THE ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM IN JANE AUSTEN’S SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

ABSTRACT
DEVI MERDEKA WATI. The Elements of Romanticism in Jane Austen’s Sense
and Sensibility supervised by Abidin Pammu and Rezky Ramadhani.
This thesis is a research about Romanticism in Sense and Sensibility using
structuralism approach and William Wordsword Perspective of the elements and
characteristics of romanticism of novel. The objective of this research are (1). To
explain the Romantics elements that are found in the novel Sense and Sensibility
(2). To describe the characteristics of Romanticism in the novel Sense and
Sensibility.
The method in this research is descriptive qualitative method, which is
analyzing the form of description, not a number or coefficient of relationship
between variables. The object and the source of the data of this research is the novel
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, was published on 1992 and consist of 50
chapters and 459 pages. While the instrument of this research is note taking. The
data analysis technique in this research used the theory in accordance with the
principles of data analysis technique based on the romanticism theory by William
Wordsword.
Based on the Romanticism of research, the writer found the intrinsic
elements that show the ideas of romanticism such as Character, Plot, Setting, and
Theme in the novel Sense and Sensibility and the writer found there are seven
characteristics of Romanticism in the novel Sense and Sensibility. They are Back to
Nature, Sentimentalism, Longing for The Past, Primitivism, The Revolutionary
Soul and Humanity, Romantic Melancholy, Individualism and Exotism.