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structure. Novels tell the extraordinary events of the lives of the characters. Good story will describe specific details considered necessary in order not to bore and
reduce the tension levels.
1.2 Problems of The Study
In accordance with the title of this proposal some questions are arranged which act as the center of problems. Problems that the writer would like to analyze
are: 1.
How are sexual abuse on children and its impact portrayed in Danielle Steel’s Malice?
2. How does the leading character overcome the psychological impact of sexual
abuse?
1.3 Objectives of The Study
Based on the formulation of a problem that has been established above, this
proposal aims:
1. To describe sexual abuse on children and the impact portrayed in Danielle
Steel’s Malice. 2.
To describe how the leading character overcome the psychological impact of sexual abuse.
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1.4 Scope of The Study
In this thesis I restricted my analysis in sexual abuse on children described in the novel “MALICE”. The problem will be limited to describing how the leading
character, Grace Adams was sexually abused by her father, its impacts which could have a negative impact on psychological such as , and how she overcomes of that
action on her psychology.
1.5 Significance of The Study
The significance of this study is to give more understanding about the relationship between literature and psychology. Malice adapts the psychological
impact to the victim of sexual abuse as the theme of its novel and this study is expected to enrich readers knowledge about psychological problems found in a
novel. This thesis offers an understanding the knowledge of what literature is and
the intention of the works content. The research would be useful for other people who are interested in learning aspects on literature, especially aspect psychology.
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CHAPTER II REVIEW OF LITERATURE
2.1 Literary Psychology
There is a close relationship between psychology and literature. Terry Eagleton in Literary Theory An Introduction 2008: 4 says, “literature is a ‘special’
kind of language, in contrast to the ‘ordinary’ language we commonly use. But to spot a deviation implies being able to identify the norm from which it swerves.”
Thus, literature is a language that uses special way to delivering something, and it has meaning, and the meaning of its own. John Peck and Martin Coyle in Literary
Terms and Criticism 1984: 1, 102 said that literature has genre. Genre means a type or class of literature. Today, it is known as poetry, drama and the novel, different
from earlier times the major genre recognized as epic, tragedy, lyric, comedy and satire. Novels are all about human condition or people in society. Writers have
always been interested in term of human life, the development of the novel reflects a view of life towards a new interest in the complexities of everyday experience. Most
novels are concerned with ordinary people and the problems in societies in which they find themselves.
Psychology deals with the study of observable patterns of human’s behavior. Literature exhibits how human beings behave in dealing with their problems and
environment. It is obvious enough that psychology, the study of psychic processes, can be brought to bear upon the study of literature, for the human psyche is the
womb of all the sciences and arts. Psychology entered literary works because the writer uses his emotions in
writing literary works. Literary work is the result of an author’s expression of the
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soul in which the author described the psychological atmosphere, good atmosphere of thought and emotion. Roekan in Aminudin 1990: 91 said that literary
psychology considers that the literary work is the result of the creativity of authors that use language media and perpetuated for the sake of aesthatics.
Budi Utama 2004: 138 gives three reason for the literary psychology included in the study of literature is as follows: 1 determine the behavior and
motivation of the characters of literature. Directly or indirectly, the behavior and motivation of the characters also appear in everyday life. Thus in our daily lives we
may also meet with people that behavior and motivations are similar to the behavior and motivation of the characters in literature, 2 determine the behavior and
motivation of the author, and 3 know the psychological reaction to the reader. Literature is a place for expressing our thoughts, and shed in a letter.
Literature also has an attractive language style, so the reader does not feel bored to keep reading. Human usually become the object of a literary work, because of many
things that can be discussed in human life, one of which is a person’s psychology. John Peck and Martin Coyle 1984: 110 said that a novel usually begins with
a description of a place or a character. A characters introduced at the beginning of a novel will usually come into collision with society. Along the story, the characters
will be faced with conflict, confrontation, and problematic situation, which usually come from their own family or society.
Character has emotion, feeling, and behavior which support the idea of the story. Novel presents the psychology and psychology itself presents as a knowledge
that discusses about human mind in human personality as a character because character is build by using psychological principles. Characters in novels is judged
by us to be “psychologically” true. Situations are praised and plots accepted because
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of this same quality. Characters would be “matter” or “content” like any other type of information to be found in literature, e.g., facts from navigation, astronomy, or
