Liza’s View about a Woman

60 She keeps on asking herself, “Would she become the Shrove gardener when Eve was too old to do the work? Or the successor to Mrs Cooper? She would be sent to town with the shopping baskets and the list, to cross the bridge and wait for the bus” p.284. She questions and questions herself about her future. Maslow 2002:14 calls this process as the esteem and identity seeking. It also can be the self actualisation of her own being. Therefore, it is described in the novel, She was fourteen before she began asking herself, what will become of me when I grow up? Shall I live here with Eve for ever? When she has taught me all the English there is to learn and all the history and French and Latin, what will we do then? What shall I do with all of it? ‘Be me,’ Eve had said, ‘me as I might have been if I had stayed here, happy and innocent and good.’ Did she want to be Eve? Did she want to be those things? pp. 260- 261 Based on the description, we can see that Liza experieces a process of an identity seeking in her life. Through her own perspective she questions about what she is going to be. Her reflections about her life lead her to think more about how she should live her life. Liza is a girl who has a high imagination. However, before she leaves Shrove, she does not have any dreams since she does not have any models except her mother. After she is out of Shrove and sees what outworld is, she builds many dreams. Her first dream is becoming a doctor since she is not afraid of dead bodies. However, after she knows that her the process to free her mother is very complex, she wishes to learn law and wishes to be a lawyer, “I’d like to be a lawyer. One day I’ll be a lawyer” p.279. Liza has a high optimism that she can be a lawyer one day. That is why 61 she asks for a help to Jane Sprudell, the daughter of the family she works for, to send her to school since she has a lot of money from Eve’s savings. ‘Please can you arrange for me to go to school?’ It was relief that Jane felt. Liza could tell that. Whatever she had expected it hadn’t been that. She had anticipated begging, request for money, time, attention – even perhaps, affection. p.358 Liza does not want to be weak. She does not want to make trouble of anyone. She is optimistic about her future, Liza gave a great sigh. She was going to be all right and she wasn’t going to burst into tears or relief or make confessions. A good time was beginning and she was going to think of that and be a Stoic. p.359 From the description in the last part of the novel, we can see that Liza is able to build her optimism of her future. She decides she will not cry or make any regrets of her life and start a new life by going to school. Petri 1981:6-7 writes that human has what is called a cognitive process that causes significant difference in the foundation and development of motivation. He also writes that human motivation can also grow to reach their full potential-physical, psychological, and emotional needs. The way Liza chooses to start a new life shows that she experiences a cognitive process in her that later she is motivated to live a better life. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI