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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
The object of this undergraduate thesis is the novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling. It was written by J.K. Rowling as the third
instalment in her famous Harry Potter series and was first published by Bloomsbury in July 8 1999 to worldwide acclaim.
The novel have won various awards after its publishing, including Nestlé Smarties Book Prize 1999 Gold Medal for 9-11years category, Scottish Arts
Council Children‘s Book Award 1999, overall winner in longer novel category of FCBG Childr
en‘s Book Award 1999, North East Book Award 1999, and Whitaker‘s Platinum Book Award 2001. According to The Guardian, the novel
was sold over 3 million copies by 2012 www.theguardian.com, 24 November 2016, and have been translated into over 60 languages. It was even adapted as a
film of the same title in 2004, directed by Alfonso Cuarón and distributed by Warner Bros.
The Prisoner of Azkaban told the story of Harry Potter in his third year as a student of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It first took place
during a summer holiday in Privet Drive number 4 where Harry lived with his dreadful relatives, the Dursleys. After he accidentally caused his uncle‘s sister to
puff like a balloon, Harry promptly left the house to return once more into the magical world.
Harry was hoping that the year would be a peaceful one. Alas, it was not meant to be since Sirius Black, a notorious mass murderer and said to be the most
loyal servant of Voldemort, was after him, s upposedly to avenge Voldemort‘s
defeat. The situation got even more complicated when the dementors sent by the Ministry of Magic into Hogwarts‘ grounds to hunt Black attacked him instead.
As Harry struggled to survive his third year against a mass murderer hunting him down and the dementors that would love to suck his soul at the first
opportunity available while going through his complicated school life, he learned one important thing about Sirius Black: the murderer that was once his
father‘s best friend betrayed the Potters to Voldemort. Shocked and furious, he hoped that Sirius Black would find him so he could kill him instead. Silently
though, he wondered if he would meet his death when the Grim kept on appearing before him throughout the year just before accidents that nearly take
his life, not to mention the prophecy spoken professor Trelawney of the impending reunion between Voldemort and his loyal servant only made things
even more complicated.
B. Approach of the Study
This study was conducted by applying New Criticism approach in conducting analysis in order to answer the problem formulations of the study.
The New Criticism, according to Lois Tyson, focused on ―the text itself‖, that ―a certain interpretation requires a careful examination, or ‗close reading‘ of
the formal elements in the text that form, or shape, the literary work‖ 2006: 137. Thus, New Criticism approach is an approach that focused on formal elements,
that is the intrinsic elements, of a literary work in interpreting its meaning. Hence, it is essential for New Critics to carefully examine the intrinsic elements of
literary work, such as characterization, point of view, symbols, and so on, as the meaning interpreted from a literary work must be supported by the context of the
text. The New Critics upheld that a literary work is ―timeless, autonomous
verbal object‖ 2006: 137 which will always be the same, even though the readers and readings change in time. The meaning of literary work is objective as
it is constructed by the work ‘s organic unity – the working together of all formal
elements as an inseparable whole – that creates one-of-a-kind relation by which
New Critics judged the quality of literary work 2006: 137-138. In this study, the writer applied the New Criticism approach in analysing
the intrinsic elements of the Prisoner of Azkaban novel: the creature symbols presented in the novel, the conflict of the novel which is Harry Potter‘s
confrontation with his past, and how the presented creature symbols foreshadow the aforementioned conflict.
C. Method of the Study
This study was conducted through library research. The primary source for the study is the novel Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
while the secondary sources used in the analysis were Gue rin‘s A Handbook of
Critical Approaches to Literature and Chevalier‘s The Penguin Dictionary of
Symbols, as well as other documents and article taken from the internet. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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