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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
The Chronicles of Narnia the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobeis written by C.S. Lewis. It consists of 189 pages and it is divided into seventeen chapters.
The story tells about the adventure of the four children, two son of Adam and two daughter of Eve, in the magical word named Narnia.
This novel has been filmed with the same title The Chronicles of Narnia the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. The film was directed by Andrew
Adamson and was written by Ann Peacock. This film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures and released in 8 December 2005. This movie was success in box
office and won some awards. The story starts when four children, whose name Peter, Susan, Edmund,
and Lucy were sent away from London during the war. They are sent away because of the air raids. They were sent to the house of an old Professor. When
Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy played hide and seek, Lucy hide in a wardrobe that brought her into a magical word. Their adventure is started from that. In the
Narnia, one of the boys, Edmund, is seduced by the White Witch who plies him with Turkish Delight and promises of great power. In the end, Edmund is only
saved from evil when Aslan the lion sacrifices his own life. Nevertheless, Aslan returns to life and leads his forces in a great battle, after which the children
become kings and queens of Narnia.
B. Approach of the Study
In analyzing a literary work, the writer needs a certain approach to understanding the literary text better. To analyze C.S. Lewis’s novel the writer
chooses the objective criticism. Abrams said: The objective criticism approaches the work as something which stands
free from poet, audience, and the environing world. It examines the literary work based on the work itself, without connecting it to the other aspect
outside the work including his historical and social background, or the biography of the author. The objective criticism focuses on the literary
work from the intrinsic element such as setting place and time, theme, character, plot, which building the work. Abrams, 2012:70
In the other words, the objective criticism criticizes a work that standing on a work itself that is to be analyzed by the intrinsic element without any
references to the other external elements. The writer thinks that the objective criticism is suitable for analyzing this
study which is going to analyze two of the intrinsic elements of those novel, they are characters and conflict, to reveal the message. This study focuses on the
analysis of character and the conflict, and need no other aspect outside or external element for the analysis.
C. Method of the Study
The method of study that used to analyze this study was library research. There were two kinds of sources that used in this analysis, the primary and the
secondary sources. The Chronicles of Narnia: the Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe was the primary sources. It was used to analyze the story to get the
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.