AN INTRINSIC ANALYSIS OF ANNE BRONTË’S AGNES GREY AND ITS MORAL VALUES

BY
BETARIA S.
02004052

ABSTRACT

In this study the writer discusses the novel Agnes Grey by Anne Bronte. In this study the writer try to analyze an intrinsic and the moral value from the novel Agnes Grey. The writer chooses the novel Agnes Grey because of several reasons such as: First, this novel is one of the best English novel and it is so interesting to analyze. Second this novel talks about a young woman who never give up in facing her life, Agnes Grey is a patience, dilligent, and have a dream to change her family life. And the last the reader can adopt the moral values provided in the novel.

The writer uses the structural approach as a method to describe the intrinsic analysis of this novel. The method used in this thesis is librarian research. Because to get needed data and information, the writer have to employs and involves a library research method by reading industriously to get a deep comprehension about the intrinsic analysis of the literary work.

The writer comes to conclude that intrinsic elements are theme, the plot, setting and character and characterization The result of the research finding can be seen as follows; the synopsis of the novel. The theme of the novel is dramatic story, struggle woman, patience and happy ending story. There are two groups of character; those are major and minor characters. The major characters are Agnes grey, Agnes’s mother, Agnes’s father, Mary as Agnes’s sister, Mr. Richardson, Betty, Fanny and Harriet, Nancy Brown, Matilda Murray, Rosalie Murray, Mr. Edward Weston, Mrs. and Mrs. Murray, John Murray, Charles Murray, Mr. Thomas Ashby, and Mr. Hatfield. The minor characters are Mr and Mrs Bloomfield, Mary Ann, Master Tom Bloomfield and Mr. Robson. The setting of the novel is divided in two parts, namely place and time setting. The setting of place is located in North of England and setting of time is the beginning of 1839. The plot includes five sections; exposition, rising action, crisis, falling action and catastrophe. And the moral values itself can be divided into negative and positive moral values. Patience, devotion, freedom, friendship, forgiving, telling the truth, helping others, working hard; are positive moral values, and negatives such as injustice and lying other. From these moral values the reader can learn from the novel after reading it.

A PORTRAIT OF A WIFE IN HANDLING HER HOUSEHOLD PROBLEMS AS REFLECTED IN DANIELLE STEEL’S ACCIDENT: A PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH

By
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.

CONFLICTS IN C.S. LEWIS’S THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE: AN OBJECTIVE STUDY

By
Fitriya Ashfiyani
02004132

ABSTRACT

The writer in this thesis chooses a novel entitled The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis as the subject of his writing. The writer analyzes the intrinsic elements of the novel, especially the conflicts happening among the main characters.

The type of this study is a library research which consists of main data and supporting data. The main data of this research is taken from the novel The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, while the supporting data are taken from other sources like books, lecturers’ explanations, internet, etc. The subject of the research is the novel entitles The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Meanwhile, the object of the research focuses on the character and characterization of the main characters and the conflicts among them in the novel. Since the study uses the library research, it uses a descriptive qualitative method. The writer tries to provide clearer information and describe the kind of conflicts among the main characters by analyzing and employing conflict theory and objective approach.

The results of the research shows that the main characters in this novel are: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. In this novel, the researcher found the characters and the characterizations of the main characters. Peter is a sportive boy, a decision maker, a fighter, a king. Susan is a moderator, a critical girl, a queen. Edmund is a temperament boy, greedy, liar, a king; Lucy is a confidence girl, a kind heart girl, truthful, smart, a leader, a queen. There are several kinds of conflicts happening to the main characters such as: disputing about what will be done, disputing about an animal’s name, coming back from wardrobe, a conflict inside Edmund, Peter and Edmund’s conflict, discussing with the professor, asking for going home from Susan, trusting a robin, losing Edmund, to save Edmund.