conclusion, implications of the study and, giving suggestions for further studies about the novel.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
This chapter provides the answer for the question stated in the problem formulation. This analysis is divided into three parts. The first part is
what Hiccup’s dominant personalities before conflict which is from chapter one until ten. The
second part is how Hiccup’s dominant personalities during and after conflict which
are from chapter eleven until nineteen. The third part is Hiccup’s personality
development.
A. Hiccup’s Dominant Personalities Before Conflict
Personality cannot be separated from people because every person has his or her own unique personalities. Personality is often shaped by environment, social
activities, and experiences that someone has. Indifferent with human, fictional characters in a novel also have personalities. According to Forster, there are two
types of character namely flat and round as cited in Kennedy and Gioia, 2010, p. 78. A flat character
only has one outstanding trait and tend to stay the same from
the beginning until the end of the story. A round character has a greater and generous detail. Hiccup in this novel is a round character. As the main character in
the novel, the author gave so many details about him. In a literary works
such as a novel, t here are some ways to find character’s
personality. Based on Murphy 1972, there are nine ways of characterization that are usually used by authors to give clues about the characters in a story. The nine
ways are personal description, character as seen by another, speech, past life, conversation by others, reaction, direct comment, thought, and mannerism.
After analyzing Hiccup using the ways of characterization, the writer found several characteristics
which show Hiccup’s dominant and less dominant personalities according to the findings which were found in the novel. The
personalities are considered as dominants when the characteristics of each personality type had at least three clues in each characteristic. The less dominant
personality found in Hiccup is sanguine. Sanguine’s characteristic found in Hiccup
is forgiving towards other. Sanguine’s characteristic, forgiving, only found less than
three times in the story. Therefore, it made the sanguine personality is less dominant personality found in Hiccup. In the other hand, the dominant personalities found in
Hiccup are explained as follows:
1. Phlegmatic
Phlegmatic is a relaxed and quiet personality. Phlegmatic is called as the
watcher. Phlegmatic has several positive and negative characteristics. According to Ekstrand 2012, the
phlegmatic’s positive characteristics are such as kind,
sympathetic, easy going, calm, warm, charitable, and observant. On the other hand, their negative characteristics are such as fearful, indecisive, reluctant, worrier, stay
uninvolved, resist change, and dampen enthusiasm p. 4. Hiccup’s characterization
result shows that his most dominant personality is phlegmatic. The writer found some phlegmatic
’s characteristics in Hiccup. The characteristics are fearful and worried, uninvolved, kind, and unenthusiastic.
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