INTRODUCTION
1.1. The Background of the Study
The title of this thesis is conflict
in three selected short stories of Flannery O’Connor. They are “A Good Man Is Hard to
Find”, “Everything That Rises Must Converge”, and
“Greenleaf”. Short story
is belongs to
prose fiction, shorter
in form than a novel. It is
single directed either in theme, plot and characters to show unity, to quote Nurgiyantoro (1998:9).
It is true that every prose fiction contains a
story. Yet, the point is what kind of
story it means. Kenney (1966:12) states that: “astory is minimum events that occur in
temporal sequence that is
one after another.
The story of
a man’s life,
for example, will include his
birth, his growing up, his marriage, his growing
old, his death.
Obviously, these events
occur over a period of a time. “ The
focus of analysis in this thesis does not focus only on that minimum of events but also
to story that
contains a conflict.
It is connected
to the conflict contained in the stories. To quote what Kenney
further says (1966:19): “the conflicts
with which fiction concern itself are of many kinds. A story may deal with a conflict within
a single man, a conflict between men, a
conflict between man and society, between
man and nature, and so on. “ In
reference from what Kenney says about
the conflict above, I found that conflict
refers to person which
deals with life situation. It
is only situation that offers a conflict. So, the focus of my
attention is the main character’s conflict as portrayed in the three selected short stories
of O’Connor. Anyhow, a character in literary
work is referred to a person who takes the leading story of the work itself.
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The main
character’s conflict is
limited to internal
and external conflict.
Internal refers to his personal
conflict of himself; meanwhile, external one covers an
individual outside of
the main character
such as another
individual and or society.
Conflict occurs when man fails to fulfill his
complete desire. It is natural to every man
since complete satisfaction
is rather impossible
to reach. It
happens because a
man has restricted
capacity to satisfy
all his needs.
Conflict it self
is very close
to frustrations stem
from three sources:
the inability to
overcome obstacles in
the physical environment,
the inability to
overcome restrictions imposed
by other people,
and the inability
to satisfy conflicting
motives or to obtain
incompatible goals, to quote Moskowitz (1965:309).
All
the conflicting matters
as explained above
can be traced
in the three selected short
stories of O’Connor.
That is why,
I focus to analyze the
main character’s conflict in
terms of obstacles occurring as portrayed in the stories. This is the background as well as the reason why I
analyze conflict in this thesis.
1.2. The Statement of the Problem
There
are three selected short
stories written by
Flannery O’Connor being analyzed in
this thesis. They
are “A Good
Is Hard to Find”, “Everything
That Rises Must
Converge”, and “Greenleaf”.
The analysis is
focused on conflict
as portrayed in the short
stories. The word conflict suggests an intrigue which covers life situation. As life situation deals with
man’s struggle for living, the analysis of the conflict itself is directed to a person. A
person here is referred to a character.
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The focus
of the analysis
in the thesis
is the main
character’s conflict through
the three selected
short stories, the
conflict is about
how the main character
faces his own conflict, he is in conflict with himself and his conflict with another individual and or with society. It is
conflict that makes a story is full with intense. How it is started and faced and
solved for better solution in order to get wisdom in living.
1.3. The Purpose of Study Conflict
is the central
in every story
in literary works.
It is an
important element that contained
in plot of a story. It sounds problem that involves character to take the story all in unity. To say simply,
there won’t be literary works without sequence
of events or plot (especially the conflict) that unites all the elements of literary works. In reference to this, the
thesis aims at the exploring of the conflict situation
as expressed in
three selected short
stories of Flannery
O’Connor. It tends to find out of how the main character
starts and faces and eventually solves his
conflict, internally and externally.
1.4. The Scope of Study The analysis of the present thesis is limited
to internal and external conflict of the
main character. An
internal conflict suggests
that a main
character is in conflict
with himself; while, the external conflict means the main character is in conflict
with things out
of himself such
as another individual
and society.
Therefore, the scope of the
analysis is restricts to main character’s internal conflict as portrayed in the three selected short
stories.
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1.5.
Theoretical Framework Literature is
broadly known as a kind of writing that tells a story. This kind of writing is supposed to be imaginative for
it tends particularly to tell subjective matters.
It deals with
rather subjective than
objective, then the
literary kinds of writing
is grouped as fictitious kind of writing.
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