CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
A. Character and Characterization
a. Character
Character is the single most important intrinsic element in the literary works. The things that characters do and say are more obvious than are
the logic and meaning of the pattern in which they say and do them. Character is showing at perpetrator of presented story or the player of the story, whereas
characterization is portraying of clear picture about someone who present in a
story.
A character, then, is presumably an imagined person who inhabits a story although that simple definition may admit a few exceptions.
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The major characters are usually Round characters; that is their personalities are
well developed and believable. Moreover, round character is a very complex individual. Minor characters are often flat character: it can be seen only one
aspect of their personalities, presumably because the author does not need to reveal more about them for the purposes of the story. Flat characters are
usually static characters. Those characters do not change.
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X.J.Kennedy. Literature: An Introduction to fiction, poetry, and Drama New York: Harper Collins Publisher, 1991, third edition, p.47
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Gloria mason Henderson, et al., Literature and ourselves: A Thematic Introduction for Readers and Writers United States: Pearson Education Inc, 2006, fifth edition, pp. 9-10.
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b. Characterization
In every single time of our life, we never know that the characters of someone was growing and changing. It could be seen because it was so tiny.
But it can be felt. The esthetics of character is known as characterization. The characterization can be depicted through the use of name.
Names are often to provide essential clues that aid in characterization. Names can also contain literary or historical allusions that aid in characterization by
means of association. Then, characterization can be depicted through appearance. Although, in real life most of us are aware that appearance are
often deceiving, in the world of fiction details of appearance what a character wears and how he looks often provide essential clues to character.
Characterization also can be depicted through by the author. By so doing the author assert retains full control over characterization. The author not only
directs our attention to a given character, but also tells us exactly what our attitude toward the character ought to be. Nothing is left to the reader’s
imagination.
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Characterization can be depicted through the dialogue. Dialogue can reveal the moods and personalities of the characters. The task of
establishing character through dialogue is not a simple one. Some characters are careful and guarded in what they saw: they speak only by indirection, and it
must be inferred from their words what they actually mean.
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James H. Pickering and Jefrey D.Hoeper.Concise Companion to LiteratureNew York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1981. Pp.28-29
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James H. Pickering and Jefrey D.Hoeper.Concise Companion to LiteratureNew York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc, 1981. p.32.
B. Maslow’s Theory
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