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CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION
A. Background of the Study
Wealth is one of human needs. Although it is not important enough but people will feel satisfied and proud if they have it. Because by having a wealth
or become a rich man; automa tically, the society will honor him and they will give a high respect rather than the ordinary people. So, there are many people
who will try hard to get the word of being “a rich man” or just having a little bit of wealth. They think if they become rich, their lives will be wonderful and
perfect. To get it, people will do anything and everything. It is possible that in their way on getting a wealth they will meet any obstructions, not only from
how hard the way that they have to pass, but also from the other person who has the same goal. So, in this case they have to make any competition and
work hard to get their wish. Sometimes, the way that the people use will change people’s personality. It means that they will get their self different;
because they feel that their wish is more important than anything, so they will be hard to get the desire. It is also possible they will become obsessive, and
will be through many ways to get their will. So, to achieve the goals of expectations, people will struggle and do
anything. It is possible that they will never think whether it is good or bad. They will authorize in many ways to get their wish. A kind of obsession is like
a way that people use to get what they want and what people believe that it is
2 the best thing that they have to do to get their wish. This term has accordance
with striving for superiority principle. This principle states that each individual is forced by drives to be superior, powerful and regarded. This process invests
directions to the striving force by establishing a goal of superiority it provides motivation, psychological movement and giving it an aim. Adler in Hall and
Lindzey, 1981: 162 acknowledges that the striving for superiority may manifest it self in as thousand different ways and that each person has his or
her own concrete mode of achieving or trying to achieve perfection. The phenomena can be as subject matter of sociology and psychology.
Sociology is a science that studies relationship between the societies. In sociology, obsession is one of life style on getting some desire to get power
and respect in society. Psychology is a science that studies a human being behaviors, attitude and habit. In psychology obsession educates people to do
anything to reach their goal. It views that person has a wish that they must struggle for themselves. Having the feeling of being never satisfied, big dream
and hard work, is the action that is reflected in human’s personality because of obsession.
Stimulated by the case above, the writer intends to conduct a study on psychological aspect, with the problem of the obsession on the major character
in Sidney Sheldon’s The stars Shine Down published in 1992 by Harper Collins Publishers India Pvt Ltd in 370 pages. The others Sidney Sheldon’s
works are The Best Laid Plain, Noon, and night, Nothing Last Forever, the Sand of Time, Memories of Midnight, page of Anger, If Tomorrow Come, and
3 The Other Side of Midnight.
Most of his works show the psychological development of the characters, not only the major character but also the minor
character. The Stars Shine Down
narrates about the story of Lara Cameron’s life, since she lives in poor family until she becomes a rich woman. Lara comes
from a poor family. Her father works in a boarding house and he likes drink very much. Lara grows up in a bad environment; it leads her to become a
brave girl. Her life was not happy enough because her father never loves her anyway. He does it because he thinks that Lara is the girl who caused her
mother died, furthermore her mother dead when Lara was born. Until in the end of Lara’s father life, he still hates Lara and never gives money to Lara.
Then Lara promises to herself that someday, she will make her father proud of her. Since her father die, Lara handles the boarding house; there she meets Bill
Rogers a new boarder from America. They make conversation and Bill teaches many things about real estate to Lara. This conversation leads Lara to
have a desire that she wants become a woman who has many building. One years later she makes her dream comes true, she tries to make one building
that later will bring her to own many building in Los Angeles. Success in making one building, then she has an obsession to make a lot of building. It
will never make her satisfied until her dream absolutely fulfill. That is why the researcher is interested in analyzing the major character,
Lara Cameron because she has very important role in the plot, and gives information about psychological phenomenon. It is seen from the life’s goal of
4 main character, a person who struggle for achieving her obsession. The
researcher uses Individual Psychological Approach to analyze this novel and
takes a title for his research “A STRUGGLE FOR ACHIEVING AN OBSESSION IN SIDNEY SHELDON THE STARS SHINE DOWN: AN
INDIVIDUAL PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH “.
B. Literary Review
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