Romanticism In Ann Brashares's Novel "My Name Is Memory" (A Critical Analysis)

This thesis is a research about Romanticism in the Novel My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares using William Wordsword Perspective of the characteristics and kind of romanticism of novel. The objective of this research are (1).To describe the characteristics of romanticism in the novel My Name is Memory by Ann (2). To analyze the kind of romanticism of novel My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares. The method in this research is descriptive qualitative method, which is analyzing the form of description, not a number or coefficient of relationship between variables. The object and the source of the data of this research is the novel My Name is Memory by Ann Brashares, which is published on 2011 and consist of 48 chapters and 489 pages. While the instrument of this research is note taking. The data analysis technique in this research used the theory in accordance with the principles of data analysis technique based on the romanticism theory by William Wordsword. Based on the Romanticism of research, the writer found there are five characteristics of Romanticism in the novel “My Name is Memory”. They are back to nature, romantic melancholy, individualism, sentimentalism and kind of romanticism of novel is true love. The implication of this research to give understanding on characteristics of romanticism for the reader who would like to know more about romanticism.