Previous Studies

Previous Studies 

This study is purposed to investigate the personality of the main character Mrs.Pontellier by The Awakening. There are same previous studies used related to this study. Nadliroh has done the application of psychological approach that focused on the major character personality; the student of UIN Malang (2005), in her thesis entitled “A psychological Analysis on Joji’s Personality in Junichiro Tanizaki’s Naomi.” She focused on the psychological conflict and personality changes of the major character.

The other researchers who have done similar research are Chusrotin, the student of UIN Malang (2004), she wrote her thesis entitled “A psychological Analysis on the Major Character in Novel Laila Majnun”, she focused on the psychological aspects and the personality traits of the major character.

     Those are some previous studies, which may have similar discussion with the present research although it is not the same at all. The similarity between the writer’s study and those previous studies is that they tried to research about the novel based on the psychological approach. The researcher analyzes The Awakening.

using psychological approach, which assumes that autobiography is the representation of real world within the events happened to human beings and they behave the behavior. It can prove that there is relationship between psychology and non-fiction. In accordance with the statement, we can study the behavior of human being by analyzing an autobiography. Furthermore, the researcher analyzes the personality of the main character, Mrs.Pontellier’s She uses Maslow’s theory of personality that presents to understand her personality.