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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE, CONCEPTS, AND THEORETICAL
FRAMEWORK 2.1
Review of Literatures
This chapter deals with some reviewing from undergraduate students’
thesis and also from the article that contain the theory about character to support the study. There are several students of the English Department who are interested
in characterization as the topic of their study. The first study
entitled “The Analysis of Main Character in The Short Story Entitled Markheim by
Robert Louis Stevenson” written by Dani 2007. This study discussed on the main character of Markheim which used theory of
Kenney 1966 and Bernhardt 1953 that has physiological, psychological, and sociological aspect in the character and also method of characterization which the
author used are like describe characters, told the reader how Markheim was, environment or condition during the conflict and used Characters on the Other
Character Method . Most main character’s life spent bad thing through his
conversation with supporting is mysterious man. Even though, the writing does not have a review literature, concept and
theoretical framework, but this study used method of the characterization which the reader is able to know the age, the life and who Markheim is. This thesis was
relevant with the same topic and basic of theory but has a different of data source.
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The second study was written by Agustini 2009, entitled “The Analysis
of Main Character in The Color Purple by Alice Walker A Psychological Approach”. This study focuses on analysis of the main character in one of Alice
Walker’s novel; this is a famous novel which was written in 1982. The aspect that influence the development of the main character are the aspect of appetite, the
aspect of want, aspect of emotion, aspect of feeling and attitude and the last is motives.
Agustini explained the novel The Color Purple has many moral values. It tells how important to respect other people started from our family. Besides that,
the conflicts are main character experience with other people or man versus society and conflict within main character himselfherself or man versus himself.
The different between this undergraduate thesis and this study is in the source of data, the undergraduate thesis focused analyzed to the psychological analysis of
main character in this novel which used theory of Wellek and Warren 1989 and Sukasada 1987, while this study focused on discussing about physiological,
psychological, and sociological aspect of main character in a novel. In undergraduate thesis does not describe the weakness, the excess or what is
considered to be relevant in her study in review literature. The third undergraduate study
entitled “The Reflection of Bhagawan Vyasa in Yudistira’s Characterization in The Epic Mahabrahata” by Dewi 2010.
The undergraduate thesis tries to analyze about the characterization in the three dimension aspects of main character and also character reflection of the author.
The reflection of Vyasa’s personality in Yudistira’s character conveys many