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Fitri Puspitasari
03004090
ABSTRACT
Fitri Puspitasari
03004090
ABSTRACT
The researcher tries to analyse a novel entitled Life of Pi from a psychological approach. The objectives of this research are to describe the character and characterization of Piscine Molitor Patel in Life of Pi novel by Yann Martel and to describe the characterization of the protagonist character Piscine Molitor Patel in the light of Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalytic theory. The novel Life of Pi written by Yann Martel there are five main characters and nine minor characters. Piscine Molitor Patel as the protagonist character, Richard Parker as the antagonist character and Santos Patel, Gita Patel, Ravi as the companions. Based on the characterization, the protagonist character Piscine Molitor Patel is round character because he undergoes change in his characterization in the beginning to the end of the story.
The subject of this research is Life of Pi novel written by Yann Martel and the object of this research is the characteristic development of Piscine Molitor patel in Life of Pi novel by Yann Martel. The method used to take the data is qualitative method. The sample and population of this research are all the data in the novel. The data collecting techniques used in this research are reading carefully and repeatedly in detail, taking note, and then analysing the data by using psychoanalytic theory.
From this research, it can be concluded that there are six characterizations of the protagonist character Piscine Molitor Patel: intelligent, optimistic, stubborn, gentle, pessimistic, and cruel. The characterizations of Piscine Molitor Patel based on Freud’s psychoanalytic theory; in his organization of personality, in the Id (the biological aspect) he has a good and bad temper; in the Ego (the psychological aspect), he has an ambition to follows three religions because he just loves God, in the Superego (the sociological aspect), he knows that his ambition makes quarrel the other people. In his dynamic of personality, he has those eros and thanatos instincts and three anxiety, such as reality anxiety, neurotic anxiety and moral anxiety. In his development of personality, the writer analyse the defence mechanism of the ego: projection, reaction formation, fixation, and regression.
The subject of this research is Life of Pi novel written by Yann Martel and the object of this research is the characteristic development of Piscine Molitor patel in Life of Pi novel by Yann Martel. The method used to take the data is qualitative method. The sample and population of this research are all the data in the novel. The data collecting techniques used in this research are reading carefully and repeatedly in detail, taking note, and then analysing the data by using psychoanalytic theory.
From this research, it can be concluded that there are six characterizations of the protagonist character Piscine Molitor Patel: intelligent, optimistic, stubborn, gentle, pessimistic, and cruel. The characterizations of Piscine Molitor Patel based on Freud’s psychoanalytic theory; in his organization of personality, in the Id (the biological aspect) he has a good and bad temper; in the Ego (the psychological aspect), he has an ambition to follows three religions because he just loves God, in the Superego (the sociological aspect), he knows that his ambition makes quarrel the other people. In his dynamic of personality, he has those eros and thanatos instincts and three anxiety, such as reality anxiety, neurotic anxiety and moral anxiety. In his development of personality, the writer analyse the defence mechanism of the ego: projection, reaction formation, fixation, and regression.
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