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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the methodology in analyzing Tracy Chevalier’s novel. There will be three sections in this chapter. They are object of the study,
approach of the study and method of the study. The object of study describes the novel and some sources that support the study. The approach of the study will
describe of the approach that is used in the analysis. In the last part, the method of the study, it is about description of the steps and procedure of the study.
A. Object of the Study
The novel Girl with the Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier was written in United Sates in 1999 and published by Harper Collins Company. This study used
the paperback edition published in 2000. In this novel, the author presents the story into 4 parts. The first part is in 1664; the second part is in 1665; the third
part is in 1666 and the last past is in 1676. Girl with a Pearl Earring consists of 256 pages and was published by HarperCollins Ltd, London.
Girl with a Pearl Earring is a book based on the creation of the famous painting by Vermeer. The novel belongs to best-selling historical novel. There
was also a successful film based on the novel and received three Academy Award nominations in 2004. It also won the Orange Prize.
The story of the novel is set on Delft, the city of Dutch in the 17
th
century, where people are still influenced by rich feeling and social status. The narrator of
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16-years-old girl named Griet from a family that has fallen in hard times. She takes a job as a servant in the household of the famous painter Johannes Vermeer.
In the new situation of her life, she faces many experiences of life; her personal and social relationship, unusual love with Vermeer, problems related to her works,
conflict with the other maids and so on . During this time, Griet become a model of painting by Vermeer. She should wear a pearl earring whose Vermeer’s wife
have. This situation is the significant moment in the novel and it caused Griet run away from the house.
B. Approach of The Study
In this study, the writer applies psychological approach in analyzing the struggle for life of the character Giet and the aspect of psychological factors that
influences her struggle for life. According to Rohrberger and Woods 5-6 in Reading and Writing about Literature, the psychological approach is “the effort to
locate and demonstrate certain recurrent patterns, but from a different body of knowledge that is psychology. This approach uses the psychological theories to
explain human motivation, personality, and behavior patterns written in literary objects.”
The writer also uses the socio-historical approach. This approach is employed to analyze the socio-historical backgrounds in Dutch in 17th century of
Dutch. This approach is applied to see whether the socio-cultural in Dutch influences the struggle of main characters or not.
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C. Method of the Study