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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis concerns with Binx Boiling's search for
self-realization in Walker Percy's The Moviegoer. In
Percy's novel, the main character, Binx Boiling feels lost
in the everyday problems and struggles to confront the
haunted past to make the present a living condition.
Besides, what concerns the novelist is the search for
whatever it is that can banish despair in the modern era.
Thus, this thesis will analyze what the main character's
problems are and how the main character reaches his self-realization.
In addition, the thesis writer wants to show
that Binx Boiling's search has an important role in the
success of his self-realization by using the repetition
way, which means the return to the past to find comfort
from the painful reality of his present life, and the
rotation way, which means the quest for new experiences by
turning to the future in order to avoid the absurd present
and any unplanned attempt to increase one's consciousness
by breaking through the everydayness. To analyze and
support the analysis, the writer uses literary approach
especially the theory of characterization and theory of
conflict. Besides, the writer also needs theory of self-realization
in order to have the right schemata, and to
analyze the growth of Binx's realization of his despair
that leads Binx to accept the reality of his life through
his mother, his cousin, Kate Cutrer, and his half-brother,
Lonnie Smith. Finally, through the study, the writer
concludes that only after Binx learns and tries to analyze
his life through recollecting of his past and having new
experiences, further on affects his life such a way. It
does not only develop and improve him and gain his self-realization,
but it also gives Binx a lively spirit to be
himself. He becomes courageous to face his life and
accepts himself and others both as human beings.