Object of the Study Approach of the Study

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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter consists of three parts. First is subject matter which discusses the novel itself. The second is approaches that will be used to analyze the study. And the third is procedures including some steps to conduct the study.

A. Object of the Study

This study deals with one of the novels by Paulo Coelho, entitled The Winner Stands Alone. This is the twelfth of Paulo’s work. It was originally published by Harper in 2009. The novel consists of 343 pages. It contains 32 parts. Each part starts with the time when every episode happens. The Winner Stands Alone tells about the Igor’s obsession to get his ex-wife back. Igor is a Russian, who is rich, handsome, and intelligent, desperately in love because his wife leaves him for a successful fashion designer. Igor also has obsession to get his beloved back and he will do everything to get her back, even though he has to destroy the whole world. It also paints the luxury and glamorous of entertainment world that we often think that it is always full of fun and happiness, but in fact it is not always like what we think. That is another aspect of this story, to appoint another side of this novel that is abnormal behavior particularly manic-depressive psychoses that Igor, the major character, shows by how he does something uncommon to get what he wants. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 45

B. Approach of the Study

Actually, there are five critical approaches that can be used to get more understanding in reading and analyzing literature. According to Rohrberger and Woods, Jr. 1971, pp. 3-15, one must know what literature is, how to read it, and how to judge it. Literature also study and consider critical approaches that concern to the formalist approach, the biographical approach, the sociocultural historical approach, the mythopoeic approach, and the psychological approach. In this study, the writer uses the psychological approach. The writer uses the psychological approach to analyze the characters of Igor who can be seen that he experiences manic-depressive psychoses through his way, manner, and view of something. By using that theory, the writer also gets deeper understanding about some definition of abnormal behavior that cover not only in one aspect, but many aspects, and then the complex causes of abnormal behavior itself.

C. Method of the Study