Revenge As Portrayed In Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights and Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo : A Comperative Literature

Abstract

The title of this thesis is Revenge as Portrayed in Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights and Alexander Dumas‟s the count of Monte Cristo: A Comparative Literature. The analysis is focused on thematic or central ideas of the two novels in terms of comparative literature analysis. The theme itself is referred to revenge as the response towards disappointment because of love betrayal and the failure to achieve justice. Revenge is supposed to the reaction that has reverse impact to one who has made the betrayal and the injustice. Besides that, the similarity of the theme can be traced in the two novels as well as the difference by using comparative literature theory. The method applied in doing the analysis is descriptive qualitative. It is said so because the data analyzed is described by interpretative analysis by describing the existing data.

Judul tesis ini adalah Revenge As Portrayed In Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights and Alexander Dumas‟s the count of Monte Cristo: A Comparative Literature. Analisis difokuskan pada ide-ide tematik atau sentral dari kedua novel dalam hal analisis literatur komparatif. Tema itu sendiri disebut balas dendam sebagai respons terhadap kekecewaan karena pengkhianatan cinta dan kegagalan untuk mencapai keadilan. Balas dendam seharusnya merupakan reaksi yang memiliki dampak terbalik terhadap orang yang telah melakukan pengkhianatan dan ketidakadilan. Selain itu, kesamaan tema dapat ditelusuri dalam dua novel serta perbedaan dengan menggunakan teori literatur komparatif. Metode yang digunakan dalam melakukan analisis adalah deskriptif kualitatif. Dikatakan demikian karena data yang dianalisis dideskripsikan dengan analisis interpretatif dengan menggambarkan data yang ada.