scholarly journals Dave's Journey in Searching for a Family's Love in Dave Pelzer's Novel The Lost Boy

ATAVISME ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-261
Author(s):  
Firenda Dian Megasari
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
New Criticism

This study aims to discover the reasons why Dave did the journey and the process that he had been through in order to find family love in Dave Pelzer’s The Lost Boy (2009). There are two main points analyzed by the writer: the setting and characterization of the main character of the novel, Dave. To accomplish this study, the writer applied New Criticism theory by closely reading the novel to examine the formal elements such as setting and characterization. Through this study, the writer found that Dave’s experience traumatizes and makes him hard to trust other people. The setting that appears in the novel has an important role in changing his characterization in the end of the story. 

scholarly journals Dinamika Kepribadian Tokoh Utama Dalam Novel Jisatsu Yotei Bi Karya Akiyoshi Rikako

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Teting Lairabu
Keyword(s):  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Psychology Literature ◽  
Death Wish ◽  
Desire To Die

Abstract This study aims to explain death wish in the characterization of the main character. This research uses a descriptive analysis method with the psychology literature approach. The sources of data used were the novel Jisatsu Yotei Bi by Akiyoshi Rikako (2016) and the Indonesian translation of the novel, Scheduled Suicide Day (2017). The object of this research is a quotation in the form of narrative. The results of this study are the main character has a desire to die and it is shown by her always thinking about death and finding out in one website about ways to die that she thinks are comfortable and appropriate.   Keywords: Personality Dynamics, Death Wish, Characterization, Psychology Literature.

scholarly journals The Gold Can Stay: The Meaning Transformation of The Word ‘Gold’ In Robert Frost’s Nothing Gold Can Stay And S.E Hinton’s The Outsiders

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Anne Lisa Pertiwi
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Robert Frost ◽  
Main Character ◽  
New Criticism

This thesis discusses the meaning transformation of the word ‘gold’ from ‘’Nothing Gold Can Stay’’ by Robert Frost to the phrase ‘stay gold’ in The Outsiders which give the big impact to the characters’ life in the novel. This research was conducted by explaining the theme of the poem and the novel referring to New Criticism theory to uncover the meaning transformation of the word ‘gold’ in each work. From the result of this analysis, the author finds that the meaning of ‘’Nothing Gold Can Stay’’ is pessimistic and materialistic notions while the phrase ‘stay gold’ in The Outsiders which is taken from that poem shows opposite message. This phrase has spiritualistic and optimistic spirits. Then, the changing meaning of this phrase successfully drive the main character, Ponyboy Curtis, becomes better person.

scholarly journals Self-Actualization in Main Character’s Life Journey in "The Bell Jar"

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-23
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fadhli Nur Farid ◽  
Mohamad Ikhwan Rosyidi
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
True Self ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Self Actualization ◽  
Life Journey ◽  
Needs Theory

Self-actualization is term that is commonly used in psychology theories. The term can be simply translated as the full realization of someone’s potential or true self. This study was conducted to analyze the life journey of the main character of The Bell Jar in achieving herself-actualization. The purposes of this study are to describe the character of the main character in The Bell Jar and to describe the main character in achieving self-actualization and how it is portrayed in the novel. This study was done using a descriptive qualitative method and using Maslow's Hierarchy of Human Needs theory and New Criticism theory to explain the main character and her journey in achieving self-actualization in the form of words. The object of the study was the novel The Bell Jar and this study focused on Esther Greenwood as the main character.  List of an observational sheet was used as the research instrument and the data was taken through library research. The analysis was conducted by interpreting Esther’s utterances and actions using New Criticism theory to describe Esther’s characterization and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs theory to describe Esther’s self-actualization. The study results showed that Esther’s self-actualization is the results of her being able to fulfill her previous stages both directly and indirectly before reaching self-actualization stage along her life journey. Keywords: Characterization, Hierarchy of Human Needs, Life Journey, New Criticism, Self-actualization

scholarly journals FOOD, MODERNITY AND IDENTITY: ROOTED COSMOPOLITANISM IN ADICHIE’S AMERICANAH

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 88
Author(s):  
Syarif Hidayat
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Local Culture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Global Citizen

In globalization era, there are many producers of global foods that have localized their products in order to get more costumers. Indeed, there are some people who cannot be separated with their locality, although they are part of global citizen. This paper discusses the tug-of-war between cosmopolitanism and localism within the persona of Ifemelu, the main character in Americanah, specifically in what food she eats and how the food is eaten and its influence on her identity. Americanah is a novel that tells the story of a Nigerian immigrant living in the United States who decided to return to Nigeria. The study focuses on the characters and characterization of the figures in the novel and it aims to show how a rooted cosmopolitan identity was formed in Ifemelu. The study is a qualitative research using the rooted cosmopolitanism theory proposed by Kwame Anthony Appiah. The research shows that Ifemelu's rooted cosmopolitan identity was seen through the negotiation between her cosmopolitan identity and her local (Nigerian) identity. The discourse on rooted cosmopolitanism built by the text reveals its partiality toward Nigerian local culture, specifically the Nigerian foods.

scholarly journals GAY REPRESENTATION IN BECKY ALBERTALLI'S SIMON VS THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Irvan Gading ◽  
Linusia Marsih
Keyword(s):  
Homo Sapiens ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Phenomenon ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Sociological Approach ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Opposite Sex

This study aims to reveal gay habitus in Becky Albertalli's Simon VS The Homo Sapiens Agenda. This study is descriptive qualitative which applies both intrinsic and extrinsic approaches. The intrinsic approach is applied due to the fact that the study deals with the characterization of the main character in the novel. Moreover, the sociological approach is applied because the study is primarily concerned with a social phenomenon reflected in  literary work as the novel portrays the representation of gay habitus reflected in the attitude and behaviours of one of the main characters in the novel. In revealing the gay habitus reflected in the novel, Bourdieu's theory of habitus is applied. The discussion is focused on the Simon's habitation as a gay and the factors that contribute to the formation of Simon's habitus as a gay. The result of the study shows that Simon develops gay habitus. The representations of his gay habitus include are having no attraction to the opposite sex, adoring the same sex, obsessing and fantasizing about the same sex, feeling jealous and cynical to the suspected competitors, and falling in love with the same sex. There are two factors that support the development of Simon's gay habitus i.e. primary and secondary socialization.

scholarly journals Future and immortality in the religious philosophy of F.M. Dostoyevsky (from the novel «Crime And Punishment»)

2020 ◽  
pp. 137-149
Author(s):  
Li Tianyun
Keyword(s):  
Religious Faith ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Religious Philosophy ◽  
Crime And Punishment ◽  
Fundamental Point ◽  
Unusual Combination ◽  
The Relationship

This article attempts to establish the relationship between the concept of immortality and the future of mankind and the religious faith of the characters of F.M. Dostoevsky's works. This problem is considered with reference to the example of a detailed analysis of the views of the main character of Dostoevsky’s novel «Crime and Punishment» (Rodion Raskolnikov). The characterization of the hero is given in terms of his religiosity. The features of Raskolnikov's worldview are noted; they consist in a combination of faith in God and lack of faith in immortality. It is suggested that the source of such an unusual combination of religious ideas is the historical concept of I.G. Fichte. On the basis of the comparison of the views of other heroes of the novel, the article concludes that the most fundamental point is their idea of immortality as a continuation of the existence of a person in earthly reality. It demonstrates that this point of view corresponds to the religious faith of Dostoevsky himself.

RACHEL CHU AS LIBERAL FEMINIST IN KEVIN KWAN’S CRAZY RICH ASIANS (2013)

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 123
Author(s):  
Ni Komang Arie Suwastini ◽  
I Dewa Ayu Ogik Vira Juspita Banjar ◽  
Luh Putu Cornea Arya Tienty ◽  
I Made David Garcia Sasmita ◽  
Putu Kerti Nitiasih
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Fairy Tale ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Data Display ◽  
Love Story ◽  
Collection Data ◽  
Simultaneous Process

This study aims to identify the characterization of Rachel Chu as a liberal feminist in Crazy Rich Asians, written by Kevin Kwan, published in 2013. By employing McKee's textual analysis with liberal feminism's perspective, the present study was designed in Miles' and Huberman's interactive model of qualitative data analysis. Through the repetitive and simultaneous process of data collection, data reduction, data display, and conclusion drawing, the present study elaborates on the characterizations of Rachel Chu as an attractive, intelligent, and independent woman representing Rachel Chu as a liberal feminist. Thus, it is implied that although the novel may be fairy-tale-like in the sense that it is centered in a romantic love story with a glamorous setting of the affluent society in Singapore, the novel also inserts feminist traits that can inspire its reader to be intelligent and independent like Rachel Chu as the main character in this novel.

La Princesse de Cléves et son unité

PMLA ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 483-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Odile Sweetser
Keyword(s):  
Free Choice ◽  
Ethical Standard ◽  
Musical Composition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
New Criticism ◽  
Definite Structure ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Individual Style

Traditional academic criticism has looked for the unity of Mme de Lafayette's La Princesse de Clèves in the correspondence with its times, with the leading writers and thinkers of the period. New criticism believes the unity of the novel resides in a particular view of life of the author, pessimistic and even desperate, expressed in an individual style. In contrast with both the traditional and contemporary views the unity of the work consists of the creation of the inner life and personality of the main character who, significantly, gives her name to the novel; and of a complex but definite structure with themes and variations resembling a musical composition. The inner life of the main character is presented through two moral tests and culminates in a free choice which represents her total being: intellectual, moral, emotional. There is, therefore, no mutilation, no sacrifice of one aspect of herself to some external ethical standard, but full realization of the potentialities set forth by the novelist at the outset. (In French)

scholarly journals Способы применения новой экономической критики. Случай «Подростка» Ф. Достоевского

SlavVaria ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
ИНГРИДА КИСЕЛЮТЕ
Keyword(s):  
Main Idea ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
History Of ◽  
Economic Criticism ◽  
History Of Literature

Application of The New Economic Criticism. Case of “The Raw Youth” by F. Dostoevsky. First of all Dostoevsky’s novel “The Raw Youth” attracts our attention with its abundance of themes and, as noted, big amount of research (in comparison with other works).It is interesting that in all studies and encyclopedias the main character of this novel, Arkady Dolgorukij, is said that his main idea is “to become a Rothschild.” The idea of the main character becomes a key component in understanding his actions and his main attribution. However, the idea, which is vaguely explained by the character himself at the very beginning of the work is lost not only in the further narration, but also in the generally accepted characterization of the protagonist.The article mainly analyzes the metaphorical idea of the main character of the novel “The Raw Youth” “to become a Rothschild”, and attempts to find out and show why in the history of literature the idea of the protagonist in Dostoevsky’s novel “to become a Rothschild” can be considered as a hypertextual element of entire Dostoevsky’s poetics.

scholarly journals Characterization of the Main Character in the Novel: the Return of the King

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 4880-4884
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
The World ◽  
Creative Art ◽  
Descriptive Method

One of communication tools written by the reader will get knowledge and information in the lesson, successful about humans and life by using language as medium whose object is creative art from a literature, fantasy story written challenges haven’t to be found in real life. Novel is a picture of real life and manners. So, we can say that literature is a way to communicate with society and the world. In this case, the researcher wants to try to make an analysis that is hope useful for the reader, and it also can change their opinion that reading and learning literature is enjoyable. This study is the character in novel and the researcher uses the descriptive method and there are five characters that exist in novel.

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