ABSTRAK
Kertas karya ini berjudul Virgin Tragic Perfume in Patrick Suskind’s Novel
“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.” Penulis tertarik membahas tentang parfum
perawan yang diciptakan melalui kejadian-kejadian tragis pada novel. Novel laris ini menceritakan parfum terbaik perawan yang diciptakan oleh seorang laki-laki bernama Jean-Baptiste Grenouille yang tidak memiliki bau badan namun punya indera penciuman yang sangat tajam. Parfum terbaik aroma perawan tercipta karena obsesi Grenouille yang muncul setelah mencium aroma seorang perawan cantik. Dengan cara jenius aroma perawan ditangkap satu persatu, dibunuh dan dikuliti untuk diambil aromanya. Aroma 24 gadis perawan dikumpulkan dan dijadikan ekstrak parfum. Proses pembuatan parfum perawan diawali dengan membunuh 24 gadis perawan. Tubuh mereka layu, pakaian beserta rambut dan kulit kepala hilang. Pembunuhan berantai berjalan rapi, terencana dan misterius. Tetapi kerapihan tokoh akhirnya tertangkap dan ia dihukum. Dalam penulisan kertas karya ini, penulis menggunakan metode perpustakaan dan pendekatan intrinsik. Semua data yang ada dikumpulkan, dianalisis dan disimpulkan untuk mendukung kertas karya ini. Penulis berharap para pembaca dapat mengerti dengan unsur-unsur dalam novel.
ABSTRACT
This work paper entitled Virgin Tragic Perfume in Patrick Suskind’s Novel
“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.” The writer was interested to discuss about
virgin’s perfume created through tragic stories. This popular novel tells about a virgin’s best perfume created by a man, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, who had no body smell even though he had a good sense of smell. The creation of best virgin fragrant perfume caused by Grenouille’s obsessions after he had smelled a beautiful virgin’s aroma. With tricky ways, he collected the virgin’s aroma periodically, murdered and peeled or removed her skin to take the aroma. The aroma of 24 virgin girls were collected and made into extracted perfume. The production process of virgin perfume was begun by murdering 24 virgin girl. Their bodies were withered, their clothes and hair and head skin were lost. This chained-murdering was successfully done with planned and mysterious ways. However, his trickiness was revealed and got punishment. Within this work paper, the writer uses library researches and intrinsic approaches. All data is collected, analyzed, concluded to support this work paper. The writer hopes the readers can understand with elements of the novel.
