24 is the subject of psychological approach. Therefore, the psychological approach
was suitable for this study since it focused on the human motivation. This study also needed to use psychological approach in order to reveal
character’s motivation. Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in the theory of motivation is also adapted from psychological perspective. Furthermore, by using the
psychological approach and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, the researcher tried to find out Jane Eyr
e’s motivation in defying women’s life standards in Victorian era.
C. Method of the Study
This study belongs to a library research. According to George 2008, the characteristics of library research method are identifying and locating sources
which have factual information or expert opinion p. 23. This method used some data which were taken from books on literature and some related sources from
journal or internet. There were two kinds of sources, namely the primary source and
secondary source. The primary source of this study was Jane Eyre, a novel written by Charlotte Bronte. Meanwhile, the secondary sources of this study were some
supporting sources as listed in the references part. There are six steps that the researcher did in conducting this study. The
first, the researcher read the novel to understand the story well after getting the primary source. On the second step, the researcher formulated the two problems.
The third step, the researcher found some references related to the study including
25 some needed theories. The fourth step, the researcher determined the appropriate
approach to answer the problem in this study. Then, the fifth step, the researcher analyzed the work using some related theories to answer the problems. The last
step, the researcher concluded the study based on the analysis.
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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS
In this chapter, the researcher presents the analysis of the novel in order to answer the questions in the problems formulation. There are two parts in this
chapter. The first is to portray the main character of Charlotte Bronte‟s Jane Eyre
and the second is to answer Jane Eyre‟s motivation in defying women‟s life standards in the Victorian era. In answering the problems, the researcher will
employ some theories.
A. The Portrayal of Jane Eyre
This section deals with the analysis of Jane Eyre in Charlotte Bronte‟s Jane Eyre
. The theories used are the theory of character and characterization. Based on the theory of character stated by Rohrberger and Wood 1971, Jane is
portrayed as a protagonist character since she plays an important role and becomes the focus of the story. Meanwhile, based on
Robert and Jacobs‟ theory 1987 which portray characters into round and flat characters, it can be concluded
that Jane is portrayed into a round character since the author fully develops this character through many problems that she should face in her life. Furthermore,
Murphy 1972 points out nine ways to find out a person‟s characteristics in the
novel. They are through personal description, character as seen by another character, speech, past life, conversation of others, reaction, direct comments,
thoughts, and mannerism. Below is the analysis on the portrayal of Jane Eyre:
