A study on the laws of plot in Thomas Hardy’s the Mayor of Casterbridge novel

Literature is human’s expression. Literary work is a result of human being thought, which tells life that deals with feeling, ideas, experience, ambition, imagination, and problem. Novel is one of literary work. Novel is a book-length in prose, whose author tries to create the sense of actual life. Through reading novel, the readers can get enlargement of experience and a life interpretation. On the other hand, investigating novel gives the readers better understanding on many things to be investigated specifically. In this thesis, the writer focused on the Laws of Plot in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge.

There are some basis reasons, which provided for the writer in choosing the topic. By reading the novel we may inquire knowledge about the plausibility, suspense, surprise, and unity because it consist of many things we might not be familiar with and has something makes us interested to read and to finish our reading to find out of the and of the story. Since the writer knows there are many things, which invite a curious the reader, feeling stress, surprised with the happening, etc. told in the novel, the writer decides to give the title of thesis “A Study on the Laws of Plot in Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor of Casterbridge”. The statement of problem is “How are the laws of plot in the novel The Mayor of Casterbridge?” The purpose of this study is to know the laws of plot in the novel of The Mayor of Casterbridge thus the reader can understand the novel better especially the laws of plot in the novel of The Mayor of Casterbridge.

As a result, the writer presents the result of the study. The writer presents the data obtained from the data sources. The data presentation is categorized into four parts, plausibility, suspense, surprise, and unity. The law of plausibility is about imaginable story. The writer presents the plausibility in the Novel. Is truth to story itself, it means true to story itself. It was presented where to convince the reader. While suspense and surprise are presented to give the reader a sense of stressing, anxious, and unbelievable event of the story in other the reader, feel that they want to finish their reading. The writer shows which one contained with them. Unity is the last laws of plot if the novel unity of plot that research also presents a slice about the beginning, conflict, complication, climax as the part of middle, and the end of the story. After presenting the data from the source of data, the writer also presents some discussion about the data presenting before. It is done to understand more how are the laws of plot in this novel and for more comprehending the data using the discussion presented.

From this analysis, the writer realizes that this study is far from being perfect. The writer hopes that there will be other researchers who concern to this topic and explore the conflict faced by the main characters more details. Hopefully, this thesis will be useful for everyone who is interested in studying about literature.