CHAPTER VCONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION……….....................................32
5.1 Conclusion……...........................................................................32 5.2 Suggestion...................................................................................33
REFERENCES ............................................................................................................ 34 APPENDICES ................................................................................................................35
i. Author’s Biography and Works
ii. Summary of Frankenstein
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ABSTRACT
Skripsi ini
berjudul Leading Characters’ Ambition In Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein. Di dalam skripsi ini terdapat analisis mengenai ambisi yang terdapat dalam novel Frankenstein yang ditulis oleh Mery Shelley. Analisis ini bertujuan untuk
menjelaskan beberapa alasan yang mempengaruhi karakter sehingga begitu berambisi mewujudkan keinginannya dan efek dari kegilaan ambisi tersebut terutama pada dua
karakter utama yang membangun keseluruhan cerita dalam novel tersebut.
Adapun metode yang digunakan dalam penulisan skripsi ini adalah metode analisis deskriptif yang bertujuan menggambarkan bagaimana sebuah ambisi dapat
memberikan teror dan sebuah ciptaan dapat membunuh penciptanya sendiri. Penggambaran ini memuat interpretasi yang kemudian dianalisis berdasarkan data yang
ada pada novel.
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ABSTRACT The title of this thesis is Leading Characters’ Ambition In Mary Shelley’s
Frankenstein. In this thesis, there are analysis of ambition which have been written in Mary Shelley’s novel ‘Frankenstein’. This analysis is for explaining some reasons that
make the character being so ambitious to make his ambition comes true and effects of ambition itself especially on two characters that build up all the story in the novel.
The method used in this thesis is descriptive method that analyzes and interprets the data on how the ambition can give terror and a creature can kill the creator. This
analysis is by using many sources as reference.
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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.
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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
usually 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 Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the 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
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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 Frankenstein novel 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 of life, 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
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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
