The adventure of the main character in Mark Twain's The Prince and The Pauper (supervised by Herawaty and Andi Inayah Soraya). This study aims to explain the adventure of the main character in a literary work entitled The Prince and The Pauper by Mark Twain. The data source for this study is Mark Twain's novel The Prince and The Pauper, published in 1988.
Petualangan Sang Protagonis dalam The Prince and the Pauper karya Mark Twain (dibimbing oleh Herawaty dan Andi Inayah Soraya). Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah: (1) untuk mendeskripsikan situasi sulit yang dialami tokoh utama dalam novel The Prince and the Pauper karya Mark Twain, (2) untuk menjelaskan pengaruh petualangan terhadap tokoh utama dalam novel tersebut. novel. Pangeran dan Orang Miskin oleh Mark Twain. Sumber datanya adalah novel The Prince and the Pauper karya Mark Twain yang diterbitkan pada tahun 1988.
Background of the study
The first chapter of the thesis is an introduction which consists of the background of the study, problem identification, problem scope, research questions, research objectives, importance of writing and sequence of writing. Most of Twain's works deal with dreams and reality, such as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and most recently The Prince and The Pauper. All show the reader the dream and disappointment of children.
In this research, the writer has decided to analyze one of Mark Twain's works called The Prince and The Pauper. In The Prince and the Pauper, Twain portrays through the novel a society of people during the period of King Henry VIII. Twain reveals the life figures in Offal Court through the adventure play of the two boys.
However, in The Prince and the Pauper, Twain uses the history of England as the outline of the novel. There were several reasons why the novel The Prince and the Pauper was chosen. The lives of Edward and Tom are interesting and the theme of the novel is about the struggle and adventure of life.
Second, the novel The Prince and the Pauper was more expressive of the author's genius. The last, most interesting point was that these positions were the prince and the pauper.
Identification of the Problems
The story was very interesting and was about the two boys, who had the same physical appearance, and switched their own positions. The agreement to exchange their positions subsequently led to the prince experiencing conflict and his adventure.
Scope of the Problems
Based on the identification of problems, this study focuses on the difficult situations of the adventure faced by the main character of the novel The Prince and the Pauper.
Research Questions
Objective of Research
Significance of Writing
Sequence of Writing
Previous Study
In this chapter, the author discusses literature review, which consists of previous research, and the structuralist approach. It talked about Tom's maturing process to resolve the conflicts throughout his life of extraordinary adventures and experiences. It has similarities with this study in which the structural approach of the main character is analyzed, and with the same author Mark Twain, but with a different research object.
Ima Asmirawati uses "Maturity of the main character" in Twain's "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" as the object, while the writer uses "The adventure of the main character" in "The Prince and the Pauper" by Mark Twain. It discussed the challenges and difficulties the main character faces, and explained the effects of the adventure on the main character in his fiction. The similarity of this research is the focus on the adventure of the main character that uses the structuralism approach, but this research uses different objects as material for analysis.
Ulfi Dwi Arnita uses the Protagonist's adventure in Stevenson's Kidnapped as an object, while the author uses the Protagonist's adventure in Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper. Based on the description above, the writer concludes that the similarities and differences between the previous study and the author's research are found in the research object, the focus of the approach and the theory used in the analysis. The similarities found in previous studies discuss analyzing the main character's adventures that occur in literary works and one of the.
While the research differences in terms of the research object, in terms of the method of analysis, in this study the writer focuses on the adventure of the main characters of the novel The Prince and the Pauper using a structuralism approach. Therefore, the results of this study are absolutely different from the analysis in the previous studies, because the writer chooses to analyze about the Adventure of the main character in "The Prince and the Pauper" by Mark Twain.
Structuralism Approach
Character and Characterization
The characters are very important to make a story more alive and complete. Even the author cannot create a story without presenting the characters in the story itself. In short, a story is about this character, but he cannot stand alone; he needs other characters to make the story more convincing and lifelike. Their appearances appear many times in the story and go a long way in influencing the story.
The main character cannot play their role perfectly without the existence of the minor characters. Based on some explanations above, it can be concluded that character is an important element that builds the story. The plot is used to regulate how actions in the story are to be related to each other.
In other words, the plot is the series and stages of how the story can be told by the author. Stanton (2007:29) also stated that the character is influencing the plot, if the story only has a few characters, it will have a closer and simpler story. If readers do not know the plot of the story, it will be difficult to understand what the story is about.
Climax or the main point of the plot, this is the turning point of the story and is supposed to be the moment or peak of interest and emotion. From the explanation above, the author concludes that plot is the chronology of events that arranges the structure of the story.
Setting
You can imagine the reader describing the place, time, and atmosphere of each part of the story action. Setting the time is related to the problem of when the event in the story takes place. Situation of the society refers to matters relating to the behavior of the social life of the community in the place of the story.
The theme should represent the whole part of the story, as the theme is the basic development of the whole story. The theme strongly explains the unity of the action in the story and tells the story of life in a common context. The purpose of the theme is to give shape and effect in our mind so that the story is easy to remember.
Theme is the main subject of the story that is discussed and described many times, as Abrams said, “A theme is a prominent abstract idea that emerges from the treatment of its subject by literary works; or a theme that recurs in a series of literary works” (1988:25). The theme provides a strong explanation for the unity of what is happening in the story and tells about the story of life in a common context (Stanton 2007:24). It is the conclusion of all the action, and what is happening in the story to know the theme.
From the above explanation, the writer concludes that the theme is the main idea of the story that is discussed and described many times and contains the entire content of the novel. The reader can only understand the theme of the story after reading the entire contents of the novel and paying attention to the elements of the story.
Concept of Adventure
Plot, characters, setting, symbols, and other elements of the unifying point of the work can be provided by a theme to organize. In the Introduction to the Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction, critic Don D'Ammassa (2009:vii) stated that;. An adventure is an event or series or events that occur outside the course of the protagonist's ordinary life, usually involving danger, often physical action.
Adventure stories are almost always faster, and the pace of the plot is at least as important as characterization, setting and other elements of a created work. In a fairy tale, there is always an event or series of events that must be overcome by adventure in order for something to survive. On other pages are the characteristics of adventure according to Daniel Francis, accessed at Elements of an Adventure Story, It's Dangerous Out There, This Doesn't Happen Every Day, Just Do It, Suspense and Surprise.
Science fiction uses this element best because the worlds involved are new to both the protagonist and the reader. The element of the unknown is one angle that raises the tension in the story. For example, if the main character has never been to sea and has to maneuver a ship in a storm, you have an adventure.
If the story is about a seasoned captain of a ship enduring another storm, the thrill is denied. Some element of surprise enters the story when the audience comes to expect one action and another action takes its place.
