A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON MARRIAGE OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN THE SHORT STORY DAUGHTERS OF THE VICAR BY D. H. LAWRENCE

Abstract

The thesis discusses the short story of D. H. Lawrence, Daughters of the Vicar. It is about two daughters of a vicar who have different marriages. They are Mary and Louisa. Mary chooses a man to be her husband because of his wealth and his position in society. Louisa chooses a man that she loves to be her husband. The discussion of the thesis will focus on the comparison of the main characters’s marriages. The goal of writing the thesis is to give information about their marriages. The other goal is to extent our knowledge in English literature, especially D. H. Lawrence’s short story Daughters of the Vicar. The thesis uses psychological approach since it is used to analyze the fictitious character and their reasons to marry. There is also sociological study used to explain the relationship between the main characters to their surroundings and to the other characters in the story. The method to use in analyzing the thesis is the inductive method because it draws a conclusion from particular problem into the general one. The result indicates that Louisa’s marriage is happy while Mary’s is not. It is because Louisa and her husband love each other. They face many obstacles in their life together. Mary marries her husband because of wealth. She does not love him at all. She lives monotonously. It leads her to an unhappy marriage.