PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI IRISH BEGRUDGERY AS REFLECTED IN SALLY ROONEY’S NORMAL PEOPLE AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By ARDELIA KARISA Student Number: 174214097 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2021 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI IRISH BEGRUDGERY AS REFLECTED IN SALLY ROONEY’S NORMAL PEOPLE TITLE PAGE AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By ARDELIA KARISA Student Number: 174214097 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2021 ii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI A Sarjana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis APPROVAL PAGE IRISH BEGRUDGERY AS REFLECTED IN SALLY ROONEY’S NORMAL PEOPLE By ARDELIA KARISA Student Number: 174214097 Approved by Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka, M.Hum. May 28, 2021 Advisor Epata Puji Astuti, S.S., M.A May 28, 2021 Co-Advisor iii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI A Sarjana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis ACCEPTANCE PAGE IRISH BEGRUDGERY AS REFLECTED IN SALLY ROONEY’S NORMAL PEOPLE By ARDELIA KARISA Student Number: 174214097 Defended before the Board of Examiners on June 19, 2021 and Declared Acceptable BOARD OF EXAMINERS NAME SIGNATURE Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka, Chairperson : ____________ M.Hum. Secretary : Epata Puji Astuti, S.S., M.A ____________ Member 1 : Sri Mulyani Ph.D. ____________ Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka, Member 2 : ____________ M.Hum. Member 3 : Epata Puji Astuti, S.S., M.A ____________ Yogyakarta, June 30, 2021 Faculty of Letters Universitas Sanata Dharma Dean Dr. Tatang Iskarna iv PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY I certify that this undergraduate thesis contains no material which has been previously submitted for the award of any other degree at any university, and that, to the best of my knowledge, this undergraduate thesis contains no material previously written by any other person except where due reference is made in the text of the undergraduate thesis. May 10, 2021 Ardelia Karisa v PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH UNTUK KEPENTINGAN AKADEMIS Yang bertanda tangan di bawah ini, saya mahasiswa Universitas Sanata Dharma Nama : Ardelia Karisa Nomor Mahasiswa : 174214097 Demi pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan, saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma karya ilmiah saya yang berjudul IRISH BEGRUDGREY AS REFLECTED IN SALLY ROONEY’S NORMAL PEOPLE beserta perangkat yang diperlukan (bila ada). Dengan demikian saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma hak untuk menyimpan, mengalihkan dalam bentuk media lain, mengelolanya dalam bentuk pangkalan data, mendistribusikan secara terbatas, dan mempublikasikannya di internet atau media lain untuk kepentingan akademis tanpa perlu meminta ijin kepada saya maupun memberikan royalti kepada saya selama tetap mencantumkan nama saya sebagai penulis. Demikian pernyataan ini saya buat dengan sebenarnya. Dibuat di Yogyakarta Pada tanggal 10 Mei 2021 Yang menyatakan, Ardelia Karisa vi PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to express my deepest gratitude toward my thesis advisor, Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka, M.Hum., for his guidance and effort in helping me write this thesis, and my thesis co-advisor, Epata Puji Astuti, S.S., M.A., for the helpful feedback. I am also thankful to the other lecturers of the English Letters Department for the knowledge and insights they have given me during my time studying at the university. Finally, this thesis would not have been possible without the help and support from my family; my close friends, Kikik, Nanak, Tami, Ichak, and Ufi. Lastly, I would forever be grateful for my friendship with Arin, Elin, Fira, Lieie, and Nandha. Without their constant support, I am sure I would not have been able to finish my study. Ardelia Karisa vii 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 UNTUK KEPENTINGAN AKADEMIS .............................................................. vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................ vii TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................... viii ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................... x ABSTRAK .............................................................................................................. xi CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ...................................................................... 12 A. Background of the Study .............................................................................. 12 B. Problem Formulation .................................................................................... 14 C. Objectives of the Study ................................................................................. 14 D. Definition of Terms ...................................................................................... 14 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE .................................................. 16 A. Review of Related Studies ............................................................................ 16 1. The Persistence of Passivity as Foundational Myth in Women Writing Women in Ireland: A Thread Between Mid-20th Century Repression and Cutting Edge Millennialism (2020) ............................................................ 17 2. Reconfiguring Irish Identity After the Celtic Tiger in Post-Crash Novels by Anne Enright, Sally Rooney and Caoilinn Hughes (2019) ......................... 20 3. Begrudgery & Brehon Law: A Literary Examination of the Roots of Resentment in Pre-Modern Ireland (2016) ................................................ 22 4. Beckett and Begrudgery: The Concept of Resentment in Samuel Beckett’s Molloy (2015) ............................................................................................. 25 B. Review of Related Theories .......................................................................... 27 1. Theory of Setting ....................................................................................... 27 2. Theory of Characterization ........................................................................ 28 C. History of Irish Society ................................................................................. 29 D. Review of Begrudgery in Irish Society ........................................................ 37 viii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI E. Theoretical Framework ................................................................................. 40 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY .................................................................. 41 A. Object of the Study ....................................................................................... 41 B. Approach of the Study .................................................................................. 42 C. Method of the Study ..................................................................................... 43 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS ............................................................................... 45 A. Description of the Characters and Society in Normal People ...................... 45 1. The Characters ........................................................................................... 45 2. The Society ................................................................................................ 53 B. Depiction of Irish Begrudgery Through Characters in Normal People ....... 58 1. Depiction of Begrudgery in Marianne Sheridan’s Character .................... 58 2. Depiction of Begrudgery in Connell Waldron’s Character ....................... 65 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION .......................................................................... 75 REFERENCES .................................................................................................... 79 ix PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRACT KARISA, ARDELIA. (2021). Irish Begrudgery as Reflected in Sally Rooney’s Normal People. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Sanata Dharma. The feeling of envy of someone’s success and superiority may result in resentment. This phenomenon can be found in any people in any society. Yet, in Ireland, this phenomenon becomes pervasive given its history of long colonialism and economic disparity within its society. According to Lee (1989) the phenomenon is a central character to the Irish people that the term begrudgery is exclusively coined to identify this tendency. Begrudgery has been depicted in many Irish literatures, including the recent popular novel titled Normal People. The novel tells a story of an on-off relationship between Connell and Marianne. Of the two settings in which the story is taken place, Marianne and Connell’s hometown, Carricklea, serves