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THE ANALYSIS OF VOLDEMORT’S PERSONALITY GROWTH IN

J.K. ROWLING’S HARRY POTTER AND THE HALF-BLOOD PRINCE

(PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACH)

THESIS

Submitted as a Partial Fulfillment of Requirement

for the Sarjana Sastra Degree in the English Department

of Faculty of Letters & Fine Arts

Sebelas Maret University

by

ANA HENING KUSUMA WERDARINI

C0308018

ENGLISH DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LETTERS & FINE ARTS

SEBELAS MARET UNIVERSITY

2014


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PRONOUNCEMENT

Name : Ana Hening Kusuma Werdarini

NIM : C0308018

I honestly declare that the thesis The Analysis of Voldemort’s Personality

Growth in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is not a

plagiarism. The thesis is originally written by the researcher. All of the

information which relates to other people’s works are written in quotations and

stated in the bibliography.

If the pronouncement is proven to be incorrect, I will be ready to accept any

academic consequence and penalty, including the cancellation of the thesis and

academic degree obtained from completing the thesis and study.

Surakarta, December 2014

Ana Hening Kusuma Werdarini


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MOTTOES

Run until you can touch the sky with your hands.

Run until your heart is filled with your dreams.

Epik High

Don’t run on other’s track. Don’t break other’s record.

Run on your own track. Break your own record.

Researcher

It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.

Yogi Berra


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DEDICATION

For Dad, Mom, and Sister. This research was a two-year journey, thank you.


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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Alhamdulillah… Praise Allah SWT for His guidance in finishing my

undergraduate thesis entitled “The Analysis of Voldemort’s Personality

Growth in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

(Psychological Approach)”. My thesis is the final work in my college life.

However, my thesis cannot be done without the supports from those who

sincerely help me in finishing it. Thus, this page is especially dedicated to

express my gratitude and appreciation to:

1. Drs. Riyadi Santosa, M.Ed., Ph.D., Dean of Faculty of Letters &

Fine Arts, and Drs. Agus Hari Wibowo, M.A., Ph.D., Head of the

English Department, for this thesis approval.

2. Dra. Endang Sri Astuti, M.S., my Thesis Supervisor, for giving the

useful guidance and advices in writing the thesis.

3. Dra. Sri Kusumo Habsari, M.Hum., Ph.D., my Academic

Consultant.

4. Drs. Gatot Sunarno, my former Academic Consultant. May you

Rest in Peace, you will never be forgotten, Sir. Thank you for the

memorable days during the freshman year.

5. Yuyun Kusdianto, S.S., M.A., for giving me new insights and

inspirations in his classes.


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6. All lecturers of the English Department.

7. Family, for the patience and constant support, sorry and love you

all. Especially, sister, without your genius and practical brain, this

thesis will never be done.

8. Friends, especially Udiana, Via, Ipung, Nabil, Oky, Dimas, Ornella,

Dita, Gia, and the other English Department fellows, for the

company all this time.

9. The five of TK Club, for the prayer and the laugh in these past

fifteen years, let’s grow old together too.

10. Honey D who is oceans apart (and I am sailing on my dreams), for

the memorable moments that fire me to finish my thesis.

11. Everyone who happens to read my thesis, for flipping and reading

from the very first page, thank you.

As this thesis is the first research project that I have done, my thesis is

far from perfect. That is why, criticism towards my thesis are expected.

Furthermore, I also hope that in the future there will be those who are interested

in making further researches with my thesis as the basic.

Surakarta, December 4, 2014

Ana Hening Kusuma Werdarini


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TITLE .................................................................................................................................. i

APPROVAL OF THE ADVISOR ................................................................................... ii

APPROVAL OF THE BOARD OF EXAMINERS ...................................................... iii

PRONOUNCEMENT ...................................................................................................... iv

MOTTOES ......................................................................................................................... v

DEDICATION .................................................................................................................. vi

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT .............................................................................................. vii

TABLE OF CONTENTS ................................................................................................. ix

ABSTRACT ...................................................................................................................... xi

CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 1

A. Research Background ........................................................................................ 1

B. Research Statement ............................................................................................ 5

C. Objective .............................................................................................................. 5

D. Scope of Study ..................................................................................................... 5

E. Benefit of Study .................................................................................................. 6

F. Research Methodology ....................................................................................... 6

1. Type of Research and Method .................................................................... 6

a. Type of Research .................................................................................... 6

b. Method ..................................................................................................... 6

2. Approach ....................................................................................................... 7

3. Theory ............................................................................................................ 7

4. Data and Source of Data .............................................................................. 9

5. Technique of Collecting Data ...................................................................... 9

6. Technique of Analyzing Data .................................................................... 10

G. Thesis Organization ......................................................................................... 10

CHAPTER II: LITERATURE REVIEW ..................................................................... 12

A. Literature and Psychology ............................................................................... 12


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B. Elements of Fiction ........................................................................................... 14

1. Narration ..................................................................................................... 16

2. Setting .......................................................................................................... 17

3. Characters ................................................................................................... 17

4. Plot ............................................................................................................... 19

5. Theme .......................................................................................................... 19

C. Personality Growth .......................................................................................... 20

D. Individual Psychological Theory ..................................................................... 22

1. Overview of Individual Psychological Theory ......................................... 22

2. Six Basic Tenets of Individual Psychological Theory.............................. 24

a. Striving for Superiority or Success ..................................................... 24

b. Subjective Perceptions ......................................................................... 26

c. Unity and Self-consistency of Personality .......................................... 26

d. Social Interest ....................................................................................... 27

e. Style of Life ........................................................................................... 28

f. Creative Power ..................................................................................... 28

3. Abnormal Development ............................................................................. 29

a. General Description ............................................................................. 29

b. External Factors ................................................................................... 30

1. Exaggerated Physical of Deficiencies ............................................ 30

2. Pampered Style of Life ................................................................... 30

3. Neglected Style of Life .................................................................... 31

E. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Novel ............................................... 31

F. Related Research .............................................................................................. 32

CHAPTER III: ANALYSIS ........................................................................................... 35

A. Voldemort Character ....................................................................................... 35

B. Voldemort’s Personality Growth .................................................................... 59

CHAPTER IV: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ............................. 71

A. Conclusions ....................................................................................................... 71

B. Recommendations ............................................................................................ 72

BIBLIOGRAPHY

APENDICES


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ABSTRACT

Ana Hening Kusuma Werdarini. C0308018. 2014. The Analysis of

Voldemort’s Personality Growth in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the

Half-Blood Prince. Undergraduate Thesis. English Department of Faculty

of Letters and Fine Arts. Sebelas Maret University.

This research is conducted to analyze Voldemort’s personality growth

in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Voldemort of

Harry Potter series has been a very popular character among its readers as an

antagonist who goes against Harry Potter, the protagonist. Characters in book,

like Voldemort, are one of the important elements in literary works. Characters

in book are built as if their existences are real although obviously they are just

inside the book’s fictional universe. However, these characters are still like real

people that are created by the author to have certain personality growth which

can be seen from their characterization. Talking about personality growth, the

psychological aspects of the characters cannot be neglected. Therefore, through

Voldemort’s character, this research aims at describing Voldemort’s

personality growth.

The approach employed in the research is Psychological Approach.

Meanwhile, the descriptive qualitative research is used as the method in this

research. The primary sources of the data in this research is Harry Potter and

the Half-Blood Prince while the secondary data sources are books, articles, and

journals that have relation with the research. Therefore, the data are in the form

of utterances or quotes.

Adler’s Individual Psychological theory is used in the research. It

employs that everyone has been influenced by inferiority feeling to strive for

either success or superiority. Those who strive for success can be considered as

psychologically healthy people and the unhealthy ones tend to strive for

superiority.

The result shows that Rowling has described Voldemort’s

characteristics as a boy whose traits are good looking, smart, self-sufficient,

ambitious and hard worker. However, Rowling also has told that Voldemort is

cruel. These characteristics have helped Voldemort to strive for superiority that

he wants to conquer the wizarding community and wants to be immortal. It

makes him to be considered as a psychologically unhealthy one. Rowling also

shows the readers the definite reasons that lay behind Voldemort’s striving for

superiority that is his compensation towards the inferiority feeling of being a

half-blood as a low class in the wizarding community and towards death.

However, Voldemort never once consciously realizes that his striving for

superiority is not right. It strengthens that Voldemort is psychologically

unhealthy person.


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Rowling has indirectly taught her readers through the character of

Voldemort to consider the fact that everyone in this world deserves to be loved

and if someone fails to be loved, he tends to develop unhealthy personality

growth. Thus, this research helps her in delivering the role of Voldemort in the

series better. This research can bring benefit for students, readers, and other

researchers who are interested in observing certain characters in literary works,

especially by using Psychological Approach.

Keywords: Half-blood, Voldemort, Personality Growth, Psychological

Approach

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