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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

In this chapter, the writer discusses the methodology that was employed in this study. This chapter consists of three parts; namely object of the study, approach of the study, and method of the study. Object of the study focuses on the physical description of the literary work studies. Approach of the study discusses the approach employed in the literary work. Method of the study describes the procedures in analyzing the literary work.

3.1 Object of the Study

The Devil and Miss Prym is a book of temptation written by Paulo Coelho, a Brazilian author. It is an English version of O Demonio E A Senhorita Prym.The Devil and Miss Prym translated by Amanda Hopkinson and Nick Caistor published by Harper Collins Publishers, New York in 2007. There are 201 pages and it is divided into 25 chapters.The original version is in Portuguese, published by arrangement with Sant Jordi Asociados, Barcelona, SPAIN, copyright in 2000 by Paulo Coelho. The Devil and Miss Prym concludes the trilogy of And on the Seventh Day. The first two books are: By the River Piedra I Sat down and Wept 1994 and Veronica Decides to Die 1998. The trilogy novels tell about the life changes of someone during seven days. 18 The major character of the novel is Miss Prym Chantal. She is a young woman in Viscos. She hopes to meet someone to marry and bring her from Viscos. She is starting to get bored live in Viscos with her routine. She has no family anymore. Her mother has passed away when Miss Prym was born and no one knows who her father is. She lived with her grandmother in Viscos. After her grandmother has passed away, she works at the bar of the hotel in the evening. She is young and people of Viscos do not hate her. Her friends of the same age have moved to the city to work or to marry someone. In her age she wants to meet someone, get married, and move far away from the Viscos. One day a Stranger comes to Viscos and offers her a gold bar if she can do what the stranger wants. The Stranger wants to revenge his past life experience where his wife and daughter died at the hands of terrorists. His question is to answer whether human is good or evil. So, he asks Miss Prym to tell the villager about the gold. Actually, Miss Prym is attracted by the gold bars but she also wants to help people of Viscos. If people in Viscos know about the gold, she is pretty sure they will struggle to get the gold bars for themselves. The ten gold bars need a victim as a stranger wants.

3.2 Approach of the Study

The approach which is used in this study was the psychological approach. The Psychological approach is an approach that is used to analyze Miss Prym’s character’s behavior and personality. Miss Prym’s psychological condition can be