MORAL QUALITIES ON RACHEL WHITE AS THE MAIN CHARACTER IN SOMETHING BORROWED BY EMILY GIFFIN

Abstract

Something Borrowed is a novel written by Emily Giffin that was published in 2004. This novel focuses on the story of Rachel’s life that shows Rachel’s moral qualities. The aspects of Rachel’s moral qualities include patience, independent woman, friendship, and discipline that are categorized into good moral while envy and jealousy, betrayal, and lie are included as bad moral. Rachel’s moral qualities are influenced by family and social environment factors. Family environment factor is coming from her parents who always teach her to do goodness, be patient in her life, and to live by the rules. Besides, social environment factors is a factor which is closely related to social activities. Then, this thesis is ended by analyzing Rachel’s moral qualities that bring the impacts toward her life. The type of research in analyzing Something Borrowed is qualitative research. Qualitative research in this thesis is derived from the dialogues of the novel which have been sorted, and carefully selected in accordance with the topic of the study. The study is done through library research and also taken from internet websites to support the informations that are relevant to the topic. This study uses inductive method so this analysis will show the way of answering the problems to discuss from the specific to the general conclusion. In the analysis of Rachel’s moral qualities, this study uses moral theory by Immanuel Kant as the theoretical foundation that includes good wiil, duty, reason and freedom, and conciousness. This theory is relevant to match with Rachel’s moral qualities. ix Basically, good and bad morals are owned by human being, includes Rachel as the main character in the novel Something Borrowed that depends on the dominant moral between good and bad. It would appear appropriate to the context of the situation. Therefore, as human being, we should be able to control ourselves in order to improve our moral qualities by not doing bad deeds which are regarded as bad moral in society.