20 the theories of motivation and personality, it presents to analyze the factors of
revenge and love behind the character. Theory of love discusses the kind of love and to find the true meaning of the main character‟s love as seen in the data.
From that approach, researcher can analyze the true meaning of the main character‟s love. This approach also has purpose to answer the problem
formulations.
C. Method of the Study
The method of this study is library research to analyze the data. Library research is needed to gather the sources for the study such as books and journals
from library or internet access. There are two kinds of source that the writer needed. The first source is Emily Bronte‟s novel. The second source is book or
another journal that related with some theories that writer used to analyze and solve the problem formulation. There are several processes that the writer did.
The first process was reading the novel. The writer read the data not only to fulfill the process of the study, but also to get the deeper meaning about the
data, and to get the atmosphere of the data. The second process was looking for some terms and study them. The
writer also read some sentences to get the deeper meaning about the love in the data. After finding some evidences, the writer started to make problem
formulation about the meaning of the main character‟s love and decided the title of this study.
21 The third was collecting the data and the theories from some books,
journal and the latest thesis that related with the study. The writer collected the data and the theories that related with problem formulations and the title of the
study. The data and the theories used to analyze the novel and support the data analysis.
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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
This chapter presents the finding and data analysis of the research based on the two questions presented in the Chapter I. The first question aims to find the
characteristics of Heathcliff as seen in the novel. The second question aims to analyze
the true meaning of Heathcliff‟s love as seen in Wuthering Heights.
A. Description of Heathcliff
In this novel, there are some characters potrayed, they are Heathcliff, Catherine Earnshaw, Edgar Linton, Isabella Linton, Mr. Earnshaw, Hindley
Earnshaw, Hareton Earnshaw, Ellen Dean, Mr. Lockwood, Joseph and the other. Abrams 2005 states that characters are the people or a person in
dramatic or narrative work, were interpreted by the reader as carrying such a moral, intellectual and also dispositional qualities that expressed in what they say
like in the dialogue or in the act. According to Abrams 1985: 20, there are two kinds of the character, the
first one is the major character and the other is minor character. Major characters always appear in the whole story while the minor character are less important than
the major character because they are not fully developed and they just support the major character.
In this novel, Heathcliff was categorized as the major character because he appears in almost every scene in the novel. The character of Heathcliff full
