THE STUDY OF PIP’S CHARACTER IN REACHING HIS AMBITION IN CHARLES DICKENS’ GREAT EXPEXTATION

This research entitled The Study of Pip's Character to Reach His Ambition in Charles Dickens’ Great Expectation. Great Expectation is a novel was wrote by Charles Dickens and published in 1860. It aims to analyze the characterization of Pip’s character as a main character and Pip’s psychological effect in reaching his ambition in Great Expectation the novel. There are two main concerns in this thesis which are intrinsic and extrinsic element. First, intrinsic element is focused in character and characterization of Pip as a main character. Secondly, extrinsic element is focused in Pip’s ambition and his psychological condition.
This thesis uses descriptive qualitative method for describe the character of Pip depicted in the novel, how Pip reaches his ambition and what the psychological effects of his ambition. The writer uses theory and analytical approach as the base of this study. The first is characterization analytical approach. That analytical approach is used to analyze the character characterization of Pip as the main character in the novel. It is important to know the foundation of Pip ambition. And the second is psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud theory to analyze how Pip’s psychological condition to reach his ambition to get Estella’s love. By doing psychological approach, the writer finds how id, ego, and super ego emerge as conscious and unconscious process.
There are several results of this research. First, this research shows that the character of Pip influences what Pip does in reaching his ambition. It is as a background of Pip’s attitude and Pip’s behavior. The second, to reach his ambition, Pip through conscious and unconscious process. And from that process the writer finds the behavior changes of Pip as the psychological effect