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1.5. Significance of the Study
The findings of this study the researcher hopes to provide valuable input to several parts: first, it is expected that this study will be useful for students of English
as a reference. Secondly, it is hoped that the result of this research would be useful for English lecturers, especially for the lecturers who concern to the theory of
literature and give additional empirical data about that. Thirdly, it is expected that this research can give significant contribution for future researchers who are interested to
do research like this study.
1.6. Method of Study
In this research the researcher uses qualitative research. Qualitative research is concerned with upward explanations of social phenomena. Hancock book explains that:
Qualitative research is concerned with developing explanations about phenomena of social. its mean, it aims to help us to understand the world in which we live and why
things are the way they are. Qualitative research is concerned with finding the answers to questions which begin with: how, why? And in what way? Hancock 02
Based on the statement above that qualitative method is concerned with the opinions, experiences and feelings of individuals producing subjective data and also
describes about social phenomena which is occur of naturally. So qualitative method is especially effective in obtaining culturally, specific information about the values,
opinions, behaviors, and social contexts of particular populations. The researcher collects the data based on the library research and also e-book.
Therefore from library data the writer has opportunities to have good data from
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books, journal, magazines, and online resources. In the data of analysis, the writer follows steps:
1. Collecting data related on Robert Langdon’s conflict to retain his good
image in The Da Vinci Code novel Novel. 2.
Deciding what kind of characters based on the data and describing of Robert Langdons good image
3. Collecting all data related to the title and statement of the problem.
1.7. Definition of Key
In order to avoid misunderstanding and misinterpretation about the basic concepts used in this research, the researcher would like to give some definition of
the key terms as follows: Good image : Properties who determined by good behavior
Conflict : disagreement between people, groups, etc.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED STUDY AND RELATED LITERATURE
In order to analyze the statements of the problem in this thesis, the researcher uses some theories: formalism and Sociological theories
. 2.1.
Formalism Theory
In this study, the researcher wants to use formalism approach which refers to sandel’s opinion. He says in his book, Linguistic Style and Persuasion uses
Informalist and Formalist approach. The former one refers to analyze a literary work subjectively. He, now and then, refers to the readers’ reaction as well as subjective
impressions. The letter one which seems to be worth elaborating below refers to the text itself as a structure of a language which spite of the author and the readers
Sandel, 20. The word of formalism certainly goes back to the art of classical. Through
imagery, metaphor, scenes of dramatic, characterization, setting and tone, Plato develops dialectic and shapes movement to Socratic insight. Likewise, Aristotle in his
Poetics came up with an idea of a systematic composition of parts which form a good unity or organism. Guerin, et al 97-98. Formalist criticism is to look closely at the
shape of the literary work itself Stevens, et al 13. Guerin, et al, in their book A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature said that a positive of this observation
a close reading is the way the formalists do in analyzing a literary work in the sense that they commence with a feeling to the words of the text and all their denotative and
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connotative values and implications 94. In retrospect, he further gives opinion that internal connections slowly reveal a form. As we look over all the words, phrases,
metaphors, images, and symbols wholly, any literary text performs its own internal logic. The reader is very close to the identification of the overall form of the work,
when that logic has been set up Guerin, et al 95-96. From two this observation the researcher comes to know that formalist approach ignores the outside world beyond
the literary work itself when analyzing it. Thus far, the researcher talks of formal theory which refers to the content of
works themselves regardless the biography of the author, the time and the condition the work are written. As the researcher finds out a social phenomenon in the Novel,
namely, conflicts of Robert Langdon to retain his good image, therefore, the researcher uses theory of sociology in The Da Vinci Code
’s Novel.
2.2. Sociological Theory
