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CHAPTER III REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
3.1 Intrinsic Elements
According to Semi 1988:35, “unsur intrinsik adalah salah satu unsur yang ikut membentuk sebuah karya sastra itu sendiri, yang di
dalamnya terdapat tema, latar, konflik dan gaya bahasa.” On other words, intrinsic aspects, including character and characterization, theme, plot,
setting, conflict, and figurative language, are the element building the literary work itself. According to the discussion of the thesis, this chapter
focuses on the definition of the character, characterization, and conflict as a part of intrinsic element in a literary work.
3.2 Character
Character in literary work is important, because character can explain what happens to the story and will help the reader understand the
story. The quality of a story is much determined by the ability of the author to create the characters. If the characterization is weak the whole
story will not work. Bennett and Nicholas Royle, 1999:70 state to read character is
imagine and create a character in reading: it is creating a person. Reading character involves learning to acknowledge that a person can never finally
be singular-that there is multiplicity and ambiguity from start to finish.
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Furthermore, Sumardjo 1986:64 also says there are many way to identify the character on the story:
a By the action, especially when the person has attitude on serious
situation. b
By the utterance. We may know person character from what their utterance.
c By the physical description of person. This matter is seen on the
way of dresses, the body. d
By the thinking. This matter described on what person would think in developing his characterization.
e By direct application. On this matter the author explains character
of a person directly.
3.3 Main Major Characters
A major character is the main part of the story. He or she is the most important character in the story. Usually the actions of the story are
focused on this character from the beginning to the end parts. The content of the story is highlighted to these characters’s experience. Major character
consists of: protagonist and antagonist. The protagonist is considered as the central character in a fiction. This character has the important role in
developing the story. Morner and Rausch 1998: 176 state, “Protagonist is the principal and central character of a novel, short story, drama or the
other literary work”.
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3.4 Minor Characters
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