Object of the Study

answer of the problem formulation. The secondary sources takes from the book that provide the theory of character and characterization, conflict, message, the criticism and approach on the novel that was important for the study. Firstly, the writer read the main source that was The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, then read and re-read so the writer understood what actually the author wanted to say through the novel. The writer tried to focus on the novel, especially the characters and the conflict. Secondly, the writer formulated the problems that were to analyze the character to get message from describing the main character. To answer the first problem, the writer analyzed the characteristic and the conflict to describing the main character. The writer analyzed from the primary book which related to the characterization of Edmund and his conflict from the beginning to the end of story. After the first problem answer, the writer tried to answer the second problem. The writer answered it by making conclusion some possible messages from describing Edmund. After the analyzed part had been done, the writer made conclusion. In making conclusion, the writer concluded all of the analysis starting from how the main character are described in the story and what the message are founded in the novel. 18

CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

This chapter presents the answer of the problems that have been formulated in chapter one. The writer discusses them into two sections. The discussion of the analysis is started by analyzing the major character, named Edmund, through the conflicts that is faced by Edmund in supporting how Edmund described. In the end, the writer discusses the massage that can be found from the characteristic of Edmund and his conflicts.

A. Edmund’s Characteristic and his Conflict

In the novel, Edmund is the third child of Pevensies, one of the main characters whose personality changes from bad to good. His characteristic develops because he gets bad treatment from the White Witch. In this part the writer focuses on his characteristic and his conflicts. It is explained as:

1. Selfish

Edmund is a selfish person. Selfish is having or showing concern only for your self and not for needs or feelings of other people. The other meaning of selfish is concerned excessively or exclusively with oneself: seeking or concentrating on one‘s own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for other Webster, 2006:1663. It can be seen when Edmund imagine himself as a King in Narnia. … He did want Turkish Delight and to be a Prince and later a King and to pay Peter out of calling him a beast. As for what the Witch would do