Determinism and Freedom Reflected in David Nicholls's One Day Novel (2009): A Philosophy of Determinism
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2016Author
Wijayanti, Linda Ari
Nugroho, Abdillah
Fatimah, Siti
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This study is about determinism and freedom in One Day novel. The objective of
this study is to apply the determinism approach to analyze the determinism and freedom
in search for existence of women’s existence in One Day novel. The data source come
from primary data source that is the novel and the secondary data source are references
and data or materials related to the research picking up from the books and the internet
related with the novel. The method of the data collection is descriptive analysis.
The writer uses Barret’s major point of determinism and freedom to answer the
problem of the study. The study is descriptive qualitative research whose data are taken
from novel. The technique of the collecting data is library research, while the technique
of analyzing data is descriptive.
The study comes to the following conclusions. Firstly, based on the structural
analysis of each elements, it shows that character and characterization, setting, plot, point
of view, and theme are related to each other and form the unity. Secondly, based on the
determinism analysis the writer wants to say that humans only have the freedom to
choose and do all they want, and they can only hope and strive in order to their desires
could be achieved and their hopes come true, sometimes what they choose and what they
to do give a major influence on their future or the rest of their lives but on the other hand
everything is determined by God, including, life and death, fate and destiny, fortune and
mate.