By
Heny Anita
02004089
ABSTRACT
Heny Anita
02004089
ABSTRACT
The study entitled A Portrait of a Wife in Handling Her Household Problems as Reflected in Danielle Steel’s Accident: A Psychological Approach has two objectives of study. The first is to describe the character and characterization of the female major character in Accident. The second is to describe the personality of the female major character in handling her household problems which the readers can get by reading the novel entitled.
To obtain the object of this research, the writer used psychological analysis through Subhan’s theory of character and characterization (2003: 8). The writer also used the theory of the household problems by Pujihastuti (2006: 86), the theory of psychology of literature by Rene Wellek and Austin Warren (1989: 90), and the theory of the family psychology by Liddle (2002: 1). In addition, the writer used Raymond B. Cattle’s psychological theory of personality in Subhan’s book (2003: 63). It is used to understand the personality Page Clarke in handling her household problems. Page Clarke’s character is the object of this analysis. The methodologies used in this research are observation and documentation. The technique of collecting the data is qualitative method.
The result of this research included Page Clarke’s character like beautiful, artistic woman, stimulating, explicit, children loving, responsible, sympathetic, occupied housewife, and lonely. The personality of Page Clarke in handling her household problems like apprehensive, happy-go-lucky, uncontrolled, suspicious, affected by feelings, forthright, and expedient. Page Clarke is the main character of Accident. She has a happy family but it changed when her daughter had a car accident and in the same moment she found out her husband laid on her and left her. This case needs her to handle those problems by herself. Although those problems were hard for her, she could handle those problems better.
To obtain the object of this research, the writer used psychological analysis through Subhan’s theory of character and characterization (2003: 8). The writer also used the theory of the household problems by Pujihastuti (2006: 86), the theory of psychology of literature by Rene Wellek and Austin Warren (1989: 90), and the theory of the family psychology by Liddle (2002: 1). In addition, the writer used Raymond B. Cattle’s psychological theory of personality in Subhan’s book (2003: 63). It is used to understand the personality Page Clarke in handling her household problems. Page Clarke’s character is the object of this analysis. The methodologies used in this research are observation and documentation. The technique of collecting the data is qualitative method.
The result of this research included Page Clarke’s character like beautiful, artistic woman, stimulating, explicit, children loving, responsible, sympathetic, occupied housewife, and lonely. The personality of Page Clarke in handling her household problems like apprehensive, happy-go-lucky, uncontrolled, suspicious, affected by feelings, forthright, and expedient. Page Clarke is the main character of Accident. She has a happy family but it changed when her daughter had a car accident and in the same moment she found out her husband laid on her and left her. This case needs her to handle those problems by herself. Although those problems were hard for her, she could handle those problems better.
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