xiii mechanisms more interesting. Based on the background above the writer is
interested in exploring this literary work and the Narrator’s psychological values centred on his defense mechanisms against any dangers. Exploring more on this
subject, the writer chose the title: “THE NARRATOR’S SELF DEFENSE MECHANISMS ON H.G. WELLS’S THE WAR OF THE WORLDS. “
1.2 Research Problems
There are problems in this novel that are interesting to be analyzed. The writer of this thesis chooses to analyze the Narrator since he has to face certain
conflicts and needs some adjustment to protect himself. 1.
How are the Narrator’s personalities described in the novel? 2.
How are the Narrator’s defense mechanisms described in the novel? 3.
How are the Narrator’s defense mechanisms affect his life in the novel?
1.3. Objectives of the Study
In order to write this study, the writer chooses several objectives that need to be accomplished to finish the study. The objectives of this study are :
1. To analyze Narrator’s personalities in H.G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds.
2. To analyze Narrator’s defense mechanisms in the novel.
3. To study the Narrator’s defense mechanisms and their effects to his life.
1.4. Methods of the Study
This study uses library research to explain the problems. The books from library research provide important data and information for the object of the study.
The data, information, and theories gained from the library research help this study in analyzing the problems and solve them. Wayne Booth et al. in their book The
xiv Craft of Research are advising the use of library for data gathering in the following
statement “You will find most of your resources in a nearby library…But no matter how small, your library probably offers more helps than you might suspect” Booth,
Colomb and Williams, 1995: 65. Since the writer of the thesis intends to analyze the Narrator’s defense
mechanism, which is a psychology’s field of study. Then the correct way to analyze it is by using psychological approach. According to Kennedy and Gioia in
Introduction to Fiction, 11
th
edition, the psychological approach is trying to uncover more meanings, thoughts, and motives behind the words.
Psychological approach examines the surface of the literary works, customarily speculates on what lies underneath the text, the unspoken or
perhaps the unspeakable memories, motives and fears that covertly shape the work Kennedy and Gioia, 2007: 2193.
In this study, the writer narrows the subject into more specific field of Freud’s defense mechanisms to analyze the research problems on this study.
1.5. Organization of the Writing
