The Analysis of Neurotic Anxiety of Ivan Vassilyevitch Lomov (LOMOV) as The Major Character of Chekhov’s The Proposal

ABSTRACT

God has created individual as perfect as possible, people are created better than other creature. However, God still gives sufficiency and frailty in every person because there is no body perfect. The characteristic of no perfection also refers to anxiety, especially neurotic anxiety. The neurotic anxiety is one of the personality disorders; everyone experiences the neurotic anxiety form time to time. In this study, the writer takes the drama text of The Proposal by Anton Chekhov as the object of this thesis.

The proposal contains the neurotic anxiety that the major character face. Related to this case, the problems of the study can be formulated; (1) What neurotic anxiety does Lomov undergo? (2) What are the causes of Lomov’s neurotic anxiety? And (3) How does neurotic anxiety influence Lomov’s character?

In this research, the writer uses psychological approach as his research design to conduct the research because psychological approach literary criticism is the research design that is directly related to this literary work. The writer uses psychological approach because it is very suitable to find out the neurotic anxiety of major character in this drama.

From this research, there are three finding that can be revealed. The first finding is the neurotic anxiety of Lomov’s Character, there are some symptoms that show Lomov feels the neurotic anxiety, they are palpitation of the heart, dizziness, nervous, under control, and losing the Id. So, the writer thinks that he really experience the neurotic anxiety. The second finding is the causes of Lomov’s neurotic anxiety, there are three causes that make Lomov feel the neurotic anxiety, they are repression, un-confidence, and be afraid of the punishment that is impossible to happen, and the third finding is the influence of neurotic anxiety to Lomov’s character, it influences him in speaking and activities. So, he always misspeaks and nervous when talking with Tchubukov and Natalya.

From this research, the writer hopes that the research can enrich the understanding about literary criticism, psychological approach, and the neurotic anxiety deeply. The writer also expected that this research could contribute to other writers who focuse on this tropic about psychological approach in the field of literature can analyze deeper and the finding can be used as a reference.