Third, we can find from the story, how the characters try to escape from the reality and run away to the dream world or to the imaginary world in order to safe
their life. This book has many example of the Dream Theory, where the writer wants to discuss.
Last, the students of English Department of UNNES rarely discuss this topic so that it is necessary for the writer to explore it. Those reasons encourage me
to choose the Freudian Dream Theory of the suppressed characters as reflected in Arundaty Roy’s “The God of Small Things”.
1.4 Statements of the Problem
In discussing the novel, I want to limit the discussion of this novel by presenting the following problems:
1. Are there any dreams of the characters found in ‘The God of Small Things’? 2.
How are the applications of the dream in Arundhati Roy’s “The God of Small Thing” to describe the Indian’s society?
3. What are the realistic values behind the dreams of the character?
1.5 Objectives of the Study
The objectives of analyzing “The God of Small Things” can be elaborated as
follows:
1. To analyze novel trough its elements.
2. To know what the application of the dream, which can describe the Indian’s
society. 3.
To find out the realistic values behind the dream of the characters.
1.6 Significance of the Study
By conducting this study, I hope that the result can give the useful contribution especially for those who learn psychoanalysis. It can be considered as supplementary
source, to learn psychoanalysis especially about Freudian Dream Theory. For English students, it can facilitate them in improving their sense of psychology. For
English teachers, it can support the success of their teaching since it ca be used as supplementary material in conducting the introduction to psychoanalysis.
Generally, the society can take the valuable insights from this analysis according to their necessaries. At least, they can get pleasure by reading it.
1.7 The Outline of the Study
This study is divided into five chapters. Each chapter will contain different topic. Chapter I is the introduction. This chapter explains the general background of the
study, reason for choosing the topic, statement of the problem, the objective of the study, and the outline of the study.
Chapter II is the review of the related literature. This chapter includes the definition of novel, including the elements of novel, the introduction to the
psychoanalysis, the relation of the psychoanalysis and literature, interpreting of the dream, including the types of the dream, and the link between the dream and the
reality. And for the last subject is introduction to the term of ‘dream works’ and definition of despair and a brief view of Indian society in twentieth century.
Chapter III is the method of investigation. This chapter will describe the type of the data, technique of collecting data, and technique of analyzing data.
Chapter IV is the data analysis and the discussion. This chapter contains the discussion of the study.
Chapter V contains conclusions.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
