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4 to escape from their problems. In The Bell Jar, the main character experiences psychosocial development crisis that leads to her personality problem. Those are the factors that make the researcher wants to conduct a study to identify and analyze in which stage of psychosocial development the main character of the novel is unable to handle. Moreover, the researcher also tries to analyze the effect of it to her personality.

B. Research Focus

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is an example of literary work that in particular deals with psychosocial development and the impact of it towards someone’s personality that can be analyzed by using psychosocial theory. In this research, the researcher uses psychosocial theory developed by Erikson 1950. This theory focuses on psychosoci al development of a person. Erikson’s theory basically asserts that people experience crisis in the eight stages of psychosocial development which significantly affect their psychological development and personality. The researcher analyzes the main character in The Bell Jar named Esther Greenwood, who fails to handle crisis in a particular stage of the psychosocial development in her life. As a result, she cannot pass through the next stage of psychosocial development and it affects her personality. Her personality problems are noticeable when she suddenly has no ability to read, write or sleep. She even stops bathing. She then continues to attempt suicide at least three times before receiving proper help. Therefore, the researcher decides to examine her 5 psychosocial development because the researcher is interested to reveal in which stage of psychological development Esther unsuccessfully handles the crisis. Moreover, the researcher also analyzes the impact of psychosocial development toward Esther’s personality. In this research, the researcher uses Erikson’s psychosocial theory 1950 in order to reveal in which stage of psychosocial development Esther is unable to handle the crisis and to find out the impact of it to her personality. This research is limited and all related to the main character of The Bell Jar.

C. Research Question

The main two questions to be answered in the research related to the issue of problem of personality in The Bell Jar are: 1. In which stage of psychosocial development does Esther unsuccessfully handle the crisis? 2. What impact does the failure has on Esther’s personality?

D. Objectives of the Research

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