Skripsi Jurusan Bahasa Inggris: LOVE AS A MOTIVATION OF LIFE FORTHE MAIN CHARACTER REFLECTED IN NATHANIELHAWTHORNE’S “RAPPACINI’S DAUGHTER”

Rima Yunartati. 2007. Skripsi Bahasa Inggris, Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

Love is a topic that cannot be separated from human’s life. It always becomes themost interesting topic for all people. Love in a psychological context, is not only away to feel the extraordinary joy but also to experience self discovery. There areso many literary works that use love as a topic for the short story. One of them isNathniel Hawthorne’s short story entitled “Rappacini’s Daughter”. The shortstory combines love and science to be an interesting story. It does not only tellabout the happiness love, but also how tragic love is.

There are two problems that the writer tries to solve in this study. The firstproblem, what kinds of love motivation that motivate Beatrice is in the shortstory. And the second, in what ways does love motivate Beatrice in the shortstory. The purposes of this study are to describe the kinds of love motivations andin what ways love motivates the main character’s life, named Beatrice as reflectedin Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story entitled ‘Rappacini’s Daughter.”
The writer uses Qualitative method in analyzing the short story. The dataare in the forms of words, phrases and sentences. There are some steps incollecting the data. They are reading, identifying, inventorizing, classifying,reducing, selecting and reporting. All of the data are analyzed in term ofpsychological context. They are collected through appendices. There are fiveappendices in this thesis; they are A, B1, B2, C1, and C2. The overall data can beseen in the Appendix A. Appendices B1 and B2 contain the data to answer thefirst problem. And the second problem can be seen in the Appendices C1and C2.
After doing some analyzes, the writer finds that there are some lovemotivations that motivate Beatrice’s life, they are; lack of paternal love, lonelinessand the desire to be free from the poison. The motivations above create bravenessand compel Beatrice to find her own life without interference from the others.
Love also brings so many motivations in Beatrice’s life. The writer divides theminto two types, i.e. positive and negative motivation. The positive motivations arethat Beatrice has a spirit to continue her life since she is a poisonous girl, and thesecond is Beatrice wants to struggle to reach her happy life beside Giovanni. Thenegative motivations for Beatrice are that she often forgets about her duty to serveand nurse the plants since she meets her lovely, Giovanni. And the secondnegative motivation is that Beatrice often acts illogically in creating herimagination about a happy live.
From the description above the writer concludes that love is one kind ofmotivation that motivates Beatrice in the short story. Love also brings so manymotivations in Beatrice’s life. After writing this final project, the writer suggeststo the lovers do not to become blind because of love. The lovers should use thelogic, not only their heart in deciding everything in their life.