IMPIAN PARA TOKOH DALAM CERITA PENDEK “THE GENTLE BOY” DAN “THE AMBITIOUS GUEST” KARYA NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The Main Characters Dream in the Short Stories “ The Gentle boy” and “ The Ambitious Guest” is a skripsi which is to fulfill one of the requirements to achieve the title of Sarjana Sastra. There are two main problems to be analyzed; those are “what are the main characters dream in the short stories The Gentle Boy and The Ambitious Guest“ and “what are the leading factors that influence they dreams”. The purposes of this research are to identify and describecharacters dreams, to identify and describe the leading factors that influence their dreams and to compare their dreams. In identifying characters dream, the writer used Stantons’ theory through the intrinsic to analyzing the character, plot and setting, and for the analyzing data the writer used descriptive method and intrinsic approach.

The result of this research show that there are two types to reach human dream, there are the dream that achieved with great effort and helps from the others and the dreams will not accompanied with effort or only false dream.

Keywords : Dreams, Intrinsic approach, Short Story, “The Gentle Boy” and “The Ambitious Guest”.