The Background of The Analysis

INTRODUCTION

1.1 The Background of The Analysis

Literature springs from human inborn love of telling a story, of arranging words in pleasing pattern of expressing in words some special aspect of human experience. It is usually set down in printed characters for the reader to read, though some forms of it are performed on certain social occasions. There are a number of different branches of literature such as drama, poetry, and prose. Prose itself can be divided into novel, short stories, romance, etc. In this thesis; my main object to be discussed is novel. A novel is a story of book length written in prose. It is about imaginary people and events. Novel also is a part of literature or art. In general, novel reflects the author’s experience or true story combined with author’s imaginary to make the writing more alive, artistic, and interesting. From the explanation above it can be summarized that novel is a reflection of man’s life experience through the novelist’s skill in expressing the ideas. These ideas could be social, political, economic, or even cultural matters. To say simply, those matters are related to human matter in wider scope. The matter I choose in this thesis is female character’s ambition as portrayed in Sidney Sheldon novel: “Nothing lasts forever”. I found three female characters, which are very dominant. They are Paige Taylor, Kat Hunter, and Honey Taft. Each of the female character is portrayed to reach their ambition with personal reasons of being a doctor. Universitas Sumatera Utara The word “ambition” itself is always closely connected with the achievement of success, and the word “struggle” is related to subconscious mind psychologically. It is an effort to get free; to make great effort under difficulties; to be content with or against act, and to be confused. To quote oxford dictionary of current English. Thus, struggle may mean choices of action to do an effort, whether the way is true or wrong. In the word, it is clearly portrayed that each of the female characters is having her own way of materializing her ambition. One is ready to lose her self- identity in order to get success. Although, she sells “herself” in order to get success. The other is related to family background that has been successful being a doctor. It is a hereditary factor that makes her fight for her ambition. And the last one is because of being degraded by man. The feeling of disappointment has raised the spirit to get success for fulfilling the ambition. The three phenomena above have given me to choose my analysis about women’s struggles for their ambition through Sidney Sheldon’s “Nothing Lasts Forever”. They are both my reasons as well as my background in analyzing the novel in this thesis.

1.2 The Problems of The Analysis