Theoretical Framework THEORETICAL REVIEW
social-psychological approach can overcome the problems as it is the closest approach for the problems mentioned. In his book A Handbook of Critical
Approaches to Literature, Wilfred L. Guerin mentions that “psychological interpretation can afford many profound clues toward solving a work’s thematic
and symbolic mysteries, but it can seldom account for the beautiful symmetry of a well-wrought poem or of a fictional masterpiece” 2011: 201.
Psychological approach was possibly the most controversial and least appreciated. However, psychological approach can be interesting since its
proper purpose to interpret the literary work can improve the writer’s understanding of literature. The approach lets the readers to analyze the
characters’ psychology or condition in the literary works” Guerin, 1979: 125.
According to the statement above, psychological approach focuses on human psychology which helps us to be close with a literary work from the
psychological point of view because it is related to human being’s behavior pattern and unconscious mind. Moreover, this approach is used because
personality is a subject of psychology where it involves pattern of behavior, thoughts and feelings.
Looking at the fact that the problem discussed in this study, social bullying, cannot be done without any social interaction, the writer chooses social-
psychological approach as a term to be a tool to complete the study. The term social-psychological scopes the social interactions between the doer and the
victim of social bullying also the psychological problem felt by the victim of social bullying.
As a conclusion, social-psychological approach can be a proper tool used to be the approach of this study, in this case, a literary work study containing
psychological problem, social bullying and the impact of social bullying.