Personality change and ambitions of catherine pinkerton in Marissa Meyer’s heartless

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Rahayu, Tia Kristi (2023) Personality change and ambitions of catherine pinkerton in Marissa Meyer’s heartless. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study aims to analyze the personality changes and ambitions of the main character, Catherine Pinkerton, in Marissa Meyer’s novel Heartless. At first, Catherine is just an ordinary girl with a solid ambition to open a bakery with her maid, Mary Ann. However, after the painful tragedy that befell her, Catherine’s personality changes, influencing her ambitions. For this reason, the researcher answers the study problems: (1) How Catherine Pinkerton’s personality changes are described in Marissa Meyer’s novel Heartless. (2) How Catherine Pinkerton’s personality changes influence her ambition in Marissa Meyer’s novel Heartless. This study uses a qualitative descriptive method to analyze the data. Data was collected by reading the novel first, then underlining and classifying the data according to the study problem. Followed by data analysis based on the New Criticism theory regarding character and characterization, then using Glen Pettigrove’s concept of ambition. The study results show that the character Catherine Pinkerton is described as a patient and altruist before the tragedy. Meanwhile, Catherine’s personality is impatient and selfish after the tragedy. Based on the factors for evaluating virtuous and vicious ambitions, Catherine’s personality changes influence her ambitions against the ambition object and the actions of ambition, which change her ambitions from virtuous to vicious. The object of Catherine’s ambition before her personality change was to have the best bakery in all of Heart with Mary Ann as her partner; this stems from her hobby of baking which is strengthened by her patient personality. The object of Catherine’s ambition is to pursue her with ambitious actions influenced by her altruistic and patient personality by way of Catherine sharing dreams with Mary Ann and trying to realize these dreams through her efforts without forcing her parents’ will to sell her dowry, including participating in a cake-making contest, and looking for her cake shop rental. Meanwhile, Catherine’s object of ambition after her personality change is to find Peter, kill him, and get his head. The object of Catherine’s ambitions changed under the influence of her impatience, which made her driven by her anger. Then the object of Catherine’s ambition was pursued by acts of ambition influenced by her impatient and selfish personality through Catherine, who used instant means, namely dirty tactics by cooperating with the three sisters to trap Peter. Moreover, Catherine also entered into a sham marriage with the king to use her authority as a queen to punish the innocent Peter, only to achieve her ambition.