The Role of The Main Character’s Psychological Conflicts to The Theme Seen In Ahmad Fuadi’s The Land of Five Towers

Ngainun, Nisak (2014) The Role of The Main Character’s Psychological Conflicts to The Theme Seen In Ahmad Fuadi’s The Land of Five Towers. [ Skripsi ]

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Abstract

Keywords: Psychological Conflict, Psychoanalysis Theory, Moral Values. Literary work especially novel provides a lot of inspirations of life. Novel gives the reader an awareness that story happens in a novel is a reflection from a real life. Therefore, the reader can adapt the kindness from novel. Novel performs many interesting aspects to be researched. One of them is psychological conflicts happened in the main character of a novel. The Land of The Five Towers Novel performs a teenager as the main character who has psychological conflicts in the story. Alif as the main character is considered as a good model of a teenager. It can be explained that the way in which Alif as a teenager solves the psychological conflicts he faced is good enough to give the reader a good behavior how to solve the problem. It can give moral values for the reader. Then, the psychological conflict here is analyzed based on psychoanalysis theory by Sigmund Freud as a branch of Psychology. The formulation of the research problems were: 1) What kinds of psychological conflicts are experienced by Alif as the main character in The Land of Five Towers novel? 2) How do the psychological conflicts happen to Alif as the main character analyzed based on the basic principle of Psychoanalysis Theory? 3) What messages are conveyed through the psychological conflicts experienced by Alif as the main character? The purposes of this study were to: 1) describe psychological conflicts are experienced by Alif as the main character in The Land of Five Towers novel, 2) explain psychological conflict happen to Alif analyzed based on the basic principle of Freud’s Psychoanalysis theory 3) identify the messages of the novel contained in psychological conflicts. The research method: 1) this research was categorized as a library research by using documentation as the method in collecting data. In collecting data, the researcher uses some steps such as: a) Reading The Land of Five Towers Novel repeatedly, b) understanding the content of the novel, c) finding out the data related to research problems, d) writing the significance note, e) organizing the data 2) The process of data analysis are: a) Reading the novel repeatedly, b) exploring and describing the data, c) concluding data analysis, d) interpreting the data, e) extracting the moral values. 3) The Subject of the study was The Land of Five Towers Novel originally written by A. Fuadi then translated by Angie Killbane. The result showed that the main character’s psychological conflicts can be categorized into three: a) Approach-Approach-Conflict, b) Approach- Avoidance-Conflict, c) Multiple-Approach-Avoidance-Conflict. While, the researcher chose three psychological conflicts analyzed based on psychoanalysis theory. They are: 1) The Psychological conflict happened because of Alif’s failure in enrolling Senior High School, Bukittinggi, 2) The Psychological Conflict Caused by Randai’s success in enrolling Senior High School, Bukittinggi, 3) The Psychological Conflict Caused by Alif’s Strong Heart Desire to Study at Bandung Institute of Technology. Then, the moral values conveyed trough the psychological conflicts are: 1) Bravery, 2) Sincerity, 3) Honesty, 4) Love and Affection, 5) Steadfastness, 6) Thankfulness.

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