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CHAPTER 3 METHODOLOGY
This chapter discusses the methodology which is used to conduct this study. This chapter consists of three parts. The first part is object of the study. It
contains a brief description of the novel. The second part presents critical approach that is used in this study. Approach of the study deals with the approach
which is used in the analysis. Meanwhile, method of the study is to explain the procedures and steps which are being used to analyze the study.
3.1 Object of the Study
The object of the study is a novel entitled The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe written by C.S. Lewis. For this study, the
writer is using this novel which is published by Harper Collins Publisher in 1994. The novel was first published in London on first January 1950. The Chronicles of
Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe is the second books of seven series of The Chronicles of Narnia. This novel got award from Hugo Award
Nominee for Best Novel 1954 and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award 1962. Moreover, TIME
magazine included the novel in its “ALL-TIME 100 Novels” best English language novels from 1923-2005 Grossman, 2005.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe consists of 206 pages. The novel begins when The Pevensies Peter Pevensie,
Edmund Pevensie, Susan Pevensie and Lucy Pevensie are deported magically to PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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save Edmund Pevensie from the White Witch after he betrayed his siblings. Finally, they are able to save Edmund Pevensie and they become the King and
Queen of Narnia. In the story, Edmund Pevensie becomes the king of justice.
3.2 Approach of the Study
In analyzing the novel, the writer used psychological approach as the appropriate approach to deal with the character in The Chronicles of Narnia: The
Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. Psychological approach aims to analyze the pattern of character’s behavior, thoughts, actions, or motives Rohrberger and
Woods, 1971, p. 13. The implementation of psychological approach in this analysis was needed because the objective of this study was to describe Edmund
Pevensie’s personality development and to see the factors that influence Edmund Pevensies’s personality development.
This approach allows the writer to apply the theory of personality to analyze Edmund Pevensie. The writer used this approach because the study
concerns with the personality development of Edmund Pevensie. Personality is one of the subjects of psychology. It involves behavior, thought, and feelings.
In analyzing personality development, the writer used theory from Elizabeth Hurlock 1974 as the main theory. The theory discusses about the
personality pattern, changes in personality, and characteristic of personality change. Hurlock 1974 states that there are two major components of the
personality pattern, they are self-concept and trait. In analyzing the character, the PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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