26 Dr. Igor, and Nasrudin. In order to support the analysis, the researcher would
gather data from the novel and the internet. After the researcher understand the description of the mental asylum and the personality of each character,
psychosynthesis was used to understand the growth of the main character related to the mental asylum.
Finally, some conclusions were drawn from the analysis. The researcher would be able to correlate the significance of the mental asylum to the Self-
realization of the main character, Veronika.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
This chapter is divided into three sections. The first section discusses the description of Veronika. The second section discusses the description of Villete
Mental Asylum along with the patients. The third section is the discussion of Veronika’s self-realization in relation to Villete Mental Asylum.
4.1. The Description of Veronika
Characters take an important role in analizing and understanding the story of the novel. Abrams 1999 explains two kinds of character. A person in a story
who has some specific personality or rather special quality and does not undergo personality changes is considered as a flat character. Flat character usually
appears as a hero in the fictional story and usually can easily be described in one word. On the other hand, round character is a person described not only as an
example of some vice or virtue or type, but also more individualized being that undergoes changes p. 33. Aligned to Abrams theory, Veronika is considered as a
round character because she has a complex personality and traits in her character which improves significantly in linear with the story.
According to Murphy there are nine ways to reveal the personalities of a character. They are: personal descriptions, character as seen by others, speech,
past life, conversation with others, reactions, direct comments, thought, and
28 mannerism. pp. 161-173. Some of the nine ways are applied to analyze
Veronika’s personality.
4.1.1. Before Living in the Mental Asylum
Veronika is a 24 year-old girl who lives by herself in a rented room of a convent. She lives in a small city of Ljubljana, Slovenia. She is beautiful and
attractive p. 5. Before she is living in the mental asylum, Veronika is described as an idealistic, sluggish, introvert, insecure, pretty, and attractive woman.
4.1.1.1. Idealistic
Veronika always put everything in order. She has planned the moment to kill herself for six months. On the day she commits suicide, Veronika give some
time for herself to clean her rented room, turn off the heat, and brush her teeth. Furthermore, Veronika takes the sleeping pills one by one from the table instead
of crushes them and then mixes them with water p. 1. Veronika’s idealism can also be seen when she is imagining her future life if
she is released from the mental asylum. I’ll go back to my rented room in the convent. I’ll try to read a book, turn on
the TV to see the same old programs, set the alarm clock to wake up at exactly the same time I woke up the day before, and mechanically repeat my
tasks at the library. I’ll eat a sandwich in the park opposite the theater, sitting on the same bench, along with other people who also choose the
same benches on which to sit and have their lunch, people who all have the same vacant look but pretend to be pondering extremely important matters.
p. 21 Veronika’s decision to kill herself by consuming sleeping pills is not an
instant. For nearly six months she is thinking other ways to end her own life. Veronika thinks that shooting her head and cutting her wrist will make the room
dirty by her blood, hanging and jumping off a high building will disfigure her well
