Antigone has hanged herself. Soon when Creon comes, Haemon strikes him with a sword but he misses and the sword strikes his own body. Creon filled
with sadness, return home with the dead body of Haemon. His sadness become bigger when he found his wife has committed suicide after hearing Haemon‟s
death. In the name of dignity, Creon loses his wife and his son at the same time. Just the same as Antigone who lose her two brothers at the same time.
B. Approach of the Study
In this part the writer explain the approach that is used in this study. An approach is needed in a study in order to specify what ideas that the writer
want to reveal throughout the study. There is more than one approach known in the study of literary works such as Gender Approach, Socio-Cultural
Approach, Psychological Approach, etc. In this study the writer uses moralphilosophical approach because the main idea of this study is religion
and religiousness, while those two things can be clasified as moral matter. According to Edgar V Roberts, who called this approach
moralintellectual approach instead of moralphilosophical approach, explain about this approach in his book Writing About Literature as stated in the
following quotation. …to study literature from the moralintellectual perspective is therefore
to determine whether an individual work conveys a lesson or a message, and whether it can help readers lead better lives and improve their
understanding of the world. Roberts, 1995: 269
This approach, as seen in the quotation, tries to figure out the moral lesson of a literary work. Every work has lessons on it, by using this approach then the
moral lesson of certain work can be revealed and understood. This study discuss about religion and religiousness which can be
classified as moral matters. Religion is closely related to people‟s life very much. This study focused in finding out the power given by a strong
religiousness and strong attitude towards religion that will affect its believer very much. Therefore this approach is the most suitable approach to use in this
study. This approach will find out the effect of strong religiousness and attitude towards religion in someone‟s life, in this case Antigone from the play.
C. Method of the Study
This study is focused on a literary work; therefore library research is done by the writer to do the research. The primary and secondary data were all
collected from the library. The primary data of this study is the English version of the play Antigone
which was translated into English by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald. The play is originally a Greek play. Besides the primary data, some secondary data
are also needed in this study. Those data were taken from several books, such as Types of Drama: Plays and Contexts 8
th
edition, Writing About Literature, Invitation to the Psychology of religion 2
nd
edition, Form and Meaning in Drama, Selected Criticism, and Glossary of Literary Terms.
There were several steps conducted to complete the study. First step was reading the play carefully and thoroughly. It is important to understand the
story deeply so the reading was not only done once but several times so that the writer really understands the context of the play and all of its elements. In
reading the text, the writer tries to figure out the characteristics of Antigone as the main character.
After reading the play then the writer found that there was an idea of religiousness presented in the play especially in the character Antigone. From
this point then the writer creates the problem formulations to be answered in this study in relation to the idea of religiousness.
The next step was finding out any secondary resources needed to complete and support the study. This was done by looking for some books
related to the topic of the study in the library and then read them out to find the ideas that might help the writer in conducting the research and answering the
problem formulations of this study. After the additional sources were collected enough, then the last and the most important step are writing the analysis of the
study. Mainly, the writers basic understanding of the work combined with the additional sources used by the writer to find out the answer of the three
problem formulations of the study. In writing the analysis chapter, the writer sees Antigones
characteristics, because Antigone is the most important character used in this study. Using the theories on character and characterization the writer will
reveal the characteristics of Antigone. After that, the writer figure out the
religiousness presented in the story, especially in the character Antigone through her characteristics. Those two will be used to answer the first and
second problem formulation. Knowing the characteristics of Antigone and the idea of religiousness in Antigones characteristic, for the last step, the writer try
to find out the effect of strong religiousness in Antigones decision to fight or rebel against Creon and his law in order to bury her brother Polyneices.
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