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A character is any person, personal, identity, or entity whose existence originates from a fictional work or performance. A character is a participant in the story, and is usually a person, but may be any persona, identity, or entity whose existence originates from a fictional work or performance. Leading character is the centered individual very dominant. As an individual, the leading focused personality. Leading character emerged as long side the extraordinary character, a character that might be called prototypical. The prototypical character is not a stereotypical but a fully rounded, three dimensional character. In this thesis, the writer chooses Mary Shelley’s novel entitled Frankenstein to be analyzed. Mary Shelley was an English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, biographer, and travel writer, best known for her Gothic novel Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus (1818). She also edited and promoted the works of her husband, the Romantic poet and philosopher Percy Bysshe Shelley. And the Frankenstein is infused with some elements of the Gothic novel and the Romantic movement and is also considered to be one of the earliest examples of science fiction. Brian Aldiss has argued that it should be considered the first true science fiction story, because unlike in previous stories with fantastical elements resembling those of later science fiction, the central character "makes a deliberate decision" and "turns to modern experiments in the laboratory" to achieve fantastic results. It has had a considerable influence across literature and popular culture and spawned a complete genre of horror stories and films. The writer wants to analyze two leading characters’ ambitions and explain the effect of its ambitions to readers found in that novel. The leading characters in a story is Universitas Sumatera Utara
the character that built up the story which revealed by responds to conflict, by his or her dialogue, and through descriptions that being majority of the plot line and the reader is intended to identify with while reading the story. The leading characters which will be analyzed by the writer are Victor Frankenstein and his creature, the monster. The novel “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley tells the story of the leading character named Victor Frankenstein who is described as an ambitious man and a scientist that really wants to create a man. However, his creation failed and turned into a monster. The monster can be considered as the leading character too because they two, Victor Frankenstein and the monster, are the main character who lead the whole story of the novel. Victor Frankenstein is always interested about the facts and wants to know everything in the universe. The writer would like to propose an idea especially about the leading characters’ ambitions in Frankenstein novel written by Mary Shelley. According to Oxford (2000), ambition is something that you want to do or achieve very much and ambitious is determined to be successful, rich, and powerful by needing a lot of efforts, money or time to succeed. The writer chooses this novel because this novel is very interesting to read and can give some information about the ambitions and its effects to the readers and the writer herself. In nowadays, as the reality of life, we know that a lot of people in this world want to get their ambitions by trying use many ways without to see its effect. The reason of writer to choose this novel because of the author’s technique in describing the events, character acting, and style of the novel into her literary works so the readers can Universitas Sumatera Utara
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