Anxiety of Warriner in Charles Williams’s Dead Calm

This study aims to analyze the anxiety discuss the causes of his that happens to anxiety that Warriner experienced in the novel entitled Dead Calm by Charles Williams. This study discusses the main character, a young man, Hughie Warrine r, who tried to escape from his boat with unstable mental conditions. Three problems are discussed in this study: first, how is Warriner characterized in Dead Calm novel. Second, character of Warriner in with his anxiety in D ead Calm Dead Calm novel novel. In this study, the researcher used the descriptive qualitative method. To analyze Warriner's characteristics, anxiety, and defense mechanism that is portrayed in the novel, the Hughie Warriner and how is anxiety described in the main . Third, how does Warriner cope with researcher applied several theories. The theories are the New Criticism theory and the psychoanalysis approach by Sigmund Freud in the concept of anxiety and defense mechanism. To collect the research data, the researcher gathered dialogue and quotation s f rom other characters' points of view. The result of this study shows that Hughie Warriner or Warriner faces some anxieties in the novel, there are neurotic anxiety, moralistic anxiety, and realistic anxiety. The anxiety of Warriner is analyzed through his characteristics first in the novel and Warriner has negative characteristics because of his past experiences. It is represented by the main character's feelings and behavior that are close to his psyche condition. Warriner has five neurotic anxieties, then two moralistic anxieties, and the last he has six realistic anxieties. In order to cope with his anxiety, Warriner applies some types of defense mechanism, there are denial, displacement, and introjection. Denial is used to cope his realistic anxiety with external world, Displacement is used to cope his anxiety when he starts to feel anxious and he starts screaming to relieve his anxiety, and the last is Introjection used to cope his anxiety when Warriner adopts a brave act to fight Bellew, although he sti ll has the fear inside his heart.