character in this novel. Besides, it also describes about the main character anxiety. As she chatted with someone on an internet, she actually felt so
anxiety because she even ever met the man she loved. Through this thesis, the writer attempts to analyze moral anxiety
reflected by Samantha in
E
–
Love.
1.2 Statements of the Problems
In this research, the writer wants to limit the discussion by presenting the following problems:
1. What is the general description of Samantha in
E
–
Love by Caroline Plaisted?
2. What are conflicts experienced by Samantha in
E
–
Love by Caroline Plaisted
?
3. How is moral anxiety reflected by Samantha in
E
–
Love by Caroline Plaisted?
1.3 Scope of the Study
Based on the state ment above, the writer analyzes Samantha‘s moral
anxiety as well as her character, the conflict which influences the development of the character. Besides that, the writer will also analyze moral anxiety which
is reflected by the main chracter
.
1.4 Objectives of the Study
Some objectives that the writer wants to achieve are written bellow: 1.
To describe the general description of Samantha in
E
–
Love by Caroline Plaisted.
2. To describe conflicts experience by Samantha
in E
–
Love by Caroline Plaisted.
3. To describe moral anxiety as reflected by Samantha in
E
–
Love by Caroline Plaisted.
1.5 Significance of the Study
Hoppefully, the results of this thesis can give valuable contribution to Dian Nuswantoro University and whoever reads this thesis. The results of this thesis are
significant for: 1.
The writer To learn further about literature which is connected to psychological aspect,
particularly anxiety. 2.
The readers It will give more knowledge about the characters and conflicts related to the
psychological aspect, especially moral anxitey as the main topic. 3.
The university To give additional contribution for the library of Dian Nuswantoro university
as the additional references, especially in English Department specialized in Literature.
1.6 Method of the Study
To analyze the novel entitled
E
–
Love
by Caroline Plaisted, the writer uses the following methods:
1.6.1 Research Design
The writer used is qualitative descriptive method to analyze data. In accordance to Endraswara 2003:7 statements the important feature from
qualitative research are: this researcher is the key instrument who will read accurately of literary work, the research had done it descriptively, it means
expalining on formed of word or picture if needed, not numeral formed, qualitative research more the priority of process than result and inductively
analysis.
1.6.2 Source of Data
In this thesis, the writer uses
E
–
Love
by Caroline Plaisted as the object of the study and source of data. The writer also uses some of the literary
theories and psychology theories , which are relevant and related to intrinsic and extrinsic elementsof the main topic. Besides that, the writer acquires from
the internet to support the analysis.
1.6.3 Unit of Analysis
The writer will focus on the moral anxiety and intrinsic elements. The intrinsic elements includes character and conflict, and the extrinsic elements
includes psychological condition especially moral anxiety.
1.6.4 Techniques of Data Collection
On getting data, the writer need many materials to strengthen the research. Because of that the author takes the data from the library research is a
method of collecting data by reading books another references, which are related to the topic. This method was used complete the data needed for this
research. According to Nazir 1999:111: library research is an activity to find and analyze
reference. The writer searches and collects all the necessary and important references, information and
ideas from significance source related to the subject matter to support the ideas in writing the thesis.
1.6.5 Techniques of Data Analysis
The writer uses the structural approaches, those are structural approach and psychological approach. Structural approach is used to analyze character and
conflict and psychological approach to analyze moral anxiety
.
1. Structural Approach
According to semi, Structural approach is the basic assumption that literary work as a creative work has full autonomy, which has to be seen as a figure, which
part fromo the outside of intrinsic element. According to jabrohim 2003 : 60 ―structural approach is an approach in literary research which focuses in literary
autonomy in a work of fiction.‖
The writer uses the structural approach to analyze the structural elements like character of Samantha and internal and external conflict experienced by
Samantha. Main character is the main topic of the analysis. This characteristic of the
main character has a close relation with the topic that the writer wants to analyze it is about ― Anxiety ―. Conflicts, both internal and also external conflict are the
element which also important to support the analysis of the main topic of the thesis.
2. Psychology Approach
Psychological approach is an attempt to study someone‘s personality, not
only on how they build their personality but also how the personality develops Hurlock, 1980 : 2.
In this thesis psychological approach is used to analyze moral anxiety. The writer describes the process of moral anxiety of Samantha in
E
–
Love
by Caroline Plaisted, and the reason and also the purpose of why the anxiety happens. Talking
about ― anxiety‖, it has a close relation with psychological approach, that‘s why, by the explanation about anxiety, the writer describes the analysis of this topic.
On the research, the writer does two step. First step is close reading the text of novel. On it the writer gets the interesting topic to discuss.
The second step is collecting the data related to the topic from this novel. The writer applies reading book and read articles from websites, related to the topic,
find some question which are also related to the topic, make some notes which can
help the writer when analyze the topic, discuss the topic with friends, and then analyzing the topic.
1.7 Thesis Organization
This thesis is divided into five chapters as follows: Chapter I is Introduction which consists of background of the study.
statements of the study, scope of the study, objectives of the study, significance of the study, method of the study and thesis organization.
Chapter II is Author and synopsis of the story. It covers biography of Caroline Plaisted and synopsis of
E
–
Love
.
Chapter III is consisting of review of literature. This chapter consists character, conflict, psychology and psychology on literature, defense mechanism
and ego anxiety, psychoanalytic theory of personality by Samantha as main character in Caroline Plaisted
of
E
–
Love.
Chapter IV is discussion. It covers the general description Samantha, conflict experienced by Samantha, the moral anxiety experienced by Samantha.
Chapter V is conclusion and suggestion. This chapter presents the conclusions and suggestion of the study.
CHAPTER II AUTHOR AND SYNOPSIS
2.1 Caroline Plaisted’s Biography and Her Works
She was born in London and lived there for over 30 years. She used to think that she wanted to be a ballet dancer and she even went to the Royal Ballet
School for a while. But she changed my mind about dancing and her first job was at a charity that promoted books and reading throughout the United Kingdom. She
was really lucky because she worked in a library full of ch ildren‘s books – it had a
copy of every single book published in the UK for young people. She loved reading all the books and she met lots of interesting authors and illustrators. After
working in the library for three years, she then got a job working for in the House of Commons for an MP. She only stayed there for a year because she missed
working with books so much. Next, she worked in chil
dren‘s publishing house, where she learned to be an editor. After working there for a few years, she moved to another publishing
house. She really enjoyed wor king with children‘s books but she was also
interested in the other books for adults that we published. So, she then moved to the BBC where she was the Editorial Manager of BBC Books, working on adult,
children‘s, and foreign language learning books. It was a brilliant job and she loved it. After her first child was born, she started working as a freelance book
editor and also started t o write more children‘s books. She also edited a magazine
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