of the psychological criticism, which is to analyze a work of literature by identifying the personality and mind of the characters so that we can clearly
understand what is going on in the story. The psychological criticism is suitable to this study because this study
discusses a lot about characteristics, especially on the main character. Dealing with one’s characteristics means dealing with one’s personalities, and personality
is one of the scopes in the world of psychology. That is the reason why psychological criticism is used. This criticism will be used to analyze the
personality of the main character and to prove that personality can give effects to one or several aspects in life.
C. Method of the Study
This study is considered as a library research because it deals with the sources from the books. The primary work analyzed is Hedda Gabler written by
Henrik Ibsen. Some of the theories used are taken from A Glossary of Literary Terms written by M.H. Abrams, Development in Adulthood by Barbara Hansen
Lemme, The Psychology of Human Behavior by Richard A. Kalish, and many more. There are also some studies taken from the internet and the undergraduate
thesis. The process of the study started with reading the whole text so that the
story was clearly understood. After understanding the story, the next step was thinking critically about the story, the topic that was going to be discussed, and
starting to make preliminary questions which were, in this case, how was the main
character characterized, how was the tragedy identified in the story, and how did the characteristics give the contributions to the tragedy in life. The next step was
analyzing the characteristics of the main character using theory of characterization, and giving some evidences of the characteristics in the dialogue.
After analyzing the characteristics, the next step was identifying the tragedy which happened in the story. The next thing was finding out the contributions of
main character’s characteristics to the tragedy by using some theories on psychology and also showing some proofs in the story. After analyzing, the final
step was to make a conclusion based on the analysis.
