16 h.
Consummate Love Consummate love is the results of the combinaton of all the components
such as, intimacy, passion and commitment component. It can be seen in romantic relationships.
B. Theoretical Framework
In order to answer the problem formulations, the researcher uses the theories that related to the study. Those are the psychological approach, theories
of personality, characterization, motivation, and love. In order to answer the first formulated problem, the researcher uses the theory from Murphy 1974, theory
personality from Floyd 1950 and Dweck 2008, and psychological approach to analyze Heathcliff‟s character in the novel. In order to answer the second
formulated problem that related to the true meaning of Heathcliff‟s love, researcher uses the theory of love from John Lee 1973 and Robert Stenberg
1986.
C. Context of the Novel
In this part, the researcher explains about the author of the novel. Wuthering Heights is the one and the only masterpiece from the writer, Emily
Bronte. Because she died before the novel published. Wuthering Heights is written between October 1845 and June 1846 and published in 1847 under the
pseudonym Ellis Bell. Emily Bronte was born on 30 July 1818 at 74 Market Street
17 in Thornton, Bradford, Yorkshire, England. She died in the age of 30, actually in
December 19, 1848. She died because of Tuberculossis, disease that happen in Emily‟s era.
The setting of Wuthering Heights in the harsh and isolated Yorkshire moors in Northern England on 1801 according to the arrival of Mr. Lockwood to
Wuthering Heights. Wuthering Heights is located on a hill high above the more bright and inviting Thrushcross Grange, which is situated in the valley below. The
two houses are only four miles apart.
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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter deals with methodology which is used to analyze the answers from problem formulations. This chapter consists of three parts. The first
part describes the object in this study. The second part describes the approach that used to analyze the data. The third part shows the method that conducted to
complete this study.
A. Object of the Study
The object of the study is an old classic novel from Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights. This novel was published on 1953 by Collins Clear-Type
Press in Great Britain. Emily Bronte is a United Kingdom writer. This novel consists of three hundred and fifty pages with thirty four chapters. Wuthering
Heights is the first and only published novel from Emily Bronte because she died in the age of 30. This novel is about revenge and love between Heathcliff and
Earnshaw family specially Catherine. Wuthering Heights tells about the main character in the novel, Heathcliff.
Heathcliff is a mysterious gypsy-like man. This story tells about him from childhood until his death in his late thirties. Heathcliff was an orphan who adopted
by Mr. Earnsha.
19 There is the other people who take care and love Heathcliff, she is
Catherine, the daughter of Mr. Earnshaw. Catherine, the woman that he loves, decided to marry Edgar Linton. She thinks that married Heathcliff will degrade
her reputation. Heathcliff overhears that statement and decided to runaway and changed his life to take revenge to all people who hurt him.
After three years, Heathcliff returned, he was richer and educated. Nobody knows how he gains it. He set a plan about gaining his revenge on the
two families that he believed ruined his life. The first revenge is takeover Wuthering Heights from Hindley by paying his gambling debts. The second
revenge is ruin the relation between Catherine and Edgar Linton. The third revenge is marrying Isabella Linton, the younger sister of Edgar Linton.
Although Heathcliff took revenge on that family, he was not happy enough. He could not love his beloved, Catherine. After Catherine passed away,
Heathcliff grew worse, he was not eating or sleeping. He was haunted by ghost. He saw Catherine everywhere he looked but he felt so happy. Eventually he was
found dead and he was buried alongside her. Their souls were roaming over Wuthering Heights.
B. Approach of the Study
This study uses psychological approach. According to Robherger and Woods 1971, the psychological approach is used to discuss the personality
development of the main character in the novel through his action and thought. By using the psychological approach, the character‟s thought can be analyzed. From
20 the theories of motivation and personality, it presents to analyze the factors of
revenge and love behind the character. Theory of love discusses the kind of love and to find the true meaning of the main character‟s love as seen in the data.
From that approach, researcher can analyze the true meaning of the main character‟s love. This approach also has purpose to answer the problem
formulations.
C. Method of the Study
The method of this study is library research to analyze the data. Library research is needed to gather the sources for the study such as books and journals
from library or internet access. There are two kinds of source that the writer needed. The first source is Emily Bronte‟s novel. The second source is book or
another journal that related with some theories that writer used to analyze and solve the problem formulation. There are several processes that the writer did.
The first process was reading the novel. The writer read the data not only to fulfill the process of the study, but also to get the deeper meaning about the
data, and to get the atmosphere of the data. The second process was looking for some terms and study them. The
writer also read some sentences to get the deeper meaning about the love in the data. After finding some evidences, the writer started to make problem
formulation about the meaning of the main character‟s love and decided the title of this study.
