Fatuous Love Kinds of Love

discuss about how the four main characters have a inner conflict with their family or their husband. His research use pshycological approach by Sigmund freud. The third study has been written by Putri Riskya Iriani untitled The Struggle of Women Against Gender Discriminations in Girls of Riyadh by Rajaa Al-Sanea. Similar with the first previous study. This research discuss about gender discrimination. The findings of the study show the struggle of women toward the gender discrimination. The writer analyzes the gender discrimination that occurs in the novel and experienced by the characters. Feminist approach is used in the study since the study discusses women and the struggle of women to get equality. Similar to the previous studies above, the writer also choose the four main characters as a subject. Both of them analysing about gender discrimination and an inner conflict with their family of the four main characters. But, the differences between this study and the three previous study is that this study analysing about love’s life of the four main characters using new criticism approach and Triangular theory of love by Sternberg. digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id

CHAPTER III ANALYSIS

In this chapter, the researcher will divide this chapter into two sections. The first section will discuss characterizations of the main characters in The Girls of Riyadh with New Criticism approach, while the second section will discuss the the main characters love life. The researcher used Triangular Theory of Love by Robert J. Sternberg to analyze the the main characters love lives. In this novel,the main characters have a complicated love life.

3.1 The main characters

The author told the love stories of her friends on her novel, but among of her friends, there were two characters that mentioned most on the novel, their love life told several times. They were Michelle and Sadeem, their stories have told several times, ten chapters of the novel were about Michelle’s love story, while fifteen of it were about Sadeem’s love story. Since this work is going to analyze the love story on the novel, the researcher decided to take the two mentioned characters as the main characters of the novel in his work as they have the numbers of love stories told. As this work is more about love analyzing as it uses triangular theory of love, the writer of this thesis focused on the love stories of the characters that has told several times on the novel and as mentioned above, they are Micelle and Sadeem. digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id