Altruisme Dari Pemeran Utama Dalam Cerita Pendek Pilihan Karya Oscar Wilde

This research aims to find out altruism that is done by the characters in Oscar Wilde’s selected short stories entitled; The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and The Rose, and The Model Millionaire. This research also aims to elaborate what drives of these characters in doing their act of altruism.
This research uses structuralism theory by only focusing it only on the character and characterization, this story also use Kristen Monroe’s six critical point of altruism theory as an additional approach. These theories are applied to find out the main drives of each main characters to do their act of altruism and also to find out if the actions done by the characters are truly an act of altruism. In addition, the writer uses qualitative and descriptive methods in analyzing the data. The data is collected through the short stories namely The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and The Rose, and The Model Millionaire by Oscar Wilde.
The result of this research shows that the altruism done by the characters are proven to be truly an altruistic art, the altruism is done in a way of sacrificing the characters’ own well-being just to further others’ welfare by the basis of sympathetic and empathetic feelings from the characters.