister who is really using her to get ahead and to provide for her son instead of due to the fact that she really wants to reestablish the contact between the two of them . This not only showed how people can be really selfish but it was further evidence that family conflict is very usual and that although many people try to ignore it, it is important to see that it does influence people and how they behave.