CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
1.1Background of the Study
Literature is considered as the reflection of human imagination. It is
commonly known as a written of art. Literature is writing which expresses and
communicates thoughts, feelings, and attitudes to life. Literature may consist of texts
based on factual information (journalists or non -fiction), as well as an original
imagination. In literature, there are three branches of literature such as drama, poetry,
and prose. Prose is a type of literature that is written expression without rhyme
scheme or lyrical structure. Meanwhile, prose can also divided into novel, short story,
romance, etc.
In this thesis, the object to be discussed is a novel. Richard (1981-46) says,
“novel is a normally a prose work with a quiet length complexity which attempts to
reflect an express something of the quality of value of human experience.” In other
words, novels are long prose works with a great amount of detail on every page. The
effect of this detail is that the readers can recognize the complex reality of a character
or event in the story. Novels, however, are long works with great amount of detail on
every page. They present all the complicating facts that need to be taken into account
before we can reach any sort of judgment. The effect of this detail is that we come to
Novel is a long prose contains a series of stories of one’s life with the people
around him by accentuating the character and nature of each actor. Novel tells of an
amazing event of the characters, the events which made something different that
change the fate of the characters. Novel tends to expand and emphasizes complexity.
Expand and complexity means is dispositive in this case, the problems experienced
by the character, and the expansion of the background story. So, novel is a fiction
depicting the life story of characters through a complex series of events and changes
the fate of the character.
Novel presents characters and actions as representation of real life condition
and situation of the human. The characters or the people in the real have ambition,
desire, joy, sadness, egoism, feeling, thought, and many things that deal with fact of
human life. In other words, the novel is the combination of the real life experiences
and the imagination of the author. Therefore, literature may offer life lessons that the
novel teaches. Novel contains many aspects that reflected based on the human real
life. This aspects commonly concern with emotion, feeling, problems, etc. The
elements that build up novel are character, setting, plot, and theme. Character is
people in a story are referred to as characters and also representative of real life.
Setting is the place and time in a work of narrative. Plot is a literary term defined as
the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern.
Theme is one of the big components of literature along with things like the plot and
characters. The theme can be the meaning or lesson that a story is trying to convey.
Character is one of the important parts of novel. The people in a novel are
referred to as characters. Characters are representative of real life, such as human life,
hope, sadness, happy, and others which deal with real life.
From the description above, I sympathize with the main character in the novel
that I discuss, the character Mary Faber. Because of the character of Mary in the
novel is very interesting to be discussed, as well as other characters. In the novel, the
character of Mary is described as a very nice girl, smart, and strong in the face of
problems in her life.
Character is very important in real-made creation of literary works such as
novel, drama or even some of poems. The nature of character presentation gives a
positive impact for readers to find out what is going on and what is it for. Character,
disposition, and character, referring to the attitude and the nature of the figures as
interpreted by the reader, it refers to the personal qualities of a leader. Personalities
and characterization often equated meaning with character and disposition refers to
the placement of certain figures with a certain character in a story.
In this thesis, I will analyze the main characters in L.A. Meyer’s novel
“Bloody Jack”. There are many characters in the novel, but here I just want to
analyze Mary ‘Jacky’ Faber and James ‘Jaimy’ Emerson Fletcher as main characters
and also there are some of minor characters. The reason why the middle name of
Mary is Jacky because she followed the UK ship as a lackey and on that ship there is
follow the ship to survive her life. And also the reason of middle name of James is
Jamie because he didn’t want if everybody called him as James, because it just made
him remembered with his father who made James work on that ship. The reason to
choose this topic I based on the recognition of the main characters as human being
who have their own personality which is concerned with moral and mental qualities.
Some facts of the moral life are such that everyone has to make decision continuously
in a world where there are right and wrong ways of doing this. Our actions and
decisions affect others as well as ourselves. Moral practices and standards depend on
the stage of social development. Morality grows out of life itself and is an attempt to
discover and live the good life. But in this thesis I examine the character through their
behavior, like main character behavior.
In the discussion to find a character in a novel we need to use an intrinsic
theory. Because the character is one of the building elements literature included in
intrinsic. And also to find a character in a novel we need to use qualitative research
method. Because the type of analysis is words that will take a sentences to prove how
the character is described.
Having read the novel, the characters portrayed are important to analysis.
Finally, I want to explain about the main characters portrayed and a little about the
1.2Problem of the Study
The problems of the study in this thesis are:
• How are the main characters personal behavior portrayed?
• How are mental of the main characters portrayed in the novel?
1.3The Objectives of the Study
• To identify the main characters behavior through their behavior
• To explain the mental of the main characters behavior through their
behavior
1.4The Scope of the Study
In this thesis, I would like to focus the main characters portrayed in L.A.
Meyer’s novel Bloody Jack; they are Mary ‘Jacky’ Faber, James ‘Jaimy’ Emerson
Fletcher. I was interested by the courage and effort in maintaining Marry Jacky life
by following the UK Ship as lackey. Her personality grows and changes from day to
day, but the other characters remain the same from figures the beginning. There are
many characters portrayed in the novel Bloody Jack. Such as character portrayed of
Mary ‘Jacky’ who very brave girl in her life, James which is very close himself from
the others, Liam Delaney who always help Mary if she get trouble with someone and
there are also some characters that are wicked, greedy and others. But in this thesis I
1.5The Significance of the Study
Theoretically, this analysis to add the literary understanding of literature
works and also characters through the novel. This analysis is supposed to enrich the
material study of literature academically.
Practically, this thesis can be applied to know about character portrayed
through the novel “Bloody Jack”. It also can be used for everyone who wants to
