Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as Portrayed in A.J. Finn’s The Woman in The Window and Haruki Murakami’s Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A Comparative Literature Analysis

Abstract

This thesis is entitled “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as Portrayed in A.J. Finn’s Novel The Woman in the Window and Haruki Murakami’s Novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A Comparative Literature Analysis”. The writer interested in analyzing the two novels because they have same motive is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. In this thesis the writer uses two novels as the object, there are The Woman in the Window (2018) from England and Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013) from Japan. The aim of this study is to find out how Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is portrayed in the two literary works and to find the affinities and differences regarding the issue in forms of Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder that the main characters are suffering from using Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder‘s theory by American Psychiatric Association through the fifth edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). Both main characters of the two literary works, Anna Fox and Tsukuru Tazaki are suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The study also involves looking at the intrinsic elements to look at the affinities and differences found in the two literary works. In completing the analysis, the writer uses descriptive qualitative method which represents all the data in forms of words and sentences. The writer collects data from various sources including The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami, relevant books, articles and journals to support the analysis. Based on the results of the analysis it can be concluded that the two literary works show affinities and differences regarding Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder that is experienced by the two main characters of both literary works.

Skripsi ini berjudul “Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as Portrayed in A.J. Finn’s Novel The Woman in the Window and Haruki Murakami’s Novel Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage: A Comparative Literature Analysis”. Penulis tertarik untuk menganalisis kedua novel karena kedua novel tersebut memiliki motif yang sama yaitu gangguan stress pascatrauma. Dalam skripsi ini penulis menggunakan dua novel sebagai objek, yaitu The Woman in the Window (2018) dari Inggris, dan Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (2013) dari Jepang. . Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana gangguan stress pascatrauma dan menemukan persamaan dan perbedaan terkait masalah ini menggunakan teori gangguan stress pascatrauma oleh American Psychiatric Association melalui The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders edisi ke-5 (DSM-V). Karakter utama dari masing-masing karya sastra, Anna Fox dan Tsukuru Tazaki sama-sama mengidap gangguan stress pascatrauma. Studi ini juga melihat unsur intrinsik untuk melihat persamaan dan perbedaan yang ditemukan didalam kedua karya sastra. Dalam menyelesaikan analisis ini, penulis menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif karena semua data disampaikan dalam bentuk kata-kata dan kalimat. Penulis mengumpulkan data dari berbagai sumber termasuk novel The Woman in the Window oleh A.J. Finn, Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage oleh Haruki Murakami, buku, artikel dan jurnal yang berkaitan untuk mendukung analisis. Berdasarkan hasil analisis dapat disimpulkan bahwa kedua karya sastra menunjukkan persamaan dan perbedaan mengenai gangguan stress pascatrauma yang dialami oleh kedua karakter utama dari kedua karya sastra.