Nurlianingsih, Tri (2014) ESTHER’S PROBLEMS OF PERSONALITY AS AN IMPACT OF HER FAILURE IN ACCOMPLISHING SELF-IDENTITY: A PSYCHOSOCIAL ANALYSIS TO SYLVIA PLATH’S THE BELL JAR. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
This research aims to identify which stage of the psychosocial development is unsuccessfully handled by the main character of The Bell Jar, and also to explain the impact of this failure to her personality. To answer the objectives, this research used the psychosocial theory by Erikson. This research used a qualitative research with the content analysis method. The main source of this research was a novel entitled The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. The data were some phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and expressions used to convey the psychosocial development of the main character and the impact of it to her personality. The researcher became the primary instrument of this research, while the secondary instrument was the data sheets. The data analysis was conducted through three steps: reading and re-reading, classifying and categorizing, analyzing and making the interrelation between the description of the data and the theory. The researcher finds a psychosocial crisis which occur in the main character’s life based on Erikson’s psychosocial development theory i.e. Identity vs. Role Confusion. In this stage, the researcher also finds that the main character experiences two major problems of identity diffusion in her adolescence period: identity diffusion and negative identity. The failure makes her suffers from the identity diffusion that later on brings impact to her personality. It can be seen through the main character’s malignancies in adulthood stage: intimacy crisis and isolation. Because of the failure to resolve the problems in identity diffusion, at the end it affects her personality. She becomes careless, impulsive, hopeless, depression, rebellious and difficult to make decision.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | psychosocial development, Erikson, personality, psychosocial crisis, The Bell Jar |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2015 07:16 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 21:45 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/17635 |
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