THE MADNESS CHARACTERS REFLECTED IN POE’S THREE SHORT STORIES
A THESIS
BY :
WINDA WIDYA SIREGAR REG. NO. 090705021
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
MEDAN 2013
THE MADNESS CHARACTERS REFLECTED IN POE’S THREE SHORT STORIES
A THESIS
BY :
WINDA WIDYA SIREGAR Reg. No. 090705021
Supervisor, Co-Supervisor,
Dra. Redita Lubis, Dip. Appl. Ling. M.Hum Dr. Asmyta Surbakti, M.Si 19490423 197412 2 001 19600325 198601 2 001
Submitted to Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara Medan in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Literature
UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
MEDAN 2013
Approved by the Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara ( USU Medan as thesis for The Sarjana Sastra Examination.
Head, Secretary,
H. Muhizar Muchtar, MS Dr. Hj. Nurlela, M. Hum
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Accepted by the Board of Examination in partial fulfillment of requirements for the degree of Sarjana Sastra from the Department of English, Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatra Utara, Medan.
The examination is held in Department of English Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatra Utara on 31 July 2013
Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies
University of Sumatra Utara
Dr. H. Syahron Lubis, MA NIP. 19511013 197603 1 001
Board of Examiners:
H. Muhizar Muchtar, MS,
Dr. Hj. Nurlela, M. Hum
Dra. Redita Lubis, Dip. Appl. Ling. M.Hum Mahmud Arief Albar, SS. MA
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Assalamualaikum Warrahmatullahi Wabarrakatuh.
First of all I would like to give my biggest gratitude to Almighty ALLAH Subhanahu Wa Ta’ala for blessings and endowments in my life. Especially during the process of finishing this thesis. Nothing is possible happen without His permission, Alhamdulillah I can finish this thesis. I always say Shalawat and Salam the revolutionary Prophet, Rasulullah Muhammad SAW.
I would like to say thank you to the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies Dr.
H. Syahron Lubis, MA, and the head of English Department Dr. H. Muhizar Muchtar and the secretary of English Department Dr. Hj. Nurlela, M.Hum for their advice and support during the process of finishing this thesis.
I would like to express my best thanks to my Supervisor, Dra. Redita Lubis, Dip. Appl. Ling. M.Hum and my Co-supervisor Dr. Asmyta Surbakti, M.Si for having shared their valuable ideas, times, guidance and patience. My gratitude is also expressed to all of my lectures in English Department who taught me much and contributed the knowledge during the academic years, and for Bang Amran as the administration staff of English Department, thanks for making this process well done.
I would like to say thank you to my father Hermanto Siregar thanks for being my hero, my mentor, my best friend, and my inspiration. I would like to say thank you to my beautiful mother Suswati thank you for everything, love, care, honest, and thank you for your support mommy.
Thank you to my best friends Triana Lestari, Armita Sari Siregar, Henni Purwasih, and Zarlina for the smile, laugh, tears and for your support, for the amazing years, and thank you so much we share everything and we can do it and I wish our friendship is an endless thing. I specialy thank you for Siti Lestari Nainggolan who gives me inspiration to finish my thesis, and also for Sri Yunita I will never forget our together with the supervisor for guidance, start to make an appointment, a discussion with the supervisor, and finally we finished thesis. I never forget to thank you for my class mate in English Department 2009, especially Dewi Maya Sari, Erna Januarini, Nurhasanah, Sinta Puspita Sari, thanks for being with me, sharing everything, and giving great support, and to all my classmate in English Department who always spend our great times together.
Finally, I hope this thesis will give advantage for the readers, especially for who are interested in studying the same field. Thanks.
Medan, The Writer
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ABSTRACT
In thesis entitled The Madness Characters Reflected In Three Poe's Short Stories. In this thesis are an analysis of madness characters contained in the three selected short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe. The aim of this analysis tells us that there was indeed madness stuff on the main characters in a short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe is already selected. As for the short stories are 'Berenice', 'The Masque of the Red Death', and 'The Black Cat', and in this thesis the writer also describe the things that belong to the madness characters such as: hurting animals by prying one one eye, then pull teeth forced out of one of the characters that cause death and others.
The approach used by the writer to analyze three madness characters in three short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe is selected Intrinsic approach, which focuses on the character. The method applied in this research is descriptive qualitative method, which aims to draw how madness character traits contained in the three main characters in the short stories written by Edgar Allan Poe selected. Based on an analysis of one of the intrinsic elements of the character, it was found that indeed there is madness in a very strong characters in the three short stories. This depiction includes interpretations that are then analyzed based on the existing data on the short stories. The results of this study are expected to provide benefits to the readers about the madness of information and analysis on the character of the characters in a short story.
ABSTRAK
Skirpsi ini berjudul The Madness Characters Reflected In Three Poe’s Short Stories. Di dalam skripsi ini terdapat analisis tentang kegilaan karakter yang terdapat pada ketiga cerita pendek yang terpilih karangan Edgar Allan Poe. Analisis ini bertujuan memberitahukan bahwa memang benar terdapat hal-hal kegilaan pada karakter utama di cerita pendek karangan Edgar Allan Poe yang sudah terpilih.
Adapun cerita-cerita pendek tersebut adalah ‘Berenice’, ‘The Masque of the Red Death’, dan ‘The Black Cat’, dan di dalam skripsi ini penulis juga memaparkan hal- hal yang tergolong dalam kegilaan karakter seperti: menyakiti binatang dengan mencongkel salah satu matanya, lalu menarik paksa keluar gigi dari salah satu tokoh yang menyebabkan kematian dan lain-lain.
Pendekatan yang digunakan penulis untuk menganalisis kegilaan karakter didalam ketiga cerita pendek karangan Edgar Allan Poe terpilih adalah Pendekatan Intrinsik, yang memfokuskan pada karakter. Adapun metode yang diterapkan di dalam penelitian ini ialah metode kualitatif deskriptif, yang bertujuan untuk menggambar bagaimana ciri-ciri kegilaan karakter yang terdapat pada karakter utama di ketiga cerita pendek terpilih karangan Edgar Allan Poe. Berdasarkan analisis terhadap salah satu unsur intrinsik yaitu karakter, maka ditemukan bahwa memang terdapat kegilaan pada karakter yang sangat kuat di ketiga cerita pendek tersebut.
Penggambaran ini memuat interpretasi yang kemudian dianalisis berdasarkan data yang ada pada cerita pendek. Dan hasil penelitian ini diharapkan dapat memberikan manfaat kepada para pembaca tentang informasi kegilaan pada karakter dan analisis karakter dalam sebuah cerita pendek.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
AUTHOR’S DECLARATION ... i
COPYRIGHT DECLARATION ... ii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ... iii
ABSTRACT ... v
TABLE OF CONTENTS ... vii
CHAPTER I ... INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study ... 1
1.2 Problem of the Study ... 5
1.3 The Objective of the Study ... 5
1.4 The Scope of the Study ... 5
1.5 The Significance of the Study ... 6
CHAPTER II A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF LITERATURE 2.1 Short Story ... 7
2.2 Character ... 10
2.3 Madness of the character ... 14
2.4 Romanticism ... 17
CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH
3.1 Data Collecting Procedure ... 22 3.2 Data Selecting Procedure ... 23 3.3 Data Analyzing Procedure ... 23
CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS AND FINDING ...
4.1 “BERENICE” ... 25 4.2 “The Black Cat” ... 28 4.3 “The Masque (Mask) of The Red Death” ... 32
CHAPTER V CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION
5.1 CONCLUSION ... 35 5.2 SUGGESTION ... 37 REFERENCES ... 38 APPENDICES
i. Author’s Biography and Works ii. Summary of The Three Short Stories
