AN ANALYSIS OF TRAGEDY IN EMILY BRONTE’S NOVEL WUTHERING HEIGHTS
A THESIS
BY :
WIDIANA FRINATA RUMAPEA
REG. NO. 140705020
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH FACULTY OF CULTURAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SUMATERA UTARA MEDAN 2018
UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA AN ANALYSIS OF TRAGEDY IN EMILY BRONTE’S NOVEL WUTHERING HEIGHTS
A THESIS
BY :
WIDIANA FRINATA RUMAPEA
REG. NO. 140705020
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University of Sumatera Utara (USU) Medan as thesis for The Sarjana Sastra
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The examination is held in Department of English Faculty of Cultural Studies University of Sumatera Utara on November 16th, 2018
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Dr. Siti Norma Nasution, M.Hum
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NAME : WIDIANA FRINATA RUMAPEA
TITLE OF THESIS : AN ANALYSIS OF TRAGEDY IN EMILY
BRONTE’S NOVEL WUTHERING HEIGHTSS
QUALIFICATION : S-1/SARJANA
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UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ACKNOWLEDGMENT
First of all, I would like to give praise and thank to God Almighty Jesus
Christ who has blessed me with all love, luck, strength and ability to complete the studies. I’m beyond grateful for His kindness and bless, because none of this could happened without Him. Seek God’s will in all that you do and He will direct your path.
The most special thanks I dedicate to my beloved parents and my family.
My father Winton Rumapea for always encourage me to do my best and working hard to support me so that I can finish my study. Mother Astriani Nainggolan for her endless prayer for me and take a good care of me whole time. Both of you are one of my motivation to finish this study on time. I do pray God bless both of you with good health, wealth, prosperity and happiness ahead. Thank you to my brothers and sisters Ramod Rumapea, Yesi Rumapea, Geltri Rumapea, Anggi
Rumapea. Thank you all for your love and support.
I do realize that so many parties have helped and provided advices in the completion of this thesis. Through this opportunity, I would like to express my gratitude to the Advisor, Dr. Siti Norma Nasution, M.Hum and the co-supervisor
Dian Marisha Putri, S.S., M.Si who have provided so much knowledge and on their advice and guidance in making corrections to this thesis.
My gratitude also goes to the Dean of Faculty of Cultural Studies Dr. Budi
Agustono, M.S the Head of English Department Prof. Dra., Tengku Silvana Sinar,
M.A., Ph.D, and the Secretary of English Department Rahmadsyah Rangkuti
M.A., Ph.D. I also would like to thank all the lecturers of English Department for giving valuable knowledge during my study in English Literature. And thanks for
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UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA the kindest and friendly Mr. Kirno for helping me in completing the files.
Biggest thanks to my great soulmate of mine, Jos Gidion Bintang Manuara
Silalahi who have always been there through my hard times, help me and give me moral support. Thank you for your love, for always make me laugh, smile for my lame funny stories, and understand my mood swings. Hopefully we can be as succecful and happy as ever. Biggest thanks to my source of happiness, great friends of mine, ‘Kos Karo Squad’ who have always been there through my hard times, sheer me up, help me and give moral support.
Shout out to Kos Karo squad Apriani Ginting, Fitriana Sinambela,
Bernadetta Sitompul, Septiana Siringoringo. Thankyou for your love, for always make me laugh, smile for my lame funny stories, and understand my mood swings. We do have great time. Four years is never enough to be with you all. We support each other, being crazy together and hopefully we can be as successful and happy as ever.
Thankyou for Lydia gabriella panggabean, who kindly helped me. You are guys are the best. And I love you all. Class A 2014, thanks for a great time during my study, I cannot mention here one by one.
Finally, I hope this thesis will be useful and give a good contribution for myself, for the readers, and the others. I also receive any constructive critics and suggestions to develop this thesis.
Medan, Novemver 16th, 2018 The Researcher,
Widiana Frinata Rumapea Reg.no.140705020
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UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRACT
This thesis is entitled “ An Analysis of Tragedy in Emily Bronte’s Novel Wuthering Heights” discussing about root of tragedy in Emily Bronte’s novel Wuthering heights and kinds of the tragedy. This story is about an orphan child adopted into the Earnshaw family and believing thas he has been rejected by Catherine, Heathcliff leaves to meke his fortune. When he returns, Catherine is married to Edgar Linton, but she she still feels deeply attached to Heathcliff. Disaster follows for the two families as Heathcliff takes revenge on them all. The study of this thesis used theory by Sinha kinds of tragedy, and conflict’s theory by Tennyson. The method used in this study was descriptive – qualitative method. The result of the study found that Wuthering Heights is tragic story. The tragedy in this story is revenge tragedy. From this research it was found that revenge is very detrimental to everyone.
Keywords: Tragedy, Conflict, Revenge
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UNIVERSITAS SUMATERA UTARA ABSTRAK
Skirpsi ini berjudul “An Analysis of Tragedy in Emily Bronte’s Novel Wuthering Heights” yang membahas tentang seorang anak lelaki yang diadopsi menjadi keluarga Earnshaw dan Cinta Heathcliff yang tak sampai kepada Catherine membuat cerita ini berujung tragis karena balas dendam yang dilakukan oleh Heathcliff membuat cerita ini berujung tragis karena balas dendam yang dilakukan oleh Heathcliff. Tujua