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CHAPTER III RESEARCH METHOD

A. Subject of the Study

The subject of this study is Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar . This novel was published under the pseudonym, Victoria Lucas in 1963. Plath was an American poet, novelist and short-story writer. She was one of the most dynamic and admired poets of the twentieth century. The Bell Jar is the only novel ever written by Plath. The book is semi- autobiographical of her own life who struggles from mental illness. The novel describes about the story of Esther Greenwood, who fails to pass a particular stage of psychosocial development. Furthermore, this failure brings impact to her personality.

B. Data and Sources of the Data

The source of the data for this research was taken from Plath’s The Bell Jar . The novel was a pdf document, consisting of 20 chapters and 135 pages. The researcher read the novel and scrutinized the content comprehensively. The data taken from the novel were the words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and paragraphs which reflected the stages of psychosocial development and the impact of it to the personality of the main character named Esther Greenwood. The researcher objectives were 1 to identify in which stage of the psychosocial development does Esther unsuccessfully handle the crisis, 2 to 24 explain the impact of the stage of psychosoci al development toward Esther’s personality.

C. Research Instruments

This research is a qualitative research. According to Jacob in James, 1997: p.1, is a generic term for investigative methodologies described as ethnographic, naturalistic, anthropological, field, or participant observer research. In this qualitative research, the key instrument of the research was the researcher herself. During this research, the researcher acted as the planner, main data collector, and data interpreter or reporter of the research result. In addition, the researcher also used her own interpretation in analyzing the work based on her knowledge that was primarily supported by the psychosocial theory by Erikson as the main guideline. The researcher used table list as the secondary instrument to ease the work during the data processing. The data were then identified by giving them certain label and transformed them into table lists. The table lists were designed in order to put the quotations of the data based on page, category and meaning.

D. The Technique of Data Collections

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