CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study Literature is identical with the words: the
expression of human feeling, imaginative
process and creativity (Wellek, 1972:2). Literature is a written work and exists in our society as a communicative means
in our ideas of literature to show and give
such a greater understanding about this life. Taylor (1981: 1) says that
literature, like other parts, is
essentially an imaginative act, that is, and act of the writers imaginations is selecting, ordering, and
interpreting life-experience’. It means that literature is an interpretation of human’s
mind that uses language as medium. It has a large scope and fantastic. In literature,
there are three branches of literature such as drama, poetry, and prose. Meanwhile, prose can
also be divided into novel, short story, romance, etc.
Novel is one of the literary
works that are part of prose. Novel is a fictional prose narrative of considerable length, typically
having a plot that is unfolded by the actions, speech, and thoughts of the characters. Novel
contains some aspects that reflected based on the human real life. This aspects commonly
concern with feeling, emotion, conflicts, problem, etc. the elements that build up novel
are plot, characters, theme, setting, point of view, and language style. One of the most
important elements of novel is characters.
Talking about the characters of a
literary work means talking about their quality of mind, behaviors, or personalities.
A character is any person, personal, identity,
or entity whose existence originates from
a fictional work or performance. A character is a participant in the story, and
is ally a person, but may be any
persona, identity, or entity whose existence originates from a fictional work or performance.
Leading character is the centered
individual very dominant. As an individual, the leading focused personality. Leading character
emerged as long side the extraordinary character,
a character that might be called prototypical. The prototypical character is
not a stereotypical but a fully rounded,
three dimensional character.
In this thesis, the writer
chooses Mary Shelley’s novel entitled Frankenstein to be analyzed. Mary Shelley was an English
novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best
known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited
and promoted the works of her husband,
the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. And the Frankensteinis infused with some elements
ofthe Gothic novel and the Romantic movement
and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction.
Brian Aldiss has argued that it should
be considered the first true science fiction story, because unlike in previous stories with
fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, the central character
"makes a deliberate decision" and "turns to modern experiments in the laboratory" to achieve
fantastic results. It has had a considerable influence across literature and popular
culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films.
The writer wants to analyze two
leading characters’ ambitions and explain the effect of its ambitions to readers found in
that novel. The leading characters in a story is the character that built up the story which
revealed by responds to conflict, by his or her dialogue, and through descriptions that being
majority of the plot line and the reader is intended to identify with while reading the
story. The leading characters which will be analyzed by the writer are Victor Frankenstein
and his creature, the monster.
The novel “Frankenstein” by Mary
Shelley tells the story of the leading character named Victor Frankenstein who is described as
an ambitious man and a scientist that really
wants to create a man. However, his creation failed and turned into a monster.
The monster can be considered as the leading
character too because they two, Victor Frankenstein
and the monster, are the main character who lead the whole story of the novel. Victor Frankenstein is always
interested about the facts and wants to know everything in the universe.
The writer would like to propose
an idea especially about the leading characters’ ambitions in Frankensteinnovel written by Mary
Shelley. According to Oxford (2000), ambition
is something that you want to do or achieve very much and ambitious is determined to be successful, rich, and
powerful by needing a lot of efforts, money or time to succeed.
The writer chooses this novel
because this novel is very interesting to read and can give some information about the ambitions
and its effects to the readers and the writer
herself. In nowadays, as the reality oflife, we know that a lot of people in
this world want to get their ambitions
by trying use many ways without to see its effect. The reason of writer to choose this novel because
of the author’s technique in describing the events, character acting, and style of the
novel into her literary works so the readers can read it to be more interesting, enjoying the
story, and can get messages from the story itself.
For analyzing this thesis, the
writer uses library research by collecting all necessary information to support the writer
idea in the analysis. The steps used in this thesis are started by reading the novel,
finding the related data and quotes that support the theme, until finally making the conclusion
of the analysis.
1.2 Problem of the Study Based on the above explanation, the writer
would like to concern the writer’s thesis
in the lading characters’ ambitions, which formulated into : 1. How
are the leading characters’ ambitions in Frankensteinby Mary Shelley? 2. What
are the effects of the leading characters’ ambitions in Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley? 1.3 Objective of the Study The objective of this thesis tends to answer
the question or the problems of study.
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