Characters may experience single conflict or multiple conflicts. Single conflict means that characters only face one kind of conflict whether against
person, nature, environment, or against their own nature. It is easy to identify if character only face single conflict than multiple conflict. Characters which face
multiple conflicts will experience several kinds of conflict at same time, whether they aware of being involve or not. Perrine 1984: 42 assets that:
In some stories the conflict is single, clear-cut, and easily identifiable. In others it is multiple, various, and
subtle. A person may be in conflict with other persons, with social norms or nature, and with himself or
herself, all at the same time, and sometimes may be involved in conflict without being aware of it.
Furthermore Wellek and Warren 1989:85 say that conflict is something dramatic, referring to a fight between two powers that balance and it also refers to
an action and revenge of action. Based on the explanation above, a conflict can be classified into
two, namely external and internal conflicts. External conflict is a conflict between the main character against another character as a person, society and its rules,
and nature. While, internal conflict is a conflict arises within him or herself.
3.3 Setting
Setting is another important intrinsic element in a literary work since a setting can describe and influence a character in certain action. Klarer
reinforced the idea of settings of Hudson. Based on Klarer, setting is a term denotes to place, time and social surrounding the text develops. Klarer 1999:
25 asserts:
The term “setting” denotes the location, historical period, and social surroundings in which the action of a
text develops.
Potter 1967: 27 states that setting is obviously, the actions of the characters take place at some time, in some place, and amid some things in
temporal and spatial surroundings. Settings are created to help readers know where and when that story
happens in literary work. Next, readers will easily have imagination about how is the situation and condition in literary work in certain time and place. Readers
also know about what happens in certain time of literary work. Klarer also stated that setting is chosen as a complement to story. Settings’ appearance is to
support action, and character of the literary work. According to Klarer 1999: 26:
Authors hardly ever choose a setting for its own sake, but rather embed a story in a particular context of time
and place in order to support action, characters, and narrative perspective from an additional level.
Nurgiyantoro 2010: 227-228 classifies setting into three; they are: setting of place, setting of time, and setting of social. Setting of place refers to the
location in which the incident of the story happens. Setting of time refers when the incident of the story takes place. It deals with a factual of time. The last is
setting of social. It refers to things deals with behavior in social surrounding or any place through the story. Beside describes the society of the story, setting
of social also shows in what class the main character belong. Setting of place or also known as scene describes where the actions
or events take place. It tells to the reader what characters do and how the
characters suffer in certain situation at certain place. As stated by Hudson 1913: 171:
Fourthly, the action must take place, and the characters must do and suffer, somewhere and at some time; and
thus we have a scene and a time of action.
Setting of time refers to the historical period in which action develops. It explains for readers what happens in certain place, and how the condition and
situation in that age. According to Hudson 1913: 211: Sometimes the historical setting has comparatively
little to do with the essence of the narrative, the basis of which is provided rather by the permanent
facts of experience than by the forms which these facts assume in special circumstances.
Then, setting of social refers to background of character and which environment characters live. It explains to reader about the social status of
character in story, how character grown up and the way of live of character. Hudson 1913: 209 asserts:
In this term we include the entire milieu of a story—the manners, customs, ways of life, which enter into its
composition, as well as its natural background or environment.
3.4 Plot
