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Sun Moon And Talia Summary

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While reading Sun, Moon, and Talia it is clear that both Talia and the queen are influenced by their inner drives to make important decisions in their lives. Gaimbattista Basile conveys how inner drives can be the rise or fall of existence based on id, ego and superego. Talia and the queen as well as all the other characters in the story show why all three drives exists for different purposes. According to Freud our internal drives are what controls our moods and how we act in certain situations. In Reuben Fines book Freud he states: Freud described the personality as consisting of three areas-the id, the ego, and the superego. The id is the source of all drives, the reservoir of instincts. The word itself was taken from the German …show more content…

Talia is raped in her slumber, but wakes up to two children and once she meets the father she is happy. Basile writes, “He was overjoyed, and he told Talia who he was, and how he had seen her and what had taken place. When she heard this, their friendship was knitted with tighter bonds…” (2) Talia’s superego is apparent here due to her want and need to be a mother, bypassing that a man took advantage of her while she was sleeping. The queen is brought into the story once the king goes home, she can tell that he has other matter on his mind and he would not call out for Talia and his children in his sleep. The queen would get the secretary to go and find out who the king was no in love with, and told him if he passed this task he would receive riches beyond his belief but if he failed he would be killed. The queen shows her id her by threatening the secretary to expose the kings secrets. In the next scene the queen tricks Talia into sending the children to their father, who knew nothing about this. The queen driven by her id tells the cook to cook the children and have them fed to him secretly. The cook driven by his superego knows he could never kill the two beautiful children, hides then and feeds the king lamb. The king described the meal as “by the life of Lanfusa, how tasteful this is,” and the queen would reply by saying “Eat, eat, you are eating your own.” (Balise 2) The king would

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