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Robert Langdon's Motivation in Dan Brown's the Lost Parafrase Vol.13 No.02 September 2013 ROBERT LANGDON’S MOTIVATION IN DAN BROWN’S THE LOST SYMBOL Yudhistira Ardi Susie Chrismalia Garnida ABSTRAK. Motivasi secara alami dapat memicu seseorang untuk melakukan usaha-usaha terbaik mencapai tujuan hidupnya. Penelitian ini berfokus pada motif yang dimiliki oleh Robert dalam karya Dan Brown yang berjudul The Lost Symbol. Tujuan penelitian adalah mencari motivasi Robert untuk mencapai tujuannya dan usaha-usaha yang dilakukannya untuk mencapainya. Penelitian ini menggunakan ancangan kualitatif dan pendekatan intrinsik terhadap unsur karakter untuk menjelaskan tentang perasaan, tindakan dan perilaku. Metode penulisan dalam penelitian ini adalah descriptive confirmative. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa motif Robert adalah menyelamatkan sahabatnya Peter Solomon dari tindakan penculikan dengan penyanderaan. Peter merupakan figur ayah bagi Robert sehingga ia tidak akan membiarkan Peter mati. Kedua, usaha Robert untuk mencapai tujuannya adalah dengan memecahkan seluruh lambang dan menguraikan sandi-sandi yang muncul dalam piramid, karena mengetahui bahwa Peter adalah anggota tingkat tinggi kelompok Fremasonry. Kelompok tersebut memiliki benda berharga dalam bentuk piramid dan hanya piramidlah yang dapat menuntun Robert menemukan lokasi portal kuno tersebut, yang merupakan benda penting untuk membebaskan Peter dari si penculik. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa Robert harus berusaha keras mencapai tujuannya bahkan tindakan ekstrim sekalipun. Dengan keahliannya sebagai profesor di bidang ilmu lambang, ia mengambil tanggung jawab untuk memecahkan seluruh lambang yang menuntun kepada pembebasan Peter. Setiap tujuan dalam kehidupan dapat dicapai jikalau didukung motivasi kuat untuk mencapainya. Kata Kunci: character analysis, motivation INTRODUCTION Motivation is defined as an internal drive that activates behavior and gives it direction. The word motivation is coined from the Latin word "movere", which means to move. Motivation is a term that refers to a process that elicits, controls, and sustains certain behaviors (www.wikipedia.com/motivation.html/). For instance: An individual has not eaten, he or she feels hungry, as a response he or she eats and diminishes feelings of hunger. Motivation may be rooted in a basic need to minimize physical pain and maximize pleasure, or it may include specific needs such as eating and resting, or a desired object, goal, state of being, ideal, or it may be attributed to less apparent reasons such as altruism, selfishness, morality, or avoiding mortality. Conceptually, motivation should not be confused with either volition or optimism. Motivation is related to, but distinct from emotion. It is natural that everyone in the world has an motivation because it can give a direction in his or her life goal. Motivation is a natural thing that can trigger someone to do the best efforts in whatever someone’s desire in human being life. Motivation can means internal and external factors that stimulate desire and energy in people to be continually interested in and committed to a job, role, or subject, and to exert persistent effort in attaining a goal (http://www.bussinessdictionary.com/article/666/html/). It means that motivation is the results from the interactions among conscious and unconscious factors such as the intensity of desire or need, incentive or reward value of the goal, and expectations of the individual and of his or her significant others. Motivation is an important ingredient to achieve the goals. It is the power that kindles the fire to do things and to act, and has much to do with ambition or desire. In fact, without strong desire there is no motivation. Motives are causes of behavior assumed to come from within the person or organism – the Yudistira Ardhi, S. S., alumni Prodi Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Surabaya Dra. Susie Chrismalia Garnida, M. Pd., dosen Prodi Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas 17 Agustus 1945 Surabaya 23 Parafrase Vol.13 No.02 September 2013 intervening variables connecting various stimuli to various responses. Motivated behavior tends toward organized pattern and endures of obtacles and frustations (Zimbardo, 1980: 286). This study focuses on motivation that is found in Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol. This novel wants to expose the motivation shown by Robert Langdon, the main character. Robert Langdon have a motivation to save his friend’s life. With his strong motivation, he will do anything even to do the extreme act to save his close friend. His motivation to save his friend’s life makes him never gives up until he can attain it. The writer is interested in studying Robert Langdon’s motivation pictured in Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol for a reason. The reason is because this story can gives value that can be taken as a lesson from Robert Langdon’s motivation that expose about the values of friendship when Robert saves his friend with anything he can do, although every efforts for it makes him in a trouble and risk his life. The Lost Symbol is chosen as the source of data because the story is a reflection of human attitude especially about motivation that cannot be separated from people’s goals and porposes. The problems raised in the study are formulated in the following questions: (1) What is Robert’s motivation? And (2) What are Robert’s efforts to attain his goal that appears from his motivation? The scope of the study is character, and the investigation is limited on the Robert’s motivation and the efforts of Robert to attain his goal that appears from his motivation. LITERATURE REVIEW The study of Robert Langdon’s motivation is based on some theoretical framework of basic concepts of character, plot, setting and motivation. Character Character is one of literary work elements which has an important role in a story. It is very important because it can build the story of the novel. Without character the story of the novel will not be interesting. Although sometimes the word ―Character is synonymously with the person, human being, and literary figure more often is used in reference to an individual personalities and characteristics. Kennedy says that character is presumably and imaginary persons who inhabit a story (1976: 86). A character in a fiction is like a mirror for reader where they can see themselves there. Sometimes when a character does something mostly. Similar with the readers deed as characters in the real world since the author creates the character of the story based on the human beings daily life. People and atmosphere around him influence him or her eventhough to make the story more interesting, sometimes an author develops a character by adding some creativity. So he can create a character, as he wants to send his messages to the readers. Here it can be seen the difference between character of fiction and people character in the real world. Eventhough character of fiction created freely by the author, but they cannot be free to act react because they have to do like what in the author’s mind and wish. While a character in real world can do whatever they want to do, whatever they wany to act or react. Character in literature is an author representation of a human being, specifically the inner self that determines though, speech, and behavior. Through dialogue, action, and commentary, literature captures some of the interactions of character and circumstance (Robert, 1977 : 54). Characters in fiction enable the readers easier to know and recognize the people better that they knew real people. Throughout the character’s acting, thinking, and feeling that are described by the author in the story, the readers can also view or learn the inner life of the characters in away that in impossible found in ordinary life, the readers only guess the inner thoughts and feeling of the people from their. External behavior which may be designed to conceal what are going inside. Pickering and Hoeper (1980 : 23) state that “part of fascination with character of fiction is that we want to know them so well, perhaps at times too well. In real life we come to know people for the most part only on the basis of external on the basis of what they say and what they do: the essential complexcity of their inner lives can only be inferred, if at all, after years of close acquitance.” In short, the readers can know people in fiction more 24 Parafrase Vol.13 No.02 September 2013 thoroughly than they know in real life, and by knowing fictional characters the readers can also understand people in real life than they otherwise could do. Plot Plot is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, or by coincidence. One is generally interested in how well this pattern of events accomplishes some artistic or emotional effect. An intricate, complicated plot is called an imbroglio, but even the simplest statements of plot may include multiple inferences, as in traditional ballads. Plot also part of the element of literature that gives an influence towards the story when it is interpreted or analyzed. Kennedy (1976: 7) states that “Such structure of events arising out of conflict may be called the plot of the story.” Like many terms used in literary discussion, plot is blessed with several meanings. Sometimes it refers simply to the events in the story. The roles of a plot in the story are to be the structure of actions and the events of the story. The events have develop by the author so that they create the whole story. Plot divided a story into five parts, like the five acts of a play. These parts are: exposition (of the situation); rising action (through conflict); climax (or turning point); falling action; and resolution.
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