ANALYSIS OF INNER CONFLICT OF THE MAIN CHARACTER IN AUSTEN’S, LADY SUSAN

ANINDI AULIA PUTRI. Analysis of Inner Conflict of the Main Character in Austen's, Lady Susan. English Literature program, Faculty of Cultural Sciences , Hasanuddin University. Supervised by Abidin Pammu and Rezky Ramadhani.

Lady Susan is a literary novel written by Jane Austen. It tells of an immoral widow who is manipulating everyone for her own benefit, namely her social survival. The purpose of this thesis is to explain how the inner conflict with the main character and to explain the impact of the main character's inner conflict on other characters in the Lady Susan novel.

To analyze the Lady Susan novel, the writer uses an intrinsic elements approach to detect characters, plot, settings and themes in the novel, and to make the context relevant to this thesis, the writer uses psychological theory to explain inner conflict of the main character Lady Susan and the impact of conflict for the other figures.

After analyzing this novel, the writer found that inner conflicts can be detected in literary works. The writer illustrates that inner conflict not only explained through the psychological theory, but can also explained through the plot of a story. The inner conflict of the main character Lady Susan arises because the need for love ,belonging and the self-actualization are not fulfilled. The result of these basic needs that is not fulfilled are sadness, hatred, anger and disappointment.