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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe thesis deals with the process through which Gwendolen
Harleth as the main female character in George Eliot's Daniel
Deronda gains her self-realization. To know the development
of Gwendolen's self-realization, the thesis writer analyzes
her responses toward each of her inner conflicts, and also the
influences of her social environment, represented by her
mother, uncle, and Daniel Deronda. The writer uses library
research to get the results of the whole study. Besides some
literary criticism on the novel, the writer also uses the
theory of self-blame, self-pity, self-acceptance, and self-realization,
and some literary theories such as
characterization, conflict, and setting. In short, the
analysis is about Gwendolen's changing character traits and
the development of her understanding toward herself. The
study finds that the responses to the conflicts lead Gwendolen
to her self-realization through the shattered feeling of
superiority. The other findings are that in self-realization,
there must be a balance between one's ideal and real-self, and
a review of one's past life and other's guidance may lead the
person to his or her self-realization.