Caring Moral Development of Victor Frankenstein and His Monster in Frankenstein’s Mary Shelley = Caring Moral Development of Victor Frankenstein and His Monster in Frankenstein’s Mary Shelley.

Sitti Aisyah binti M. Ikhwan. 2023. Caring Moral Development of Victor Frankenstein and His Monster in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. (Supervised by oleh Burhanuddin Arafah and Herawaty Abbas)
The aim of this thesis is to find out the caring moral development from the two main characters, Victor Frankenstein and his Monster in Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein.
This study used a descriptive qualitative method. The main data source of this study is the novel Frankenstein and the secondary data source is obtained from several books and articles. The analytical technique used in this study is based on the psychoanalytic approach, the moral theory of caring created by Carol Gilligan, and the structuralism approach as a support for this research.
The results of this study indicate that Victor Frankenstein's caring moral development is at Level 2: Conventional/Goodness as Self-Sacrifice, which means that Victor is able to sacrifice himself for the good of others. Meanwhile, the Monster might be, but also might not be at level 3: Post-Conventional/The Morality of Nonviolence. This is because the novel has an open ending. If the Monster ends up killing himself, then the Monster's morality level is at level 2: Conventional/Goodness as Self-Sacrifice. However, if he chooses to live without harming humans, the Monster can successfully develop to level 3: Post-Conventional/The Morality of Nonviolence.

Keywords : psychoanalytic, structuralism, caring moral development, Victor Frankenstein, Monster, Mary Shelley.