Background of the Study

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background of the Study

Literature is something that can deal with human activity as human experience. The existence of literary works cannot be separated from the world of reality. It is possible that literary works give people an insight into reality, that they broaden our awareness of the possibility of experience. Literature helps people to know about human life, including its problem, custom, habits, ambition, and desire. Meanwhile, the literature has so many definitions. It is caused each community has its own cultural characteristics and conditions. This fact makes the definition literature is different from one community to another. Whatever the definition of literature is, people should keep in their mind that literary work could give many advantages. Literature can be divided into several forms, they are poetry, novel, short story, and drama. Novel is familiar to most people so that it is not surprising if we often see a lot of people read a literary works to get a new knowledge and insight about love, life, religion, and other things. They need to read it to refresh their mind after their routine. Novel as a literary work has a close relationship with moral and social life. This means that literary works are potential to be filled with moral 1 values whose in essence is able to increase human dignity and the literary work itself. There are some kinds of literature; one of them is prose fiction. According to Carlsen and Gilbert 1985:761 ―Fiction is a piece of writing create by the writers imagination‖. In line with the definition of the fiction, Brook and Warren in Koesnobroto 1988: 9 state. Fiction is story, a made-up story, about characters. Reading fiction is like standing in front of a mirror, because readers will find their problems discussed on it. This is in line with Rees statement, lie states that by studying good literature, the reader learn more about human problems and life difficulties. Readers may find that literature concerns with facts, love, life, hate, fate, and death. They always come interesting to discuss. However, literature does not only deal with realties such as in stories and science, but also in the world of imagination. Just like other type of literatures, novel also expresses the author thought and feelings. It is influenced by social background and the culture of the author. Every writer has their own characteristic. Even more than two author from the same period have different characteristic. When writing a novel, some novelists are influenced by the condition of their surrounding. Therefore, some novels talk about event in daily life or in other word, some novels is the representation of real life. That is not far different from E – Love, a novel by Caroline Plaisted that tells about first love. She describes first love o f Samantha‘s life as the main character in this novel. Besides, it also describes about the main character anxiety. As she chatted with someone on an internet, she actually felt so anxiety because she even ever met the man she loved. Through this thesis, the writer attempts to analyze moral anxiety reflected by Samantha in E – Love.

1.2 Statements of the Problems