The existence of Will Traynor to define his life in Me Before You novel by Jojo Moyes

This thesis attempts to analyze a controversial novel written by an English Journalist, Jojo Moyes under the titled Me Before You. The theme of this romantic novel is about someone’s freedom in the way of choosing his own life choice. This thesis focuses on the main character in the novel, Will Traynor, who decides to end his life, when he feels the life that he is living is not the life that he wants. Me Before You is a novel describes an effort of Will Traynor to reject determination in his life through his choices. Life is made up of choices. Human have various destiny points that we must live through in this lifetime, with these destiny points firmly implanted in our soul makeup, we also have ‘free will’ and can choose how we will live through the situation at hand. The result of this study shows that Will’s existence is expressed by his life choices and responsibilities. His choices to isolate himself and commits suicide, that makes him sacrifice his relationship and love. Until he has feeling of having full right to die defines that he is a brave person becomes his essence in his life. Dealing with the focus of the study above, this research uses new criticism as basic theory to analyze Will Traynor’s characterization. In other way, to know deeper about existence and essence, researcher uses Jean Paul Sartre’s existentialism theory. By choosing Sartre’s existentialism theory, it explains more deeply the phases faced by Will Traynor in order to show his existence, until in the end he decides to end up his life as main point of his essence.