CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
A. Object of the Study
The study deals with the poem “Michael” written by William Wordsworth. The poem was written at Town-end, Grasmere, in 1800. The poem consists of 21
stanzas and 482 lines Mukherjef and Rajender, 2000: 173-183. “Michael” is one of Wordsworth’s great narrative poems in the last poem to
enter the Lyrical Ballads. It is one of Wordsworth’s great narrative poems. In “Michael”, he leaves the autobiographical framework almost completely behind and
concerns himself. In the poem Wordsworth creates four characters. They are Michael, Isabel, Luke, and Richard Bateman.
In this study, the writer focuses on the characters, especially Michael as the main character in the poem. Michael is just a shepherd in Grasmere Vale. He is a man
with strong mind and lively sensibility. He has a wife, Isabel, and a son, Luke. He teaches everything to Luke with perfect parental affection. His life becomes
miserable when his son goes to the town to work with his rich relative there, Richard Bateman. He makes an unrealized mistake which leads his family into tragedy. The
strength which had once been his mainstay becomes a burden to him.
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B. Approach of the Study
In doing this analysis, the writer uses structuralism in order to analyze the tragedy of the main character in the poem in revealing the tragic hero of the poem.
The writer uses the structuralism approach because it refers to the form, structure, theory of tragedy and tragic hero, and the outside things of the literary work.
Guerin in A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature said that structuralism is the study to detect the recurrent pattern not just in the particular work
but also throughout literature. Perhaps it is revealing something about the way the human mind works 1979: 282.
According to Peter Barry in Beginning Theory 2002: 39-60, narratology is a branch of structuralism although it has achieved a certain independence from its
parent. The essence of structuralism is the belief that things can not be understood in isolation-they have to be seen in the context of the larger structures they are part of. It
follows from this that meaning or significance is not a kind of core or essence inside things: rather, meaning is always outside. Structuralism approach takes you further
and further away from the text and into large and comparatively abstract question of genre, history, and philosophy. This emphasizes on the intrinsic and also extra-textual
features in the analysis of literature. Thus, in the structuralism approach to literature there is a constant movement
away from the individual literary work and a parallel drive towards understanding the larger abstract structures which contain them.
Structuralism is used because this study will discuss the character as the theory of drama tragedy and tragic hero with reference to the genre or to its place in
the development of the genre. It deals with the tragedy of social life in the industrial revolution in London.
C. Method of the Study
The writer applied a library research as the method of the study. This method is collecting data by reading some books that is useful for the analysis. Two kinds of
sources are used to support the study. The primary source was taken from Wordsworth poem “Michael”. The secondary sources were taken from some books
and information from internet browsing. Doing the analysis, the writer took a few steps. Firstly, the writer read the
work thoroughly and also interpreted the characters of the work. After the writer read the poem, some tragedy of the characters was found. The tragedy that happened to
Michael as the main character was very attractive. This made the writer interested to have a character study in the play to analyze the main character in this poem.
Secondly, the writer decided the topic of the thesis and formulated the problem formulation as the base of the thesis.
Thirdly, the writer used the appropriate approach to analyze the poem line by line and makes a library research to find the theories that were related to the character
study for the analysis. The theories on character and characterization are used to analyze every character in the poem. The approach is used to analyze every scene or
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