An Analysis of character in Sthephenie miyer's novel
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
There
are a lot of definitions of literature. Some short explanation on it would be
useful for you. Very often it simply means anything that is written: time tables, dialogues, textbooks, travel
brochures and so on. If you are thinking of buying a bicycle or a motorcycle or
a washing machine, you will probably want to see the literature about it. If
you are medical student, you will have to read the literature about surgery. An
advertisement for soap is as much literature as Shakespeare’s plays or
Dickens’s novels. So, we may conclude all written materials, like this general
grouping: historical books, magazines, newspapers, dictionaries, novels, catalog,
plays, short stories, encyclopedias, etc. We can divide this large mass of
material into two different groups. The first one mainly presents information
and the next mainly gives some entertainment. Most definitions of literature
have been criteria definitions, definitions based on a list of criteria which
all literary works must meet. However, more current theories of meaning take
the view that definitions are based on prototypes: there is broad agreement
about good examples that meet all of the prototypical characteristics, and
other examples are related to the prototypes by family resemblance. For
literary works, prototypical characteristics include careful use of language,
being written in a literary genre (poetry, prose fiction, or drama), being read
aesthetically, and containing many weak Implicate.
Although the literature review is a widely
recognized genre of scholarly writing, there is no clear understanding of what
constitutes a body of literature. Each reviewer must decide which specific
studies to include or exclude from a review and why. And each such decision
alters the character of the set as a whole and could also therefore alter the
net conclusions drawn from the set. In this article, I examine a number of
examples of inclusion and exclusion decisions and illustrate how they affect
the resulting bodies of literature. For purposes of illustration, I draw on
literature examining the relationship between teachers qualifications and the
quality of their teaching practice.
Moody
(1987) writes that literature springs from our in born love of telling a story,
of arranging words in pleasing patterns, of expressing in words some special
aspects of our human experience.
Boulton
(1980) defines literature from a functional perspective as the imaginative work
that gives us R’s: recreation, recognition, revelation and redemption.
Rees
(1973), after describing what he regarded as literature, summed up that
literature is a permanent expression in words of some thoughts or feelings in
ideas about life and the world.
Absurd,
Literature of the. The term is applied to a number of works in drama and prose
fiction which have in common the sense that the human condition is essentially
absurd, and that this condition can be adequately represented only in works of
literature that are themselves absurd. Both the
mood and dramatically of absurdity were anticipated as early as 1896 I
Alfred Jarry's French play Ubu roi {Ubu the King). The literature has its roots
also in the movements of expressionism
and surrealism, as well as in the fiction, written in the 1920s, of Franz Kafka
(The Trial, Metamorphosis).
Fiction
is a form of literature that’s is written based on imagination or taken from a
true story. Fiction has been existed hundred years ago. The Greeks, for
example, had bequeath myths and legend which belong to kinds of fiction besides
novel, short story, poetry and drama.
Now
day, novel as one the fiction works attracts readers attention rather than the
other fiction works. Novel itself is defined by Raplh and Stanton as a prose
fiction of considerable length showing character in action, and capable of
greater complexity in both character and plot than the short story; moreover,
they said that novel is a book length piece of imaginative fiction.
To
study novel profoundly, people should know some aspects of the novel such as
theme, plot, characterization, point of view, style, tone, language, setting,
and character. These are the intrinsic element that very central in the novel
to describe story and make the story alive.
The novel is a
literary form that is most popular in the world. This literary form most widely
published and most widely circulated, because extensive community power in
society
The novel is a
work of literature that has two elements, namely: the retreat of intrinsic and
extrinsic elements are related because both are very influential in the
presence of a literary work.
A
fictitious prose narrative of book length, typically representing character and
action with some degree of realism: a fictitious prose narrative of
considerable length and complexity, portraying characters and usually
presenting a sequential organization
of action and scenes.
A
novel is a long written story about imaginary people and events. Novel things
are new and different from anything that has been done, experienced, or made
before. A novel is a long narrative that is normally in prose,
which describes fictional characters and events, usually in the form of a
sequential story. Novel an extended work
in prose, either fictitious or partly so, dealing with character, action,
thought, etc, esp in the form of a story.
A
novel is a book containing a long
story about imaginary people and events a
novel by a famous author novel, an
invented prose narrative
of considerable length and a certain complexity that deals imaginatively with
human experience, usually through a connected sequence of events involving a
group of persons in a specific setting.
Novel
in its broadest sense, a novel is any extended fictional prose narrative
focusing on a few primary characters but often involving scores of secondary
characters. The fact that it is in prose helps distinguish it from other
lengthy works like epics. We might arbitrarily set the length at 50,000 words
or more as a dividing point with the novella . and the short story. The English
novel is primarily thought of as a product of the eighteenth-century, though
many earlier narratives in classical Greek such as Heliodorus's Aethiopica and
Daphnis and Chloë (attributed to Longus) easily fulfill the normal requirements
of the genre, as the scholar Edmund Gosse has pointed out. Likewise, the
Japanese Tale of the Genji and collected writings of Murasaki Shikibu from 1004
CE would clearly qualify as well by our definition--though most Western
scholars treat these works as separate from the novel genre because
historically they do not play a direct part or direct influence in the
evolution of the popular English novel genre today.
Novel
is a piece of prose fiction of a reasonable length. Even a definition as
toothless as this, however, is still too restricted. Not all novels are written
in prose. There are novels in verse, like Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin or Vikram
Seth’s The Golden Gate. As for fiction, the distinction between fiction and fact
is not always clear. And what counts as a reasonable length? At what point does
a novella or long short story become a novel? André Gide’s The Immoralist is
usually described as a novel, and Anton Chekhov’s ‘The Duel’ as a short story,
but they are both about the same length. The truth is that the novel is a genre
which resists exact definition.
Novel a
long fictional prose narrative. It was the form's close relation to real life that differentiated it from the chivalric romance; in most European languages the equivalent term is roman, indicating the proximity of
the forms. In English, the term emerged from the Romance languages in the late fifteenth century, with the meaning of
"news"; it came to indicate something new, without a distinction
between fact or fiction. Although there are many historical prototypes,
so-called "novels before the novel", the modern novel form emerges late in cultural
history—roughly during the eighteenth century. Initially subject to much
criticism, the novel has acquired a dominant position among literary forms,
both popularly and critically.
In
the research , the writer takes one of those intrinsic elements, namely
character that will be analyzed. Character is a fiction representation of a
person. A role of a character in story is totally absolute. Thus, a story could
not be called as a story without any character. The presence of character makes
a story completely become clear.
Character
is : the way someone thinks, feels, and behaves : someone's personality
The combination of qualities or features that
distinguishes one person,group, or thing from another. the group of qualities
that make a person, group, or thing different from others : the bodily expression (as eye color or leaf shape) of the action
of a gene or group of genes.
character - an imaginary
person represented
in a work of fiction
(play or film or story);
character - a characteristic
property
that defines
the apparent
individual
nature of something;
character - the inherent
complex
of attributes
that determine
a persons
moral and ethical
actions
and reactions;
character - an actor's portrayal
of someone
in a play; character
- a person of a specified
kind (usually
with many eccentricities);
"a real character"; "a strange
character"; "a friendly
eccentric";
"the capable
type";
"a mental case"
character - a formal recommendation
by a former employer
to a potential
future employer
describing
the person'squalifications
and dependability;
character - a written
symbol that is used to represent
speech.
This
novel which is discussed in analysis written by Stephenie Meyer entitled Twilight
the first novel in the Twilight Saga. Twilight is a young-adult vampire-romance novel by authorStephenie Meyer. It is the first book of the Twilight series, and introduces seventeen-year-old Isabella "Bella" Swan, who moves fromPhoenix, Arizona to Forks, Washington and finds her life in danger when she falls in love
with a vampire, Edward Cullen. The novel is followed by New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn.
When
first published in hardback in 2005, it reached No. 5 on the New York Times Best Seller list within a month of its release and eventually reached
No. 1.That same year, Twilight was
named one ofPublishers Weekly's Best
Children's Books of 2005. The novel was also the biggest selling book of 2008 and
the second biggest selling of 2009, only behind its sequel New Moon. It has been translated into 37 different languages.
When
first published, Twilight gained
mostly positive reactions. Critics often described it as a "dark romance
that seeps into the soul" and praised it for capturing "perfectly the
teenage feeling of sexual tension and alienation". On the other hand, in
more recent reviews, some critics thought that Bella's appeal to Edward was
"based on magic rather than character" and that Bella is a weak
female character.
A
film adaptation of
Twilight was released in 2008. It was a commercial success,
grossing more than $392 million worldwide and an additional $157 million from
North American DVD sales, as of July 2009.
The
story of Bella Swan and her vampire lover, Edward Cullen. The novel explores
Bella's choice between her love for Edward and her friendship with werewolf
Jacob Black, along with her dilemma of leaving mortality behind in a terrorized
atmosphere, a result of mysterious vampire attacks in Seattle. This novel tells
about Bella Swan and the Cullen family.
Bella has spent a good amount of time with
the Cullens and has not only fully accepted that they are vampire, but has decided that she is going to be one of them
soon, whether her boyfriend Edward wants
her to be a vampire or not. This novel indicates that there is love story
experienced by a woman and also about her life she chooses, and about the
conflict among the characters. As a human who must decide between her love and
her life becomes a human or a vampire and lives with her boyfriend, Edward and
sacrifice to leave her best friend, Jacob whom truly loves her and had to leave
her father whose named Charlie. Bella is not willing to lose with her best
friend Jacob,that makes her confused in her life. This is the conflict of the
main character, Bella, Edward her
boyfriend and Jacob her best friend. The writer choose this novel because the writer
wanted to analyze the character in the ”twilight”.
B.
The Problem of the Study
Based on the background of
the analysis above,the writer points out that problems of the analysis are :
1. who is character
protagonist, antagonist, flat, round, ID, ego and superego “Twilight”?
2. How are the main
characters facing their problem in the novel “Twilight”
C.
The objective of the study
Every analysis has certain
purpose of objective to be obtained and avoid deviation from what has been
planned. The objective this analysis are to explain the character of each
chapter in Stephenie Meyer’s novel “Twilight” and explain how author show the
conflict in this novel using sociological approach.
D.
The benefit of study
The benefit at the
analysis are :
1. For writer :
A. To get good
qualification of the final task
B. To improve to
ability in writing
C. To get knowledge
in understanding literature deeply
2. To reader :
A. To understand
what the character is.
B. Know the conflict
of the novel.
C. To get knowledge
in society and how to respect each other in human
life.
E.
The formulation of the study
Based on the background of
the problem and the limitation of problems above, the writer can formulate the
problem “ An analysis of character in Stephenie Meyer novel Twilight”.
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