One of the major figure in the Chronicles of Narnia, the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is Edmund Pevensie.
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He is very attractive to be studied because Edmund has a unique character from the other three major characters. Edmund
Pevensie is the second son and third of four children of Mr. and Mrs. Pevensie. Edmund misses his father and resents having to obey his older brother, Peter.
The White Witch plays Edmund’s feelings of inferiority and uses him to try to ensnare his siblings. Edmund betrays his brother and sisters by informing on them to
the White Witch but is thrown into the dungeon for his efforts. He eventually feels bad about his betrayal that he miraculously “changes” and becomes a big supporter of
Peter. Herein lays the structural problem of the story.
B. SCOPE OF THE PROBLEM
The research will be focused on the characteristic of Edmund Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
C. RESEARCH QUESTION
Based on the background of the study above and the focus of the study, the writer would like to concentrate and limit it by formulating the statement of the
problem as:
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Edmund from Anglo-Saxon, Eadmund, derived from words meaning wealth and protection is a male given name. Pevensey, on the southeast coast of England, is the site of a medieval castle that
figures importantly in British history at several points. In Rudyard Kiplings Puck of Pooks Hill 1907 at least one of the characters refers to Pevensey as Englands Gate, which the celebrated wardrobe in
Lewiss books quite literally becomes. The surname Pevensie does not actually appear in the Chronicles until the third published book, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
What are the characteristics of Edmund Pevensie depicted in the Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe?
D. OBJECTIVE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
Based on statement of the study, this research could: - To know the characteristic of Edmund Pevensie in the Chronicles of Narnia: The
Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. - To learn the result of this research can be useful for the people who read,
especially for the students of English Letters Department State Islamic University Jakarta.
E. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
1. Method of the research The method that the writer uses in this research is descriptive analyses method
with the approach of qualitative. It means the writer should read the whole of the text in the film Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the
Wardrobe, then he describes the contents of the film qualitatively. 2. Technique of analysis
The collected data will be analyzed through “descriptive analysis technique”. In this case, the writer collects the data from film-scripts, supports them by
several resources which relate to the study and finally writes the analysis of the study.
3. Research instrument The instrument of this research is the writer himself as he gets the data, reads
some references to support this study and does analysis of Edmund Pevensie, as the main character in The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and
The Wardrobe. 4. Unit of analysis
The analysis unit of this study is The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe which released Desember 2005; produced by Mark
Johnson and Philip Steuer and published by Buena Vista Pictures. 5. Place and time
This study was started from 2008 and ended in 2010 which took place in Syarif Hidayatullah the State of Islamic University Jakarta Library Center,
and other libraries in Jakarta.
CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS
