DEPICTION OF STRUGGLE BY MIRANDA TO REACH LUCIA AGAINST MENTAL ILLNESS IN EVERYTHING HERE IS BEAUTIFUL

Afifah Zakia Fattamubina(1*), Yeny Prastiwi(2),

(1) Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta
(2) Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta, Indonesia
(*) Corresponding Author

Abstract


This research discusses Miranda’s struggle to reach Lucia against mental illness in the novel Everything Here Is Beautiful. Everything Here Is Beautiful novel deals with an issue that is closely related to the individual's role in the extent to which the individual will or must go for the sake of the family. In this novel, Miranda, the older sister of her younger sister, Lucia, who suffers from mental illness, decides to step up to struggle for Lucia against her mental illness. Hence, in this research, the researcher examines Miranda’s struggle to reach Lucia against mental illness. The purpose of this research is to discover struggles by Miranda. This is descriptive qualitative research with an individual psychological approach as the theory. Individual psychological approaches rely on Alfred Adler's "6 Major Concepts of Personality," which include inferiority feeling, fictional finalism, striving for superiority, creative self, style of life, and social interest. This research uses a novel entitled Everything Here Is Beautiful, internet sources, journal articles, and books that are related to the subject matter as primary and secondary data. As a result, the researcher discovered all six Major Concepts of Personality that portrayed Miranda's struggle to reach Lucia against mental illness.

Keywords


Everything Here Is Beautiful, individual psychological approach, mental illness, struggle

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