AN ANALYSIS OF THE MORAL LESSONS FOUND FROM THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY BY LIBBA BRAY
A THESIS
BY
ROMAULI MANURUNG
REG. NO :070705068
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATRA UTARA
FACULTY OF LETTERS
ENGLISH LITERATURE DEPARTMENT
MEDAN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First, I would like to give thanks to my saviour Jesus Christ who always gives me His blessings, guidance and spirit to finish this thesis.
The thesis deals with An Analysis of the Moral Lessons found from the Main Character found in A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray.
I would like to say thank to some lecturers who helped and guided me to write this thesis, they are:
1. Dr. Syahron Lubis, M.A as the Dean of Faculty of Letters in University of Sumatera
Utara.
2. Dr. H. Muhizar Muctar, MS as the Head of English Literature Department in
University of Sumatera Utara.
3. Dr. Hj. Nurlela, M.Hum as the Secretary of English Literature Department in
University of Sumatera Utara.
4. Dr. H. Muhizar Muctar, MS as my Supervisor and Dra. Syahyar Hanum, DPFE as my
Co-Supervisor for the precious advices, supporting assistance and understanding that
motivated me to finish this thesis.
5. Drs. Ridwan Hanafiah, S.H, M.A as my Academic Supervisor for the encouragement
I say thanks to God for giving me parents, E. Manurung and S. Situmorang who love and care of me and also struggle hard to fulfill all my needs. “Thank you for your praying. I dedicate this thesis to both of you”.
Finally yet importantly, I would like to say thank to my friends Ayaki, Juita, Nela, Irma Sinaga, Noni Sinaga, Yulietha, and Anna Clova for all the time we had shared together. Finally, I hope this thesis will always be beneficial for the readers.
Medan, 11 March 2011
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ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ... i
AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ... iii
COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ... iv
ABSTRACT ... v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vi
CHAPTER I INTODUCTION 1.1 The Background of Analysis ... 1
1.2 The Problem of Analysis ... 3
1.3 The Objective of Analysis ... 4
1.4 The Scope of Analysis ... 4
1.5 The Significance of Analysis ... 4
1.6 The Method of Analysis ... 5
1.7 Review of Related Literature ... 6
CHAPTER II THEORITICAL REVIEW 2.1 Intrinsic Approach ... 7
2.2 Character ... 8
CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
3.1 The Data Collecting Procedure ... 14
3.2 The Data Selecting Procedure ... 15
3.3 The Data Analyzing Procedure... 16
CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS ... 17
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION 5.1 Conclusion ... 38
5.2 Suggestion ... 40
ABSTRACT
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1 The Background of the analysis
Literature is the art of written text. It is considered as the reflection of human imagination.
Literature is writing which expresses and communicates thoughts, feelings and attitudes to life.
Generally, literature can be divided into two categories. There are fiction work and nonfiction
work. And literature also has three branches such as drama, poetry, and prose. Meanwhile, prose
can also be divided into novel, short story, romance, etc. novel is one form of a literary work.
Cockshut (1890:1) has one stated that, “Novel are fictions, they are in prose and they
usually, but not quiet always”. Fiction originally meant anything made up, crafted, or shaped, but
today the word fiction refers to prose stories based on the author`s imagination, and non-fiction
describe facts or opinion. The novel is a fictional story in writing or words and has the intrinsic
and extrinsic elements. A novel usually tells the story of human life in their interaction with the
environment and each other. In a novel, the authors make every effort to direct the reader to the
images of the reality of life through the stories contained in the novel.
In a novel can portray characters and actions representative of real life, which deals with
human life, passion or ambition, desire, joy, sadness, feeling, thought, egoism and many things
that deals with fact of human life. Novel also can give can give precious lessons that may be
Barnet (1983:71) says, “Character has meanings as a figure in a literary work, such as;
Hamlet, and personality that is, the mental and moral qualities of a figure, when we say what X`s
character is weak, immoral and etc,”.
Libba Bray is an American novelist, A Great and terrible beauty (2003) is her first novel
and becam
had started with A Great and Terrible Beauty
thesis, I will analyze the moral lesson found from the main character in A Great and Terrible
Beauty by Libba Bray. There are four main characters in the novel they are Gemma Doyle, Ann
Bradshaw, Felicity Worthington, and Pippa Cross. As we know every people have a moral, even
it is good or bad. The moral value in this novel deals with the human problem in life, the main
characters in this novel tries to build up the good moral value in life because nowadays only few
people who have the right principle for their life. People become egoist, do not cares to others,
hate each others, and materialistic life becomes the view of life for most people for reaching the
happiness but actually material can not always makes people happy. The main characters in this
novel tries to show us for reaching the happiness and for the better life we should hold the right
principal as our view of life that morally good based on the standardization of behavior in
society. The bad moral of the main characters in this novel can be a good lessons to the reader to
increase their good moral because the bad moral of the main characters here shows how their bad
moral can harm their own life. So the reader can learn how to be moralist human with keep their
good action, attitude, and responsibility.
Cross. This includes the analyzing the moral of the main character, are the main characters have a good moral or bad moral.
1.2 Problem of Analysis
Based on the background of the analysis above, the problem of analysis may be recognized
as follows:
1. How Gemma and her friends` attitude in doing the adventure in the realm world?
2. What are moral lessons we get from the main characters attitudes?
1.3 The objectives of Analysis
The purpose of this research tends to answer the question or problem of study and it will be
in vain if the study has no purpose to be achieved. The purpose or objectives of this thesis are:
1. To identify the main characters attitude when they do the adventure.
1.4 The Scope of Analysis
In this thesis, I would like to focus to the moral lesson of four main characters portrayed in
Libba Bray novel A Great and Terrible Beauty, they are Gemma Doyle, Ann Bradshaw, Felicity
Worthington, and Pippa Cross and the adventures of four main character in a realm world
portrayed in the novel.
1.5 The Significant of the Analysis
This significance of this analysis is to enrich literary studies especially in literature through
novel for this thesis in order to use as reference to be more recited. Another significance of this
analysis is to understand about the moral lesson in a literary work portrayed in the main
characters.
1.6 The Method of Analysis
In writing this thesis, I apply library research. Library research means that I collect my data
from some books, internet and other related sources in order to support my analysis. I also read
various references which have connection to Libba Bray and her Novel “A Great and Terrible
Beauty” in order to add supporting opinion towards the topic discussed.
The method I apply in writing this thesis is literary descriptive approach. Moleong
(2000:6) says, “data collected in the form of words, pictures and not the numbers. Thus, the
research report will contain data excerpts to give a presentation of the report”. As the term
suggests description of event, I take my source data through Libba Bray novel . first of all, I
its kinds of one another. And the last, combine all the related data to describe clearly the
analysis.
A part from the method of research above, in analyzing the thesis, I also use intrinsic
approach leads to understand more about language, style, symbols, images, contrasts, structure
and development of plot in a literary work.
1.7 Review of Related Literature
In this thesis, I collect several books in supporting the data of analysis. the books contain
some information, which design to assist the thesis. Some of them can be mentioned as follows:
1. Theory of Literature by Rene Wellek and Austin Warren, 1997
This book provides the explanation about the theory of literature.
2. Understanding Elements of Literature by Richard Taylor, 1982
In this book, Richard Taylor explain there are branches of literature such
Prose, drama and poetry.
3. Metodology Penelitian Kualitatif by Lexy J. Moleong, 2000. In this book, explain
CHAPTER II
THEORITICAL REVIEW
2.1 Intrinsic Approach
In analyzing a literary work, such as a novel, we need to apply some approaches to get the
better ideas of understanding of how to analyze this literary work. These approaches can be
applied to analyze a literary work from the inside, outside, or from the both sides of aspects of
literary work itself. In this case, the writer applies intrinsic approach, as the only one literary
approach she consult, to analyze a novel from the inside of its text.
Intrinsic approach is introduced by Rene Wellek and Austin Warren in their book “Theory
of Literature” (1977:139-141). They define intrinsic approach as an approach of literary analysis
that builds a literary work from the inside of the text. Intrinsic approach uses no other material of
information from the outside of field of study, but the literary work itself. When we study a
novel, for example, we focus the analysis only from the text of the novel. Thus, the analysis of
intrinsic approach purely uses the information contained inside of the text which deals with the
analysis of the content which implies some elements of form: plot, character, setting, theme,
point of view, and style. These elements support each other to create a story, e.g. the events told
in a novel are parts of the content while the way in which they are arranged into a plot is a part of
the form.
2.2 Character
Character is one of the most important elements in literature, character hold the main role
in the form of human, but also it can be animals. Even, the human as the characters in a story still
dominated. Character ass the person that presented in the literary work, that their appearance is
interpreted by the reader as being endowed with desires, motivation, and emotional qualities that
are expressed in their saying and action in the story. On the other word, character in a fiction
work is the representative and the description of person qualities in the real life. Therefore,
although the character in literary works is fictitious, they have the personal qualities as the real
person. The character according to Robert (1993:20)
“character are the person in dramatics of narratives work, who are interpreted by reader as being endowed with the moral and dispositional qualities that are expressed in what they say in the dialogue and what they say in the dialogue and what they do in action.”
Based on the statement above, it is clearly seen that the character is created by the author
and applied on the story that their characteristic are closely to the real person in real life, so that
the character in the fiction works will be able to represent the real person in the novel,
throughout their actions and speeches.
Meanwhile, Sir Walter scott (Wellek & Warren. 1977:219) introduced the way how to
describe in detail of a character.
• Physical appearance describe the basic facts of character from the physical appearance (eg. Skin colour, hair colour, the eye, the shape of the face, etc), size (eg, fat, slim, tall,
short, etc). sex (female or male), age, and status (eg. Married, single, etc). this is the
simplest way to describe the character because it reveals only the external qualities of a
• Psychological nature describes the habitual responses, attitudes, desires, motivation, likes, and dislikes of a character. It reveals the inner part of the mind, both emotional and
intellectual which lead to the action. Psychological nature is important to describe the
feeling, thought, and behavior of a character.
• Moral nature describes the moral crisis of the character, whether he is bad or good. Moral nature proposes the character to examine his motives, values, and vices in the process the
character to examine his motives, values, and vices in the process to show his true nature,
both to himself and to the readers. No wonder, when we are reading a literary work such as
a novel, we often feel sympathetic to a character whose good quality, such as an honest
man, moral, brave, etc, and unsympathetic to a bad one who is wicked, immoral, and cruel.
The ability of an author to create his characters in such qualities of human beings makes
the readers as if they are watching the reality of human life.
2.2.1 The Main Characters
In the story of novel, several kinds of characters will involve throughout the entire story.
The reader of the novel will find so many characters during reading the novel, some characters
may appear for almost of the entire story, and the others characters may appear slightly. The
characters that can be found in the story of the novel has different function to the novel, some
characters may give the most great influence to the story, or even do not have the influence to the
story at all. The character whose appearance is the most frequently appear in the story and
Here is the short analysis of the main character of the novel written by Libba Bray entitled
A Great and Terrible Beauty, which the novel is being analyzed in this thesis:
1. Gemma Doyle
Gemma Doyle was 16 years old, is the main character in A Great and Terrible Beauty.
This story happened when they were 16 years old to adult.
My mother reaches out a white-gloved finger to stroke the snake`s back. “what do you think, Gemma? Now that you`re sixteen, you will be dining on cobra?”(Bray, 2003:1)
She was the sister of Thomas Henry Doyle. His father named John Doyle and his
mother named Virginia Doyle. On the 16th birthday his mother died.
Sometimes she felt weird and often call mysterious closest friends because she often had a vision
about something related to another realm.
2. Ann Bradshaw
Ann Bradshaw was 16 years old, is one of the main charactera in A Great and Terrible
Beauty. Ann is her roommate at the Spence Academy. Ann is an orphan that smart so she can go
to school at the Spence Academy with a scholarship. Ann is a simple girl, poor, not too pretty,
her nose is always runny, and have eyes that are watery and boring.
3. Felicity Worthington
Felicity Worthington was 16 years old, she is one of the main character in A Great and
Terrible Beauty. She is the most popular student in her school and became friends with Gemma
because Gemma knows the secret of her. Felicity is a beautiful and rich girl, her parent separated
but not divorced, her father is businessman in England while her mother opened a saloon in
4. Pippa Cross
Pippa Cross was 16 years old, she is one of the main character in A Great and Terrible
Beauty. She is Gemma`s friends in Spence Academy. Pippa is one of the most beautiful girls
among the four other main characters. She came from a mediocre, but her father was a gambler,
so her mother took the initiative to set her up with a rich lawyer but he was equal to the age of
Pippa`s father.
2.3 Moral
2.3.1 General Concept of Moral
A moral (frommorālis) is a
a
herself, or may be explicitly encapsulated in a
against the much-faster yet extremely arrogant hare, the stated moral is "slow and steady wins
the race". However, other morals can often be taken from the story itself; for instance, that
"arrogance or overconfidence in one's abilities may lead to failure or the loss of an event, race, or
contest". The use of
eliminating complexity of personality and so spelling out the issues arising in the interplay
between the characters, enables the writer to generate a clear message. With more rounded
characters, such as those typically found in
but no less present, and the writer may point it up in other ways (see, for example,
Throughout the history of recorded literature, the majority of fictional writing has served
not only to entertain but also to instruct, inform or improve their audiences or readership.
In
draw out a message for the audience to take away with them; while the
Morals have typically been more obvious in
introduced with the phrase: "The moral of the story is …". Such explicit techniques have grown
increasingly out of fashion in modern storytelling, and are now usually only included
CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
In order to analyze the moral lessons found from the main character in Libba Bray` A
Great and Terrible Beauty, the library research is applied as the method in composing this thesis.
First of all, the novel is read to find the suppor ting data for the analysis in this thesis, then the
relevant data that found, are used as the source of the idea which support to the topic being
discuss in this thesis all are collected and then applied in finishing this thesis.
3.1 The Data Collecting Procedure
Referring to the library research as the method of analysis in collecting the data for this
thesis, this thesis uses several books as the sources of the data, the main source of the data
acquired from the novel which is being discuss in this thesis, which is that novel is written by
Libba Bray entitled A Great and Terrible Beauty, this novel as the primary source of the data that
this thesis used to obtain the moral lesson found from the main character. The secondary data is
drawn from others books as the references which the books are the most concerned about the
moral in the fiction work especially novel. And some data that found from the internet also used
as the suppor ting references in finishing this thesis.
Several steps are used in making this thesis. Firstly, the collecting the data from the novel
is gasthered by reading the novel. Reading the whole story of then novel then identifying the
moral values found from the main character based on the characterization of the moral value, and
then underline the moral value that found in the novel. Secondly, the secondary data are gathered
subject matter being analyzed are used as the source of the idea to support the analysis of this
thesis and also to give additional information and statement that can be drawn for this thesis, the
important and the relevant information from these books are marked and underlined so that it can
be used to support the analysis of this thesis, these books finally also used as the refrences for
this thesis. Some data from the internet also used as the supporting references that related to the
moral lessons as the subject matter of this thesis.
3.2 The Data Selecting Procedure
When all the data and information that related to the topic of this thesis are collected, then
the data will be selected and used in the process of finishing this thesis. In this step, the moral
lessons found from the main character as the primary data for this thesis are narrowed in order to
focus the discussion matter to the analysis, so the discussion will not going too far from the
topic. Meanwhile, the data and information found from the related books will be drawn to this
thesis in order to support the analysis in this thesis.
3.3 The Data Analyzing Procedure
The data analyzing procedure is applied when all the primary data from the novel is
collected and selected, as the data from the novel is in a form of written text, which concern
about the moral found from the main character that has been choosen to the most significant data
will be interpretedand to be brought into this thesis as the subject matter of analysis. Next, the
analysis will be stated by explaining the moral value of the main characters based on the
CHAPTER IV
AN ANALYSIS OF MORAL OF THE MAIN CHARACTER
An Analysis of Moral of The Main Character Reflected by The Main Character in Libba Bray` A Great and Terrible Beauty
In this chapter, the main discussion is moral analysis reflected in the main characters in
the novel A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray. The main character in this novel are four,
they are Gemma Doyle, Ann Bradshaw, Felicity Worthington, and Pippa Cross. The elements
which will be discussed in this topic is a character trait, physical, Status, and the moral of the
main characters.
4.1 Gemma Doyle.
Gemma Doyle physically is described as a juvenile aged 16 years, has a body that tall,
white speckled skin, not slim and not too fat, has green eyes, curly and unruly hair and also
having shoulder like a boy shoulder. Gemma is described as a mysterious character, stubborn,
and loyal friend. She was impressed as a mysterious character because she is often experience
strange visions of the death of her mother and she did not tell her friends, she hid it from her
friends so that her friends consider her as a mysterious girl.
Gemma is portrayed as a character who stubborn because his decision is difficult to be
changed, it is showed when she quarreled with her mother at the market she still insisted that she
come home with her mother and celebrate her birthday but for some reason her mother put it off,
“Gemma I think it`s best if I go to Mrs. Talbot `s alone”. “But what about the cake?” It`s ridiculous thing to say, but it`s my birthday and while I don’t want to spend it in Mrs. Talbot sitting room, I certainly don’t want to waste the day alone at home, all because some black-cloaked mad man and his cohort have spooked my mother.
Mother pulls her shawl tightly about her shoulder. “We`ll have cake later…”
“But you promised—“
“Yes, well, that was before….”She trails off.
“Before what?” Before you vexed me so! Really, Gemma, you are in no humor for a visit today. Sarita will see you back.”
“I`m in a fine humor,” I protest, sounding anything but.
“No, you are not!” Mother`s green eyes find me. There is something there I`ve never seen before. a vast and terrifying anger that stops my breath. (Bray, 2003:8)
“But I open my eyes, she`s still there, staring back at me, accusing. I don’t care if you come home at all. It was the last thing I`d said to her. Before I ran away”(Bray, 2003:17)
From the quotation above can be concluded that she is stubborn, she does not care and do
not listen to the reason given by her mother, she only concerned with her desire alone. This is
causes the relationship Gemma and her mother often did not get along and often fought. The
main thing that makes their relationship is not harmonious is Gemma steely desire to go to
school there for London and she would become a respectable young lady and hope to get an
honorable young man who will marry her, but her mother forbade it for reasons that are not so
clear so that the cause they often quarreled. This is can be seen in the excerpt below, which
shows the stubbornness of Gemma:
From the quotation above the writer concludes that Gemma has a great desire to be able to
attend school in London, she wants nothing more than to leave the hot, sticky atmosphere for the
civilized world of England, with its temperate climate, good education and bustling social scene.
So in any way she tries to convince her mother to allow her schools in London. From the excerpt
can be seen just how stubborn she is, she just wanted something without thinking about the
consequences beforehand without asking her mother the reason why her mother did not allow her
to go to London. At last Gemma gets her wish in a dramatic and tragic way, when her mother is
killed in a mysterious supernatural attack but although she had got she wanted she feels not
happy.
Gemma has the nature of the rough and often take the words that are less worthy and less
polite and rude as a respectable young lady. When Tom Gemma`s brother drove her to the
Spence Academy Gemma said something inconsequential like the sound of laughter and howls
that Tom warned her to control herself and attention to her language in the Spence Academy.
Because Spence is famous for good manner, so if students who attend school there can not be
polite, she will be expelled from school. This is can be seen in the excerpt below:
“in the fog, I trip over a thick the root sticking up from the trail and let loose with my father`s favorite curse.
“Blast!”
Ann`head shoots up at this. No doubt she`s the prudish sort who`ll run off to Mrs. Nightwing every time I glance cross-eyed at her.
“Forgive me, I don’t know how I could have been so rude,” (Bray, 2003:49)
From the quotation above shows that she is realize that her words were so rude and
disrespectful and it occurs spontaneously. This may be influenced by her father who spoke
and the environment) which roughly can affect one's moral. Gemma also has an attitude who
likes to yell when she is upset, including against his mother. And when she's on Spence
Academy Gemma also often rude behavior towards his friend, this can be seen from the
quotation below.
“Nice to meet you, Miss Doyle,” she says, linking arms with the brunette, who bumps my shoulder hard as they pass us. “Terribly sorry,”she says, and burst out laughing. If I were a man, I`d flatten her. But I`m not a man. I`m here to be a lady. No matter how if she much I loathe it already. (Bray, 2003:52)
From the quotation above shows that the attitude of Gemma is like a boy . Gemma being
rude to Pippa despite the fact that started the dispute but quickly she would fall for the behavior
Pippa and almost brutal act by saying if I'm the man I already beat her. Gemma's attitude shows
that she has no morals. Moral lessons that can be taken from her attitude is not easily provoked
to do bad things because it will eventually hurt yourself.
She also ever stole the communion wine from the chapel, it is prohibited because the
communion wine is used only for the sake of the church only, and besides, it is forbidden to steal
even stole something from the church, because church is a sacred place, but because of
persuasion and his friends Felcity others in order to enter into the their group, Gemma did such a
immoral things.
From the quotation above we can see that the immoral behavior that does not on her own.
From within herself refused to do that but to come back to Spence is too late for her because she
was too far to follow them. There is no other option for her than continue her adventures in that
chapel. And finally she did it steal the communion wine. Despite of her own self she felt heavy
to do that, it can be seen from the excerpt below:
“I can`t believe that I`m here inside the dark, gloomy chapel ready to commit complete sacrilege by stealing. Thou shalt not steal. It seem to recall that as being one of God`s I`d rather you didn’t lest I have to smite you into ash commandments. Nor do I think it will help my case that I`m stealing what the Church believes is the holy blood of Christ. It`s not too late. I could still turn back and go to bed. I could, but I`d forever yield what power I have now to those girls. (Bray, 2003:76)
From the quotation above shows she knew what she would do was wrong and violated
the sanctity to steal it, but on the other hand it can be seen that she also wanted to get the status
to be recognized by Felicity and her friends that she was capable of performing as her requested
to be part of their group. Although she tends to have a rude attitude and disrespectful, but she
also has a good moral sense of solidarity. Gemma indiscriminate in making friends for example
is Ann Bradshaw, she was her roommate who was always runny nose, have eyes that are dull,
she still wants to be friends with her. She tried to help her friend who in distress we can see it
from the quote below.
“One of the older girls stands at the door. When we reach her, she sticks out her foot and sends Ann sprawling to the floor. Her eyes dart past us where they find Felicity and Pippa a few heads behind. I give Ann my hand and help her to her feet. (Bray, 2003:55)
From the quote above shows that a sense of solidarity Gemma, she helped Ann when
Gemma saw an older class they deliberately stuck out her leg to cause Ann fell. This shows that
when Felicity accus her steal her ring a gift from her father. Gemma help Ann out of the problem
by replying Felicity`s cunning, that`s make Felicity furious against her. This we can see from the
excerpt below:
“A shriek comes from Felicity`s sanctuary. “My ring! What have you done with my ring?” The scarves fly open. Ann backs out with the other girls bearing down on her, Felicity pointing a finger accusingly. “Where is it” tell me instant!” I d-d-don’t have it. I d-d-didn’t d-do anything”. (Bray, 2003:62)
From the quotation above can be concluded that Felicity deliberately invited Ann to join
the group and then deliberately Felicity sapphire ring giving his father lay in a basket of knitted
Ann and screaming as if the ring was really have stolen by people and finally Ann who became
the suspect of error who never did, but she already knows Felicity cunning idea. With a cunning
way too Gemma save Ann so she is free. What Gemma did on Ann is the attitude of solidarity to
Ann. And this incident begins slowly friendship between Gemma, Ann, Felicity and Pippa began
intertwined.
Gemma also show her solidarity attitudes towards Pippa, Pippa was suddenly stricken
with the disease he suffered epilepsy even though she does not like Pippa, but she came into
Pippa`s room to visit her. This shows how much she care to her friends and when she gets a
vision of Pippa who fought under the water. At the time, they were playing in the lake and play
boat suddenly tilted the boat and make Pippa fell into the water. She tried to help her see that this
can be seen in the excerpt below:
From the quotation above can be concluded that how she worried about Pippa although
she does not like Pippa, but she desperately tried to help Pippa. It can be concluded that in
addition to coarse and disrespectful Gemma also has a good moral attitude is not all immoral. In
addition to helping Pippa, Gemma had also helped Felicity avoid Ithal her lover for his love
story is not known by Mrs. Nightwing. This is very clearly shows her solidarity to her friends.
And when they traveled to another realm, Pippa Cross Gemma`s companions plunged into the
river and she could not return to the real world, but because she has sense of solidarity, she
willingly returned to another realm to fetch Pippa. The following quotation:
“Don’t leave me!” Pippa moves onto the bow of the boat. It tips under her weight. “Pippa—no! “ I scream, but it`s too late. She jumps to the river and it closes over her grasping hands like ice, entombing everything but her watery, strangled cry…………Pippa? Pippa?” She`s so pale and cold. There are great dark circles beneath her eyes. “Pip, I`ve come to take you back.” Those violet eyes open. “Back.” (Bray, 2003:385, 395)
From the above quotation clearly shows that she is a character who is very loyal friend
even to pick up another Pippa returned to the highly risky nature of his safety, but she kept
coming back and invited Pippa to come home. This suggests that very high sense of friendship
she felt responsible for the safety of her friend. Because Gemma who brought Pippa into another
realm so that she feels fully responsible for the safety of Pippa, Pippa although ultimately refused
to return to reason do not want an arranged marriage with Mr.Bumble and wanted along with the
4.2 Ann Bradshaw
Ann Bradshaw is her roommate and Gemma`s first friend at Spence Academy. Ann is an
orphan who can attend school at Spence Academy on a scholarship. Ann has eyes that are
watery, boring, his nose is always wet but not runny. And herbody is a bit chubby. She is a girl
who does not graceful, not charming, and not beautiful. She is a smart girl, modest and do not
have the money to have the oppor tunity to change her life with school at Spence Academy. This
can be seen in the excerpt below.
“Ann Bradshaw is a doughy, plain girl, which is doubly damning. A girl without money who was also pretty might stand a chance bettering her station in life. Her nose runs. She dabs at it with a shabby lace handkerchief.” (Bray, 2003:48)
“…An orphan girl, a girl no one expected much from, someone who`d been dumped in a school because her relatives thought of her as a burden, a girl the other girls laughs at for her lack of grace, charm, and beauty…that girl might show them all one day.” (Bray, 2003:59-60)
Although Ann was not physically attractive, not beautiful, and an orphan girl but an
excess she is smart so she got a scholarship to study at Spence Academy. This has a value of
more than self-Ann. Ann Bradshaw is the status of a student studying at Spence Academy. Ann
also is an innocent character who tell the truth about her life. When asked about his family
Gemma Ann tells the truth without covering the actual situation. This can be seen from the
excerpt below:
“My father died when I was three. My mother had to work, but then she took sick and died. Her family didn’t want to take me in but they didn’t want to send me to thee workhouse, either. So they sent me here to train as governess.” It`s astonishing, this honesty. She doesn’t even flinch.” (Bray, 2003:62).
The quotation above shows how plain and honest Ann told her family background to
to get a scholarship with the intelligence she had. In this novel Ann has a moral character
because he never did immoral things in order to maintain her status as a recipient of a
scholarship so she should be the best to maintain the good name and her behavior as a
scholarship recipient and not break the rules at the Spence Academy.In this novel Ann described
as a very moral character because as a scholarship recipient at the Spence Academy Demand her
for being polite and have good morals. One of the moral attitude of Ann is greeted her as a
roommate with a friendly.
“This appeases Mrs.Nightwing, who smiles. “you`ll share a room with Ann Bradshaw. Ann is most helpful. She is one of our scholarship students.” …“How do you do?” she says, her dull, watery eyes revealing nothing. I think of her snug quilt and don’t expect her to be a fun-loving sort.” (Bray, 2003:44, 48)
From the quotation above concluded that Ann is a girl who was friendly and good
behavior towards all people. She was being friendly towards her roommates even though they
hardly know each other. This is one of the friendly attitude Ann. Ann also wants to help her with
helping to introduce the intricacies of Spence Academy. And also tell what activities are there at
Spence Academy. In addition, Ann is also an innocent girl.
Ann not only friendly to Gemma but also to Felicity and others. She is also being friendly
to the Gemma`s grandmother, Gemma`s father and Gemma`s brother when there was a program
Assembly day. Because none Ann came to visit her family on Day Assembly then took her to
meet her grandmother, father, and brother Gemma. Ann also talked with her grandmother Ann
politely despite trying to lie about their family backgrounds.
not to have to explain that she`s an orphan and endure everyone`s polite, silent pity.” (Bray, 2003:303)
From the explanation above shows that the outward appearance that Ann was the girl
who looks friendly and polite to everyone not only to her family only to other people even Ann
to be the case. Of these explanations the authors to conclude that Ann is an orphan students who
4.3 Felicity Worthington
Felicity Worthington is a classmate of Gemma, she was the most famous female students
in the school because of her beauty and wealth. Felicity is a beautiful girl with blond hair, pale
skin and have a higher body, other than that he was also arrogant, selfish, have a high sense of
solidarity, and crave power. Because he wanted to be a respectable young girl, strong, and want
to be a leader.
“her white-blond hair is arranged neatly in a bun, as young ladies must wear their hair, but even so, it seems a bit wild, as if the pins won`t really hold it. Arched eyebrows frame small, gray eyes in a face so pale it`s almost the color of an opal…even though the dark-haired girl is perfect and lovely, it`s the blonde who gets the attention of everyone in the room. She`s clearly the leader.” (Bray, 2003:47)
“We whip around to see two faces emerging from the mist. The Blonde and the beauty. They must have lagged behind and sneaked up on us. The smoky voice belongs to the blonde.” (Bray, 2003:51)
Based on the two quotes above the blonde-haired girl is Felicity and Pippa is a dark
brown-haired girl, they are two of the prettiest girls in the Spence Academy and also known as
an arrogant girl because she is rich and beautiful. But despite the rich Felicity has a bad family
background because herr father and her mother separated but not divorced. Her father was in
England while her mother opened a salon in Paris this gets less parental affection so that she
grows into a spoiled girl and sometimes nosy (like disturbing her friend), especially Ann and
Gemma.
Felicity portrayed as characters who have less moral values because she likes to taunt her
friend even trap Ann and Gemma, from the 4 main characters who have immoral attitude is
her father. This is Felicity immoral behavior that has no mercy to poor Ann. It can be seen in the
excerpt below.
“A shriek comes from Felicity`s sanctuary. “My ring! What have you done with my ring? “ The scarves fly open. Ann backs out with the others girls bearing down on her, Felicity pointing a finger accusingly. “Where is it? Tell me this instant!”…Felicity thrusts out her ringless finger as proof and attempts a mournful pout. “I had it earlier and noticed it was missing just after she came in.” (Bray, 2003:62)
From the excerpt above shows how immoral Felicity action. If Ann proved to steal the
Felicity`s ring then destroyed Ann lives, many due to be received for the actions of Felicity to
Ann, one of them is she will be excluded from school, none of the people who will giving her a
job because it has been proven she ever stole. Felicity's behavior is very harmful to others.
Felicity did the same thing to Gemma, when Gemma`s first time came to Spence Felicity
entered an initiation to her by telling her to steal a pitcher of communion wine from the chapel
but after she entered the chapel suddenly Felicity and her other friends encouraged her and
locked from the outside. The following quotation:
“it`s just like initiation we have here at Spence—we like to torture each other. Beauty, grace, and charm my foot. It`s a school for sadists with good tea-serving skills…
(Bray, 2003:77)
“You only need to take something from the chapel.”….”It`s not stealing. After all, it will never leave Spence. It`s just a way to prove you are trustworthy,” felicity says…Right. Get this over quickly, then. The light from the open door brightens up the vestibule, but the far end, where the altar and wine are, is in complete darkness. I start toward it and hear the door creaking closed, the light vanishing with the girls, the heavy thud of the wooden bolt being thrown on the outside of the door.” (Bray, 2003:74,76)
The quotation above shows just how naughty Felicity, she lock Gemma alone in the
chapel with no lights or other lights. If only Reverend Waite was conscious find her in chapel,
then she will be expelled from Spence on charges of stealing from the chapel and items which
intentional Reverend Waite who was drunk open the chapel`s door so that she can return to
Spence. It can be concluded that Felicity is naughty teenager but she can be said to be very bad.
Pippa also ever been slapped by Felicity for insulting her parents. It was began when Pippa and
Felicity have a dancing lessons they taunted each other and eventually Felicity lost control and
slapped Pippa.
“You`re not exactly in the position to be giving me advice, are you? With your family history?” What are you implying?” Felicity says with an icy coolness. “I`m not implying anything. I`m stating a fact. For what eyer else my parents may be, at least my mother isn`t …” she stop cold. “Isn`t what?” felicity growls…. Felicity move closer to Pippa. “No, if Pippa has something to say about my character. I, for one, would like to hear it. At least your mother isn`t a what?” Pippa squares her shoulders. “At least my mother isn`t a whore.” Felicity`s slap echoes in the room like a gunshot. We jump at the sudden violence of it. Pippa`s mouth is an O, her violet eyes tearing up from the sting. (Bray, 2003:183)
From the quotation above shows, that Felicity has an unstable emotion. She does not care
about anyone talking although she had known Pippa for a long time and they had friends before
she came, Felicity at all no matter how Pippa feeling when the slap in the face of a classmate and
how embarrassed Pippa at the time. Felicity`s action is especially inappropriate in duplicate. She
should can control her emotions and discuss the problem with Pippa in calm condition. But that's
Felicity selfish and want to win themselves. Felicity is a main character who the most naughty
portrayed in this novel, she had ever done anything that is considered obscene and disrespectful
that done by a respectable young woman is bathing naked in a lake at night. She does that thing
because she feels hot wearing a corset to look slim.
Felicity selfishness is also seen when Gemma as someone who can take them to another
world, suddenly refused to take them because she was aware of the harm of her friends but
Gemma. And she tries to go to the realm by her own way. It can be seen in the following
excerpt:
“She told me you`d react this way. That you couldn`t be trusted because you want the power of the Realms all to yourself.” Pippa and Ann look from Felicity to me and back again, waiting. “You can`t do this,”I say.” I won`t let you.” Felicity creeps forward, knocks me backward into the dirt. “You. Can`t. Stop. Us.” Don’t you see? Gemma wants the power over us.” (Bray, 2003:374).
From the explanation above shows that how egoist Felicity, she just cares of her own
desires without trying to understand Gemma`s reasons. And taking a wrong conclusion about her
unwillingness to take them to the realm. She accused her just want to have the power only
herself but actually, she is not. From the quotation above can also be concluded that Felicity is
very selfish in reaching her desire, whatever the intention must obey by her friends and others.
When the painting lesson with Ms. Moore, she provides visual aids in the form of an
apple. Felicity impolitely ate the apple she did not appreciate Miss Moore as a teacher, in
exasperation Ms. Moore warned Felicity to behave politely. The following quotation:
““Felicity inspect the bowl of fruit. She selects an apples bites into it with a loud crack. Miss Moore takes it from her hand and returns it to the bowl. “ Felicity, please do not eat the exhibit or I shall be forced to use wax fruit next time and then you`ll have a nasty surprise in store.” I guess it`s a still life after all,” I sigh, dipping my brush into the red paint. It`s appears I`m in the midst of rebellion. You didn’t seem to mind painting so much the other day.” Felicity shares one of her sly grins. “We are not the same as the other day day. Indeed, we are utterly changed, Miss Moore.” (Bray, 2003:264)
The quotation above shows how not politely Felicity, she did not appreciate Miss Moore
who was standing in front of the class, Felicity really like to break rules. She was not afraid of
environment around her, if she likes something then she will do so regardless of whatever people
said the war around. Although Spence is famous for its schools that have a predicate as a good
school by producing young women charming. But Felicity is one that is difficult in teaching
students to apply polite. She is a student who has been in rebellion with all regulations Spence.
Felicity also has a high sense of solidarity, although sometimes selfish attitude is more
dominant. When Pippa left behind in realms world Felicity insisted they must return to the real
world together but they left because of recessive Pippa. Felicity is one of the saddest in the
moment, then they decided to leave Pippa in the realm. But honestly they don’t.
“We`ll come back for her! “I scream, pulling her hand. “No!”…..Pippa! Pippa!” Felicity shrieks till she`s hoarse. “Felicity, we`ve got to go— now!”…Felicity is sobbing. “You left her there!You did it!”
From the above quotation can be concluded that Felicity is very loyal friend, she wanted
all her friends survived. They go into another universe together and she wants when they come
back to reality together too, but then the river swept Pippa. Gemma said she would return to
pick up Pippa. This is probably caused Felicity and Pippa has friends since a long time before
they be friends with Gemma so she feels so care of Pippa. Here, we can see how Felicity`s
solidarity to her friend, although she can not do much but she has been trying to get them back
together.
The conclusion of the character Felicity is immoral because after she is friends with
Gemma there are some changes in Felicity, although not directly occur gradually but there are
4.4 Pippa Cross
Pippa is a classmate of Gemma at Spence Academy. Pippa is the most beautiful girl among
her three friends. She has purple eyes, dark brown hair and has a body shape charming. Before
they be friends Pippa are more close with Felicity because of their beauty and they also have
some similar properties, they also have known each other for a long time. But Pippa is basically
a good girl but due to the negative effect of making it like Felicity Felicity is nosy, like his friend
mengggu example when Felicity Ann trap to steal the ring of his father, Pippa helped to trap
Felicity Ann and Gemma.
“Pippa pushes me toward the doors. “Behind the altar There`s a small cubbyhole.”She slides the bolt back with all her strength. The doors creak open on the tomblike darkness inside. “You can`t very well expect me to find it in the dark.” Feel your way,”Felicity says, pushing me inside. (Bray, 2003:76)
The quotation above shows that Pippa become Felicity`s accomplices to entrap Gemma
and her inside the chapel. Pippa is not bad but actually she just followed Felicity and because
they are old friends so a little more attitude Felicity also affect Pippa`s attitudes. Pippa also
conspired with Felicity to trap Ann. As an accomplice Felicity, Pippa persuaded Ann to enter
into the sanctuary of Felicity and accidentally entered the ring of Felicity into Ann`s knitting
basket. Pippa helping Felicity to do their idea to trap Ann. It can be seen in the following
excerpt:
“Pippa is all smiles. “There`s a sport. Come on, Ann.” She waltez Ann off to the far end of the room….“A shriek comes from Felicity`s sanctuary. “My ring! What have you done with my ring?” The scarves fly open. Ann backs out with the other girls bearing down on her, Felicity pointing a finger accusingly. “Where is it” tell me instant!” I d-d-don’t have it. I d-d-didn’t d-do anything”. (Bray, 2003:61-62)
attempts a mournful pout. “I had it earlier and noticed it was missing just after she came in.” (Bray, 2003: 63)
The quotation above shows how immoral the action of Pippa and Felicity. They conspire
to trap Ann with a tricky way. Pippa is basically a good girl is evidenced by its obedient to her
parents, she became engaged to Mr Bartleby Bumble, Esquire. It was not a happy occasion for
Pippa, but Pippa's family informs her that she must marry to save the family from ruin. Despite
her daughter's longing for
all related she assures that, Pippa one day will thank her for insisting on the marriage to Mr
Bumble. A desperate Pippa is able to break off her engagement by telling Bumble of her illness.
Bumble is described to see Pippa as a "fine piece of china" that he has purchased which has a
very bad crack. He is relieved to know of this before the wedding and plans to forget about the
wedding. However, when he informs Mr. and Mrs. Cross of his plans, they tell Mr. Bumble that
Pippa got cold feet and lied about her condition. Mr. Bumble agrees again to marry her.
In the realm Pippa and her friends can do whatever they like, they can get what they
want. They close their eyes, meditating for a moment in a flash of their application will be
granted when they open their eyes. On this occasion Pippa who always long time waiting for a
handsome knight just try these tricks and Pippa had done it, it can be seen in the excerpt below:
The quotation above shows that how happy Pippa when her wishes come true in the
realm. But in the reality she should obey her parents to marry Mr. Bumble. As the only one
children in their family Pippa as a child which arranged marriage with Mr.Bumble who older
than she is, Pippa just follow what her parents wants. If She refused her parents desired their
family will be destroyed because of the debts of her parents.
While the girls are in the realms, they are attacked by the creature that killed Gemma's
mother. Pippa runs off and Gemma can only take Ann and Felicity back Pippa remains trapped
in the realms. In the real world, Pippa has had an epileptic fit and Gemma goes back to the
realms to try and save her friend. She finds Pippa, but Pippa refuses to return to the real world
where she is seen as no more than a pretty face to be sold to the highest bidder for a loveless
marriage. Despite Gemma's insistence that the realms were "not a place to stay", being only a
"place of dreams", Pip merely asks what would happen if she "chose the dream instead?" In an
attempt to save herself from her horrible fate in the real world, Pippa eats berries from the realm,
causing her real body, back at Spence, to die. Pippa then leaves Gemma, heading off with a
knight in shining armor, a romantic fantasy she conjured up in an earlier trip to the realms. Pippa
CHAPTER V
CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
1. Conclusion
Moral lesson from the novel is necessary for the reader. Moral lessons adds something
useful and benefit to the reader, so that the story has its quality. The moral lessons usually can be
identified from the character`s action from the entire story. As the plot unfolds, the reader starts
to wonder what will the main character do and decide to handle the situation or the problem that
encounter by the main character. Many readers will gain useful lessons from reading the novel,
and the reader also can apply the good lesson or avoid the bad moral lesson to their real life, so
that the reader can get better life and learn how to find the solutions of the problems in life.
After analyzing the Moral of the main character found for the novel Libba Bray A Great
and Terrible Beauty, it can be drawn some conclusions from analyzing the main character`s
moral. They are Gemma Doyle, Pippa Cross, Felicity Worthington, and Ann Bradshaw. In this
world every people has their own problem and they often choose the wrong way in order to gain
happiness in their life. Every person has a moral, good moral and bad morals as well as the four
characters in this novel. Each of them has a good moral and bad moral too. Like Gemma, she is a
character abusive and disrespectful, but behind her immoral actions, there are also moralist
actions that she does such as helping her friends. It is same like Pippa did in this novel, although
Pippa always nosy and like to interfere with Gemma and Ann, Pippa is good-hearted girl who
longed for happiness, but what she got does not match that in her expectation. Pippa owned
beauty is not a guarantee that her life will be happy. Her beauty actually causes sorrow to her
order to pay in full her parents debt. The moral lesson here is a beauty is not guarantee make us
happy and life is a sacrifice in order to get something we have to sacrifice something, too.
Ann Bradshaw is the moralist character from the beginning to the end of the story, she
was the innocent girl who did not have parents anymore. He felt so know yourself that he is an
orphan girl who can go to school at Spence for a scholarship so she always keeps her behavior
and polite behavior to not violate the rules applied in Spence. Ann is very obedient to the rules
and fear of violating the rule. Ann attitude was should followed by the reader in the spirit of
living his life although he did not have families who care about her. Morale can be taken by
readers of the attitude Ann obey the rules because the rules are made to be obeyed.
Felicity is the main character who done the most immoral action. Felicity really like to do
things that violate rules out, it is showed when they out in the middle of the night and bathing in
the lake when it is considered obscene as a respectable young lady and she also likes bullying
others like Gemma and Ann, and she also ever slapping Pippa. She also do not polite in painting
lessons she eats apple which is displayed as an object to paint and there are so many Felicity`s
behavior which not contrast with Spence motto. Moral values that can be taken from the attitude
of Felicity is a high sense of solidarity, it is showed when she was worrying when Pippa left in
2. Suggestion
Libba Bray`s bovel A Great and Terrible Beauty is a worthy reading. The presence of the
main characters portrayed and the moralities of the main characters in this thesis denote the value
of literature reflects human concerns. The usefulness of reading this novel is meant to lead us
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APPENDIX
BIOGRAPHY OF LIBBA BRAY
Libba Bray was born on March 11, 1964 in
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was
At the age of eighteen, Bray was involved in a serious car accident and had to undergo
thirteen surgeries in six years to reconstruct her face. She has an artificial left eye because of this
accident
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her way to New York. Her first job was in the publicity department of
by three years at Spier, an advertising agency specializing in book advertising.
Bray was encouraged to write a young adult novel by her husband, Barry Goldblatt, a
Her first novel,
Video Awards. She wrote two more books to finish the trilogy she had started with A Great and
Terrible Beauty
Libba is friends with many young adult authors includin
good friends with fellow YA fantasy authors
represented by Bray's husband, a literary agent. Her blog can be read on
Bray has recently published a new novel titl
about a 16 year old boy named Cameron who has mad cow disease and a 16-year-old dwarf
named Gonzo whom he met in the hospital. Gonzo is a video gamer who thinks that everything
is trying to kill him. Cameron has visitation from a punkish angel named Dulcie who has a
propensity for spray-painting her wings. They are all on a mission to cure Cameron's mad cow
disease. Going Bovine was released in 2009 and received th
SUMMARY OF A GREAT AND TERRIBLE BEAUTY
Gemma Doyle, the series' protagonist, is determined to leave India and return to London
for an education and a proper upbringing. On her sixteenth birthday, Gemma and her mother are
walking through the Bombay market when the two encounter a man and his younger brother.
The man relays an unknown message to Gemma’s mother about a woman named Circe, and
Gemma's mother panics and demands that Gemma return home. Becoming angry at her mother’s
secrecy, Gemma runs away, and has a vision of her mother committing suicide while searching
for her, which she later learns is true. Gemma becomes haunted with the images of her mother’s
death.
With her mother dead and her father’s growing addiction t
off to a finishing school near London, Spence Academy for Young Ladies. At first, Gemma is an
outcast at the school; however, she soon finds the most popular and influential girl in school,
Felicity, in a compromising situation that would ruin Felicity’s life. Gemma agrees not to tell
Felicity’s secret and the girls soon form a strong friendship, along with Gemma’s roommate
Ann, and Felicity’s best friend, Pippa. But Gemma is still tormented with her visions and is
warned by the young man from the market, Kartik, a member of an ancient group of men known
as the Rakshana, dating all the way back to Charlemagne, that she must close her mind to these
visions or something horrible will happen.
During one of her visions Gemma is led into the caves that border the school grounds.
There, she finds a diary written 25 years earlier by a 16-year-old girl named Mary Dowd who
with her friend, Sarah Reese-Toome. Through this diary, Gemma learns of an ancient group of
powerful women called the Order and becomes convinced that her visions are linked to it.
Members of the Order could open a door between the human world and other realms, help spirits
cross over into the afterlife, and also possessed the powers of prophecy, clairvoyance, and what
was considered the greatest force of all, the ability to weave illusions. Gemma, Felicity, Pippa
and Ann decide to create their own Order in the caves to escape from the monotonous lives that
they are expected to lead.
As the girls read further and further into the diary of Mary Dowd they realize that the
actual Order existed at Spence Academy and that Mary was a part of it along with her best friend
Sarah and the original Headmistress Eugenia Spence, who all died in a fire at the school in the
East Wing. Gemma tells her friends the truth about her powers and together they travel to the
realms. There Gemma finds her mother alive and well, and the girls find that they can achieve
their hearts’ desires. Gemma wishes for self-knowledge, Felicity for power, Pippa for true love
and Ann for beauty. The girls continue to sneak out to the caves in the middle of the night and
visit the realms. However, Gemma’s mother warns them not to take the magic back into their
own world, for if the magic leaves the realms, the evil sorceress Circe will be able to find
Gemma and will kill her, leaving the realms unguarded.
After Gemma confronts her mother, she confesses that she was once a member of the
Order and escaped the fire thinking the others had died, she also discovers that her mother was
Mary Dowd and Circe was her friend Sarah Rees-Thoome. In Mary Dowds' diary Mary says that
she has sacrified Mother Elena's little girl to get back the descreased power of Sarah, after
The only way for her to ever be at peace is for Gemma to forgive her. When Gemma and the
other girls go back to the realms, they realize that something has changed. Before they can leave,
the creature that killed Gemma’s mother appears. Frightened, Pippa runs off and Gemma does
not have time to bring her back. Gemma takes Ann and Felicity to back Spence, leaving Pippa
trapped underwater. As the three friends awaken, they see Pippa seizing on the ground. They run
