Analysis Of The Leading Character’s Personalities In Patrick Suskind’s Novel, Perfume : The Story of a Murder

ANALYSIS OF THE LEADING CHARACTER’S PERSONALITIES IN PATRICK SUSKIND’S NOVEL, Perfume : The Story of a Murder

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ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes one of the best-seller novel written by Patrick Suskind entitled Perfume. This novel tells Jean Baptiste Grenouille has a unique form of ability to smell and remember the smells existing. Besides that, he has great obsession of his desire to want the perfect scent. Then, it took him to a series of murder. Personalities of Jean Baptiste Grenouille which was special author’s interest to know the background that affects the character of Jean Baptiste Grenouille. In completing this study, researchers used a descriptive analysis method that describes the journey of life the main characters to support the analysis of researchers supported by the opinions of literary critics in the revealed truth of the analysis. Because this analysis uses printed sources in the study were more familiar with library research.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Bismillahirrahmaanirrahiim.

First of all, I would like to thank and praise to the Almighty God, Allah SWT for blessing and giving me health, strength and ease to accomplish this paper as one of the requirements to get Diploma III certificate from English Department Faculty of Letters, University of Sumatera Utara.

Then, I would like to express a deep gratitude, love, and appreciation to:

1. My beloved parents, Sasmiaji and Syariah thanks for loving, caring, supporting me morally, financially, spiritually, especially in studying in English Diploma III and in completing this paper. Thanks for being my inspiration Mom. My beloved sister and brother, Indah and Budi. My lovely nephew and niece, nabila and azzam.

2. Dr. Matius C.A. Sembiring, MA as the Head of English Diploma Study Program, who gives me a lot of knowledge.

3. My Supervisor, Drs. Parlindungan Purba, M.Hum. who has given this precious time, advice and critics in reading and correcting this paper for its completeness.

4. Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A., as the Dean of Faculty of Letters, University of Sumatera Utara.

5. All lecturers in English Diploma Study Program for giving me advices and knowledges.

6. My lovely friends, Cut Zahara (Cong), and Elvia Yunita Hasibuan (Kak Yun ),for their color in my great three years. Thanks for make me as your friend in happiness or in sadness.

7. All of my friend in English Diploma III A and B year 2008 - 2011 8. My friends, Mael, Ido, Fitri and many more.

9. My brothers and sisters in SOLIDAS.

10. My special someone in my life, Muhriza Al Rany thank you for your love and your attention to me.

Finally, I do realize that this paper is still far from being perfect. Therefore, I welcome any constructive critics and suggestions towards this paper.

Medan, 2011

The writer,

Sasi Jayanti

TABLE OF CONTENTS

AUTHOR`S DECLARATION COPYRIGHT DECLARATION

ABSTRACT ... i

ACNKNOWLEDGEMENT ... ii

TABLE OF CONTENTS ... iv

1. INTRODUCTION ... 1

1.1 Background of the Study ... 1

1.2 Scope of the Study ... 3

1.3 Purpose of the Study ... 3

1.4 Significance of the Study ... 3

1.5 Methods of the Study ... 4

2. A VIEW OF CHARACTER AND THE PERSONALITIES ... 5

2.1 View of Character ... 5

2.2 View of Protagonist’s Personalities ... 10

3. THE MAIN CHARACTER IN PATRICK SUSKIND’S NOVEL PERFUME : THE STORY OF A MURDERER ... 12

3.1 Jean-Baptiste Grenouille ... 12

4. AN ANALYSIS OF THE MAIN CHARACTER’S PERSONALITIES IN PATRICK SUSKIND’S NOVEL PERFUME : THA STORY OF A MURDERER ... 14

4.1 Survivor ... 14

4.1.1 Presistence ... 15

4.2 Genius ... 18

4.2.1 Extraordinary sense of smell ... 18

4.2.2 Autodidact ... 20

4.3 Introvert ... 23

5. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS ... 25

5.1 Conclusions ... 25

5.2 Suggestions ... 26

REFERENCES ... 27

APPENDICES ... 28

Summary of the novel ... 28

ABSTRACT

This paper analyzes one of the best-seller novel written by Patrick Suskind entitled Perfume. This novel tells Jean Baptiste Grenouille has a unique form of ability to smell and remember the smells existing. Besides that, he has great obsession of his desire to want the perfect scent. Then, it took him to a series of murder. Personalities of Jean Baptiste Grenouille which was special author’s interest to know the background that affects the character of Jean Baptiste Grenouille. In completing this study, researchers used a descriptive analysis method that describes the journey of life the main characters to support the analysis of researchers supported by the opinions of literary critics in the revealed truth of the analysis. Because this analysis uses printed sources in the study were more familiar with library research.

1.

INTRODUCTION

1.1Background of the Study

Literature is concerned with all aspects of human life and universe in their entirety. There are so mainly three important branches of literature; novel, poetry, and drama. One of the important branches is novel. In Rees’ book (1973:106), English Literature, The Shorter Oxford Dictionary stated that novel is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length in which characters and action representative of real life are portrayed in a plot of more or less complexity.

Character is a person to judge person can be viewed what he says, what he done and his personality.

“Characters are person presented in a dramatic or narrative work, who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with moral and dispositional qualities that are expressed in what they say – the dialogue – and by what they do – the action. The grounds in a characters temperament and moral nature for this speech an action constitute his motivations” (Abrams, 1981:20).

Based on the explanation, the character’s expression through what they do or the action and expression has a personality. If in the expression, character has good action, so does the personality. On the other hand, if in the expression character has bad action, the personality will be bad. Through the characterization can be showed the character of one person to be done or to be missed. It can be said that character and personality is closely related.

Leading character is not far different from main character as popularly recognized in literary works. What implicitly I want to emphasize is the leading

character addressed to a single person only. Meanwhile, main character may offer more than one. This is the background as well as the reason why I choose that word in my paper title.

Patrick Suskind is one wonderful author. Almost every novel of him is best seller. In his novel, his concern is with the emotional and moral character rather than human physicality. Perfume is one of her fascinating novel that was published in 1985. The novel explored the sense of smell, and its relationship with the emotional that scents may carry. Above all this is a story of identity, communication and the morality of the human spirit.

Not only the novel, the movie also gets popularity. It was released on September 14, 2006 in Germany. The film was number one on the box office charts in its first three weeks. The film ended up selling over five millions tickets.

Finally, by writing this paper, the writer wants to share her knowledge to the readers about the analysis of the novel to make her self and the readers more understand about the leading character’s personalities.

1.2Scope of the Study

Based on the background of the study, this study is focused on the leading character’s personalities in Patrick Suskind novel, Perfume: The story of A Murderer. The writer believes that are many important aspect of that can be discussed, but in this paper she talks about the leading character’s personalities.

1.3Purpose of the Study

The purpose of writing this paper is to make more interested in reading a novel. And the writer wants to analyze the leading caharacter’s personalities in Patrick Suskind’s novel Perfume: The story of A Murderer. The writer wants to explain the leading personalities to the reader so the reader can understand about the personalities of the leading character easily and they more interest to read the novel.

1.4Significance of the Study

By making the analysis contains theoretical and practical one. The former suggests that the analysis be helpful for readers to study of literature if the students already know about literature they can understand it easily. And the readers can know about the leading character’s personalities in Patrick Suskind novel, Perfume: The story of A Murderer.

1.5Method of the Study

Research on a written of literary work that has long been published is usually carried out by library research. By this research, the writer has to read some books related to collect some data needed for the paper or other scientific writing. After the data collected, the data are selected, while making notes before writing the paper. It is also needed a search from internet to complete the data that had been collected. After the data had been collected, it is interpreted and analyzed into a description. This method is known as descriptive method.

2. A VIEW OF CHARACTER AND THE

PERSONALITIES

2.1 A View of Character

Until the seventeenth century seventeenth century the world ‘novel’, meant a short of story of the kind written and collected by Boccacio in his Decameron. By about 1700 it had got something like its present meaning as written in the background of the study, Friedrichsen (1973:106) tell us, is “a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length in which characters and actions novel is an account of life; every novel involves conflict, characters, action, settings, plot and theme. An author has a full freedom present character suitable with what her work, whoever the person, the social status, the characterization and whatever their life problems in societies where they interact. The creativity of the author cannot be loose from the way they create the characters of a story.

In a handbook, compiled by Harahap (2007: 23-24) wrote that character has several meanings, the most common of which is “the aggeregiate of traits and features that form the nature of person or animals”. Characters also refer to moral and ethical standards and principles. In literature, character has several other specific meanings, notably that of a person represented in a story, novel, play, etc. In seventeenth and eighteenth-century England, a character was a formal sketch or descriptive analysis of particular virtue or vice as represented in a person, what is a more often called a character sketch.

In a literary work, character is made to complete a novel operation to the reader that has been planned by maker. Richard Eastman (1965:17) stated that,

“Character is an apparatus, mechanism, a device planned by his maker to help power the complete operation of novel upon the reader.”

A character occupies a strategic position to bring and convey message, moral, or something that is purposely conveyed to the reader. In a book Siregar (1997:53), Abrams (1985:21) says that characters are the person presented in a dramatic or narrative work who are interpreted by the reader as being endowed with moral and dispositional qualities that are expressed in what they say - the dialogue - and by what they do – the action. The grounds in character’s temperament and moral nature for his speech and action constitute his motivations.

Scott (1980: 48) defined that character is short pros sketches of different types of people moulded to a pattern. From this definition we can catch an idea that characters are drawn from different types to a pattern. There are many definition of character that supporting this idea. Two of them come from Longman (1995: 215) and Webster (2000: 74), which say that “Character is the particular combination of qualities that makes someone a particular kind of person”, and “Character is the combination of qualities that distinguishes an individual person, group of things; moral strength; reputation; disposition.”

The distinguishing quality called trait or characterization, is different from one character to another. Each of character has his or her own traits. Characters may be ambitious or lazy, serene or anxious, aggressive or tearful, thoughtful or inconsiderate, open or secretive, confident or self doubting, kind or cruel, quite or

noisy, visionary or practical, careful or careless, impartial or biased, straightforward or underhanded,”winners”or”losers” and so on.

Characters can be convincing whether they are presented by showing or by telling. Michael Meyer (2002: 121) states “Authors have two major methods of presenting characters; showing and telling. Showing allows the author to present a character talking and acting, and lets the reader infer what kind of person the character is. In telling, the authors intervenses to describe and sometimes evaluated the character for the reader”.

On the other hand, Hawton (1985: 57) stated that there are three methods in presenting the character.

1. By description report

In this method, the author described the character through himself or another character.

2. By the action or the character act. 3. By the character thoughts abd speaking.

According to Edgar V. Roberts and Henry E. Jacobs (1995: 135), authors use five ways to present their characters, they are

1. Actions

What character does is our best way to understand what they are. As with ordinary human beings, fictional characters do not necessarily understand how they may be changing or why they do the things they do. Nevertheless, their actions express their characters. Actions may also signal qualities such as nalvete’,

weakness, deceit, a scheming personality, strong inner or conflicts,or a realization or growth of some sort.

2. Descriptions, both personal and environmental

Appearance and environmental reveal much about a character’s social and economic status, of course, but they also tell us about character traits.

3. Dramatic statements and thoughts

Although the speeches of most characters are functional – essential to keep the story moving along – they provide material from which you can draw conclusions. Often, characters used speech to hide their motives,though we as readers should see through their action narrated in the works.

4. Statements by other characters

By studying what characters say about each other, you can enchance your understanding of the character being discussed. Ironically, the characters doing the talking often indicate something other than what they intend, perhaps because of prejudice, stupidity, or foolishness.

5. Statements by the author speaking as story – teller or obseverser

What the author, speaking with the authorial voice, says about a character is usually accurate, and authorial voice can be accepted factually. However, when the authorial interprets actions and characteritics, the author himself or herself assumes the role of reader or critic, and any opinions may be questioned. For this reason, authors frequently avoid interpretations and devote their own conclusions

From the three opinions, it can be concluded that there are three methods to present character: by the action, description, and statements or thoughts.

In character, we also found the division of it. According to Burhan Nurgiyantoro in his book, Teori Pengkajian Fiksi (1998: 176) based on some criteria, the difference of point of view, and observations, character can be categorized as follows: Main character and Peripheral Character, Protagonist Character and Antagonist Character, Simple Character nd Complex Character, Static Character and Developing Character, Typical and Neutral Character.

This paper discusses about the main character and the protagonist’ personalities. Therefore, it concerns with the definition of main character and peripheral character for clarification of technical terms used in the paper.

A. Main Character

Main Character is classified important and kept on performing that it feels dominating the whole story. The narration of this character is considered as the most important in a novel concern. He is the most narrated character, whether as the hero or the one who is affected by the action. Even in certain novels, a main character always presents in every event and can be found in every page of the novel concern. Though his superiority values are not always the same, main character in a novel can be more than one.

B. Peripheral Character

There are some characters that are presented only or a couple times in a story, and it may be in relative short narration. These characters are called peripheral character. The appearance of peripheral character in whole story less,

not important, and he appears only if there is any connection with main character, directly to indirectly.

2.2 View of The Personalities

In psychology, personality is a collection of emotional, thought and behavioral patterns unique to a person. The word originates from the Latin persona, which means "mask". Personality also colors our values, beliefs, and expectations. Hereditary factors that contribute to personality development do so as a result of interactions with the particular social environment in which people live.

An individual's personality is an aggregate conglomeration of decisions we've made throughout our lives. The uniqueness of personality can be seen in this novel. Although Grenoille is an unwanted Parisian orphan who, having little personal scent, and rejected by others, but he has an extraordinary power to discern odors, and come to loathe the scent of other people. The contradiction has described that Grenouille is not an ordinary man. And through this novel, the writer will try to explore the wonderful personalities of Grenouille.

3.

THE MAIN CHARACTER IN PATRICK

SUSKIND’S NOVEL PERFUME: THE STORY OF

MURDERER

This is main character in Patrick Suskind’s novel, Perfume: The Story of A Murderer.

3.1 Jean-Baptiste Grenouille

Little Grenouille is an adorable child. As quoted:

“He has rosy pink, he doesn’t cry, and he’s

been baptized.” (Suskind, 1986:11)

He is a genious man. At the of six he had completely grasped his surrounding olfactorily.

As quoted:

“There was not an object in Madame Gaillard’s house no place along the northern reaches of the rue de Charonne, no person, no stone, tree, bush or picket fence, no spot be it ever so small, by

holding its uniqueness firmly in his

memory. He had gathered tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of specific smells and kept them so clearly, so randomly, at his disposal, that he could not only recall them when he smelled them again, but could also actually smell them simply upon recollection.”

When Grenouille was growing up, he was an ordinary child, nothing special about him self.

As quoted:

“However, there was nothing at all about him to instil terror. As grew older, he was not especially big, nor strong – ugly, true, but not so extremely ugly that people would necessarily have taken fright at him. He was not aggressive, nor under handed, nor furtive; he did not provoke people. He preferred to keep out of this way.”

(Suskind, 1986:26-27)

Grenouille grew up into a child quiet and mysterious. As quoted :

“To the world he appeared to grow ever more secretive. What he loved most was to rove

alone through northern parts of the

faubourg Saint – Antoine, through vegetable gardens and vineyards, across meadows. Sometimes he did not come home in the evening, remained missing for days.”

4. AN ANALYSIS OF THE LEADING CHARACTER’S

PERSONALITIES IN PATRICK SUSKIND’S NOVEL,

PERFUME : THE STORY OF A MURDERER

4.1. Survivor

The word survivor is a suffixation of “survive” means continue to live or exist in spite of danger or hardship. So survivor is a person who survive or a person remaining alive after an event which others have died. From the explanation, survivor can be categorized into two kinds. The first is mental survivor and the second is physical survivor.

Mentality relates to the mind of human being. Mental is the total emotional and intellectual response to his environment. And the struggle is also relates to mind and soul. The second is to survive physically. Physical means having material existence; through the sense and subject to the laws of nature, everything is measurable by weight, motion and resistance. It means that the condition relates to the physic struggle. The writer will discuss the survivor in deeper.

4.1.1 Persistence

Persistence includes surviving mentally. The person who has this character is not easy to defeat by condition. Sadness is only a decoration of life and the life will be hard when we are moved in the sadness.

Into this world Grenouille is born. His mother abandons him, leaving him under a table at a Paris fish market, and he grows up in an orphanage. As a baby, Grenouille doesn't smell the way babies should (“like caramel”). Although he has an exceptional nose, he himself gives off no bodily odor whatsoever. Still, everyone that he meets finds him in some way repellent:

As quoted:

“The young Grenouille … gave the world nothing but his dung—no smile, no cry, no glimmer in the eye, not even his own scent.” (Suskind, 1986:25)

The condition has built his mentality to survive in the hard life. Since his birth, no one that gives him love, security, attention, tenderness or whatever a baby needs. He has to face the rudeness of life lonely. He uses all the ways to compete in the life, whatsoever good or bad ways. The struggle of life and the smallest opportunity must be used in surviving.

The hard condition has taught him the meaning of a life. He saves all his hopes. He never requests feeling of sorrow for sufferings of others. He uses what he has. And his most valuable possession is persistence to keep his hope.

4.1.2 Hard worker

Sometimes we find something that we do not expect. The over expectation for something only make us more weak. Grenouille that is born without any

relatives has become a symbol of persistence. In the winter, if the babies that are died often come nine out of ten per year, Grenouille can survive. For little Grenouille, Madame Gaillard’s establishment is blessing. Madame Gaillard has a merciless sense of order and justice. She shows no preference for any one of children entrusted to her nor discriminated against any one of them. She serves up three meals a day and not the tiniest snack more. She changes nappies of the little ones three times a day, but only until their second birthday. Whoever disobeys her, she decreases meals two times a day, but Grenouille has a tough constitution. As qouted:

“Whoever has survived his own birth on a

rubbish heap is not so easily shoved back out of this world again. He could eat watery soup for days on end, he managed on the thinnest milk, digested the rottenest vegetables and spoiled meat. In the course of his childhood he survived the measles, dysentery, chicken fox, cholera, a twenty foot fall into a well and a scalding with boiling water poured over his chest. True, he bore scars and chafing and scabs from it all, and slightly crippled foot left him with a limp, but he lived.”

(Suskind, 1986:23)

The quotation above shows that since his birth, Grenouille has became a strong man. The condition has built his body to adapt in the environment, in madame Gaillard’s establishment. Up the rubbish heap to the orphanage is not an easy challenge to live. In the orphanage, he does not whine like another baby. His body is designed to survive.

When Grenouille has turned eight, the cloister of Saint-Merri, without mention of the reason, ceases to pay its yearly fee. Madame Gaillard does not

dune them. For appearances’ sake, she waits an additional week. And when the money owe her still has not appeared, she walks with him into the city. She sells Grenouille for a tanner named Grimal.

Grenouille knows that the man is capable of thrashing him to death for the least infraction. He has no choice, never once making an attempt to resist. He has to work hardly.

As quoted:

“Tough, uncomplaining inconspicuous, he tended the light of life’s hopes as very small, but carefully nourished flame. He as a paragon of docility, frugality, and diligence in his work, obey implicitly, and appeared satisfied with every meal offered.”

(Suskind, 1986:36)

He must work hard to survive. The hard life has to fill with working hard. Grenouille trusts that his small hope will be bigger and comes true if he treats his hope properly. His simplicity has given him maturity in thinking and doing. The silence of Grenouille saves a great expectation. He does not work for money but he works for life and for his hope.

4.2 Genius

Genius is an exceptional intellectual of creative power or other natural ability. Another explanation genius is a person who is exceptionally intelligent or creativity, either generally or in some particular respect.

Grenouille is genius man. It can be indicated by his extraordinary talent, the sharp sense of smell. Since his birth, he has had prominent abilities. And one

of them is genius. From the discussion below, I will try to describe his extraordinary talent.

4.2.1 Extraordinary sense of smell

Grenouille is born as an orphan. He has faced the various temptations, up the smallest to the biggest. Everybody around him feel that an odd situation. They think that grenouille is not a human. He is the son of devil. His first wet nurse, Jean Bussie feels it. Grenouille is very greedy, all the things he eats. He drinks her milk up to make her thin. And the most strange is that he does not have body odour.

As quoted:

“‘That’s not what I mean,’ said the wet nurse peevishly, shoving the basket away. ‘ I don’t mean what’s in the nappy. His soil smells, that’s true enough. But it’s the bastard himself, he doesn’t smell.’”

(Suskind, 1986:11)

The case is not a cheat from Jean Bussie. It is the fact. A baby should have a good odour, but Grenuoille does not. She tells the case to Father Terrier. He is in charge of the church's charities and the distribution of its money to the poor and needy. He does not believe it. And the wet nurse remains in her opinion that Grenouille is a monster, so she entrusts the baby to Terrier.

He first thinks Grenouille is a cute baby. But when he brings Grenouille in his home, he checks the nurse say that the baby hasn’t odor. He smells the baby and observes the odor. He looks at the nose, which is not a proper nose, but only a pug of nose, forever crinkling and puffing and quivering. He shudders. He feels

sick to his stomach. He pulls back his own nose as if he smells something foul that he wants nothing to do it. Finally he decides to send Grenouille far away, and the best place is Saint-Antoine. That is the place for the screaming brat far off the east, beyond the Bastille.

There, he is nursed by Madame Gaillard. When she was a child, her father has struck her across the forehead with a poker, just above the base of the nose, and she has lost for good all sense of smell and every sense of human warmth and human coldness. And he is lucky sent in Gaillard’s establishment. His ability develops rapidly.

As quoted:

“At the age of six, he had completely grasped his surroundings olfactory. There was not an object in Madame Gaillard ‘s house, no place along the northern reaches of the rue de Charonne, no person, no stone, tree, bush or picked fence, no spot be it ever so small, that he did not know, could not recognize again by holding its uniqueness firmly in his memory”.

(Suskind, 1986:30)

From the quotation above, it can be inferred that he is an astonishing man. All the cases are the contradiction of his talent. The quotation proves that Grenouille absolutely trusts that language does not enough explain the meaning of his perception. He grows accustomed to using such words only when his contact with others. He interprets all the things by his nose. He doesn’t smell but he has extraordinary sense of smell.

4.2.2 Autodidact

Autodidact is person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education; a self-taught person. A person may become an autodidact at nearly any point in his or her life. While some may have been educated in a conventional manner in a particular field, they may choose to educate themselves in other, often unrelated areas.

The story begins when Grenouille delivers the skin of goat for Guesseppe Baldini. Baldini is a famous perfumer in Paris. In the time, Baldini has to make a new and fresh perfume for his customer. In fact, he can not make a new one. And even he loses to compete to a new perfumer named Pelissier.

Pelissier makes a new perfume. It is called ‘Amor and Psyche’. And soon Baldini’s customers like the perfume. At the time Grenouille presents in Baldini’s life. Knowing that he delivers goatskin to perfumer house, without a courtesy he offers himself to work for him because it is the time to realize his hope.

As quoted:

”‘I want to work for you, Maitre Baldini. Work for you, here in your bussines’. It was not spoken as a request, but as demand, nor was it really spoken but squeezed out, hissed out in reptile fashion.”

(Suskind, 1986:83)

Of course Baldini refuses his demand. The idea is perfectly grotesque immodesty. There is absolutely that can justify a stray tanner’s helper of dubious origin, without connection and protection, without the least social standing to hope that he will get so much as a toehold in the most renowned perfume shop in Paris.

But Grenouille does not surrender. He knows that the only reason he will leave this shop will be to fetch his cloth from Grimal’s, and then never again. And with his coaxing, Baldini allows him to make “Amor and Psyche” alike Pelissier’s. And the following quotation shows that he is an autodidact:

As quoted:

“Pipette, test tube, measuring glass, spoons and rods- all the utensils that allow the perfumer to control the complicated process of mixing- Grenouille did not so much as touch a single one of them. It was as if he were just playing, splashing and swishing like a child busy cooking up some ghastly brew of water, grass, and mud, which he then asserts to be soup.”

(Suskind, 1986:94)

The quotation above shows that it is not really matter for Grenioulle to make a good perfume. He makes the perfume with his own way. He does not know the formula and calculation to make it. He not only has the fellow turned the world of perfumery upside down by starting with the solvent without having first created the concentrate to be dissolved.

In the first, Baldini crumbles Grenouille’s ability. He proudly regards that Grenouille is only a liar. Observing the way Grenouille creates the perfume makes him fed up. Grenouille is like a child playing in his laboratory. He does not use the procedure to create a perfume. As if he spoils the room.

But with his astonishing nose, he can collect and identify all the kind odours. He does not need the measuring. He collaborates the odours unsystematically but instinct to be the best perfume. And finally Baldini is awake

when Grenouille has finished the perfume. It is exactly similar with Pelissier’s, and even he can make better.

4.3 Introvert

Basically, an introvert is a person who is energized by being alone and whose energy is drained by being around other people. Introverts are more concerned with the inner world of the mind. Grenouille is one of the symbols of introvert. He enjoys thinking, exploring his thoughts and feelings.

As quoted:

“and with the additional difference that the creative activity of Grenouille wunderkind took place only inside him and could be perceived by no other than

himself” (Suskind, 1986:30)

The quotation describes the uniqueness of Grenouille. He has wonderful ability but only for own consumption. It can occur because only him that can feels the beauty of odours. And he is the one that get bestowal of smelling.

He often avoids social situations because being around people drains his energy. This is the fact that he is a mysterious man. It is caused he does not find another person that has the same talent. And the around people notes that he grows be an introvert.

“To the world he appeared to grow ever more secretive. What he loved most was to

rove alone through vegetable gardens and vineyards, across meadows”. Sometimes he didn’t come home in the evening, remained missing days.” (Suskind, 1986:31)

The quotation above explains that it is another side of the uniqueness of Grenouille. He is a genius who has the best sense of smell, but the worst of social skills. The contradiction is one of the natural condition.

Being introspective, though, does not mean that an introvert never has conversations. However, those conversations are generally about ideas and concepts, not about what they consider the trivial matters of social small talk. As quoted:

”All these grotesque incongruities between the richness of the world perceivable by smell and the poverty of language were enough for the lad Grenouille to doubt that language made any sense at all; and he grew accustomed to using such words only when his contact with others made it absolutely necessary.”

5. CONCLUSIONS AND SUGGESTIONS

5.1 Conclusions

Having analyzed the topic about an analysis the main character’s protagonist personalities depicted in Patrick Suskind’s novel “Perfume: The story of Murderer”, the writer would like to draw some conclusions, they are:

1. Personality is a kind of human’s identify or character which reflects what they do in social interaction with their community in this life. 2. Jean Baptise Grenouille as the leading character has good

personalities, they are: survivor consists of persistence and hard worker, genius consist of extraordinary sense of smell and autodidact, and then introvert.

3. Jean Baptiste Grenouille is a survivor. Survivor is a person who survive or a person remaining alive after an event which others have died.

4. Jean Baptiste Grenouille has hard condition in his life. This condition has built mentality to survive in his live. The hard condition has taught him the meaning of a life, therefore he became persistence someone. 5. Jean Baptiste Grenouille work hard to survive. The hard life has to fill

with working hard. The silence of Grenouille saves a great expectation. He does not work for money but he works for life and for his hope. 6. Jean Baptiste Grenouille is genius man. It can be indicated by his

extraordinary talent, the sharp sense of smell. Since his birth, he has had prominent abilities. And one of them is genius.

7. Jean Baptiste Grenouille is a autodidact person who has learned a subject without the benefit of a teacher or formal education; a self-taught person.

8. Jean Baptiste Grenouille is one of the symbols of introvert. He enjoys thinking, exploring his thoughts and feeling.

5.2. Suggestions

After analyzing the topic, the writer wants to put forward some suggestions to the readers. The suggestions are follows:

1. The readers should take the positive personalities of the protagonist of the novel.

2. The readers should be able to classify the good ways to reach the good goals.

3. The readers should be proud of their ability and develops it simultaneously.

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APPENDICES

SUMMARY OF PERFUME : THE STORY OF A MURDERER

Grenouille was an unwanted Parisian orphan who, having little personal scent, was rejected by others because they were disturbed by his lack of odor. He had an extraordinary power to discern odours, and came to loathe the scent of other people. He became apprenticed to a he explores the city. One day he smelled a divine scent and follows it, and was shocked to find that the source of this beautiful scent was a young woman. He killed her to get a better smell of her scent, but after death the scent ceases. He dedicated his life to preserve this perfect scent.

In his quest to isolate and preserve scents, he became apprenticed to a great popular perfumer in Paris. But Baldini could not teach him how to isolate the scent of glass and iron. He fell ill with techniques other than distillation could be used to preserve such odours, he miraculously recovered and resolved to journey to the city of quest.

On his way to Grasse, Grenouille became so disgusted by the scent of humanity that he spent seven years in a cave on top of the day he woke with a start from a nightmare of being suffocated by his own body odour, and realised with a shock that he had no personal scent at all.

Grenouille journeyed to

called fluidium letale". The Marquis combined a treatment of decontamination and revitalization for Grenouille, and subsequently, Grenouille looked like a clean gentleman for the first time in his life. Grenouille in turn tricked his way into the laboratory of a famous perfumier. There he created a body odour for himself from ingredients including "cat shit," "cheese," and "vinegar", whereupon he was accepted by society. But he didn't want acceptance, he wanted to have power and be able to manipulate those within the world who disgusted him so much.

Moving to Grasse, Grenouille once again became intoxicated by the scent of a young woman, Laure. He decided that she was not quite mature and resolved to kill her in two years time. Meanwhile he embarked on a career of serial murder of beautiful virgins to form a base for the scent he would make from Laure, while at the same time refining his powers until he could preserve any smell.

Eventually Laure's father pieced together the pattern of murders and realised that Laure was to be the next victim. He fled with Laure but Grenouille pursues them and killed Laure, capturing her scent.He was eventually apprehended and sentenced to death, but on the day of his execution the intoxicating scent of Laure combined with the backdrop essences of the twenty-four virgins he murdered, overwhelms all present, and instead of an execution the whole town becomes a massiv

Grenouille was pardoned for his crimes, and Laure's father even wanted to adopt him. But the experience of the power had dissatisfied Grenouille, because he was not loved for himself, but for the perfume which he created. He realised that he had always found gratification 'in hatred, in hating and being hated', not

love. He decided to return to Paris upon finding that the satisfaction that he initially felt had transformed itself into hatred and disgust.

In Paris, Grenouille approached a group of murderers, whores, etc), who did not notice him approaching. He deliberately doused himself with the perfume he created, while among the group. Overcome with desire, they tore him to pieces and devour the remains. They felt slightly disgusted having just eaten a human being, but they felt overwhelmed with happiness. They were "uncommonly proud for the first time they had done something out of love."

PATRICK SUSKIND’S BIOGRAPHY AND HIS LITERARY WORKS

Patrick Suskind’s Biography

Patrick Süskind was

,

Patrick Süskind is the oldest son of Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind, a journalist known for his essays on language, published under the title Aus dem Wörterbuch des Unmenschen [From the Dictionary of a Barbarian]. From 1968 to 1974 Süskind studied history at the universities of Munich and Aix-en-Provence, France. While in southern France, he gathered material for Das Parfüm. After the unexpected successes of Der Kontrabass and Das Parfüm, which thrust Süskind suddenly into the limelight, he had shunned publicity.

After spending the 1970s writing what he had characterized as “short unpublished prose pieces and longer un-produced screenplays”, Patrick Süskind was catapulted to fame in the 1980s by the monodrama Der Kontrabass [The Double Bass, 1981], which became an instant success and a favourite of the German stage. In 1985 his status as literary wunderkind was confirmed with the publication of the novel Das Parfüm. Die Geschichte eines Mörders [Perfume. The Story of a Murderer], which quickly topped the European best-seller list and eventually sold millions of copies worldwide. Suskind collaborated with Helmut Dietl on scripts for the popular TV series Monaco Franze (1983) and Kir Royal (1986). The collaboration enhanced his fame. In 1986, he awarded the prize for

best first novel by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, but he declined it. He said that he would not accept awards for his writing

While not as successful as his previous works, Süskind’s subsequent fiction – the novellas Die Taube [The Pigeon, 1987] and Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer [The Story of Mr. Sommer, 1991] – were well received by critics and helped sustain his reputation. His most recent works were his collection of stories Drei Geschichten und eine Betrachtung [Three Stories and a Reflection, 1995] and a screenplay for the film Rossini in 1996. According to press reports in 2004, Süskind had sold the rights to film Das Parfüm; Tom Tykwer would direct the adaptation.

A literary hermit who rarely comments on his creative process, Süskind was a postmodern Diogenes. Changing voice and genre with each successive publication, his authorial persona was as elusive as the man himself. Like their author, his protagonists were usually reclusive and misanthropic outsiders. They withdrew from public life yet still harbor secret desires for love and acceptance. As parabolic mirror of the postmodern condition, Süskind’s stories appealed to both a mass readership hungry for traditional narrative fiction and to intellectuals and scholars. They detected in his writings playful revisions of important philosophical and psychological problems.

. Little was known about his private life. He refused to grant interviews or made public appearances. He has residences in Munich, Paris, and Montolieu, France.

Patrick Suskind Literary Works Play

- Der kontrabass

……… 1980 Double Bass

Novel

- Dass Parfume, Die gesichichte eines Morders ………..1985

- Die Taube

………..1987

- Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer ………..1991

- Drei Geschichtend und eine Betrachtung ………... 1995

Three Stories and a Reflection Essay

-

Script for Popular TV Series

- Monaco Franze ……….... 1983

- Kir Royal

called fluidium letale". The Marquis combined a treatment of decontamination and revitalization for Grenouille, and subsequently, Grenouille looked like a clean gentleman for the first time in his life. Grenouille in turn tricked his way into the laboratory of a famous perfumier. There he created a body odour for himself from ingredients including "cat shit," "cheese," and "vinegar", whereupon he was accepted by society. But he didn't want acceptance, he wanted to have power and be able to manipulate those within the world who disgusted him so much.

Moving to Grasse, Grenouille once again became intoxicated by the scent of a young woman, Laure. He decided that she was not quite mature and resolved to kill her in two years time. Meanwhile he embarked on a career of serial murder of beautiful virgins to form a base for the scent he would make from Laure, while at the same time refining his powers until he could preserve any smell.

Eventually Laure's father pieced together the pattern of murders and realised that Laure was to be the next victim. He fled with Laure but Grenouille pursues them and killed Laure, capturing her scent.He was eventually apprehended and sentenced to death, but on the day of his execution the intoxicating scent of Laure combined with the backdrop essences of the twenty-four virgins he murdered, overwhelms all present, and instead of an execution the whole town becomes a massiv

Grenouille was pardoned for his crimes, and Laure's father even wanted to adopt him. But the experience of the power had dissatisfied Grenouille, because he was not loved for himself, but for the perfume which he created. He realised that he had always found gratification 'in hatred, in hating and being hated', not

love. He decided to return to Paris upon finding that the satisfaction that he initially felt had transformed itself into hatred and disgust.

In Paris, Grenouille approached a group of murderers, whores, etc), who did not notice him approaching. He deliberately doused himself with the perfume he created, while among the group. Overcome with desire, they tore him to pieces and devour the remains. They felt slightly disgusted having just eaten a human being, but they felt overwhelmed with happiness. They were "uncommonly proud for the first time they had done something out of love."

PATRICK SUSKIND’S BIOGRAPHY AND HIS LITERARY WORKS

Patrick Suskind’s Biography

Patrick Süskind was

,

Patrick Süskind is the oldest son of Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind, a journalist known for his essays on language, published under the title Aus dem Wörterbuch des Unmenschen [From the Dictionary of a Barbarian]. From 1968 to 1974 Süskind studied history at the universities of Munich and Aix-en-Provence, France. While in southern France, he gathered material for Das Parfüm. After the unexpected successes of Der Kontrabass and Das Parfüm, which thrust Süskind suddenly into the limelight, he had shunned publicity.

After spending the 1970s writing what he had characterized as “short unpublished prose pieces and longer un-produced screenplays”, Patrick Süskind was catapulted to fame in the 1980s by the monodrama Der Kontrabass [The Double Bass, 1981], which became an instant success and a favourite of the German stage. In 1985 his status as literary wunderkind was confirmed with the publication of the novel Das Parfüm. Die Geschichte eines Mörders [Perfume. The Story of a Murderer], which quickly topped the European best-seller list and eventually sold millions of copies worldwide. Suskind collaborated with Helmut Dietl on scripts for the popular TV series Monaco Franze (1983) and Kir Royal (1986). The collaboration enhanced his fame. In 1986, he awarded the prize for

best first novel by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, but he declined it. He said that he would not accept awards for his writing

While not as successful as his previous works, Süskind’s subsequent fiction – the novellas Die Taube [The Pigeon, 1987] and Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer [The Story of Mr. Sommer, 1991] – were well received by critics and helped sustain his reputation. His most recent works were his collection of stories Drei Geschichten und eine Betrachtung [Three Stories and a Reflection, 1995] and a screenplay for the film Rossini in 1996. According to press reports in 2004, Süskind had sold the rights to film Das Parfüm; Tom Tykwer would direct the adaptation.

A literary hermit who rarely comments on his creative process, Süskind was a postmodern Diogenes. Changing voice and genre with each successive publication, his authorial persona was as elusive as the man himself. Like their author, his protagonists were usually reclusive and misanthropic outsiders. They withdrew from public life yet still harbor secret desires for love and acceptance. As parabolic mirror of the postmodern condition, Süskind’s stories appealed to both a mass readership hungry for traditional narrative fiction and to intellectuals and scholars. They detected in his writings playful revisions of important philosophical and psychological problems.

. Little was known about his private life. He refused to grant interviews or made public appearances. He has residences in Munich, Paris, and Montolieu, France.

Patrick Suskind Literary Works

Play

- Der kontrabass

……… 1980 Double Bass

Novel

- Dass Parfume, Die gesichichte eines Morders ………..1985

- Die Taube

………..1987

- Die Geschichte von Herrn Sommer ………..1991

- Drei Geschichtend und eine Betrachtung ………... 1995

Three Stories and a Reflection

Essay

-

Script for Popular TV Series

- Monaco Franze ……….... 1983

- Kir Royal