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INTRODUCTION
1.1Background of the Study
Literature according to Edgar V. Roberts and Hendry E. Jacobs in book Literature: An Introduction to Reading and Writing (1995:2) refers to compositions that tell stories, dramatize situations, express emotions, and analyze and advocate ideas. Literature may be classified into four categories or genres: (1) Prose fiction, (2) poetry, (3) drama, and (4) nonfiction prose. From the various types of imaginative literature, my choice falls on prose fiction, exactly on novel, which is a fictitious prose narrative of considerable length and complexity, portraying character and presenting an organized sequence of events and scenes. Novel is a long prosenarrative that describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a sequential story. It also as a literary work that is has been appreciated by many people because it has entertained them, but commonly, Novel is collecting of story in chapter by chapter but it still have related in one others.
At the twenty first century, more than eighty percent people in Medan said that they never believed in magic, demons, and fairies. They were sure that magic has destroy in a long time. They also said that magic only for people that have black magic to their life as a strength to survive but not in Cassandra Clare's novel. This novel describes the life of magic and a Cup is called Mortal Cup. The Mortal Cup have a power to give birth a new Nephilim and the owner of the cup will be strong and stay alive. The real owner is Nephilim. Nephilim was the offspring of humans and angels. Nephilim are also commonly referred to as the Shadow Hunters. According to legend, the origin of them are already more than a thousand
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years ago, when humans were being overrun by demon invasions from other worlds including the downworld. The Downworld located on the belly of the earth and they can come and go into the real world and the downworld with penetrating floors or walls. Nephilim could create a new nation or army with a Mortal Cup, who mixed some of his own blood with the blood of men in a cup, and gave it to those men in the real world to drink. The Mortal Cup is very coveted by other nations and their own nation, the nation of the Nephilim.
The main clue in this novel is Clarissa Fray, she is called Clary. Clary did not have a good relationship with his mother , Jocelyn Fray . One day , when Clary went out to a club with her best friend , Simon , her mother , Jocelyn Fray disturbed by Blackwell and Pangborn . They are the servant of Valentines . Valentines is the former husband of Jocelyn Fray , who is also the father of Clary . Valentine asked his men to look up to Jocelyn forced to hand over the Mortal Cup which she had stolen from her ex-husband. Mortal Cup is a cup-shaped glass of the Nephilim. Nephilim are used to give birth to a new Nephilim, but not with Valentines , on the contrary he wants to destroy the Nephilim and create his own army to take over the downworld through the Mortal Cup .
This novel describes the highly coveted Mortal Cup between Nephilim and Valentines. Although Valentines eventually get the Cup , but he and the cup disappeared in Idris . Idris is a place in so a far away that can’t be visited by someone, except by the Portal that connected
between Idris and the world in which only has 2 Portal , firstly, located in the real world at Dorothea’s Room and then in the downworld in basecamp of Valentines, but the shadows
hunters have destroyed the portal and Valentines will never back again and Nephilim was back to normal and peaceful life in underworld even the Mortal Cup is gone .
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The novel make the writer curious of the Mortal life which come from the Mortal Cup. The Mortal life is completed by Nephilim, Demon and Angel and also the story is full of challenges and secrets to truth that has not been revealed.
The writer use the library method that is by collecting data from books in the library and also search the information from internet then data are collected, 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.
1.2Problem of the Study
a.Why does the Mortal Cup have a Powerful?
b.What is the effect of Mortal Cup to Nephilim and the characters?
1.3Scope of the Study
The scope of the study is just limit to explain the powerful of the mortal cup and also reviewing of element of prose. They are plot, theme, character, and structure.
1.4Purpose of the Study
The purpose of this study are :
a. To explain how the Mortal Cup have a Powerful.
b. To explain what the effect of the Mortal Cup to Nephilim and the characters.
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The writer use the library method that is by collecting data from books in the library and also search the information from internet, such as data are collected, 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.
1.6Reason for Choosing the Topic
The reason of the writer is the curious of the Mortal life which come from the Mortal Cup. The Mortal life is completed by Nephilim, Demon and Angel and also the story is full of challenges and secrets to truth that has not been revealed.
