38 In the other occasion, Veronika met Eduard. Again, she realized about
her death. She wanted to express herself freely standing naked in front of Eduard. Veronika was disconcerted at first and then realized that she had nothing
to lose. She was dead; what was the point of continuing to feed the fears of preconceptions that always limited her life? She took off her blouse, her
trousers, her bra, her panties, and stood before him naked. 132 The quotation above confirms Veronika who aware about what she is
doing in front of Eduard. She is aware that dead is about to come and she had nothing to lose about what she is doing in front of Eduard. This quotation, thus,
determines Veronika as a person who has high self-aware.
e. Romantic
Veronika can be depicted as a romantic person. She dreams and imagines beautiful thing in her minds. “When she used to getting married, she imagined
herself in a little house outside Ljubljana, with a man quite different from her father-a man who earned enough to support his family, one would be content just
to be with her in a house with open fire and to look out at the snow-covered mountains” 44. This quotation shows that she is a romantic person, having a
beautiful dream that she wanted to realize. In the other occasion while facing with Eduard she had the same things.
“ She imagined herself queen and slave, dominatrix and victim. In her imagination
she was making love with men of all skin colors-white, black, yellow-with homo sexual and beggars. She was anyone’s, and anyone could do anything to her”
134. Her imagination brings her to get full of happiness and pleasure. Romantic
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39 things usually bring happiness and peace toward people. This quotations,
moreover, confirms that Veronika is a romantic person.
B. Veronika’s Social Learning and Decision
To be failed of attempt, Veronika is sent to lunatic asylum in Villete. She feels strange, even she doesn’t recognize herself. She starts to conform to people
in Villete. People who have different backgrounds and cases which finally lead them to same place, lunatic asylum, a place that she doesn’t imagine before. Each
person she met, represent a unique concoction of knowledge, beliefs, and experiences. They are Dr. Igor, Zedka, Mari, Eduard and the fraternity
community. Veronika started to conform and learn new things from them when she realized her death is about to come. In this section, the writer would like to
describe her social learning processes. 1. Veronika’s Social Learning
According to Bandura, “learning through modeling processes, observers extract common features from seemingly diverse responses and formulate rules of
behavior that enable them to go beyond what they have seen or heard” 243. This means that modeling processes takes important role on acquiring and learning
behavior.
a. Observational Learning
In this novel, Veronika is seen to have done social learning processes when she lives in Villete. Veronika is presented to have observational learning and
reinforcement in observational learning.
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