Problem Formulation Objectives of the Study
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homosexuality is the changes of the significant people around him, Clive Durham and Alec Scudder Maryati, 2012: 60.
The last study is an undergraduate thesis by Immanuela Langgeng Santini entitled “Maurice Self-Realization of Being A Homosexual after His Conflicts Seen
in E.M Forster’s Maurice”. Like the previous thesis, this thesis has the same topic as this study which is homosexuality. It revealed Maurice’s complete self-realization of
being a homosexual was led by the conflicts he experienced throughout his life. The first conflict is the conflict between his homosexual desire and his social reality
which lead on his anxiety and longing for the harmony within his life. He also faced social conflict which was related with religion which also lead his irrational anxiety
for became what was society so-called a “normal person’. As in his suffering of sexual identity indistinctness, he got his first homosexual experience and its positive
reinforcement thus encouraged him to a decision of his self-realization of being a homosexual as his real personality Santini, 2011:65. This thesis use the same
approach as this study, psychological approach. From all the related studies above, the writer convinced that this study is
different from the others because in this study the writer uses a different novel as some of those above, and also this study will reveal the causal factors of Otoko’s
Homosexuality as seen in Yasunara Kawabata’s Beauty and Sadness. The writer finds it best to analyze the study with psychological point of view as it is a study about a
character’s behavior patterns, feelings, and thoughts.
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