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Purchase from to Remove the Watermark A-PDF WORDMerger TODEMO PDF : PurchaseDEMO: Purchase from www.A-PDF.com from www.A-PDF.com to remove to theremove watermark the watermark THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY CHANGES TOWARDS THE FEELING OF LOVE AS PORTRAYED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN NEIL GAIMAN’S STARDUST AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By TODY PRAMUDYA P. Student Number: 044214133 ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2009 A-PDF WORD TO PDF DEMO: Purchase from www.A-PDF.com to remove the watermark THE INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY CHANGES TOWARDS THE FEELING OF LOVE AS PORTRAYED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER IN NEIL GAIMAN’S STARDUST AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By TODY PRAMUDYA P. Student Number: 044214133 ENGLISH LETTERS STUDY PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2009 i A-PDF WORD TO PDF DEMO: Purchase from www.A-PDF.com to remove the watermark “Honeste vivere alterum non laedere, suum cuique tribuere” Live honestly, don’t hurt the other, and give everyone what he deserves (Paul Atreides) “Live your life to the fullest, love hard, play hard and do unto others as you would want done to you. Smile through life, unless you want someone to remember your frown.” (Nicholas Frawn) “Speak when you’re angry and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret” iv A-PDF WORD TO PDF DEMO: Purchase from www.A-PDF.com to remove the watermark This Undergraduate Thesis is dedicated to Jesus Christ in the Kingdom of Heaven My beloved Father and Mother My Grandmother and My dearest Sister vi ACKNOWLEGEMENTS I would like to thank to Jesus Christ for giving me spirits and sharing moments. I thank Him for giving me strength and guidance to finish this thesis. I realize that His guidance really motivates me to do the best. My deepest gratitude goes to Dewi Widyastuti, S.Pd., M.Hum . I would not finish this undergraduate thesis without her suggestions, guidance, helps, tolerances and corrections of my grammar very carefully. Thanks for your useful comments especially on my careless mistakes that I have done during my thesis writing. I also would like to give my deep thank to my co-advisor Maria Ananta Tri S., S.S., M.Ed. for reading my thesis, give me great suggestions, and comments. I thank also to Tatang Iskarna, S.S., M.Hum. for the suggestions of my undergraduate thesis. I express my gratitude too to my father Antonius Hartoyo and my mother Ejie Priasih for giving me support and useful advices. I will never finish my thesis without their support and pray every night. Next, I address my deep thanks to my grandmother Karsilah Wiryorejo and my sister Theodora . They have made my life so wonderful. I also would like to thank for all of my friends in English Letters ‘04, the lecturers, and the secretariat staffs who have helped me in understanding and learning English in my whole semesters in English Letters Sanata Dharma University. Last, I thank to everyone who has not been mentioned here for everything they have given to me. All of them have motivated me to everything as well as I could. Tody Pramudya P. vii TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE .................................................................................................................. i APPROVAL PAGE ........................................................................................................ ii ACCEPTANCE PAGE ................................................................................................... iii MOTTO PAGE ............................................................................................................... iv LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN KARYA ILMIAH ............................. v DEDICATION PAGE .................................................................................................... vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................... vii TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................................... viii ABSTRACT ..................................................................................................................... ix ABSTRAK ....................................................................................................................... x CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION .................................................................................. 1 A. Background of the Study ...................................................................................... 1 B. Problem Formulation ............................................................................................ 3 C. Objectives of the Study ......................................................................................... 4 D. Definition of Terms............................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II: THEORETICAL REVIEW ................................................................. 5 A. Review of Related Studies .................................................................................... 5 B. Review of Related Theories .................................................................................. 7 1. Theory on Character and Characterization ....................................................... 7 2. Theory on Love ................................................................................................. 11 3. Theory on Personality ....................................................................................... 14 4. Theory on the Relation between Psychology and Literature ............................ 16 C. Theoretical Framework ......................................................................................... 17 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY ............................................................................. 19 A. Object of the Study ............................................................................................... 19 B. Approach of The Study ......................................................................................... 20 C. Method of the Study.............................................................................................. 21 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS .......................................................................................... 24 A. The Characterization of Tristan Thorn ................................................................. 24 a. A Polite Young Man ................................................................................. 25 b. A Kind-Hearted Young Man .................................................................... 26 c. A Romantic Man ....................................................................................... 29 d. An Attractive Man .................................................................................... 30 e. A Responsible Man ................................................................................... 32 viii f. An Ambitious Man ................................................................................... 34 B. Tristan’s Personality changes the Feeling of love ................................................ 36 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION ..................................................................................... 46 BIBLIOGRAPHY ........................................................................................................... 51 APPENDIX ...................................................................................................................... 54 Summary of Neil Gaiman’s Stardust ....................................................................... 54 ix ABSTRACT TODY PRAMUDYA P. Personality Changes The Feeling of Love as Portrayed by the Main Character in Neil Gaiman’s Stardust. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata Dharma University, 2009. This thesis analyzes Neil Gaiman’s novel entitled Stardust . The writer discusses the influence of dream toward love that undergone by Tristan Thorn, the main character in the story. The problem that related to his dream will be the major part to be analyzed Stardust is a story talking about the young man namely Tristan Thorn. Tristan is a shy person who lives in the village of Wall. At the age of seventeen years old he begins to understand about love. He wants to get love from Victoria, but he is shy to tell love to her. The writer used library research in this analysis. The sources were books and websites, the theories, an approach, and criticism that are used to analyze the problems. The writer also collected the related studies about the opinions, criticisms, and also information about the novel. The psychological approach was used in the analysis because this study discusses about the effect of dream that influence Tristan’s love. This story presents Tristan’s personality changes toward the feeling of love. In the beginning, Tristan has many characteristics, but in the end Tristan is a brave person. His personality changes when he is influenced by the dream in the forest. His feeling about love is also changed. As the result of the study, the writer concludes that Tristan Thorn’s personalities change into a brave person. He knows that to get a love is difficult, that is why he must struggle to get the Yvaine’s love by using his bravery. Although he
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