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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS……… i
TABLE OF CONTENTS ……… ii
ABSTRACT ……… iii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION ……….. 1
Background of the Study ……….. 1
Statement of the Problem ………... ….. 2
Purpose of the Study ………. 2
Methods of Research ……… 3
Organization of the Thesis ……… 3
CHAPTER TWO: ANALYSIS OF PORTRAYAL OF PROTAGONIST IN PAULO COELHO’S ELEVEN MINUTES ……… 4
CHAPTER THREE: CONCLUSION ………. 14
BIBLIOGRAPHY ……….. 18
APPENDICES ……… 19
Synopsis of Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes………. 19
ABSTRACT
Dalam tugas akhir ini saya menganalisis karakteristik tokoh utama dalam novel Eleven Minutes karya Paulo Coelho. Tokoh utama ini digambarkan hidup dalam lingkungan masyarakat Brazil pada abad 21.
Maria, tokoh utama novel ini, merupakan seorang wanita dari daerah pinggiran Brazil. Pada tahap awal kehidupannya, Maria digambarkan sebagai wanita yang naif dalam hubungannya dengan pria. Hal ini dikarenakan ia mengimpikan seorang pangeran berkuda putih untuk menjemputnya dan kemudian menikahinya. Kemudian dia menjadi wanita yang manipulatif karena mengalami berbagai masalah dalam hubungannya dengan pria,. Selain itu, Maria juga menemukan hal lain, yaitu mendapatkan kepuasan seksual melalui masturbasi. Kemudian Maria menjadi seorang pekerja seks komersil demi mendapatkan kehidupan yang lebih baik. Semua hal ini menyebabkan Maria digambarkan sebagai seorang wanita yang memberontak terhadap nilai- nilai agama.
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APPENDICES
SYNOPSIS OF PAULO COELHO’S ELEVEN MINUTES
Maria is a young woman from Brazil who tries her luck in Switzerland. In her early stage of life, she experiences many things. She knows how to love but she is disappointed by love. She falls in love with a boy but she does not have the courage to reveal her feeling, until the boy leaves her and she realizes that she has made a mistake. Later in her life, Maria falls in love again but in the end, her boyfriend betrays her. In the same time, she discovers a way of achieving sexual satisfaction through masturbation. Nevertheless, Maria faces the fact that society does not accept people exploring sexuality. She gets caught by her father when she is masturbating and Maria’s father punishes her by slapping her. Once she
discovers masturbation, she abandons the idea of religious life forever.
After Maria’s adolescence years have passed, she still has relationships
with boys. But, her belief in love gradually decreases. She thinks that she will get married and have children, although without love. Maria then uses men as a way of learning; she tries to get satisfaction through sex with men. Then she makes up her mind that masturbation is better than having sex with men.
better life. So she tries to get out of her work as a dancer and begins to work as a prostitute. She then learns French in order to be able to communicate better than other prostitutes. She gets a lot of experiences in her life as a prostitute. She also has relationships with men, but none of them can make her fall in love again.
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BIOGRAPHY OF PAULO COELHO
CHAP TER ONE
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Paulo Coelho is a Brazilian novelist. He has traveled a lot of countries: South America, North Africa, Mexico and Europe, which broadens his knowledge of different cultures. This new knowledge encourage him to go back to his original intention, which is to become a novelist. His first published novel, Hell Archives, failed to make any kind of impact. Yet, he is now one of world’s biggest selling authors and even wins Guinness Book World of Record for his novel, The Alchemist. “…. My dream was, and still is, to be a writer” (Paulo Coelho). All his works attempt to tackle fundamental questions relating to the human condition - good versus evil, joy and despair, light and dark.
One of Paulo Coelho’s novels, Eleven Minutes is a fiction novel based on
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why I choose this novel is because it contains an issue about the rebellion in a society, by showing Maria’s decision which clearly against religious values.
In my thesis, I choose to analyze the portrayal of protagonist in this novel. According to Story and Structure, characteristic is a description of “what a person is” (Perrine 67). I intend to analyze the portrayal of protagonist because according
to Perrine, a protagonist is “[t]he central character in the conflict, whether he be a
sympathetic or an unsympathetic person” (67). Therefore, I think it is more suitable to analyze the portrayal of protagonist from the novel Eleven Minutes.
STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
In analyzing Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes through formalism, the
present writer would like to state the problems as follows: 1. How is the protagonist, Maria, portrayed in the novel?
2. What is the purpose of the author in creating such a character?
PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
Based on the problems stated above, the purposes of the study are formulated to be the following:
METHOD OF RESEARCH
In writing this thesis, I would like to conduct library research. To discuss the portrayal of the protagonist, I use formalism, “an interpretive approach that emphasizes literary form and the study of literary devices within the text” (Literary Theory). I begin the study by reading the primary text, Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes, in order to present my thesis statement. Then, to support my analysis, especially regarding the topic of this study, I search for additional information. This is done through browsing the Internet and reading reference books. The information and knowledge from the sources are then used to analyze the primary text. Finally, I draw some conclusion from the research I have done.
ORGANIZATION OF THE THESIS
The thesis is presented in three chapters and is preceded by the Acknowledgements, the Table of Contents, and the Abstract. Chapter One is the Introduction, which consists of the Background of the Stud y, the Statement of the Problem, the Purpose of the Study, the Method of Researc h, and the Organization of the Thesis. Chapter Two presents the Portrayal of the Protagonist in Paulo Coelho’s Eleven Minutes. I conclude my analysis in Chapter Three. This thesis
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
Primary Text
Coelho, Paulo. Eleven Minutes. Trans. Margaret J Costa. New York: Harper Collins Publisher, 2004.
References
Book References:
Perrine, Laurence. Story and Structure. United States: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1974
Internet Resources:
Biography. Paulo Coelho Official Site. 15 March 2009 <http://www.paulocoelho.com.br/engl/bio.shtml>
Brewton, Vince. “Literary Theory”. iep. 02 November 2010 <http://www.iep.utm.edu/literary/#H3>
eHughes, Donna M. Brazil. Uri. 10 October 2010
<http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/brazil.htm> Yang, Winnie. Eleven Minutes. Shs. 15 March 2009
