Jurnal Dialektika Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris
Vol. 12 No. 1 (2024): March - August 2024

Woman Main Character’s Ambition in Novel “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen

Septiana, Tika (Unknown)
Fatmasari, Yuniar (Unknown)



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20 Aug 2024

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The purpose of the thesis is to find out the ambitions of the main female characters that is Mrs. Bennet, the mother of the main protagonist character named Elizabeth Bennet in the novel Pride and Prejudice written by Jane Austen and published in 1813. The method used in this study is descriptive qualitative. The techniques of data collection are reading the novel repeatedly and underlying the necessary lines and quotation in the novel. The result shows that 35 utterances can be identified into Mrs. Bennet’s type of ambition. There are 9 utterances belongs to the Selfishness, 3 to the Perfectionism, 17 to Workaholic and 6 utterances shows the Type “A” Personality. Thus it can be concluded that the most type of ambition owned by Mrs. Bennet is Workaholic. Keywords: Woman Ambition, Pride and Prejudice

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Jurnal Dialektika Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris is a biannual journal published in March and September by English Education Study Program of Educational Sciences and Teachers’ Training Faculty Universitas Peradaban. It welcomes both conceptual and research-based articles related to ...