The influences of conflicts to santiago’s character development of hemingway’s the old man and the sea

ABSTRACT

People as creative creature, never stop creating something new in their life, it is because they have emotion, feeling, and thought that distinguish them for another creations in literature. It is one way to express their emotion and feeling in a form ofwords or language By riding novel, one of literary works, people can enrich their experience and some aspects of life.

There are many aspects of novel that can be analyzed, for instance, theme, setting, character, plot, ؛so on. However, in toisstudy theater ي to analyze on conflicts that are faced by Santiago as one of the main characters in The Old Man and the Sea, by Ernest Hemingway, since conflict is a very important element in literary works, without conflict it will be uninteresting and life like less. It just because as an aspect هج يلا٩رهسهل:صهأ stoiy more valuable and interesting. Furthermore, he chooses Tne Old Man and the Sea since it hasbeen a favorite لجآك ect leary criticism throughout halfccntoryince اث was published in 1936 and it ever won theipulitzer Prize in 1953 and Sei Prize in Literature in 1954, also it is a brilliant deceptively simple work that expresser حج authorismost fundamental beliefs about what itmeanstobe anerson. There original؟(!) become the major of this sdy hy are سلأ are thf aspects attitude faced by Santiago, (2) the conflicts that are faced by Santiago, and (3) the influences of conflicts to Santiago’s character development.

This study uses structural approach that is also called the objective approach as the r eahdesjfn, becausehe analyzed on؛the infringe elements which influence Santiagoys character development. He collected the databy finding and taking the novel from the one ofthe books market in Malang, choosing the data that connect and relate to the conflict theory and concept, reading all the content of the novel related to the conflict concept in order to find out the data, and taking some paragraphs from the novel that connect and relate to Ihe conflict theory andconc^t

The result 0؛s study shows that the original atttde of Santiago^ brave, confidant, cheerfid, determined, and optimistic; love towards Godot letting anything in life rattle him. ,Three types of Santiago's conflict are psychological conflict for e^amge the Santiago’s suffering such as his loneliness (for he does not have a boy and gdjes alone), having to kill his fish that he regards it as his brother, having goneforeighty-fouraays without takinga fish, and al^people around do not respect him, social conflict h٠ensto Santiago, when the Marlin circles close enough for the old man to spear it with his harpoon, of؛؛: I^nmon, andgh cal؛ he drives in with all the strength he can خ مسي conflicts, Sanag s character changes to be eayo give up, hopeless, and his body was thin and gaunt and his neck is wrinkled from the sun, also his hands bear the scars of many fishing battles, only his blue eyes remain bright and cheerfid.

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؛ explore the conflict faced by themain characters more details. Hopefully,trus thesis will be usefid for everyone who is interested in studying about literature.