THE MECHANISM OF SELF DEFENSE OF THE PROTAGONIST IN THE PLAY BARABAH BY MOTINGGO BOUSJE
Abstract
A play is one of the literary works that contains of either physical conflict or spiritual conflict. The characters and their personality are reasonable to discuss, especially the protagonist. The source of the conflict can be solved by the mechanism of self defense. It can protect someone from anxiety of refusing the reality that is usually caused by some wishes which are contrary to the structure of personality. The objectives of the research are to describe the mechanism of self defense to the conflict experienced by the protagonist in the play Barabah by Motinggo Bousje and to describe the implication to the literature study. The qualitative descriptive analysis method is applied in the research. The researcher analyzes the mechanism of self defense of the protagonist in the play Barabah by Motinggo Bousje and describes it properly. The method is applied because of the fact or phenomenon which appears empirically in the protagonist"s personality in the analyzed play without any intervention from the researcher. The document analysis technique is applied in the research. The data analysis is based on each scene in the play that is analyzed entirely.
Keywords
Play Barabah, mechanism of self defense, Motinggo Bousje