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A Psychoanalytical Study on Arya Stark's Development In PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI A PSYCHOANALYTICAL STUDY ON ARYA STARK’S DEVELOPMENT IN GAME OF THRONES AN UNDER GRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By REBECCA THALIA CARISSA HALIM Student Number: 154214035 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2020 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI A PSYCHOANALYTICAL STUDY ON ARYA STARK’S DEVELOPMENT IN GAME OF THRONES AN UNDER GRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By REBECCA THALIA CARISSA HALIM Student Number: 154214035 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2020 ii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI "The world doesn't just let girls decide what they want to be. But I can now." (Arya Stark) vii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI For mami viii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This part is especially made to express my gratitude for those who have helped and supported me during my thesis writing. I owe my deepest appreciation to my thesis advisor Sri Mulyani, Ph.D. for she has always been very supportive, to my co-advisor Dr. Gabriel Fajar Sasmita Aji M. Hum. for he has given me corrections and suggestions, to Mbak Ninik for she has always been so helpful and lastly to all of the lecturers of Universitas Sanata Dharma, thankyou for the education, thankyou for the time. I am incredibly grateful for mami Nana’s never ending support and love to me during my writing. A massive gratitude to Epin for she has inspired me to write with this topic. I am also thankful for all of my classmates and juniors that have spent their time together with me during my whole semesters. Lastly, a special thanks to Mamas for always been there during my toughest times and giving me the shoulders to cry on. Thanks for your love, thankyou. Rebecca Thalia Carissa Halim ix PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE ................................................................................................ ii APPROVAL PAGE ...................................................................................... iii ACCEPTANCE PAGE ................................................................................. iv STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY ............................................................ v LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH ...... vi MOTTO PAGE ............................................................................................. vii DEDICATION PAGE ................................................................................... viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .......................................................................... ix TABLE OF CONTENTS .............................................................................. x LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ...................................................................... xii LIST OF FIGURES ...................................................................................... xiii ABSTRACT ................................................................................................... xiv ABSTRAK ....................................................................................................... xv CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ................................................................ 1 A. Background of the Study ..................................................................... 1 B. Problem Formulation ........................................................................... 4 C. Objectives of the Study ....................................................................... 5 D. Definition of Terms ............................................................................. 5 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE ............................................ 6 A. Review of Related Studies .................................................................. 6 B. Review of Related Theories ................................................................ 11 1. Theory of Character and Characterisation ...................................... 11 2. Theory of Character Development ................................................. 15 3. Relation Between Literature, Films and Psychology ..................... 15 4. Theory of Tripartite Human Psyche ............................................... 17 5. Cinematics Point of View ............................................................... 20 C. Review of Related Backgrounds ......................................................... 23 D. Theoretical Framework ....................................................................... 25 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY ............................................................ 26 A. Object of the Study .............................................................................. 26 B. Approach of the Study ......................................................................... 27 C. Method of the Study ............................................................................ 28 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS RESULT AND DISCUSSIONS ................... 30 A. The Description of Arya’s Characteristics .......................................... 30 1. Boyish ............................................................................................. 30 2. Intelligent ........................................................................................ 38 3. Short-sighted ................................................................................... 44 4. Brave ............................................................................................... 49 x PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 5. Vengeful ......................................................................................... 55 B. The Development Process of Arya Stark ............................................ 60 1. Arya Stark’s Development ............................................................. 60 2. Arya Stark’s Id, Ego, and Superego ............................................... 84 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION .................................................................... 95 REFERENCES .............................................................................................. 97 xi PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS Para: Paragraph xii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI LIST OF FIGURE No. Figure Page 1. Fig. 1 Arya’s tripartite human psyche on season one and two ................ 89 2. Fig. 2 Arya’s tripartite human psyche on season three, four and five ..... 91 3. Fig. 3 Arya’s tripartite human psyche on season six, seven and eight ... 94 xiii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRACT Halim, Rebecca Thalia Carissa. (2019). A Psychoanalytical Study on Arya Stark’s Development in Game of Thrones. Yogyakarta: Departement of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Sanata Dharma. Game of Thrones tells about the war of five kings who play a deadly game to rule the Seven Kingdoms and sit on the Iron Throne. When Arya Stark is brought to King’s Landing, things start to turn chaotic. Starting from her father, mother until her brothers’ death. Undergoing these incidents, Arya changes from someone who is innocent to vengeful. Thus, this study tries to reveal Arya Stark’s development process with a psychoanalysis theory. There are two objectives in this study. The first one is to find out what Arya Stark’s characteristics are on Game of Thrones. The second one is to connect the tripartite human psyche by Freudian with Arya Stark’s decision to see how the process of Arya Stark’s development is in Game of Thrones. This undergraduate thesis uses a psychoanalysis approach because the researcher analyses Arya Stark’s development which needs to be deeply analysed with Freud’s theory of human psyche consisting of id, ego and superego. There are two kinds of sources that are used in this study: primary and secondary sources. The primary source is the movie series entitled Game of Thrones and the secondary sources are journal articles, thesis, books and internet articles. Therefore, it is concluded that this undergraduate thesis is a library research by searching the references in the library. The study reveals that in Game of Thrones, Arya Stark has five main characteristics: boyish, intelligent, short-sighted, brave, and vengeful which are described mostly through her speeches, actions, and decisions. This study obtains that Arya’s id is vengeance, but her superego knows that taking revenge by killing all of the foes by herself is not right, instead of doing what the id wants, her ego looks for another way to satisfy the id’s demand: she goes back to her family and fights the foes together to retaliate for her family. It concludes that Arya Stark’s development are well balanced as her id does not overrides her ego and superego. Keywords: Psychoanalysis, Characteristics, Character Development, Game of Thrones. xiv PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRAK Halim, Rebecca Thalia Carissa. (2019). A Psychoanalytical Study on Arya Stark’s Development in Game of Thrones. Yogyakarta: Departement of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Sanata Dharma. Game of Thrones menceritakan perihal peperangan yang melibatkan lima
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