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BELLA’S ANXIETY IN STEPHANIE MEYER NEW MOON
No full textBELLA’S ANXIETY IN STEPHANIE MEYER NEW MOON
DENNIS ALLAMANDA AGUSTYA OKSAWA
S1 SASTRA INGGRIS
FAKULTAS BAHASA DAN SENI
UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SURABAYA
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Abstract
This study is aimed to present anxiety as the experienced by Bella as the main character of Stephanie Meyer’s novel entitled New Moon. Anxiety is an unpleasant emotion which is characterized once in at times in varying degrees. Anxiety is also the main concept of a human when they are in danger situation or face a problem in her life. The purposes of this study are: (1) To depict the anxiety in Isabella “Bella” Swan in Stephanie Meyer’s New Moon (2) To find out the responses of Isabella “Bella” Swan in Stephanie Meyer’s New Moon. In order to get a good analysis, it uses theory anxiety in human life and theories of self defense mechanism are used as tools to support the process in analyzing the anxiety of Isabella “Bella” Swan. The result of this study shows that: (1) Bella is getting the neurotic anxiety. She always thinks about her dream when Edward never changes her to be a vampire, so she cannot live with Edward forever. The differences make her always feels anxious and she starts depress when Edward leaves her alone because of the accident in Edward’s house (2) Bella conducts the responses of her anxieties. She forgets her anxiety for a while because Jacob Black is known as a wolf who always keeps her in every dangerous situation, when a vampire is attacked her. Bella feels comfort when Jacob is beside her.
Key terms: anxiety, defense-mechanism
INTRODUCTION
Literature is the reflection of human life. It has a high position in human civilization, for it has been used by human being as an apparatus to express thought, critics, and social phenomena in chronological way as told by graham little ( 1996:1 ) “ literature may fairly be regarded as the chief art of mankind”. Therefore literature can also be considered as a social control to find the same perception on evaluating a moral distortion in human life. In getting better understanding the human life and problem, a literary work is a complete thought, because it conveys moral education, hatred, love, happiness, or obsession.
There are some kinds of literary works they are short story, poem, drama and novel which can be analyzed for studying. Some kinds of literary works above discuss the process of human life such as thinking the solution and solving the problem. Both of them are the key term to make an easiest life if the problem comes to human life and people should overcome it as well as possible. It is the same as the statement “life is not easy”, it is the word that said by Sigmund Freud. People may not escape from the problem but it should be provided and overcome. Necessity is the important thing that should be fulfilled by human. There are a lot of cases will appear when we want to overcome the necessities in our life, it is called problem. Problem always appear in the form of the obstacles in getting what people need and what people want. It is natural that happen in our daily life.
A problem certainly has a solution. It is the term that people often hear. As a human someone may not escape from his or her problem but it should be overcome with his or her way. People should never be afraid to deal with it. If someone afraid faces the problem, it is caused anxiety so that she or he always thinks it. For a long period of time, anxiety is a psychological problem which can be caused by several factors, such as nightmares, fear, sadness, or happiness. Sometimes, people who are anxious do not realize they feel. In literary works, the author sometimes shows anxiety of the character in different situation. The author creates a conflict that makes the character on the novel seem anxious, frustrated, guilty, and afraid. Besides, the author shows what is going to happen in solving his or her problem that makes the reader wants to know the story.
In addition, this study reveals one of literary works which also has connection between social issues and the human personalities in society. This study is an interested to be learnt because people can recognize someone’s feeling or thought and understand the symptom which is happen in studying psychology so that people are not afraid or confused when they face problem. Psychology is a knowledge which is necessary for us and social life because between human and social are interested to be learnt in depth understanding.
Stephanie Meyer is known by people throughout the world only after the success of her Twilight saga. A lot of people not only in literature field but also another field around the world know her as a talented author. Stephanie Meyer was born on December 24, 1973 in Harford, Connecticut, and got the growth in Phoenix, Arizona. Since childhood Meyer has a great interest for reading and really found of some classic authors such as: Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Margaret Mitchell. Meyer got its high school in Scottsdale, Arizona. In this place, Meyer was awarded by a National Merit Scholarship that was used to join Brenham young University, in Provo, Utah, and taking a major of English Literature. In 1994, Meyer was married, and has three sons, Gabe, Seth and Eli. Six years later, Stephanie Meyer without any purpose showed the ability in writing, and then can be an author. Meyer’s success career began with the idea for Twilight came from the dream on 2003. The dream was about a human girl and vampire having special relationship in love, but unfortunately the vampire needs for the girl’s blood. Based on this dream, Meyer writes the text. Meyer had transformed the dream into a completed novel about three months, thought Meyer never intended to publish Twilight and was writing for her own enjoyment. Because of the sister’s enthusiastic response toward the text, Meyer didn’t pass the way in essay way, because of getting many rejections, until finally got good response from Jody Reamer of writer House.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Meyer )
A short part of the author’s personal life above, arrows the attention finally choosing Stephanie Meyer as the object in this study. It personally gives a great interest and being a fan of the author because of her writing career background in literary work was not similar to other authors in common. Commonly many authors wrote novels based on the personal life and exploring deeper from its sources. In contradictory, Meyer wrote the novel based on its own inspiration and imagination which was not in purpose at all. Another important reasons to interest to this author is because of the great succeed after publishing the first novel Twilight in 2005 with a print run of 7500 copies. It was sold to over 26 countries and translated into 20 languages. The story featured Bella, a high school girl in rural Washington state fallen in love into dangerous romance with Edward Cullen who was a vampire. Then, although Twilight story come from the imagination or only a fiction novel, it is really interesting to follow. The romance and the different life and world between human and vampire here is able to present the main characterization in a unique way.
It is only the personal statement, but also the fact that brought many awards and honors to this novel, such as New York Times Editor’s Choice, One of Publisher Weekly’s Bets Children’s Book of 2005, Publisher Weekly “Best Book of the Year”. One of the American Literary Association’s Top Ten Best Books For Young Adult and Top Ten Books For Reluctant Readers, One of School Library Journal’s Best Book of 2005, Amazon.com’s Best Book of the Decade. These awards and honor are enough to show and capability of Stephanie Meyer as the author (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Meyer).
New moon is the series novel in the Twilight Saga. This novel is popular because of it has been produced in a movie theater on November 2009. New moon is published on September, 6th 2006. The book was originally released in hardcover on September 6, 2006 with an initial print run of 100,000 copies. Upon its publication in the United States, New Moon was highly successful and moved quickly to the top of bestseller lists, becoming one of the most anticipated books of the year. It peaked at #1 on both the New York Times Best Seller list and USA Today's Top 150 Bestsellers, and was the biggest selling children's paperback of 2008 with over 5.3 million copies sold. Moreover, New Moon was the best-selling book of 2009 and has been translated into 38 languages. A film adaptation of the book was released on November20,2009.(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Moon_%28novel%29)This novel tells about the anxiety of Bella. She gets a lot of conflicts with her love story with Edward. First, when she celebrates her birthday. She is 18 but Edward was 17 years old. Edward will not become 18 years old forever. Because of his growth kinetics stops when he becomes a vampire. Everyone will know that Bella is older one year than Edward. Bella dreams about her meeting with her grandmother. But it is not her grandmother, but it is her with Edward beside her and Edward stays 17 years old.
Bella’s anxiety is caused by Edward leaves her alone. This is caused by Bella’s birthday party in Edward’s house. In Edward’s house there are 7 vampires. They are Carlisle Cullen as Edward’s foster father and his wife Esme Cullen, Edward’s brothers are Emmett Cullen and Jasper Cullen, and also his sisters named Rosalie and Alice. Emmett is Rosalie’s boyfriend and Jasper is Alice’s boyfriend.
There is an accident that makes Bella produces so many bloods from her arm. When Bella opens the present from Esme, intuitively her hand is scratched by ribbon. Jasper as a new vegetarian vampire smells Bella’s blood and hunts her but Edward pushes Bella until she drops and crushes the table and it makes Bella produces more blood than before.
Edward moves to another country because he wants Bella always safe without many vampires around her. So, he decides to leave Bella alone. Edward says that he moves to another country because all the people know that Carlisle look younger than his age. But Edward has one asked; he wants Bella never doing the stupid mistake. Since Edward leave her alone, Bella abstracts in her room every day. She just writes an email day to day to Alice until more than 10 emails but not one email has replied by Alice.
It is interesting to study further about Bella’s anxiety and how she has the responses to the anxiety.
RESEARCH METHOD
This thesis is regarded as a descriptive-qualitative study and use a library research. Therefore, the data will not be in number. The descriptive method of his study can be elaborated as follows
The main source of the study is taken from New moon. New moon is the second of the Twilight series. A novel by Stephanie Meyer published in New York at 2005-2008 and using English language. The genres of this novel are romance, fantasy, young-adults and fiction.
.The data of this study are in the form of the quotations, phrases, dialogues or monologues that represent the speech, thought, actions and attitude of the main character in relation to her anxiety.
This study of anxiety will apply the theory of self defense mechanism by Sigmund Freud to depict Bella’s anxiety. Hilgrad is also support in this case about the meaning of anxiety and the other concept is from Freud. Freud conceptualized three types of anxiety which are neurotic anxiety, moral anxiety, and reality anxiety and also there are symptoms of anxiety, those are generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder and stress disorder. The causes of anxiety is also including in this proposal to support the concept of anxiety.
The first step off doing analysis is sufficiently accomplished by reading the novel. After being agreed that this novel is incredible to use then makes some titles based on the novel. Next step is making an outline for this study. The next step is collecting the data; it contains the quotations based on the statements of the problems. Then next step is classifying the quotations based on the statement of the problems of the analysis. There are two statements of problems, the first is depiction of the main character’s anxiety in Twilight and the second is the response of the main character against the anxiety in Twilight. Each problem will be analyzed by using in line with the statement of the problems. Then, conclusion will be drawn from the whole analysis.
ANALYSIS
This chapter is divided into two sections based on the statements of the problem. The first analyze how is Bella’s anxiety is depicted by apply the theory of anxiety. Second is to analyze how the responses her anxiety feeling using the theory of defense mechanism.
Depiction of Bella’s Anxiety
The depiction of Bella’s anxiety will show how Bella experiences her anxiety throughout the novel. In this sense her anxiety can be presented through the description and symptoms her anxiety. Each will be discussed as follows.
Description of Bella’s Anxiety
Bella is a woman who has boy friend named Edward Cullen, but he is a vampire while Bella is a human being. When her age is seventeen years old, she moves to Forks and she meets with Edward is known as a vampire. “My room hadn't really changed all that much in the seventeen years since my mother had been here. The walls were still light blue, the same yellowed lace curtains hung in front of the window. There was a bed, rather than a crib, but she would recognize the quilt draped untidily over the top.” (Meyer: 32). Bella has problem with her family. Before she moves to forks, she lived with her mother in Phoenix. Forks and phoenix have different season. Phoenix is the hottest place, but Forks is the wettest place. “The kind of blinding clear sun that never shone on my drizzly new hometown in Forks, Washington.” (Meyer, 3)
Their parents had divorced when Bella was a child. Her mother took her away from her father because her father’s job is just a police in a small city. She thinks that the salary as a police in the small city is not enough to fulfill the daily needs. Actually, she does not love to live in forks because she does not like with rain. Forks is a place where the famous city which has the highest volume of rain. But, Bella loves forks and wants to stay in forks because of Edward.
If I could be sure of the future I wanted, sure that I would get to spend forever with Edward, and Alice and the rest of the Cullens (preferably not as a wrinkled little old lady)… then a year or two one direction or the other wouldn't matter to me so much. But Edward was dead set against any future that changed me. Any future that made me like him—that made me immortal, too. (Meyer: 7)
She does not care about what her hate is. Bella really loves to Edward. She wants become a vampire like Edward, because if she becomes a vampire, they can life together without a danger. The danger is because their food is blood of human. Someday, one of them can kill her because Bella is a human being if Bella is always around them. She wants that in the future, she will become a vampire like Edward because it makes them to live together and also there will no danger.
The willing of Bella to become a vampire is dishonored by Edward because he thinks that to be a vampire is not good choice for her. The willing itself is Edward changes her become a vampire. But, Edward promises to Bella that he will change her become a vampire when the end of the school year. “Maybe he wouldn't want to wait till the end of the school year, maybe it would have to be now.” (Meyer: 32).
Vampires are immortal. They cannot die even they must drink a litter of poison. "You humans have it so easy! All you have to do is throwing down one tiny vial of plant extracts…" (Meyer: 11). It means that vampires cannot die easily like human. Because of that, Edward does not want Bella becomes a vampire, because he thinks that vampire is deprecation from God. It can be seen in this quotation bellow:
"I'm sure all this sounds a little bizarre, coming from a vampire." He grinned, knowing how their casual use of that word never failed to shock me. "But I'm hoping that there is still a point to this life, even for us. It's a long shot, I'll admit," he continued in an offhand voice. "By all accounts, we're damned regardless. But I hope, maybe foolishly, that we'll get some measure of credit for trying."(Meyer: 20)
Edward’s statement makes Bella so sad. She does not want Edward will die because of her. Bella does not want that Edward will leave her alone. She cannot live without Edward even Edward is a vampire, but his successes take the Bella’s attention and more over Bella’s love. Bella really wants to be a vampire even Edward’s father tells to her about the lacks of vampire. She does not care about what he say is. The dream is to live with Edward forever. She never thinks what will happen if she become a vampire because it is her choice. "It's my choice," I insisted. (Meyer: 21). That condition makes Bella fell depress because she will go older step by step than Edward every year if she still be a human being. Bella has been doing anything to make change Edward’s mind toward Bella’s life.
Anxiety is the condition when somebody afraid, fear, and worried about something. It caused by a situation that treated well-being of organism and the threats of physical harm, threat to self esteem or the pressures to perform beyond individual capabilities. The anxiety is caused by internal conflict and is skin to fear. This condition becomes important study because it reveals about how anxiety gives important role to choose and identify who it is. This situation happens to the main character in New Moon Bella.
Bella is the main character of this novel. First, she suddenly feels afraid when she must faces about her age. Bella is a human being who loves a guy named Edward but her boyfriend is a vampire. In this novel tells that a vampire will never increase her or his age. So, Bella panics about this condition. She dreams meet with her grandmother, even though her grandmother was dead six years ago. Bella knows that it is not her grandmother, but herself in the future with Edward who is standing beside of her. Her dream tells what will happen in the future if she still becomes a human. So, it makes Bella confused and panic if that dream will really happened to her. The second is when Edward leaves him alone because he believes if Bella is beside him, she will get a dangerous situation. Edward’s families are vampires who suck blood of human. So, that is the reason why Edward leaves Bella alone, because he wants to save Bella from the attack of his families. That situation makes Bella so sad, she feels alone when Edward leaves her, and she keeps herself in her room day to day moreover for months.
He threw himself at me, flinging me back across the table. It fell, as I did, scattering the cake and the presents, the flowers and the plates. I landed in the mess of shattered crystal. Jasper slammed into Edward, and the sound was like the crash of boulders in a rock slide. There was another noise, a grisly snarling that seemed to be coming from deep in Jasper's chest. Jasper. (Meyer:16)
Bella experiences the anxiety. The first is reality anxiety. Reality anxiety is the condition in the real and it makes somebody gets anxiety. For example, Romeo and Juliet are the couple who love each other. The reality is their families do not agree with their relationship. Romeo’s parents are the enemy of Juliet’s parents. When they know about the relationship between both of them, their parents reject each other. They met covertly behind their parents. Until they feel afraid about their relationship. So, they decided to finish their life even though in the first is just Romeo’s planning, but finally Juliet decides to drink that poison too.
Bella feels so painful with the reality. She loves Edward who is a vampire. Actually, she does not care about who Edward is. She just cares about the increasing her age. She afraid if Edward do not accept the willing of Bella is to change her becomes a vampire as him, she will increase her age and more over, she will be older than Edward physically. “Every day I got older, but this was different, worse, quantifiable. I was eighteen. And Edward never would be.”(Meyer: 5)
Bella says to herself that the reality is never changing. She and Edward have different life. Bella is a human being while Edward is a vampire. She must accept it that she is older one year than Edward because basically all the people who live in forks know that Edward’s age is seventeen years old. Bella knows that she is older than Edward and that condition will continue forever. Edward never will be eighteen years old because when he was seventeen years old, Carlisle sucked him blood and he changed become a vampire, and now he is still seventeen years old. So, his growths stop when he becomes a vampire. At that time, there is an epidemic that makes his family must die but he is helped by Carlisle. Carlisle had changed Edward become a vampire because Edward’s mother wanted Edward to stay in this world or the other option is he must still alive in this world. Carlisle hadn&rs
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