scholarly journals NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF PSYCHOLOGICAL PROBLEMS ON THE PROTAGONIST IN FAYE BIRD’S NOVEL MY SECOND LIFE

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-19
Author(s):  
Dinda Femilya Utari ◽  
M. Manugeren
Keyword(s):  
Second Life ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Psychological Disorders ◽  
Psychological Problem ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Literary Community ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Negative Impacts

The objective of this study is to find out the psychological problems on the protagonist and the negative impacts caused by the psychological problems in Faye Bird’s novel My Second Life published in 2014. Psychological problem are disorders of cognitive, volition, affective, and psychomotor generating to psychological disorders characterized by abnormal thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. The two aspects of the problems are in reality get into the corridor of psychology, a study about human’s soul or mind, either about its symptoms, processes, or its background. As literature is a reflection of society, all the characters are also members of literary community leading to a concept that psychology and literature are closely related.  This novel is about a teenager who experiences various psychological problems after finding out that in her first life she has been the cause of someone’s death. This study is conducted to give an overview to all people about the negative impacts of psychological problems experienced by the protagonist. This study applies qualitative method going through social phenomena and the data are collected from the novel. The results show the psychological problems are depression, anxiety and trauma causing negative impacts in the forms of insomnia, lack of concentration and truancy.

scholarly journals NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF PROTAGONIST’S MARITAL INFIDELITY IN S. J. WATSON’S NOVEL BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-170
Author(s):  
Sofia Idham Nasution ◽  
Zulfan Sahri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Married Couple ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Emotional Trauma ◽  
Marital Infidelity ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study is conducted to analyze the context of marital infidelity from novel Before I Go to Sleep and find out its negative impacts among married couple. The negative impacts which are being analyzed in this study are divorce, illness, loneliness, and emotional trauma. This study uses descriptive qualitative method because the process of the result and discussion are accomplished descriptively. The descriptive qualitative method is applied to explain the negative impacts of marital infidelity from the quotations in the novel. The result of this study is to find the implementation of marital infidelity that is still common among married couple; moreover, the implementation only brings a negative impact to one or both parties. The married couple needs to communicate continually to uncover any problem that appears as the time is passing by in order to avoid specifically divorce, loneliness, and emotional trauma.

scholarly journals ANTAGONIST’S HATRED TOWARDS PIRATES IN JEFF NATHANSON’S NOVEL PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: SALAZAR’S REVENGE

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 138-149
Author(s):  
Haris Al-Rasyid Simanungkalit ◽  
M. Amrin Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Complete Picture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Qualitative Research Method ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Written Materials

Hatred has a lot of negative impacts on the hated person and the hating one. The impacts appear due to the existence of the causes and the implementation of the hatred. The purpose of this study is to research the causes and the implementation of the antagonist’s hatred in Jeff Nathanson’s novel Pirates of the Caribbean: Salazar’s Revenge. In this analysis, the antagonist, Captain Slazar, hates pirates very much especially the protagonist, Captain Jack Sparrow. His life’s goal is only to kill Jack in all kinds of ways. This research uses qualitative research method proposed by Gilgun (1992:22) who clarifies a research method that is more focused on understanding social phenomena from the perspective of participants by emphasizing on the complete picture rather than by detailing it into interrelated variables. This study focuses on the analysis or interpretation of written materials based on the context. In this case, the novel has to be well interpreted. Results establish the fact that hatred does not only harm the others, but also oneself. Besides, it will tell how bad the hatred affects oneself. This study also reveals how the antagonist releases the hatred to the protagonist by pursuing and trying to kill him.

scholarly journals OVERROTECTVE MOTHER IN JODDI PICOULT’S NOVEL, MY SISTER’S KEEPER

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-105
Author(s):  
Nur Atikah Ridwan ◽  
Zulfan Sahri
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Conflict Theory ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Second Child ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

The objectives of this study are to reveal the causes and negative impacts of overprotective mother’s attitude towards her child in the best-selling novel entitled My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult, and to see how overprotective Sara Fitzgerald as a mother who has an overprotective attitude towards her second child. This research uses descriptive qualitative method with library study to find out the overprotective mother and how the overprotective developed by applying internal and external overprotective theory and mother's theory. The primary data used is the novel itself. Secondary data are books and articles relating to conflict theory. The results showed that there was a major problem that caused by Sara Fitzgerald as an overprotective mother and the impact of her overprotective attitude towards her daughter. There are two causes that Sara becomes an overprotective mother to her second daughter: her illness and her recovery and the impact towards her third daughter  is lacking affection and suffering.

scholarly journals CAUSE AND EFFECT OF SUFFERING IN SYDNEY SHELDON’S NOVEL IF TOMORROW COMES

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Muarif Setiawan ◽  
Efendi Barus ◽  
M. Ali Pawiro
Keyword(s):  
Small Group ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Personal Interest ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Major Point ◽  
Cause And Effect ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
The One

Abstract  If Tomorrow Comes, a novel written by Sydney Sheldon, is a story of intrigue and revenge. Tracy Whitney is a young, beautiful and intelligent woman and about to marry a wealth man until, suddenly, she is betrayed, framed by a ruthless Mafia gang, and then abandoned by the man she loves. Only her ingenuity saves her and helps her fight back. The significant theme of the novel is suffering, which is the focus of the study with two major points of discussion: the causes and the effects of suffering, subdivided into avarice and loss of trust as a part of the first major point and courage, revenge and hypocrisy as the second major one. The study is conducted with descriptive qualitative method proposed by Dawson (2004) pointing out that qualitative descriptive research is appropriately used to analyze social phenomena. The result shows that the protagonist, Tracy Whitney, faces a lot of suffering from the beginning of the story; that is from the tragic of her mother’s death till she is out of jail. All the sufferings are triggered by avarice of a small group of bandits of white collars having a great personal interest who stand against Tracy and loss of trust from her fiancé, the one whom she expects to be with her in time of difficulty. Owing to her sufferings, Tracy becomes strong mentally but she also turns to be revengeful woman of significant hypocrisy. Keywords: suffering, avarice, trust, courage, revenge and hypocrisy.

scholarly journals John Bristow’s Psychological Problems in Robert Galbraith’s The Cuckoo’s Calling

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-19
Author(s):  
Aqilah Luthfiyyah ◽  
Endang Darsih
Keyword(s):  
Sigmund Freud ◽  
Psychological Problem ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Psychology Theory ◽  
Minor Character

John Bristow is the minor character in the novel The Cuckoo’s Calling who has a problem with his decision in satisfying his id and superego. He is an ordinary man who has a job, family and girlfriend. However, his jealousy to his brother and sister forces him to kill them. This study focuses on analyzing the characterization of John Bristow, how his ego manages his id and superego and how anxieties appear as the effects of the problem. The aim of this paper is to examine the motif that leads John kills his step brother and sister. Psychology theory by Sigmund Freud is applied to analyze the character’s psychological problem. Perspective from Al-Qur’an is used to examine the reflection of Qabil’s character in the story of Habil and Qabil to John Bristow’s.

scholarly journals TEENAGER RELATIONSHIP IN NICOLA YOON’S NOVEL EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-86
Author(s):  
Nurtia Pratiwi Siahaan ◽  
Sri Wulan
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Love Relationship ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
As If

This study was conducted to give an overview to all people about the portrayal of teenager relationship and its negative impact in the novel. This study applies  qualitative method which collects the data taken from the novel that have been read. The result shows that the relationship in the novel is portrayed as an unhealthy relationship. It is described as if it were an adult relationship. Their relationship is too romantic and too intimate. Such relationship is, of course, not suitable for their age as the protagonist and her lover are still teenagers. Consequently, the relationship result in negative impacts. The negative impacts which can be found in the novel are opposition, carelessness, and lying. These impacts happen to the protagonist after she has the love relationship. On the basis of the result of this study, it can be concluded that having an unhealthy relationship during adolescence may cause a negative impact on themselves and family.

scholarly journals REPRODUKSI PEMAHAMAN DAN DINAMIKA PSIKOLOGIS PAHAM RADIKAL: ANALISIS TERHADAP SIKAP ‘MENYALAHKAN’ KELOMPOK LAIN

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Ahmad Saifuddin
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Problem ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
The Other ◽  
Individual Group ◽  
Psychological Dimension ◽  
Attitudes And Behaviors ◽  
Radical Group ◽  
And Behaviors ◽  
Observation Method ◽  
The Individual

The study aims to find out the psychological dimension of Islamic radical group attitudes which are easily ‘blaming’ the other group that having different idea from his group. Based on the observation method to the individual that having religious radical understanding (especially to the individual/group that usually blaming the other group that having different understanding, as heresy (bid’ah), syirik, infidel (kafir), and deviate) on the range year of 2008 – 2017, which then comprehend with the various literatures correlated to the main problem of research, the study revealed that Islamic radical group having psychological problem in term of their mindset and perception, which then affected to their attitudes and behaviors. Hereby, in the certain level those psychological problems directed them to the violent actions.  

scholarly journals THE STRUGGLE OF WOMEN EXISTENCE IN “ISN’T IT ROMANTIC” NOVEL BY WENDY WESSERSTEIN

2022 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
Devi Cintia Kasimbara
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Collection Method ◽  
Patriarchal System ◽  
Romantic Novel ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Romantic Drama

This study aimed to reveal the struggle of women to gain existence in the novel as a representation of social phenomena. The data source of this research was Isn't It Romantic drama by Wendy Wesserstein. This drama is about women who want to achieve their dreams without the participation of their parents. They want to live without any interference from their parents. To reveal the struggle for existence, the researcher uses the existentialism approach by Simone Beauvoir. Existentialists fight for the nature of human existence, especially for women who have been subordinated to the patriarchal system. The method used in this research is Descriptive qualitative method. The close reading data collection method is effective in tracing data relevant to research variables. The analysis method is carried out critically by using an existentialism approach. The researcher got three main analyses toward the novel, they are: independence over women, authority in making decisions, and lastly, the same existence as a human being.

scholarly journals MOTIVATION IN ANDREA HIRATA’S NOVEL “THE RAINBOW TROOPS”

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-127
Author(s):  
Wahyu Fatahilla ◽  
M. Manugeren ◽  
Purwarno Purwarno
Keyword(s):  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Extrinsic Motivation ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Intrinsic Motivations ◽  
Biographical Sketches ◽  
Research Show ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research is concerned with the motivation in Andrea Hirata’s novel The Rainbow Troops. The novel is also a reflection of the biographical sketches of the author.  The objectives of the study are to identify the kinds of motivations reflected in The Rainbow Troops’ novel and to describe the motivations developing in “The Rainbow Troops” novel. Motivation is a direction and also energy for people to do everything included learning something. The researcher uses descriptive qualitative method in this study with the aim at describing a place, fact and characteristics of population systematically, factually and accurately. This research method is also appropriate to expose social phenomena.  The data are in the forms the text and quotation from the novel containing motivation. The results of research show that there are two kinds of motivations found in the novel: extrinsic and intrinsic motivations. Extrinsic motivation consists of never giving up and education and attitude needs to be learned; for intrinsic: hard work for education, and honesty.

scholarly journals Distinctive Attitude of Datuk Maringgih in Marah Rusli’s Novel Siti Nurbaya

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rahmi Rizkya ◽  
M. Manugeren ◽  
Susi Ekalestari
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Research Result ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Attitude Theory ◽  
Analyze Data ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This research deals with the distinctive attitude of Datuk Maringgih in Marah Rusli’s novel Siti Nurbaya. Datuk Maringgih is described as a person who is old, strong, rebellious and has a lot of money and always has a strategy in everything. The attitude shown by this person is also related to society. The research is conducted means of descriptive qualitative method. Qualitative research is a research method that focuses on understanding social phenomena that occur in society. Descriptive qualitative is usually designed to examine morality and other problems in society. The researcher uses attitude theory where attitude is a mental and neural state of readiness, organized through experience, exerting a directive or dynamic influence on the individual’s response to all objects and situations with which it is related. The source of data is from the novel. The data in this research is the entire texts in the book. The technique used to analyze data is heuristic and hermeneutic. The research result shows that Datuk Maringgih had three distinctive attitudes: Defending land from the invaders, helping others and consistence.

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