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2.2 Review of Related Studies
The researcher has looked for the preview study about Handle with Cares novel by Jodi Picoult but the researcher gets difficulties to find previous
studies that use Handle with Care as the object of the research. But the researcher finds some theses that relation with research.
The first is a thesis titled Mariam’s Anxiety And Her Defense Mechanism
In Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns by Aginta Erbinda from University of Surabaya 2012. In her thesis she analyze the main character
Mariam, problem talks about depiction of Mariam anxiety as the result of her family suppression in her life and problem reveals M
ariam’s defense mechanism to deal with her anxiety which she suffers. She is uses anxiety theory and defense
mechanism to analyze the novel. The second is a thesis titled Augustus Waters’s
In John Green’s Novel The Fault In Our Stars by Eka Imamatus Solikhah from Islamic University Sunan Ampel Surabaya 2015. She analyze the main character
Augustus Waters is a good person who get osteosarcoma in his teen and he is falling in love that causes anxiety of Augustus waters. And the last is a thesis
titled A Study On The Main Characters Anxiety In Ann Widdecombes An Act Of Treacher by Mila Ratnasari from Petra Christian University Surabaya 2005. She
focus analyze on Catherine as the main character who experiences psychological problem because of her authoritarian parents.
The similarity with the three previous studies and this research is a theory being used. Anxiety theory is the main theory that is used by the three researchers
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and also similarities are the main characters who experience anxiety disorders because someone.
While the difference with the three previous studies and her research is from the novel and focused on the study.
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CHAPTER III ANALYSIS
This chapter as the implementation of statement of the problems, analysis is the important components in this research. There are three subchapters in this
chapter. The first subchapter, the researcher analyzed conveys the kind of anxiety Charlotte’s experiences as a mother in Handle with Care. Then, the last
subchapter is the researcher analyzed effect of Charlotte’s anxiety towards her
personality character.
1.1 Kind of Charlotte’s Anxiety
In the first subchapter, researcher explains the types of anxiety experienced by the main character Charlotte. Charlotte is a mother of a daughter
who suffered from brittle bones or OI Osteogenesis imperfecta. Charlotte is a mother who is strong, caring, stubborn, and also women who are ambitious for
her daughter, Willow. Charlotte was very fond of her, she will do anything to maintain and protect the willow. Charlotte overprotective attitude toward her
daughter influenced the development of her personality. As a result, Charlotte experience anxiety, emotional instability and excessive anxiety about her
daughter. Anxiety is a part of psychology. Anxiety is the fear of something
nameless. It is an internal conflict within selves, namely anxiety usually fear something will happen. Anxiety experienced by charlotte is the anxiety of a
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mother who is afraid that something bad happened to her daughter. Charlotte will not let her daughter to suffer because of illness in the suffering since she was
born. Charlotte will always keep an eye on what is done by her daughter. She was too anxious to let her daughter do something, because even small actions can
make willow break bones. Charlotte make willow cannot do anything because of her excessive anxiety. Charlotte anxiety even make she sue her best friend named
Piper to earn money can be used by him to finance all the needs of willow. Because the demands Charlotte often feels anxious and uneasy in her life.
Everyone including her husband would oppose the decision to prosecute piper. But Charlotte was too fond of her daughter and wanted the best for her even
though willow will be hated by everyone and also has an impact on the psychology that is getting worse because of the demands of her accomplishments.
Her life is always in anxiety because of fear of losing her daughter and also worried because of the demands it. Therefore, in this chapter the researcher will
conduct the research through Charlotte neurotic anxiety, moral anxiety and reality anxiety
1.1.1 Charlotte’s Neurotic Anxiety
Anxiety neurotic fear of this type arise from id stimulus, if you ever feel bereft of ideas, nervous, cannot control themselves, behavior, intellect and even
your mind, then you when subjected to neurotic anxiety. Neurotic is another word for feeling nervous. The main character in the novel handle with care is Charlotte.
She is a mother of a daughter who suffered from brittle bones or OI Osteogenesis
