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son, the divorce from Alicia, and his remarriage which are never mentioned in the movie.
B. The Approach of the Study
In this analysis, the psychological approach is applied to analyze the problems because this approach is appropriate to answer the problem formulation.
This approach uses psychological theories to explain “human motivation, personality, and behavior patterns” written in a literary object Rohrberger 13.
Through this approach, the writer can notice that there is a relation between literature and psychology. The psychological approach also concerns with the effort of
analyzing a piece of literary object based on the psychological theory. This theory will be applied by investigating the novel based on the psychological factors of the
novel itself.
C. Procedures
The method of this study is library research. This is to say that all of the data and the information are taken from books of psychology and literature, criticisms,
dictionaries and Internet. There are some steps I conducted in order to be able make an organized study. At the beginning, I read the novel several times to get my best
understanding about the content. Along with the reading activity, I highlighted the points and aspects that I intended to discuss in my study about the relation of Nash
and his beloved wife, Alicia and their love within their marriage life as well, from the beginning until the time they got divorced and re-married again. Afterwards, I re-
arranged those highlighted points and aspects in a good order. Next, I searched, PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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collected, and noted down the theories and some other sources of information- including those from the Internet which had the right unity to my topic of the study,
and sorted them based on the necessities and the sake of the study. Having completed the sorting process, I compiled them all into one unity of theories. At last, the
compiled theories then were used to organize my analysis in this thesis, along with the highlighted points and aspects I had found previously.
D. Sources
There are two kinds of sources used in this study, namely the primary data or the main source and the secondary data sources or the supporting sources. Here are
some explanations related to them. The primary data source or the main source in this study is the novel A
Beautiful Mind written by Sylvia Nasar in 1998. For the secondary data sources or the supporting sources, I use some books on literature and psychology, an article
from the newspaper, dictionary, and other sources from the Internet as well. Besides, I also use the movie-the same title with the novel- which is a transformation of the
novel into the big screen. Even though it is not as complete as the novel, the movie helps the writer more to visualize John and Alicia ’s life, especially in giving
description of true love in their relation and how Alicia ’s faithfulness is depicted.
E. Organization of the Study
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