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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter consists of three parts. The first is Object of the Study which elaborates the subject of the study. The second is Approach of the Study which conveys the literature approach used in this study. The third is Method of the Study which deals with the source that is used in this study and the processes of conducting study.

3.1 Object of the Study

A novel, The Queen of Attolia is created by Megan Whalen Turner, the author who was born in 1965. She graduated from The University of Chicago with a BA in English Language and Literature with honors in 1987. She worked as a bookseller for seven or eight years before she started writing. Her husband, Mark Turner, is a professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. They have been living in Oslo Norway, for a year, but now they are back in Ohio. The author, Megan has three novels which are trilogy. The first one is The Thief which was awarded a Newbery Honor, and its sequels. Second one is The Queen of Attolia and the last is The King of Attolia. Her stories are fiction and nothing in those stories are historically accurate. Her novel, The Queen of Attolia was published in 2000, April 26th, by Harper Collins Publisher. The novel was printed and bound in the United States of 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