America. The text is divided into twenty-one chapters and it runs up to 360 pages. The Queen of Attolia belongs to the genre fiction, not historically accurate. The
gods and the goddesses in her book do not belong to the Greek or any other Pantheon, the author made them up. She also created her own imagination for The
Mede Empire.
3.2 Approach of the Study
The writer used psychological approach. Psychological approach is used to answer the second formulated question as written in the chapter I. This approach
is aimed to help the writer to understand the Queen of Attolias’s personality better. Her process being a cruel person who cannot believe anyone, but she can
believe Eugenides and fall in love with him. Through knowing the process, the writer can get the meaning of Queen Attolia’s love.
3.3 Method of the Study
The writer used library research by compiling data from books and internet source in order to complete this study. The sources are divided into two kinds; the
primary and the secondary source. The primary source is Megan’s The Queen of Attolia. The secondary sources are literary books, psychological books, related
books, and internet. There are several steps to conduct in this study. The first step was reading
the novel. The writer also wrote down the finding which the writer got from the novel, is dealing with the character of Queen Attolia ― the main character in the
story, The Queen of Attolia. The second step was deciding the topic to be discussed. Additionally, the writer concluded the analysis into two problem
formulations. The next step after formulating the problems related to the topic and finding the appropriate approach employed in the analysis was finding the
secondary sources related to the topic or problems that would be analysed. In this step, the writer found the secondary data from some books and online references
as stated above. The third step was the writer answered or analyzed the problem
formulations. It means that the writer tried to answer the problem formulations by using the primary and secondary data. The writer tried to apply the theories and
reviews from the secondary data to the story of the primary data. In the analysis, the writer focused on Queen Attolia’s character by observing her speech, action,
behaviour, thought, author’s writing and other’s opinion about her. After that the writer gave some clear explanations on her character. Afterwards, the theory of
motivation, theory of love, theory of katresnanism and psychological approach are used to answer the meaning of Queen Attolia’s love.
The last step was to conclude the study of the novel. In this step, the writer concluded the important points of the analysis as the result of the analysis and
gave some suggestions to the future researchers who want to analyse the novel, The Queen of Attolia.
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