PRINCE CASPIAN NOVEL (BOOK 2 IN
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA) 1. INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Literature is creative expression of human
imagination or wishes that it is almost
impossible to create an exact definition of it. Wellek & Warren (1971:3)
state that literature is the mirror of
human life that portrays ‘human feeling, thought, imagination and perception which can be viewed
based on personal judgment.
Literature can be divided into three
genres, such as prose fiction, poetry and drama. In the sense of literary, prose also
called fiction, narrative text, or narrative discourse. Fiction is a narrative work that
tells something that is imaginary, something
that does not exist and happen in the real world. As a work of imaginary, fiction directs various problems of man and
humanity, life and living. Fiction tells the various problems of human life in the
interactions with the environment and others.
Fiction is the result of dialogue, contemplation, and reactions to the environment and the life of the author.
Novel is fictional prose
narrative of considerable length, typically having a plot that is unfolded by the actions, speech
and thoughts of the characters. Novel, 2
nearly always an extended fictional
prose narrative, although some novel are very short, some are non fictional, some have been
written in verse and some not even tell a
story, novel is fictitious kind of writing.
Novel is a world specially made
in words by an author. A novel exists in the way it does because an author has chosen to
put it together in that particularly way.
This means that novels are not
real life. Like all works of art poems, plays, pots or pieces of music – they have been constructed
or crafted. (Gill, 1985:77).
There are two important elements
in fiction, intrinsic and extrinsic elements.
Extrinsic elements include:
religion, education, custom, etc. while intrinsic elements include: theme, plot, character, setting, and
point of view.
Prince Caspian Novel has written
by C. S. Lewis as a part of his seventh book of The Cronicles of Narnia. This novel is a
book 2 which content “The return to Narnia”
after the ‘main character’ in book 1 (The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe) adventured, preyed by White Witch. And
then Aslan, the noble lion, free Prince Caspian and Narnia from the spell of her (the
White Witch).
1.2 Scope of Study Analyzing literature especially novel is not
easy. The scope or limitation of this
analysis is to analyze only five intrinsic elements in C.S. Lewis novel Prince
of Caspian. There are theme, plot,
character, setting, and point of view. It is important to limit the writing in order avoid the readers
from confusion.
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Purpose of Study The purpose of this
study to analyze the intrinsic elements in Prince of Caspian novel, so that the writer can
understand how the elements of literature works include theme, plot, character, setting, and
point of view made. So the story ideas, conflict
in the story, the characters in the story, the setting of place and setting of time, until the point of view that created by
the author can be analyzed carefully. The writer hopes this analysis could help the
readers who want to know more about the messages
in the novel.
1.4 Significance of Study The significance of this paper is to enrich
literary study especially in literature of novel. The writer hope this analysis
could become references for further study
of literary works whatever forms they will be.
1.5 Method of Research Method of research conducted in this paper is
the step by step method. The first step
is reading the main source data until finish; it is Prince of Caspian novel.
After reading to the end, the
writer select the text, interpret it, and then analyze the texts in order to decide which ones of the
text are relevant to the elements of literature contained in the novel so that it can be
conclude to this paper. The writer also searches
some data from books and internet that related with elements of literature as material to support the completeness of this
paper.
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