Various conflicts of main characters in Steven Savile's novel “Stellaris: infinite frontiers”
Abstract
Background: Characters face conflicts in a story. The way the characters’ acts, reacts, and deal with the obstacles will reveal about their qualities. Any conflict arise refers to represent something.Purpose: The aim of this research was to find conflicts of the main characters in a novel "Stellaris: Infinite Frontiers" by Steven Savile.Design and methods: The duration of the research was from 6th of March 2020 until 14th July 2020. Analytic descriptive was the method of the research. The steps of the research include: (1) preparing research data, (2) preparing support data, (3) processing the research and support data, (4) analyzing the research data. The total conflict data that were gathered from the novel was 40 data which was divided into four categories: against another, against group, against nature and against self.Results: The result shows 11 conflicts against another, 10 conflicts against group, 10 conflicts against nature, and 9 conflicts against self. In total there are 40 conflicts that the researcher take from the novel.
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