The Psychosocial Development and Mental Process of Tobias Eaton in Neil Burger's Divergent
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PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI THE PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND MENTAL PROCESS OF TOBIAS EATON IN NEIL BURGER’S DIVERGENT AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By DIMAS HARYO PRAKOSO Student Number: 164214134 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2020 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI TITLE PAGE THE PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND MENTAL PROCESS OF TOBIAS EATON IN NEIL BURGER’S DIVERGENT AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By DIMAS HARYO PRAKOSO Student Number: 164214134 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2020 ii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI MOTTO PAGE When you first came here, you weren’t in a bad patch but you still have A way at looking at things like the world hadn’t touched you yet. I think I wanted to protect that. Limitless vii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI DEDICATION PAGE LESS OF A FATHER, MORE OF A MOTHER. IN THE END, I WOULD NOT HAVE IT THE OTHER WAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR EXISTENCE. viii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude to my thesis advisor, Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka M. Hum for guidance, patience, and advices he has given me to make this thesis happen. Even when the world has looked down upon us, he continued the works with ease. I am thankful for everything Sir Hir has done for me and honored to be Sir Hir‟s mentor. Moreover, I want to give my gratitude to my thesis co-advisor, Arina Isti'anah, S.Pd., M. Hum, for giving me feedback and suggestion that made a huge improvement towards my thesis. I am also thankful to all lecturers and staff of English Letters Department in Universitas Sanata Dharma for their help, knowledge, experiences, and guidance during my time as a student, mostly to my academic advisor, Th. Enny Anggraini, Ph.D. My deepest love is given to my cat O‟renivita. Thank you for existing in this world. She is a god creature, which I am blessed to be her owner because she always accompanies me throughout the whole process of completing my undergraduate thesis. Although she does get too excited when I am working on my thesis, nonetheless, I am still thankful. I would also like to give my humble, sincere thanks to all my best buddies, Maureen Karina, Jugal Parmar, Maruška Maru Fedáková, and my university friends, Jennie Kim (Ayu), Clara M, Riris, Michelle, Satria, Nanda, Aska, Septian, Angel, Ceff, and Natha. I love you guys so much.Thank you for keeping me sane. Dimas Haryo Prakoso ix PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE ........................................................................................................ ii APPROVAL PAGE ............................................................................................. iii ACCEPTANCE PAGE ........................................................................................ iv STATEMENT OF ORGINILAITY .................................................................... v LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH .. vi MOTTO PAGE ................................................................................................... vii DEDICATION PAGE ........................................................................................ viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ................................................................................... ix TABLE OF CONTENTS ...................................................................................... x LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ............................................................................ xii ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................ xiii ABSTRAK ............................................................................................................ xiv CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ........................................................................ 1 A. Background of the Study .......................................................................... 1 B. Problem Formulation ................................................................................ 5 C. Objectives of the Study ............................................................................ 6 D. Definition of Terms .................................................................................. 6 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE .................................................... 8 A. Review of Related Studies ........................................................................... 8 B. Review of Related Theories ....................................................................... 11 1. Theory of Characterization ..................................................................... 11 2. Theory of Psychosocial Development .................................................... 14 3. Theory of Mental Process ....................................................................... 17 C. Theoretical Framework .............................................................................. 20 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY .................................................................. 21 A. Object of the Study..................................................................................... 21 B. Approach of the Study ............................................................................... 23 C. Method of the Study ................................................................................... 23 x PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS ............................................................................... 26 A. The Characterization of Tobias Eaton........................................................ 26 a. Ambigious .............................................................................................. 28 b. Survivalist ............................................................................................... 34 c. Affectionate ............................................................................................ 40 d. Traumatic ................................................................................................ 43 1.B The Psychosocial Development of Tobias Eaton....................................... 47 2.B Mental Process of Tobias Eaton ................................................................. 53 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION .......................................................................... 68 REFERENCES .................................................................................................... 70 APPENDIX .......................................................................................................... 71 Appendix 1: Table Contents of the Psychosocial development: eight ages of man. ................................................................................................................... 71 xi PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS DVD : Digital Video Disc YA : Young Adult MTV : Music Television IMDb : Internet Movie Database HMMA : Hollywood Music in Media Awards USD : United States Dollar etc. xii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRACT DIMAS, HARYO PRAKOSO. (2020). THE PSYCHOSOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND MENTAL PROCESS OF TOBIAS EATON IN NEIL BURGER’S DIVERGENT. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Sanata Dharma. Characters are those who exist to give pleasure to audiences. Characters have their characterization, which then can be involved with the development of the characteristics through psychology. It exposes the character‟s hidden personality from the workings of the conscious mind, the unconscious. The character of Tobias Eaton showed himself to be mysterious if analyzed without the pyschoanalysis. The results of significant changes in Tobias Eaton‟s personality are configured through the theories used psychosocial development and mental process. Throughout the process, Psychoanalytic approach is used to identify the inner thought of the character‟s behaviour. There are two research problems in this thesis: (1) How are the characteristics of Tobias Eaton portrayed in Neil Burger’s Divergent and (2) How does the inclination of the psychosocial development and the mental process of Tobias Eaton shape his personality in Neil Burger’s Divergent. The first problem is answered through the character characterization in film by Boggs and Petrie. The character of Tobias Eaton is analyzed based on how the character visually and mentally acts. The second problem is answered through the characterization of the character which is used to analyze the psychosocial development by Erik Erikson of the character. After that it uses the development and the characterization works as a shred of evidence for the effect of the character‟s mental process by Sigmund Freud. From the analysis, the findings state that the character of Tobias Eaton personality in characterization misrepresented his character as a whole based on his appearance alone. The childhood exposure from the psychosocial development found that the character has suffered through abandonment and physical abuse, which changes Tobias Eaton‟s vision in society. The adaptation of the character Tobias Eaton related to the unconscious and conscious mind found to be psychologically healthy and