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ANALYSIS ON THE MAIN CHARACTER?S PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT IN ELIZABETH GILBERT?S NOVEL EAT, PRAY, LOVE

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Nurrohmatin, Siti, 2016 : Analysis on the Main Character?s Personality Development Elizabeth Gilbert?s Novel Eat, Pray, Love
Advisor : 1. Prof. Dr. Agus Wardhono, M. Pd
2. Drs. Budi Susatyo, M. Pd
Key word : Suffering, Happiness, Plot

Literature is a complex work that enables us to get enjoyment, which can help us spend our leisure time. A literary work for instance, novel may enable us to get entertainment in which it can tell about many things that may happen in our lives. Besides novel, literature also consists of a short story, poetry and drama. A novel is a book ? length story in prose, whose author tries to create the sense that while we read. We experience actual life.
The objectives of the research are to describe the main character?s suffering, cause of the character suffering, the solving of the main character to fulfil the main character?s suffering, finding happiness, and the researcher adds plot of the novel to fulfil the research.
The researcher applies ?qualitative method?, because descriptive method is used to describe the causes and the resolves of the main character?s suffering in Elizabeth Gilbert?s novel eat, pray, love. The researcher also uses psychological approaches to analyse the research. The data are words, sentence, and discourse of the novel which are related to the main character?s suffering.
The researcher found that the main character suffers from some prior problems are: depressed, sad and sadness, anxious, and stress. The main character?s suffering will display through some confession from the main character and the paragraph that supports the main character felt unhappy from her problems. The problems are the causes from the main character?s suffering. The cause of main character?s suffering are: being failed marriage, interminable divorce, and passionate love affair that ended in sickening heartbreak. The researcher also gives the solving of the main character?s suffering. The main character solves her problems by taking radical step to resolve her past taking a long journey as one year.
The main characters visited three countries: Italy, India, and Indonesia. From her journey the main character found the art of pleasure in Italy, devotion in India, and balance between them in Indonesia.

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