the first step. Often becoming the hardest part to do, taking the first step has much power to support a person in pursuing his goal, because it leads to other steps
follow. The last step is to keep going. Even though the efforts to do are getting tougher, they still have to be faced
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2.2 Criticism In order to understand the novel Vita Sexualis deeply, some criticisms
from some books, articles, and sites that relate to the novel and Ogai Mori as the author of the novel are gathered. The article of James Reichert from Asian
Languages of Stanford University states that Ogai Mori waged a 20-year campaign against Naturalism. The culmination of this extended campaign was
Vita Sexualis, a work that strove to discredit Naturalism and its founding principles. He considers Ogai Mori’s mobilization in utilizing two strategies to
attack Naturalism: history and science. He says about how the author will explore the way that those two strategies work with and against each other.
Some sites of Ogai Mori comment on how he left behind no direct disciples to carry on his work, but the extraordinary range of his activities, the
high seriousness of his purpose, and the enormous influence he exerted on both contemporary and later writers have caused him to be ranked with Natsume
Soseki as one of the preeminent writers of the Meiji period. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
Perhaps the most shocking aspect of Vita Sexualis is its lack of sexuality. Ostensibly a record of burgeoning sexuality, written by a father
to his son, so that his son would be better prepared for his own maturation, the main character is almost completely asexual, unable to understand the
rampant behavior of his friends and contemporaries. He openly admits that he has never experienced the desires that seem to drive everyone around
him. Women and men make themselves available to him, but he is defiant in his moral purity and never indulges.
They say that Vita Sexualis is a sexual philosophy in which it does not describe sexuality as something vulgar, but in fact, it is wrapped in a serious and
intelligent way of writing. The readers will find the novel as a soft description of sexual life in Meiji era.
2.3 Theoretical Framework
This study analyzes the motivation of Shizuka Kanai, the main character of Mori’s Vita Sexualis, for sustaining his normal sexual life under the pressure of
his surroundings. Based on the theory of critical approaches by Rohrberger and Woods, the psychological approach is used to help in analyzing the main character
of the story. This part is going to describe the contribution of the theories to support
and answer the problems. The theory of character and characterization are needed to know who Shizuka Kanai is. The theory of character is important to explain
about what is meant by character. It helps to reveal Shizuka Kanai’s character which also deals with some characters in the novel and to see the novel’s world
through the characters’ eyes. The theory of characterization is employed to discover the characterization of the characters. In the first problem, the analysis is
dealing with the motivation of Shizuka Kanai. Therefore, the theory of motivation PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
