while men act and react based on their thought, whether it is rational or not. Those are what makes the courtship that had been done by Mrs. Levi were different from
the courtship that had been done by Cornelius. By knowing that fact, which becomes the most interesting reason of
choosing the subject, the writer tries to find out and describe the main character characteristics and also to find out how the courtship influence them so much in
their life, especially in the way those characters ‘escape’ from who they really was and trying to become someone else, lie between one and another in order to have
someone trust, and also the effect of the courtship, or may called also as love, which can make something become much better than before as seen in the
character of Mrs. Dolly Levi and also Cornelius Hackl in Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker
.
B. Problem Formulation
In this thesis the writer tries to analyze the play based on the following three questions.
1. How are Mrs. Levi and Cornelius characterized in Thornton Wilder’s The
Matchmaker ?
2. How do Mrs. Levi and Cornelius behave in their courtship as seen in Thornton
Wilder’s The Matchmaker? 3.
What are Mrs. Levi and Cornelius’ motives of courtship as seen in Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker?
C. Objectives of the Study
The objective of the study is to answer the three formulated question in the Problem Formulation. The first section is to know better about the main
characters by characterize them, especially Mrs. Levi and Cornelius. By knowing their character, it would be easier to define them and understand what they had
done in the play. The second section is seeking of the behavior that Mrs. Levi and Cornelius had done when they did courtship toward someone they like. In this
section the writer also tries to show the changing identity of the character who is affected by the spell of love. Doing courtship makes them become someone else
and different from their truly character. The last section of the study is to find the real motive of courtship that was done by Mrs. Levi and Cornelius.
D. Definition of Terms
In doing the paper, the writer finds several words that need further explanation. The list of several difficult words with their explanation of word is
taken from Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary Tenth Edition. The writer tries to explain the definition of motivation, motive and courtship to help the
reader understand the thesis easily. There are differences between motivation and motive. To help the
reader to understand the definition, the writer uses the definition that is stated by Richard, Elizabeth, and Robert in Introduction to Psychology “The dynamic
property of behavior that give it organization over time and that defines its end states is called motive, and the corresponding process is called motivation 1983:
367. It means that motive is a main goal of our behavior, while motivation is a way to achieve the motive. For example, when a person works so hard to achieve
a lot of money so that he can buy a car, we may say that the car is his motive, money is his motivation and his act of working hard is his behavior. Behavior is
influenced by a need for something. The definition of motive is the act or process of motivating or the
condition of being motivated. According to Bruno, motive is a term employed generally for the phenomena involved in the operation of incentives, drives and
motivations 1986: 7. However, the term motive is defined as a desire or a wish. Murray defines motivation as a desire that has certain goals to be obtained 1964:
5-7. Courtship, according to the Merriam Webster’s Collegiate
Dictionary: Tenth Edition is the act, process, or period of courting. Courting here
means to seek the affection of; especially to seek to win a pledge of marriage. In other word, courtship is a process where someone doing affection towards
someone else in order to get their attention to win a pledge of marriage Webster, 2002: 266.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW
