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Esda Khoirul Ichtiyaroh
03004053
ABSTRACT
Esda Khoirul Ichtiyaroh
03004053
ABSTRACT
The title of the research is A Psychological Analysis of the character Arthur Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. The writer is interested to choose the novel The Scarlet Letter as the object of the research because this novel full of psychological aspects. It involves implausible story and the complexity and the subtlety sentences. And it is considered as one of American classic literature which is best seller in American sales. Nathaniel Hawthorne was considered as one of the great American novelist during the nineteenth century. The aim of the research is to describe the psychological analysis of the character Arthur Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.
To do the analysis, the writer uses qualitative descriptive method. The subject of the research is a novel entitled The Scarlet Letter, which is written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the object of the research is focused on the psychological analysis of the character Arthur Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. To collect the needed data and informations, the writer employs two methods; they are library-based research and a documentation method. Both methods are used to determine psychological feature of Arthur Dimmesdale and his characterization reflected in Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, psychologically. All of the data are gathered, studied, and then analyzed by using Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality construction, the Tripartite Model.
Some of the important research findings are stated as follows: First, the writer found the characterization of Arthur Dimmesdale: 1.) Intelligent, 2.) Innate nature, 3.) Eloquent and emotionally powerful speaker, 4.) Kind and friendly, 5.) Coward, 6.) Desperate, 7.) Pessimistic, 8.) Discourage, 9.) Hypocrite. Second, based on the psychological analysis of the character Arthur Dimmesdale in the novel “The Scarlet Letter” using Sigmund Freud’s theory of Personality Construction, the Tripartite Model, it can be concluded that among the three parts of Dimmesdale’s human psyche, his superego is the most dominant part in his life that brought him into a confession. Third, the adultery that Arthur Dimmesdale had committed caused him face the internal and external conflict. Dimmesdale’s external conflict concerned more in the category of social conflict.
To do the analysis, the writer uses qualitative descriptive method. The subject of the research is a novel entitled The Scarlet Letter, which is written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and the object of the research is focused on the psychological analysis of the character Arthur Dimmesdale in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. To collect the needed data and informations, the writer employs two methods; they are library-based research and a documentation method. Both methods are used to determine psychological feature of Arthur Dimmesdale and his characterization reflected in Hawthorne’s novel, The Scarlet Letter, psychologically. All of the data are gathered, studied, and then analyzed by using Sigmund Freud’s theory of personality construction, the Tripartite Model.
Some of the important research findings are stated as follows: First, the writer found the characterization of Arthur Dimmesdale: 1.) Intelligent, 2.) Innate nature, 3.) Eloquent and emotionally powerful speaker, 4.) Kind and friendly, 5.) Coward, 6.) Desperate, 7.) Pessimistic, 8.) Discourage, 9.) Hypocrite. Second, based on the psychological analysis of the character Arthur Dimmesdale in the novel “The Scarlet Letter” using Sigmund Freud’s theory of Personality Construction, the Tripartite Model, it can be concluded that among the three parts of Dimmesdale’s human psyche, his superego is the most dominant part in his life that brought him into a confession. Third, the adultery that Arthur Dimmesdale had committed caused him face the internal and external conflict. Dimmesdale’s external conflict concerned more in the category of social conflict.
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