CHAPTER 1
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of The Study
The tragedy such a murdering frequently happens within society. Almost
every day on television, radio station, and newspaper report about murdering.
Those incidents are caused by many factors, for example jeolousy, grudge, debt,
and so on. These things are very different conditions within novel Perfume: The
Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind. In the novel, Patrick Suskind gave
explanations about tragic murdering to produce perfume.
The writer was interested to analyze a novel of Patrick Suskind entitled
“Perfume: The Story of a Murderer.” This novel tells about perfume was made of
25 virgin girls’ aroma. Jean- Baptiste Grenouille, who had a good sense of smell,
was a genius and capable to make good fragrant. He was obsessed to make the
best perfume because he had ever smelled a virgin girl’s aroma. Then he
murdered 25 virgin girls to take their body fragrance. The virgin girls died
improperly. Their clothes, hair and head skins were lost. The murdering of the 25
girls was successfully done with planned and mysterious ways and finally created
the best virgin perfume with magic. As the object of this paper, the writer will
analyze the tragic virgin perfume on “Perfume: The Story of a Murderer” by
Patrick Suskind.
Novel is a long work of prose fiction. In English the word “novel” was
borrowed from French and Italian to describe these works and to distinguish them
from medieval and classical romances as something that was new. In their book,
they also says that there are four aspects of fiction, works of fiction share a
number of common elements, they are: character, plot, structure, and theme. First,
Character is an extended verbal representation of human being, the inner self that
determines thought, speech, and behavior. A story is usually concerned with a
major problem that a character must face. This may involve interaction with
another character, with a difficult situation, or with an idea or general
circumstances that force action. The character may win, lose, or tie. He or she
may learn and be better for the experience or may miss the point and be
unchanged. Second, Plot is the serial arrangement of incidents, ideas or events.
The story of the novel progresses through various plots and conflicts. One of the
most important elements in shaping a work of fiction is plot. In the analysis of the
story, sometimes the plot is called as groove. Third, Structure refers to the way a
plot is assembled. Chronologically, all stories are similar because they all move
from beginning to end in accord with the time it takes for causes to produce
effects. Fourth, Theme is something which becomes the authors thought. It means
explains about view of life or the author’s image and how the consider the case.
Theme becomes a basic development of the whole part of the story the novel.
To understand a novel, we should know prose elements, such as plots,
characters, settings, themes, point of view, and figure of speech. Furthermore, an
ability in identifying novel elements is required to analyze a novel. The writer
uses descriptive methods or library researches by collecting data from some books
in library and searching information from internet. The writer also uses intrinsic
approaches by Wellek and Warren (1994:24), which is taken from data in
the text.
1.2 The Problem of The Study
Based on the background of the analysis, the problem of the study may be
recognized as follows:
a. Why does the tragic virgin perfume become an exciting tragedy?
b. How to produce the perfume?
1.3 The Scope of The Study
In this paper, the writer found many tragic stories to produce the virgin
perfume and excited to analyze. The writer just focused on the tragic virgin
perfume to make the readers easier to understand the novel.
1.4 The Purpose of The Study
The purpose of the study is to analyze and explain the virgin perfume
made of tragic stories.
1.5 Significance of the Study
The significance of this paper is to enrich the understanding on literary
works and it can improve the students to more interest in studying and enrich
about literature and also increased the habit for reading among the young people.
1.6 The Method of The Study
The writer uses the work of the library method that is by collecting data
from books in the library and the writer also search the information from internet,
such as data are colleceted, sorted, and summarized.
The writer also uses intrinsic approach by Wellek and Warren (1994:24)
which is the approach taken the data from text itself and also use library method
(Library Research) that is by collecting data from books in the library and also
search the information from internet, such as data are colleceted, sorted, and
summarized.
1.7 Reason for Choosing the Topic
The writer has chosen Patrick Suskind’s novel Perfume: The Story of a
Murderer as a subject of this paper. The writer is interested in tragic stories the
virgin perfume which is very excited. Especially tragic stories to produce the
virgin perfume.
