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CHAPTER III METHOD OF RESEARCH
3.1 Research Design
In writing this paper, the method of the study that writer uses is Library research and Qualitative method. Library research as explained by Marry W George in
the book The Elements of Library Research 2008 is a methodology where the researcher takes the data onto the book or the written text. In the same book he
also explains about qualitative method. He suggests that qualitative method designates any research whose results are captured in a words, images, or non-
numeric symbols. The writer use George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty - Four as the main source of
the data. Nineteen Eighty-Four is a novel by the English writer George Orwell, published in 1948. The story, which focuses on the life of Winston Smith, was
Orwells vision of a totalitarian state which has absolute control over every action and thought of its people through propaganda, secrecy, constant surveillance, and
harsh punishment. In some editions it is retitled 1984. This novel as the primary source of the data because it is related to the moral values reflected by some of the
characters’ conducts and behaviors, it can be found in words, or sentences or paragraphs form in the novel. First step, the writer read the novel Nineteen Eighty -
Four as the source of data of dictatorship portrayal in character and, then used some sociology textbooks to understand the principles of sociology which is applied by the
author of that novel. The required information in supporting the analysis is collected through the reading and searching related references to the analysis. They are taken
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the analysis.
Explanation: 1. Reading the novel Nineteen Eighty
– Four by George Orwell. Collect and underline the important things from the novel and related books and references.
2. Finding the related words, sentences, paragraphs related to dictatorship 3. Selecting the significant data related to the problem the study
4. Doing an interpretation and analysis 5. The last step is making a conclusion after doing an interpretation
The writer
Conclusion
Interpretation and Analysis
Data Selection Data: Words,
Sentences, Paragraphs related to Dictatorship
Source of Data : Nineteen Eighty
– Four
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3.2 Data Collecting Procedure