MISS HAVISHAM’S ROLE TOWARDS ESTELLA’S PERSONALITY AS SEEN IN GREAT EXPECTATION BY CHARLES DICKENS Risma Kartika Dewi Email: [email protected] Program Studi Sastra Inggris, Fakultas Sastra, Universitas Gresik Dwi Retno Novemi Maulidiyah Email: [email protected] PT. Wilmar Nabati Indonesia ABSTRACT This study is conducted to get better understanding regarding the role of family, particularly the role of mother towards personality of the child. In holding her role as an adopted mother for Estella, Miss Havisham adopts the type of parenting style in which she fully dominates and eleminates the rights of Estella. Miss Havisham has an intention to do the twisted revenge on men. She uses Estella as her media of taking revenge. She puts her ambition on Estella without considering Estella’s desire. Her own disappointment leading her to foster an adoptive daughter under her control. The writer interests to discuss more detail whether Miss Havisham’s parenting style can influence to the personality of Estella or not. In Writing the thesis, the writer uses literary approach which is linked with descriptive qualitative. After collecting the data, the writer classifies and clarifies the data which are related to the topic being discussed. The finding of this study shows that there is parent involvement process in forming Estella’s thought, identity and achievement. The writer concludes that Miss Havisham’s parenting style is not the best way in parent involvement process because it generates the negative impacts on Estella’s personality. Key words : Role, Parenting Style, and Motive I. INTRODUCTION who named Estella, since she has no desire to marry anymore, to console her seclusion life. 1.1 Background of The Study Estella is absolutely told that she has been This study analyzes to the part of Charles brought up and fostered by a mother who is not John Huffam Dickens’s thirteenth novel that her biological parent. The thing that she must be represents the role of Miss Havisham as an accepted is Miss Havisham now is as her mother adopted mother for Estella. Miss Havisham is and she must be adaptable with the new frustrated by the fact such a deception which is environment. By the times, Miss Havisham done by her fiance. She withdrawals from nourishes Estella’s hatred, to break men’s hearts, circumstance and totally locks her to destroy them, to exploit her beauty in torturing communication with the others. She seems icy her admirers for the sake of revenge. It is and unsociable towards somebody else and keeps interested to be discussed as an elaborated a life of seclusion. She has such a skepticism for product of parent involvement process in the building the new commitment with another man. development of the children at an early age. A She asks Mr. Jagger for an adoptive daughter, child is a raw material that can be formed in AESTHETICS, Vol. 7, No.1, 2018 1 accordance with the wishes of the surrounding, study. The problem that will be formulated is like Thomas Lickona (1994) says that “A child is “How does Miss Havisham hold her role towards the only known substance from which a Estella?”. responsible adult can be made”. The growth and 1.3 Purpose of The Study development of children during this period took place very quickly and will be decisive for the Related to the statement of the problems, properties or the character of the child in the writer would like to analyze the purpose of adulthood. the study. The purpose is “To describe Miss Parents are their children’s strongest role Havisham’s ways in holding her role towards model and have the greatest influence in forming Estella”. the growth of the children. For those, the parents 1.4 Significance of The Study should pay attention to parenting. Psychologist, Diana Baumrind (1968), explains how parenting The writer hopes that the readers will be revolves around the idea of one particular able to understand the aspect of healthy family. parenting function: control. Most of parents want They can absorb and evaluate parent to be the good problem solver for their children involvement process, particularly the impacts of and they always hope that their children have parenting styles towards personality of children. better lives then they do, but how will be It is also hoped that the study will be able to help happened on the life of the children, if their the students of English Literary Department in parents foster them to be bad. It will be interest doing the next research which deals with Charles thing to dig more detail in the ways of Miss John Huffam Dickens’ work in general and Havisham in holding her role. Miss Havisham is particular, moreover, for those who want to do the first person who hold significant role in research in similar topics. forming Estella’s personality. Miss Havisham’s 1.5 Scope and Limitation education of Estella takes place within the family home, signaling the conflict between the need for The scope is from the analysis of the two girls and young woman to be trained in the main characters – Miss Havisham and Estella – domestic sphere and the danger potentionally in the novel Great Expectation by Charles John subversive mothers their supervised training Huffam Dickens. In order to avoid complicated techniques and messages. Problematic homes discussion and to keep the focus of discussion, and educational spheres extend beyond that the limitation of the discussion is included. The fostered by Miss Havisham. Using her style of writer limits her analysis on the role of Miss parenting, Miss Havisham’s rules contribute to Havisham towards Estella including its impact the view of Estella, and influence her personality towards Estella’s personality. to be bad. 1.6 Operational Definition of Key Terms 1.2 Statement of The Problem In order to avoid misinterpretation from In the statement of the problem, the writer the explanation above, the operational definition intends to show case that will be subject of the of each term used in the problems are presented, AESTHETICS, Vol. 7, No.1, 2018 2 those are as follows: role, parenting style and psychology professor at the University of motive. Henry Clay Smith (1974), in Personality California at Berkeley (1968), explains how Development says: “A role is the feelings, parenting revolves around the idea of one attitude and behavior that society expects from particular parenting function: control. These the holder of a position in some social structure. parenting styles include demandingness versus People’s roles are complementary to the extent responsiveness. In the words of Baumrind that appropriate behavior for giving a role herself, responsiveness describes “the extent to depends upon the roles played by other. which parents intentionally foster individually, Psychologist, Diana Baumrind (1968), explains self-regulation, and self-assertion by being how parenting revolves around the idea of one attuned, supportive, and acquiescent to children’s particular parenting function: control. Parenting special needs and demands” (Baumrind, 1991). style is the emotional climate in which parents In relation to demandingness, Baumrind says that raise their children. Motive as the driving force it refers to “the claim parents make on children of human action will be discussed as well to become integrated into the family whole, by because it is also important to reveal why a their maturity demands, supervision, disciplinary person does what he/she does. Every single efforts and willingness to confront the child who action or activity that a person takes or does is disobeys” (Baumrind, 1991). By observing driven by something ‘powerful’ from the inner. families firsthand, Baumrind identified three This powerful thing is called motive (Pasaribu & styles of parenting typologies, those are as Simandjuntak, 1984). follows : a. Authoritative parenting refers to a balance II. REVIEW OF THE RELATED of control and nurturance (Baumrind, LITERATURE 1968). Baumrind (1966) states that the Humanbeings can only communicate with parent attempts to direct the child’s others by playing role. The role of parents is acitivities in a rational, issue-oriented crucial in maximazing this period failed to use manner. Baumrind’s research found properly the formation of character is also adolescents of authoritative parents had difficult to bend, as well as the formation of higher self-esteem and greater social character early age would be much easier than confidence (Baumrind, 1991). shaping the character at the age of adolescence. b. Authoritarian parenting attempts to shape, The patterns of parent functioning are reflected control, and evaluate the behavior and in the parenting style. Erik Erikson (1963) attitudes of the child in accordance with a argued that positive emotions are very important set standard of conduct, usually an absolute developments in the mental development of standard, theologically motivated and children, and is very dependent on the role of formulated by a higher authority parents and teachers. Parenting styles and the (Baumrind, 1966). According to Spencer role of parenting are both important aspects in Rathus (2014), authoritarian parents have helping the children achieve optimal strict guidelines about what is right and psychosocial development. Diana Baumrind, a wrong, and they demand that their children AESTHETICS, Vol. 7, No.1, 2018 3 follow those guidelines without explaining 3.2 Source of The Data to the child why those rules were This study used a novel file entitled Great implemented. Darling and Steinberg (1993) Expectation (1861), written by Charles John also found these adolescents were likely Huffam Dickens, published in 2015 by Bamboo associated with low sociability, obedience, Books, as the data source. The data were in the and more likely to be involved in form of direct and indirect speech of the delinquency and substance abuse.