PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHARACTER OF THE REPORTER IN WILLIAM FAULKNER’S PYLON AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By ELIN EPRILIN FITRIAN MIELA PUTRI Student Number: 154214106 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2020 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHARACTER OF THE REPORTER IN WILLIAM FAULKNER’S PYLON AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of The Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By ELIN EPRILIN FITRIAN MIELA PUTRI Student Number: 154214106 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 To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. -Friedrich Schiller- To the world you might be one person, but to one person, you might be the world. Kindness is the golden chain by which our world is bound together. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe- vii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI Dedicated to the All Support Systems from the United States to New Zealand. Thank you. viii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Firstly, I would like to dedicate my deepest gratitude to Allah S.W.T. for the blessings of living in this wonderful life. The blessings have leaded me to the end of my undergraduate thesis and my study. Secondly, I would like to thank my thesis advisor, Dr. Gabriel Fajar Sasmita Aji, M.Hum. my thesis co-advisor, Dr. Tatang Iskarna, and my main examiner, A.B. Sri Mulyani, M.A., Ph.D., for guiding and helping me to conduct this research. I could not be more grateful of his encouragements to be focus and be persistent during the process of making this research. Thirdly, I want to express my gratitude to my family, my dad, my mom, my brother, and my sister for supporting me to finish this research. I thank them for trusting me to finish this study. Lastly, I would to give my last but not least gratitude and love to all of my high school friends who have stayed with me until now, to Vanh Ahn Le who always reminds me about my life’s goals, to the Unterhofners who always give the unlimited supports, and to all my college friends who have supported me during the study. Sanata Dharma University has a big role in building myself into I am now for these four years. I have gained lots of experiences and met with many great people. Therefore, I would like to thank all of them for always inspiring me. Elin Eprilin Fitrian Miela Putri. ix PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE ........................................................................................................ ii APPROVAL PAGE .............................................................................................. iii ACCEPTANCE PAGE ......................................................................................... iv LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH .................................................................................................................. v STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY .................................................................... vi MOTTO PAGE ..................................................................................................... vii DEDICATION PAGE .......................................................................................... viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ................................................................................. ix TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................... x ABSTRACT ........................................................................................................... xii ABSTRAK .............................................................................................................. xiii CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ......................................................................... 1 A. Background of the Study ............................................................................ 1 B. Problem Formulation .................................................................................. 4 C. Objectives of the Study ............................................................................... 4 D. Definition of Terms .................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE .................................................... 6 A. Review of Related Studies .......................................................................... 6 B. Review of Related Theories ........................................................................ 10 1. Theory of Character and Characterization ............................................ 10 2. Theory of Personality Development ...................................................... 13 C. Theoretical Framework ............................................................................... 15 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY .................................................................... 17 A. Object of the Study ..................................................................................... 17 B. Approach of the Study ................................................................................ 17 C. Method of the Study ................................................................................... 18 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS (RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS) ...................... 20 A. Character Development of the Reporter ...................................................... 20 1. The Characteristics of the Reporter When Working for the Newspaper Company ....................................................................... 21 2. The Characteristics of the Reporter When Working in the Field ... 29 x PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI B. The Environments around the Reporter ....................................................... 35 1. Family ............................................................................................. 36 2. Peers as Models .............................................................................. 38 3. Community ..................................................................................... 39 C. The influences of the Environments to the Personality Development of the Reporter ....................................................................... 40 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION ............................................................................ 47 BIBLIOGRAPHY ................................................................................................. 51 APPENDIX ............................................................................................................ 53 xi PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRACT PUTRI, ELIN EPRILIN FITRIAN MIELA. (2020). Personality Development of the Character of the Reporter in William Faulkner’s Pylon. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Sanata Dharma. A character is one of the important elements in a story that has its own personality or characteristics. A character’s personality develops through the influence of some factors such as heredity and environment. Through William Faulkner’s Pylon, the researcher analyses the character’s personality development of the reporter. The character of the reporter in the story is significant because the reporter’s personality develops along the story influenced by the reporter’s heredity and environment. The first objective of the research is to analyze the character development of the reporter. The second objective is to discover the environments around the reporter. The third objective is to find out the influence of the environments around the reporter to the reporter’s personality development. This research uses library research. The main source of this research is the original copy of Pylon novel. The theory of character and characterization is used to answer the first question in problem formulation. The theory of personality development and the psychological approach are used in this research to answer the second question in problem formulation. From analysing the character development, the researcher discovers that the reporter is depicted as stubborn, disrespectful and selfish in the beginning. Then, the reporter’s personalities develop into a helpful, understanding and caring person. The researcher finds that the character’s development of the reporter’s personality is influenced by the environment around the reporter, such as family, peers and community. Those environments around the reporter have developed the reporter’s personality when the reporter works as a reporter for the newspaper company and when the reporter works in the field. The reporter’s personality develops from restrained into free personalities. Even though, the reporter competes other reporters to gain the news and has a boundary to cover the news that reporter wants to cover, the reporter is a human being like the flyer family who think money and house are not important, but they are happy to live like that. Keywords: character, environment, personality development. xii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRAK PUTRI, ELIN EPRILIN FITRIAN