Nunik Lelono Putri , 2211411018 (2015) THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY AS REPRESENTED BY THE MAIN CHARACTER OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON’S MARKHEIM. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Religion is the basic and fundamental aspect of society’s souls that can shape people’s personalities. Markheim is one of Stevenson’s stories that talks about psychological conflicts of the main character. It is about good and evil. Both sides of the main character represent the influence of religion inside himself. This final project is aimed at analyzing the influence of Christianity as shown in the short story through its main character, Markheim. To accomplish this research, the writer applies Psychological Criticism. Then, to support the analysis the writer needs some theories and concepts such as the concept of religion, Theology, Christianity, Christianity teaching and Doctrines. Moreover, descriptive qualitative method is implemented in this analysis since the result of the analysis will be described by using the words not in numeral data. The object of the study is Robert Louis Stevenson’s short story Markheim. The data of the study are collected by doing the following steps: reading the short story carefully for many times, identifying the data, classifying the data, selecting the data and at last reporting the data. There are several techniques to analyze the data. They are exposing, explaining, enumerating, interpreting, and the last one is concluding. The result of the study showed that the influence of Christianity was revealed through Christian character’s attitudes and behaviors. This influenced Markheim’s environment and the way he saw God through Christianity teachings and doctrines such as justice, doctrine of creating, prayer, refusal of wickedness, and aspects of God’s love that is virtue, gift, cheapness and perseverance. A moment after Markheim had killed the dealer, he was afraid, the visitor ordered him to kill the assistant and flee, at last Markheim agreed then he changed his mind, he believed that there was still one door of freedom open if he confessed his crime, he found the right way to be closer to God. On the basis of the conclusions, two suggestions can be offered. First, Markheim is a good short story. So, after reading the analysis, the readers and researchers were expected to analyze the story from other aspects more thoroughly and comprehensively. They would enrich their view about the life of Christianity. Second, this story is recommended to students of school with Christian affiliation to teach students both about Christianity and English vocabulary.

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