THE ELEMENTS OF ROMANTICISM IN JANE AUSTEN’SSENSE AND SENSIBILITY

ABSTRACT DEVI MERDEKA WATI. The Elements of Romanticism in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility supervised by Abidin Pammu and Rezky Ramadhani. This thesis is a research about Romanticism in Sense and Sensibility using structuralism approach and William Wordsword Perspective of the elements and characteristics of romanticism of novel. The objective of this research are (1). To explain the Romantics elements that are found in the novel Sense and Sensibility (2). To describe the characteristics of Romanticism in the novel Sense and Sensibility. 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 Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, was published on 1992 and consist of 50 chapters and 459 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 the intrinsic elements that show the ideas of romanticism such as Character, Plot, Setting, and Theme in the novel Sense and Sensibility and the writer found there are seven characteristics of Romanticism in the novel Sense and Sensibility. They are Back to Nature, Sentimentalism, Longing for The Past, Primitivism, The Revolutionary Soul and Humanity, Romantic Melancholy, Individualism and Exotism.