Object of the Study

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CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS

In this analysis, the writer will divide the study into three parts to answer the question formulated in the problem formulation. The first part is to analyze the characterization of the main character; Beatrice. The second part is to analyze the characterization of Beatrice from Giovanni‘s point of view. And the last part is to analyze how Giovanni‘s points of view of Beatrice reveal his type of love toward her.

A. The Characterization of Beatrice

Beatrice is one of the major characters in the story. The other character is Giovanni. They are defined as major characters because their presence has important role to build the plot of the story. Most events of the story present both characters. Beatrice is the focus of the analysis so that the exploration on the characteristic of Beatrice is needed in the analysis. In this chapter the writer wants to make a comparison about the characterization of Beatrice, the comparison between Beatrice characterization from the author and Beatrice characterization from Giovanni point of view, the writer make a comparison because there is different way how the author and Giovanni sees Beatrice. The author introduced and sees Beatrice as a normal human except the fact that she is poisonous person different with Giovanni, Giovanni loves Beatrice but he failed to see Beatrice as a human being, sometimes he scared about Beatrice because Beatrice is a poisonous person. From the comparison, problem formulation number three will be answered based on Beatrice characterization and how Giovanni sees Beatrice, to answer problem number three, the writer also use theory of love by Fromm. A.1. Beatrice’s Characterization from the Author A.1.a. Beatrice’s Physical Description Through the narrator, the author describes Beatrice as a beautiful girl and she is the daughter of Professor Giacomo Rappaccini, a doctor in Padua. Beatrice was born as a beautiful girl. Physically, she is defined as a beautiful young girl. The author describes her voice ―as rich as tropical sunset‖ p.183. Beatrice‘s physical appearance is also good. Her good-looking appearance is described as the sunshine day that gives beauty and brightness within her environment: Soon there emerged from under sculptures portal the figure of a young girl. Arrayed with as much of taste as the almost splendid of the flowers, beautiful as the day, and with a bloom so deep and vivid that one shade more would have been too much. p.183 Knowing her appearance for the first time, people may think that Beatrice is a lucky girl since she got a beautiful face and physically good. Seemingly, all her needs can be fulfilled. Thus, people can see that Beatrice possesses the things that other people may not have: good looking appearance, beauty, health and energy. ―She looked redundant with life, health and energy; all of which attributes were bound down and compressed, as it were, and girdled tensely, in their luxuriance, by her virgin zone.‖ p.183. This quotation also describes that most of Beatrice‘s physical needs are fulfilled well. The author also wants to show Beatrice as a girl in her young age.