MORAL VALUES OF THE CHARACTER IN A SHORT STORY “BEFORE BREAKFAST”

Pujayanti, Zelin. 2019. ―Moral Values Mrs.Rowland and Alfred Characters in
Short Story “Before Breakfast” By Eugene O’neill In Teaching Literature‖. Final
Project, English Education Study Program, Faculty Language and Arts Education,
Universitas PGRI Semarang. Advisor 1:RR. Festi HK, S.S, M.Hum, Advisor 2:
Rahmawati S,SPd., M.Hum.
Keywords: Moral values, Character, Teaching Literature
This final project is mainly aimed to analyze character and moral value in
Before Breakfast short story. The objectives of the research are; (1)to know what
are the character Mrs.Rowland and Alfred of short story of found in Before
Breakfast. (2) to find out the moral values Mrs.Rowland and Alfred found in the
short story in Before Breakfast and (3) to determine the contribution of the
analysis character and moral value Mrs.Rowland and Alfred found in the short
story.
This research used descriptive qualitative approach. The analysis of data
was presented in the form of narrative or words instead of number. the data were
analized by reading the story, understanding the contents of the story,finding out
the moral value and the character from the story, analyzing the moral value and
the character and, the last drawing conclusion.
The character of Mrs.Rowland has 6 personal positive moral value: hard
work, patient, humble, loyal, strunggle, realistic ; 1 personal negative moral
values : nangging wife. The characters of Alfred has 1 pesonal positive moral
values : totality of passion ; 6 personal negative moral value : slacker(lazy
person). Druker, liar, disloyal, irresponsible, insensitive husband. The social
moral value of Before Breakfast short story by Eugene O’neill are: The loyality in
reationship is important, Feminism: wowan’s movement of having a job. This
final project has 2 contributions in learning literature those can be used media for
teaching literature, can be used as support source in teaching literature. The
researcher hopes this research gives advantages for everyone who is concerned in
literature study and may give another view and perception in viewing literary
works as media to teach English. The teacher can use movie as media in learning
process and control for the student’s attention of literature class especially
learning moral value analysis based on character in the short story