| dc.description.abstract | The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone is one of William’s novels. It was published
in 1950. Mostly, this novel tells about Mrs. Stone, the main character of this novel. In
this novel, Mrs. Stone is identified as a popular actress who is much praised by her
admirers. Meanwhile, when she fails to perform the role for Juliet character, her
popularity get dimmed. She fails because she chooses the role that it is not suitable
with her age in fifties. She stops her profession as an actress and goes to Rome. She
uses her husband’s illness as the reason of the journey. Actually, it is the tactic to
avoid the shameful feeling after getting the failure in her performance. In Rome she
does not free from problems even it leads her to new problems. It that country, she
meets the young Paolo and falls in love with him. Unfortunately, Paolo does not
seriously love her but he loves because of her wealth. Her unawareness to accept the
reality that she is an old woman who must reduce her ambition, cause her tragic life
on the progress life.
There are some factors in supporting her unrealistic psychological burdens.
First is the social background. It consists of the family background where she grew
up. Her parents get divorced when she was a child and she spent all time of her
girlhood in a dormitory. The others factors are her personality and the condition of
society surrounding her life.
The purpose of this thesis is to give a clear description about the tragic life
which is caused by the unrealistic psychological burden of the main character namely
Mrs. Stone. The other purpose is to enrich and apply the writer’s knowledge of
literature especially novel that a writer has got during the study in this faculty. The
last purpose is to give contribution to the readers who are interested in Tennessee
William’s work.
Meanwhile there are two approaches used in this thesis, those are
psychological approach and formalistic approach. Besides, the method used to
analyze data is inductive method. It means that the discussion of the thesis goes from
the particular idea to general one. In applying this method the analysis begins with a
study on Mrs. Stone’s behavior and personality. There is a conclusion that in a
general idea Mrs. Stone is an old actress with unrealistic psychological burden. The
data and information, which are related to the thesis are from the library research. The
data and information are collected from several books and dictionaries. | en_US |
