Object of the Study

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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter gives information on the research procedure. It contains the information of the object of the study, approach of the study, and the method of study.

A. Object of the Study

The primary source of the study is Jean Rhys‟s Wide Sargasso Sea novel. It had been published on 1982 by Norton Company, and it consists of 171 pages including an introduction by Francis Wyndham. The novel tells about love story between a creole girl named Antoinette and an English man as a colonizer named Edward Rochester. It is also the „answer‟ and „prequel‟ of a madwoman in the attic or Bertha Mason in Cha rlotte Brönte‟s Jane Eyre. As Wyndham said in the Introduction of Jean Rhys‟s Wide Sargasso Sea, that is “For many years, Jean Rhys has been haunted by the figure of the first Mrs Rochester – the mad wife in Jane Eyre….of course, literally so: it is in no sense a pastiche of Charlotte Brontë and exists in its own right, quite independent of Jane Eyre…Miss Rhys knew about the mad Creole heiresses in the early nineteenth century, whose dowries were only an additional burden to them: products of an inbred, decadent, expatriate society, resented by the recently freed slaves whose superstitions they shared, they languished uneasily in the oppressive beauty of their tropical surroundings, ripe for exploitation” Rhys, 1982: 11. The novel is divided into three parts. The first part tells about Antoinette‟s childhood; the second part tells about her marriage life; and the last part tells about her prison life in Thornfield Hall, England. The object of the study is the varieties of English spoken by three characters of the novel Christophine, Amélie, and Daniel Cosway. Although they were not the main characters in the novel, they have own manners of speech which are important in the novel. Hence, the writer tries to find out their variety of spoken based on the sociolinguistic background throughout the grammar, lexical, and morphology. The data are the utterances of three characters taken from part one and part two. Based on the writer‟s survey, the utterances of Christophine are spread in part one until part two, while Amélie and Daniel Cosway are spread only in part two. Those two parts are enough to analyze because there are so many utterances that are indicated to the Caribbean English variety.

B. Approach of the Study