Theoretical Framework REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE

25 source would be Paulo Coelho’s Veronica Decides to Die. The secondary sources would be any other resources from books and internet that provides theories and information for the analysis. The books in providing psychological theory and information are Psychosynthesis: A Psychology of the Spirit, The Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology , Psikologi Kepribadian, and Cognitive Therapy. Sources from the internet were used to provide information about the historical background of Slovenia and the mental asylum in the 19 th century. In order to answer the question in problem formulation, more steps were taken. The first step deals with the researcher reading the novel thoroughly and repeatedly. By doing so, the researcher was able to have more understanding and extract interesting information from the novel. The second step was formulating problem to be discussed. The first question dealt with the personality of the main character. The second question dealt with the characteristics of main the mental asylum, and the third question dealt with the significance of living in the mental asylum to main character’s growth that leads to Self-realization. The third step was choosing the theories. The researcher chose the theory of character and characterization and the theory of psychosynthesis. Psychosynthesis mostly dealt with subpersonality, repression, and Self- realization. Psychosynthesis holds important aspect in analyzing the novel. The fourth step was answering the problems that were previously formulated. Theory of characteristic was used to analyze the Veronika’s personality and those within the mental asylum including Zedka, Mari, Edward, 26 Dr. Igor, and Nasrudin. In order to support the analysis, the researcher would gather data from the novel and the internet. After the researcher understand the description of the mental asylum and the personality of each character, psychosynthesis was used to understand the growth of the main character related to the mental asylum. Finally, some conclusions were drawn from the analysis. The researcher would be able to correlate the significance of the mental asylum to the Self- realization of the main character, Veronika.