Reason for choosing the Topic

1.3 Reason for choosing the Topic

Novel is a part of literary works. Reading a novel is not only to get fun but also to get a lesson of life. Through novel, we can see what the author feels or thinks about the world. More or less the author involves his or her feeling and emotion in writing the novel First, I choose Roy’s novel entitled “The God of Small Things”, since it is the best-seller’s book around the world. Moreover, this study is to support Wilhelm Wound 1991:10 statement that it was possible to investigate mental events such as sensations, feelings, and images by using procedure as rigorous as those used in the natural sciences. Further, Wounds believes that the study of language could provide important insights into the nature of mind. These opinions can be written in the usual way, using daily language style, or more often people choose philosophical terms to explain their views in literature. In other words, this study is trying to give more understanding to the reader about the dream world or the imagination world of the author, which are reflected in the novel. Second, there is a unique relationship between psychoanalysis and literature. As stated by Felman 1982:5, literature is considered to be body of language_to be interpreted, psychoanalysis_ is considered to be a body of knowledge, whose competence is called upon to interpret. That is why novel as a part of literary works, can be analyze with the psychoanalysis theory. In this case, the writer chooses the novel from the Indian writer Arundaty Roy’s entitled “The God of Small Things” to be analyzing trough the psychoanalysis theory, particularly in the sense of Freudian Dream Theory. Third, we can find from the story, how the characters try to escape from the reality and run away to the dream world or to the imaginary world in order to safe their life. This book has many example of the Dream Theory, where the writer wants to discuss. Last, the students of English Department of UNNES rarely discuss this topic so that it is necessary for the writer to explore it. Those reasons encourage me to choose the Freudian Dream Theory of the suppressed characters as reflected in Arundaty Roy’s “The God of Small Things”.

1.4 Statements of the Problem