The Struggle for Self-Existence of Lionel Essrog in Jonathan Lethem’ Motherless Brooklyn: A New Criticism
This study aims to analyze the struggle for self-existence of the main character Lionel Essrog in Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn. Motherless Brooklyn is a detective fiction novel. In this novel, Lionel as the main character depicted as young single, poor, and parentless man. As human...
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| Format: | Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed |
| Language: | English English |
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2016
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| Online Access: | http://repository.unair.ac.id/57127/1/ABSTRACT.pdf http://repository.unair.ac.id/57127/2/FS.%20BE.%20130-16%20Pur%20s.pdf http://repository.unair.ac.id/57127/ http://lib.unair.ac.id |
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| Institution: | Universitas Airlangga |
| Language: | English English |
| Summary: | This study aims to analyze the struggle for self-existence of the main
character Lionel Essrog in Jonathan Lethem’s novel Motherless Brooklyn.
Motherless Brooklyn is a detective fiction novel. In this novel, Lionel as the main
character depicted as young single, poor, and parentless man. As human, he has so
many weakness points and powerless. He has got Tourette Syndrom that affects
on his social interaction. The entire struggle he did can be found through the
interaction with other characters and through the action depicted in the narration
and the dialogue in the novel. Moreover, the writer uses new criticism to support
the analysis. In addition, the objectives of the study is to describe the struggle for
self-existence of Lionel Essrog through such formal elements of the novel as
characterization, setting, conflicts of the plot, and theme. As the result of this
study, the writer found that Lionel struggle for self-existence encourage him
exceed the limit of his capability. |
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