Virgin Tragic Perfume In Patrick Suskind Novel “Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer”
ABSTRAK
Kertas karya ini berjudul Virgin Tragic Perfume in Patrick Suskind’s Novel
“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.” Penulis tertarik membahas tentang parfum
perawan yang diciptakan melalui kejadian-kejadian tragis pada novel. Novel laris
ini menceritakan parfum terbaik perawan yang diciptakan oleh seorang laki-laki
bernama Jean-Baptiste Grenouille yang tidak memiliki bau badan namun punya
indera penciuman yang sangat tajam. Parfum terbaik aroma perawan tercipta
karena obsesi Grenouille yang muncul setelah mencium aroma seorang perawan
cantik. Dengan cara jenius aroma perawan ditangkap satu persatu, dibunuh dan
dikuliti untuk diambil aromanya. Aroma 24 gadis perawan dikumpulkan dan
dijadikan ekstrak parfum. Proses pembuatan parfum perawan diawali dengan
membunuh 24 gadis perawan. Tubuh mereka layu, pakaian beserta rambut dan
kulit kepala hilang. Pembunuhan berantai berjalan rapi, terencana dan misterius.
Tetapi kerapihan tokoh akhirnya tertangkap dan ia dihukum. Dalam penulisan
kertas karya ini, penulis menggunakan metode perpustakaan dan pendekatan
intrinsik. Semua data yang ada dikumpulkan, dianalisis dan disimpulkan untuk
mendukung kertas karya ini. Penulis berharap para pembaca dapat mengerti
dengan unsur-unsur dalam novel.
Universitas Sumatera Utara
ABSTRACT
This work paper entitled Virgin Tragic Perfume in Patrick Suskind’s Novel
“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.” The writer was interested to discuss about
virgin’s perfume created through tragic stories. This popular novel tells about a
virgin’s best perfume created by a man, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who had no
body smell even though he had a good sense of smell. The creation of best virgin
fragrant perfume caused by Grenouille’s obsessions after he had smelled a
beautiful virgin’s aroma. With tricky ways, he collected the virgin’s aroma
periodically, murdered and peeled or removed her skin to take the aroma. The
aroma of 24 virgin girls were collected and made into extracted perfume. The
production process of virgin perfume was begun by murdering 24 virgin girl.
Their bodies were withered, their clothes and hair and head skin were lost. This
chained-murdering was successfully done with planned and mysterious ways.
However, his trickiness was revealed and got punishment. Within this work paper,
the writer uses library researches and intrinsic approaches. All data is collected,
analyzed, concluded to support this work paper. The writer hopes the readers can
understand with elements of the novel.
Universitas Sumatera Utara
Kertas karya ini berjudul Virgin Tragic Perfume in Patrick Suskind’s Novel
“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.” Penulis tertarik membahas tentang parfum
perawan yang diciptakan melalui kejadian-kejadian tragis pada novel. Novel laris
ini menceritakan parfum terbaik perawan yang diciptakan oleh seorang laki-laki
bernama Jean-Baptiste Grenouille yang tidak memiliki bau badan namun punya
indera penciuman yang sangat tajam. Parfum terbaik aroma perawan tercipta
karena obsesi Grenouille yang muncul setelah mencium aroma seorang perawan
cantik. Dengan cara jenius aroma perawan ditangkap satu persatu, dibunuh dan
dikuliti untuk diambil aromanya. Aroma 24 gadis perawan dikumpulkan dan
dijadikan ekstrak parfum. Proses pembuatan parfum perawan diawali dengan
membunuh 24 gadis perawan. Tubuh mereka layu, pakaian beserta rambut dan
kulit kepala hilang. Pembunuhan berantai berjalan rapi, terencana dan misterius.
Tetapi kerapihan tokoh akhirnya tertangkap dan ia dihukum. Dalam penulisan
kertas karya ini, penulis menggunakan metode perpustakaan dan pendekatan
intrinsik. Semua data yang ada dikumpulkan, dianalisis dan disimpulkan untuk
mendukung kertas karya ini. Penulis berharap para pembaca dapat mengerti
dengan unsur-unsur dalam novel.
Universitas Sumatera Utara
ABSTRACT
This work paper entitled Virgin Tragic Perfume in Patrick Suskind’s Novel
“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.” The writer was interested to discuss about
virgin’s perfume created through tragic stories. This popular novel tells about a
virgin’s best perfume created by a man, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who had no
body smell even though he had a good sense of smell. The creation of best virgin
fragrant perfume caused by Grenouille’s obsessions after he had smelled a
beautiful virgin’s aroma. With tricky ways, he collected the virgin’s aroma
periodically, murdered and peeled or removed her skin to take the aroma. The
aroma of 24 virgin girls were collected and made into extracted perfume. The
production process of virgin perfume was begun by murdering 24 virgin girl.
Their bodies were withered, their clothes and hair and head skin were lost. This
chained-murdering was successfully done with planned and mysterious ways.
However, his trickiness was revealed and got punishment. Within this work paper,
the writer uses library researches and intrinsic approaches. All data is collected,
analyzed, concluded to support this work paper. The writer hopes the readers can
understand with elements of the novel.
Universitas Sumatera Utara