1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study Literature is concerned with all aspects of
human life and universe in their entirety.
There are so mainly three important branches of literature; novel, poetry, and drama. One of the important branches is
novel. In Rees’ book (1973:106), English
Literature, The Shorter Oxford Dictionary stated that novel is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length in
which characters and action representative
of real life are portrayed in a plot of more or less complexity.
Character is a person to judge person can be
viewed what he says, what he done and
his personality.
“Characters are person presented in a dramatic
or narrative work, who are interpreted
by the reader as being endowed with
moral and dispositional qualities that are expressed in what they say – the dialogue – and by what
they do – the action. The grounds in a
characters temperament and moral nature
for this speech an action constitute his motivations” (Abrams, 1981:20).
Based on the explanation, the character’s
expression through what they do or the
action and expression has a personality. If in the expression, character has good action, so does the personality. On the
other hand, if in the expression character
has bad action, the personality will be bad. Through the characterization can be showed the character of one person to
be done or to be missed. It can be said
that character and personality is closely related.
Leading character is not far different from
main character as popularly recognized
in literary works. What implicitly I want to emphasize is the leading character addressed to a single person only.
Meanwhile, main character may offer more
than one. This is the background as well as the reason why I choose that word in my paper title.
Patrick Suskind is one wonderful author.
Almost every novel of him is best
seller. In his novel, his concern is with the emotional and moral character rather than human physicality. Perfume is one
of her fascinating novel that was published
in 1985. The novel explored the sense of smell, and its relationship with the emotional that scents may carry. Above all
this is a story of identity, communication
and the morality of the human spirit.
Not only the novel, the movie also gets
popularity. It was released on September
14, 2006 in Germany. The film was number one on the box office charts in its first three weeks. The film
ended up selling over five millions tickets.
Finally, by writing this paper, the writer
wants to share her knowledge to the
readers about the analysis of the novel to make her self and the readers more understand about the leading character’s
personalities.
1.2 Scope of the Study Based on the background
of the study, this study is focused on the leading character’s personalities in Patrick Suskind
novel, Perfume: The story of A Murderer.
The writer believes that are many important aspect of that can be discussed, but in this paper she talks about
the leading character’s personalities.
1.3 Purpose of the Study The purpose of
writing this paper is to make more interested in reading a novel. And the writer wants to analyze the
leading caharacter’s personalities in Patrick
Suskind’s novel Perfume: The story of A Murderer. The writer wants to explain the leading personalities to the
reader so the reader can understand about the personalities of the leading character
easily and they more interest to read the novel.
1.4 Significance of the Study By making the
analysis contains theoretical and practical one. The former suggests that the analysis be helpful for
readers to study of literature if the students
already know about literature they can understand it easily. And the readers can know about the leading character’s
personalities in Patrick Suskind novel,
Perfume: The story of A Murderer.
1.5 Method of the Study Research on a written
of literary work that has long been published is usually carried out by library research. By
this research, the writer has to read some
books related to collect some data needed for the paper or other scientific writing. After the data collected, the data
are selected, while making notes before writing
the paper. It is also needed a search from internet to complete the data that had been collected. After the data had been
collected, it is interpreted and analyzed
into a description. This method is known as descriptive method.
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