Background of the Study

CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION

1.1 Background of the Study

Literary work is a literary study which connected with the human being life, like behavior, feeling, social condition and tradition among them. Literary work is a form of author‟s creativities to express his idea. Literary work also means a reflection of the author himself or herself. In general, there are two major elements in literature, the first element is mostly called intrinsic and second one is extrinsic. Wellek and Werren 1977: 73 state that intrinsic element deal with analysis and interpretation of a literary work itself. Extrinsic elements deal with social, culture, and other external things. We cannot just separate the intrinsic and extrinsic elements. Each of them gives contribution in its own way to have a better understanding of a work. The genre of literary work is divided into three; those are prose, poetry, and drama. Each of them has a different characteristic. Literary work that categorized into prose are novel, novella, and short story. The distinguished between novel from the other literary genre by length, narrative, structure, depiction of character and plot patterns. It is longer than novella and short story. As a literary work novel has supporting element. Those elements are character, conflict, plot, setting, theme etc, like Nurgiyantoro said 2010: 4 novel is a fiction that offering an imaginative world, it contains of style of life to be idealized, and it is built by intrinsic element such as: character, conflict, setting, and theme. Novel written by Kate Chopin‟s The Awakening tells about main character, Edna, who has many problems in her life, especially to find freedom of life. Edna is a wife of Mr. Pontellier and has two children. Her marriage is pure of accident. She realizes that her life is unhappy. She does everything as she wants, such as: she abandons her duty to get callers in Tuesday. She is unfaithful and falls in love with other men. She also moves from her house to small house where there is no rule from her husband, and tells about how she ends her life to solve her problems. The writer chooses the novel written by Kate Chopin, The Awakening, because this novel tells about people‟s problems that happens in that time especially about woman‟s roles. By reading and understanding this book, the writer analyze the main character, conflict, setting and theme experienced by main character in her thesis.

1.2 Statements of the Problems