THE STRUGGLE OF SCARLET O’HARA TO FIND PURE LOVE IN MARGARET MITCHEL’S GONE WITH THE WIND (1936)

Astuti, Lina Try
Apriani, Liza Dwi

LITERARY CRITICISM
Vol 2, No 1 (2015)

The research entitled is The Struggle of Scarlet O’hara to Find Pure Love in Margaret Mitchel Gone With The Wind (1936). The aim of the study is exploring  the most dominat of Scarlet O’hara needs appering Gone With The Wind (1936) and to know the struggles of Scarlet O’hara in finding her needs in Gone With The Wind (1936). This research applied qualitative method. In this research the writer will describe the collected-data. The writer explore the protagonist character in the novel and use the concept of Abraham Maslow’s five basic hierarchy of needs especially focused on the struggle for love, affection and belongingness also self actualization needs. Based on the analysis, the researcher finds that Scarlet O’hara struggles to love, affection, belongingness and self actualization because she needs a man to be love, family’s affection and get many friends. The finding research can be stated that the most dominant of Scarlet O’hara needs  appering   Gone With The Wind (1936) is the needs of love, affection, and belongingness to make her life full of joy and happiness. Keywords : Struggle, Love, Affection, Belongingness