Psychological conflicts faced by the main character Cleopatra on Caesar And Cleopatra By George Bernard Shaw

ABSTRACT

Life deals with feeling, ideas, experiences/ passions, and imagination. Then literature or art is reproducing or recreating the experiences of life in words. In reproducing the experiences, author includes their opinion about them. Drama is a story about human life conflict; therefore drama usually is called as an art of conflict. It is as human's will statement to face the defiance or opposition of life. Thus this study is focused on the Psychological Conflict of the Main Character on Caesar and Cleopatra, a drama written by George Bernard Shaw.

Caesar and Cleopatra is a drama that contains special conflict that the main character٠ face. ,The conflicts experienced by the main character are reflection of human problem.

Related to this case, this study aims at answering the following two research problems. First of all is to know what are the characteristics of Cleopatra's personality. Second, it is to know what kinds of conflict, which are faced by Cleopatra in her real life. And the objectives of this study are based on two categories. Describing the characteristics of Cleopatra's personality, and the kinds of conflict are faced by Cleopatra in her real life.

To conduct this study qualitative research and literary criticism were used to review literary research dealing with the research question. It used also the objective approach of psychological aspects, especially related to the theory of psychological conflict.

The result of this study shows that there are two kinds of characters, which belong to Cleopatra. The first, extroversion-introversion that consists of: melancholic, phlegmatic, choleric, sanguine. The second is psychotisism that consists of uncaring about others. The conflicts that the main character faced are in tlrree categories, i.e. approach-approach conflict, approach-avoidance conflict, and avoidance-avoidance conflict.