LOVE
AS A MOTIVATION OF LIFE FOR THE MAIN CHARACTER
REFLECTED
IN NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE’S “RAPPACINI’S
DAUGHTER
CHAPTER
I
INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background of the Study
Love is more than a feeling. It is also a motivational force that compels
us to do an action. The experience of love is unique for every person, and one
might use that feeling to measure the success of a relationship. Love is
fuelled by a mixture of sexual attraction and gratification, the security of
the developing attachment, and excitement due to exploration of human being.
The sexual attraction wanes, lead to the conflict and withdrawal. Lovers can
find themselves securely attached and caring deeply about each other or
experiencing some forms of distress, boredom, loneliness or hostility and
yearning for a more satisfying relationship.
"I love you" with a feeling is essential. The ability to
express those words in a nonsexual context to men, women and children is a good
indicator of emotional health. To be able to love men, women and children is
part of being healthy adults. Love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual
attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value
of each other’s person. It is a way not only to feel the extraordinary joy but
also to experience self-discovery.
Love might be the conceptualized as an attachment-formation process. Hazan
and Shaver (1987:9) state “love is the attachment system in human undergoes
modification during the course of adolescence, so that its original objects, the
parents are relinquished, and the individual is able to integrate new objects,
new attachment figures.” The attachment system is just one among a number of
interrelated behavioral system which include exploration, care giving, sexual
mating and affiliation.
No one knows what the real meaning of love is. Everyone has his/her own
meaning depending on his/her point of view. Love brings spirit for everyone.
Besides positive motivation, love also can give negative motivation.
Sometimes someone who falls in love will act illogically. He/she will do
anything to make his/her partner happy, even though it is beyond imagination.
Happiness, sadness, worries, and jealousy are parts of love. Love is all you
need, and you will not now, across the crowded world or even on a first date,
that the person is absolutely the one.
Love can be used as the object of psychological analysis. “Psychology is a
science that studies living being’s behavior and mental processes” (Herrnstein
as quoted by Crider, 1983:4). This is in line with what Jung states as quoted
by Koesnosoebroto (1988) that it is absolute that psychology can be applied in analyzing
literary work, since human’s psyche has potential power of all knowledge and
arts. Thereby, literature and psychology are really inseparable. Psychology
explains the underlying reason for character’s behavior elaborates between
conflict and psychological condition and evaluates their behavior and motive in
doing something.
There are some fields of basic psychology, one of them is motivation. Motivation
is an area of psychology that has gotten a great deal of attention. Kenney
(1996:36-37) states that “general motivation covers such basic human drives as
love, hunger, greed and so on.”
Love becomes the most interesting story for all people. So many literary works
tell about love. The story about love is described in songs, poems, short stories,
dramas, novels, films and even paintings. One of the most dramatic love stories
is Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story entitled “Rappacini’s Daughter”. The story
tells about a dramatic love and its motivation to the main character’s life. The
writer thinks that the story will be interesting to be analyzed.
1.2
Reasons for Choosing the Topic
The discussion of love still and always becomes the most interesting
topic in our society, especially for the teenagers. We can find so many books
and literary works that discuss about love and its conflicts. Love is regarded
as a never ending story. There are always problems related to love. It proves
that love has a big relation with our life. That is why the writer chose the
topic about love and its motivation to the main characters in Nathaniel
Hawthorne’s short story entitled “Rappacini’s Daughter”. She thought that the
topic would be interesting.
1.3
Statements of the Problem
The writer
presents some problems as shown in the following questions:
(1)
What
kind of love motivation that motivates the main character’s life is in the short
story?
(2)
In
what ways does love motivate the main character’s life as reflected in the short
story?
1.4
Objective of the Study
After analyzing the short story “ Rappacini’s Daughter “ written by
Nathaniel Hawthorne, the writer has some objectives that can be stated in the
following:
(1)
to
describe the kind of love motivation that motivates the main character’s life in
the short story, and
(2)
to
describe in what ways love motivates the main character’s life as reflected in
the short story.
1.5
Significance of the Study
The result of the study is expected to be able to give some benefits.
First, this study will give the positive motivation for the writer, so she will
be more careful in her love relationship. Second, this study is expected to
give the readers knowledge about a healthy love relationship, so they will not
take a wrong step in their love relationship.
1.6
Outline of the Report
This final project is arranged into five chapters. Chapter One is the
introduction. It contains background of the study, reasons for choosing the
topic, statements of the problem, objectives of the study, significance of the
study, and outline of the final project.
Chapter Two contains review of related literature that can support the writing
of the final project. The theories deal with love, loneliness, and the motivation
of love.
Chapter Three presents method of investigation. It will discuss about object
of the study, then types of the data, the procedures of collecting data, the procedures
of analyzing the data and the technique to report the result of analysis.
Chapter Four describes the main purpose of this final project, that is
the discussion about the motivation of love.
The last chapter, Chapter Five, is conclusion of the discussion of the
study.
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