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CHAPTER IV RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

This chapter aims at analysing the work of the novel and answering the problems presented in the study. The analysis firstly focuses on the description of Nyai Ontosoroh, as one of the main characters, described in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s This Earth of Mankind. Secondly, the analysis concentrates on the of Nyai Ontosoroh’s motivation changing for breaking her expected roles as a Dutch concubine in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s This Earth of Mankind.

A. The Character Description of Nyai Ontosoroh

In accordance to that, to have the deeper understanding related to the physical description and the character description of Nyai Ontosoroh in the novel This Earth of Mankind, the theory of character and theory of characterisation should be applied in this study. The first one is the theory of character. In the previous chapter, characters are described as the imaginative person with the emotional, moral and intellectual values as what can be seen from the way they are saying, doing and behaving Abrams, 1999, p.33. Furthermore, Rohrberger and Woods 1971 state that each character has different personality and outlooks from one and another p.20. Therefore, the theories help this study to analyse the emotional, moral and intellectual values of Nyai Ontosoroh which make her different from any other characters in the novel This Earth of Mankind written by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. 33 Koesnosoebroto 1988 as explained in the previous chapter argues that there are two types of character which are major and minor character. In accordance to that theory, in the novel This Earth of Mankind, Pramoedya Ananta Toer presents a character named Nyai Ontosoroh as one of his major characters. The first reason is because the plot of the story is related to her also. She is mentioned for many times from the beginning until the end of the story. The second reason is because Nyai Ontosoroh also plays an important role in the novel This Earth of Mankind. It is because some parts of the stories are emphasised from her life experience. In addition to that, using the argument about the dynamic and static character as what explained in the previous chapter, Nyai Ontosoroh can be said also that she is a dynamic character Perrine, 1974. It is because her character is developed from the beginning until the end of the story. It can be seen also from the novel that Nyai Ontosoroh herself also experiences changes in some aspects of her character or her personality. Despite of that, Nyai Ontosoroh whose real name is Sanikem is concubine of Mr. Herman Mellema, a Dutch administrator whom Nyai Ontosoroh often refers him as “the Great Powerful Tuan”. “He even went as far as using a dukun magic man and ascetic practices to cast a spell on the tuan administrator, the Tuan Besar Kuasa, the “Great, Powerful Tuan,” to come to the house. p.80 However, since she is the concubine of Mr. Mellema, people in that era call her or refer her as nyai. The definition of nyai is a native who is bought and