CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of the study The title of this thesis is good and evil in
Human behavior found in the novel The
Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho.
This thesis discuss about human behavior,
morality, and the Novel. Kimball Young defines behavior are a combination of present stimulation and the
play of pre-existing attitudes, habits, and values (1958:291). It means that all of human
behaviors are influenced by culture, attitudes,
emotions, values, ethnics, authority, genetics, persuasion, and coercion.
Morality is the differentiation decision of
people in making an action which is divided
into good and evil action. The way people run this life is different and of course another person is free to make a
judgment about someone or something and it is called perception. Men are continually
expressing judgments about their own conduct
and that of their fellow men. Some are approved and are called right or good, other acts are condemned and are called
wrong or evil. Whether someone’s behavior
is good or evil based on the deeds or by the quality of the things they have done. Someone behavior, habit, and morality
can be influenced by their family and society
around them because human born without any experience, they are grow up and learning from their family and the society
around.
Novel is a kind of literature which are
include as narrative fiction. Literature is an art from the writer. It means the writer
uses artistic language with beauty that different
from daily use language, newspaper, medical, book of law, and etc. Beside the beauty, literary work is also created with
special mission from the writer, especially
telling about society because the function of literature can be as social document or portrait of society. Literature as
social document or portrait of society means
that literary work has a definite relationship with society; it is a reflection
of society and man’s mind. Literary work
is designied to potray human life and action through some characters, literature imitate
human action, often presents a picture of what people think, say and do in society. in
other word, literary work is an accurate image of what we see in real life, it reflects
the various aspects of society, it deals with the lives of men and women in society.
Wellek and Warren (1997:1) stated, literature
can be treated as a document in the history of ideas and philosophy for literary history parallels and reflects
intellectual history.
Novel is long prose narrative that describes
fictional character and events, ally in
the form of sequential story. Novel deals with imagination, with human experience involving a group of person in a
specific setting. Novel is literary work deals with the real life of society. Novel as
a literary work has intrinsic and extrinsic element. The intrinsic elements are character,
plot, setting, theme, point of view, message,
and style of language. But this thesis focused only on the character.
Character is the person who participate in the
work. Roberts (1995:51) defines character
as one of the intrinsic elements of the novel, is a reasonable human being, with all good and bad traits of being human.
Characters are the persons in a narrative who are interpreted by reader as
being enclosed with moral and dispositional qualities that are expressed in their action.
The extrinsic element of novel is such as the ideas of philosophy, social phenomenon,
moral, etc. So it is clear that if someone wants to know further about the history or the
real condition in certain era, it is better to look at the literary works in the period
itself because a literary work is a directly reflection of human being, social structure,
class struggle and others.
The character live in society. Society has the
custom and the custom has the standard
conduct. The character learns to follow models of conduct which are suggested to him by others, they act one way
and others reward them. A character may
be valued from what she or he has done or what she or he has said in his or her
interaction. Kennedy (1983:48) divided
character as flat and round character. Flat character has only one outstanding trait or
feature, or at most a few distinguishing marks. Round character has so many outstanding
traits or features, the author portray them
in greater depth and in more generous detail. Flat characters tend to say the same throughout a story while round characters
often change-learn or become enlightened,
grow or deteriorate. In this thesis, the flat characters to be analyzed are the landowner and the priest and the round
characters are the Stranger and Miss Prym.
The Devil and Miss Prym was written by Paulo
Coelho in 2000. This novel has a nice
story charged with emotion, in which the integrity of being human meets a terrifying test. It is talking about a
community in a village called Viscos devoured by greed, they even prefer gold to someone’s
life, they disloyalty toward God, and they became an obedient society just because they
are afraid to face the leader of the village.
A pasteur who tell a wrong doctrine about God while he know the truth about God. A man called the Stranger
persecuted by the ghost of his painful past and looking for the answer of his question about
human being and a woman searching for happiness
trapped by the Stranger to help him in telling his plan to the society of Viscos. The society is the target of the
Stranger to do a murderer to get ten gold bars.
In one
week, each will face the question of life, death, and power, and each will choose a path.
Paulo Coelho as the writer of The Devil and
Miss Prym also has his own purpose in
writing this novel. One of the purposes is to tell the reader about good and evil of human behavior reflected by the
characters. There are four bad or evil attitudes found in this novel, they are
selfishness, blasphemy, greed and mislead, and also good attitude, they are courage and
wisdom. Miss Prym is a young woman who wants
to leave Viscos because Viscos is just like a hell for her but she cannot
leaves because she does not have some
money. Since the Stranger ask her to provocative the society to kill someone so that she will get
one of the eleven gold bars and the society
will get ten gold bars, she starts to refrain herself to not go in to the
stranger evil plan. She does not want
anyone dead in Viscos just because of the gold bars.
When the society choose Berta as the sacrifice
which they called martyr, Miss Prym braves
to against the society and save Berta’s life.
In finishing this thesis, the writer use
qualitative descriptive method because the
data of this thesis is in the words form.
1.2. Problem of the Study Based on the
statement above, the writer point out that the problems of analysis are: 1. Who are the characters that reflect good
and evil of human behavior in the novel? 2. What is the kind of the good and evil in
human behavior found in the novel The Devil
and Miss Prym? 1.3. Objective of the
Study The objective of this study tends to answer the question of the study.
Therefore, the purpose of this research is: 1.
To describe the characters who are reflect the good and evil of human behavior
in the novel.
2. To describe the kind of the good and evil
in human behavior found in the novel The
Devil and Miss Prym.
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