Tami Nur Rizki, 2211411028 (2015) THE EFFECT OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS’ ANXIETY TOWARDS THEIR EXISTENCE IN THE COMMUNITY AS FOUND IN THE KATHERINE MANSFIELD’S SHORT STORIES. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Each individual on the society has the same chance to suffer from anxiety. Individual who possess anxiety needs to struggle to choose between selfish drives or the demands of society. On the one hand, individual argues to be existed on the society and to be fulfilled the demand of society. On the other, anxious individual has selfish drives not to act nor does react, in which he doesn’t have a strong power to act or react due to the anxiety. This final project discussed about anxiety that dominating characters’ existence as found in the short stories entitled Miss Brill a short story about a lonely and neglected spinster who has to fight over her anxiety so that her existence can be acknowledged by another member on her community and The Daughters of the late Colonel told about Josephine and Constantia who are spinsters and are suffering from anxiety over their community by notable writer, Katherine Mansfield. They are having their mourning periods after their dictate father died and left them to live among their community by themselves. The main characters in each short stories are suffering from anxiety which influence their existence on the society. Their action and reaction are completely influenced by anxiety which is causing them to struggle for their existence on the society. The objects of this final project are short stories by Katherine Mansfield entitled Miss Brill and The Daughters of the Late Colonel. The method applied in this research was qualitative. The writer used phrases, sentences, and paragraphs found in the short stories as the data of this final project. The procedure of collecting the data included reading, identifying, classifying, selecting and interpreting the data. There are some results found from the research. First, anxiety occurred not only in several people with some serious condition such as lack of affection and company but also occurs in people who obtain too much affection. Such as Miss Brill who lacks of affection while Constantia and Josephine from The Daughters of the Late Colonel who gets too much affection from their father. Second, the anxieties suffered by each characters on both short stories has strongly influence their characters on their society. Three of main characters’ existence can be categorized to be not being acknowledged on the society. And the third, each character of the short stories has different defense mechanism to cope with their anxiety. Miss Brill uses reaction formation, displacement, fantasy and denial of reality, Contantia uses reaction formation, rationalization, and denial of reality, and Josephine uses reaction formation, rationalization, and fantasy. On the basis of the conclusions, the suggestions are offered. For the literature lecturers and students, anxiety can be analyzed using another approach to investigate anxiety from different point of view, such as existentialism. The writer also suggests to analyze the influence of anxiety towards society which is affecting the life of each member. The Writer suggestion for the readers of this final project is to understand individuals who are experiencing anxiety as part of the society member.

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