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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter consists of four sections. The first is subject matter. It deals with the subject of the study. The second is approaches. It deals with the literature approaches that I use to analyze the novel. The third is data collection. It deals with the sources that I use in analyzing the study. The fourth is procedures. It deals with the steps in completing the thesis.

3.1 Subject Matter

The subject matter here is a novel that I choose to be analyzed. It is entitled The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown. This novel is about 489 pages and published by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc New York in year 2003. This novel originally written in English and was translated into 44 different languages. This novel tells a story about Robert Langdon, a writer and also lecturer. When he came to Paris, he was accused as the murdered to Jacques Sauniere. Jacques Sauniere wrote a mesage which led Sophie and Langdon to find a series of riddles and anagrams. Here the secret behind the work of Leonardo Da Vinci came up. Leonardo Da Vinci has purpose in making the painting such as Monalisa, Madonna of The Rock, The Last Supper. In the end of the story, they find Sophie’s long lost grandmother and brother. 26

3.2 Approach

This study uses the psychological approach. It discusses human motivation, personality and behavior patterns of a person in literary work that built his or her characters. The psychological approach supported the writer to reveal the Jacques Sauniere’s motivation in leaving a message before he died. It could be realized, since as proposed by Rohrberger and Woods, the psychological approach involves various theories of psychology to explain the character’s personality in a story. Each character’s behavior could be referred to a psychology of human being.

3.3 Procedures

It is a library study; therefore I did the primary and secondary source. I use Dan Brown novel entitled The Da Vinci Code as the primary source. The secondary sources of my study are the materials that support the evidence for the problem formulation study. They are dictionaries, encyclopedias, text books, some newspaper and magazines articles both from the library and the internet. My first procedure of this study was deciding the topic. It was begun with excitement of studying motivation. After that I had to find the ideal literary media that could be best to describe my topic. It is a must to understand the topic before, during and after the study, therefore, I would not get lost in the comprehension more books, e-books and the articles that support both again from the library and the internet simply can help it. 27 It is also important to read the novel carefully and over again. I also underlined some important lines to me and wrote some notes on the novel that would help me in the analyzing. After the analyzing is completed, I create a teaching learning sets design that associated to the topic using the novel as implementation of teaching English skills. 28

CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

To answer the problems stated in the first chapter, I first would like to examine the character of Jacques Sauniere and Sophie Neveu. Then I would like to discuss Jacques Saunire’s motivation for writing his last message.

4.1 The Character of Jacques Sauniere

According to Henkle 1977: 97 the characters are divided into major characters and minor characters. In this novel, Jacques Sauniere is the minor character. His presence is only Sophie’s side of the experience. Though he is a minor character, his influence is important in this novel. Jacques Sauniere is seventy six years old man. He is the guard of Louvre Museum in Paris, where there are some art of Leonardo Da Vinci. He is a Frenchman. He is a member of Priory Sion. As a member of Priory Sion, he worships goddess. A Priory Sion is a secret community which worshiping to goddess. This community also believes that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married. Jacques Sauniere was considered the premiere goddess iconographer on earth. Not only did Sauniere have a personal passion for relics relating to fertility, goddess cults, Wicca, and the sacred feminine, but during his twenty-year tenure as curator, Sauniere had helped the Louvre amass the largest collection of goddess art on earth-labrys axes from the priestesses’ oldest Greek shrine in Delphi, gold caducei wands, hundreds of Tjet ankhs resembling small standing angel, sistrum rattles used in ancient Egypt to dispel evil spirit, and an astonishing array of statues depicting Horus being nursed by the goddess Isis. 25 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI