The Selfish Giant
Man Jadda Wajada
Paper Analysis of The Selfish Giant
The Major Character’s Analysis of the Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
This paper is done to fulfill the final examination of English Prose
With Muhammad Edi Thoyib, M.A
Created by: Nila Kartika Putri (10320040)
HUMANITIES AND CULTURE FACULTY
OF
MAULANA MALIK IBRAHIM STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY, MALANG
2011/2012
Chapter I
Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
Literature is a work of art which is used language as its media. Literature always has relationship with our daily life. One of literary study is about our problems or directly or indirectly, people need art as spiritual cure when they are under pressure, depression, and others.
Prose is a literary work distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and it is closer to the correspondence to the pattern of daily conversation. According to William Bascom, prose is an appropriate terms for the widespread and important category of verbal arts which includes myths, legends, and folktales. These three form are related each other in that they are narrative in prose, and this fact distinguishes them from proverbs, riddles, ballads, poems, tongue-twisters, and others forms of verbal art on the basis of strictly formal characteristic. The prose is shorter and less complex than the novel. It is not bound by the structure and metrical restrictions of plays and poetry.
The Selfish Giant is one of the short stories written by Oscar Wilde. The short story tells about someone who was very selfish, so he forbidden the poor children played in his beautiful garden. Being selfish person, he got a lesson that made him to be kind person. The lesson was his garden was not arrived by other weathers except winter. This was made him realize that he had been a selfish person and begun to be kind person. He also opened his garden anymore in order to be playing place
Paper Analysis of The Selfish Giant
The Major Character’s Analysis of the Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde
This paper is done to fulfill the final examination of English Prose
With Muhammad Edi Thoyib, M.A
Created by: Nila Kartika Putri (10320040)
HUMANITIES AND CULTURE FACULTY
OF
MAULANA MALIK IBRAHIM STATE ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY, MALANG
2011/2012
Chapter I
Introduction
1.1 Background of the Study
Literature is a work of art which is used language as its media. Literature always has relationship with our daily life. One of literary study is about our problems or directly or indirectly, people need art as spiritual cure when they are under pressure, depression, and others.
Prose is a literary work distinguished from poetry especially by its greater irregularity and variety of rhythm and it is closer to the correspondence to the pattern of daily conversation. According to William Bascom, prose is an appropriate terms for the widespread and important category of verbal arts which includes myths, legends, and folktales. These three form are related each other in that they are narrative in prose, and this fact distinguishes them from proverbs, riddles, ballads, poems, tongue-twisters, and others forms of verbal art on the basis of strictly formal characteristic. The prose is shorter and less complex than the novel. It is not bound by the structure and metrical restrictions of plays and poetry.
The Selfish Giant is one of the short stories written by Oscar Wilde. The short story tells about someone who was very selfish, so he forbidden the poor children played in his beautiful garden. Being selfish person, he got a lesson that made him to be kind person. The lesson was his garden was not arrived by other weathers except winter. This was made him realize that he had been a selfish person and begun to be kind person. He also opened his garden anymore in order to be playing place