CHAPTER 3. THE METHOD OF RESEARCH
The role of research design and methodology to formulate a good thesis is important. This subchapter deals with the procedure of the research. It includes type
of the research, data collection, data processing and data analysis. All of these procedures make this thesis clear to understand.
3.1 Type of Research
This thesis uses qualitative research to collect the data which are relevant to the topic discussion about a critique of Victorian Morality reflected in the novel,
The Awakening. It concerns with material and information which are taken from books, dictionaries, articles, journals and references to support the analysis in the
form of non numeric data. The propensity of doing qualitative research is doing exploration and explication toward text as detailed as possible Blaxter, 2006:64. In
this research I want to analyze about rebellion against Victorian Morality reflected in The Awakening.
3.2 Data Collection
Every research is conducted by choosing and organizing the relevant technique and the equipment of data collection. It also needs a suitable method to
give the objectivity of the result of the research. As Blaxter states that documentary method is a method in collecting data by using written materials as a basis for the
research by reading Blaxter, 2006:15. Documentary is applied in this research as the technique of data collection. Blaxter states that:
“Documentary analysis proceeds by abstracting from each document those elements which we consider to be important or relevant, and by
grouping together these findings, or setting them alongside others which we believe to be related. What you see or read in documents
will be a product of your viewpoint, discipline or focus ”
Blaxter,2006:208. Documentary analysis is used to give classification about important or relevant
information which are found from some references to be the material which support
the topic of this research.
The data collection of this research is arranged by the data from some sources. The writer uses the novel of Kate Chopin The Awakening as the source data. The
primary data include the dialogues or sentences which are used as the proof in my analysis. In collecting the primary data,
firstly, I do close reading to the novel, The Awakening. Secondly, I find out the words, sentences, and also dialogues that indicate
the representation of Victorian morality. Then I highlight those words, sentences, and also dialogues.
This primary data are supported by the secondary data which are taken from some information in the references, such as taken from the
books, papers, journals, articles, and the data that used in the previous researches. The other sources
are found from internet as supporting reference. In processing and collecting the secondary data. Firstly, I do close reading to the books and references that is related
to the topic discussion about Victorian Morality. Secondly, I find the words, sentences, and statements to support the topic discussion Victorian morality. Then, I
understand and comprehend the Theory of Ethics by Immanuel Kant. The last, I process the data from primary data using the Theory of Ethics by Immanuel Kant.
3.3 Data Processing and Data Analysis
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