Erika's Mother Possessivess in Elfriede Jelinnek's The Piano Teacher

Kumala, Luchia (2015) Erika's Mother Possessivess in Elfriede Jelinnek's The Piano Teacher. Undergraduate thesis, Untag 1945 Surabaya.

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Abstract

This thesis is aimed at identifying how Erika’s mother possessiveness is reflected in the novel, analyzing the causes of Erika’s mother possessiveness and the effects of Erika’s mother possessiveness on Erika’s character. The object of this study is Elfriede Jelinek’s novel The Piano Teacher. The data of the study are words, phrases, or sentences from the novel that express the topic. The data were collected by reading the novel several times, identifying some parts of the story that were dealt with the topic, inventorizing the data and classifying the inventorized data and selecting the data to be analyzed using relevant quotes. The relevant theories and concepts applied in this study are character, psychology of literature and the concept of possessiveness. Based on the analysis, the writer can conclude that Erika’s mother is a possessive person. She is controlling every aspect of her daughter’s life. There are three causes of Erika’s mother possessiveness. They are Erika’s mother background, Erika’s mother motivation, and Erika’s mother action. Erika’s mother possessiveness gives some negative impacts to her daughter, Erika. Because of her mother possessive character, Erika suffers psychosexual disorder, becomes bridled, etc. From the analysis, the writer learned that parents should not be too possessive in raising their children because children are not parent’s possession. And parents should raise and educate their children in a right way so that they will grow healthyly and are able to develop good characters.

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