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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelLancelot, one of Walker Percy's novel is a story which is used by Percy
to deliver his thinking and opinion about post modem human being. Lancelot
Andrewes Lamar, the main character of Walker Percy's Lancelot, is used by
Percy to show his idea of post modern human being who lived in post modern
world with its problems and influences and finally loses his self-identity. This
thesis will analyze Lancelot's process from being a person who has certain
status in society to a person who loses his identity and becomes a patient in a
mental hospital. In analysing it, the thesis writer uses literary approach
especially the theory of characterization. Besides, in order to have the right
schemata the thesis writer also uses the theory of self-identity and the
background of post modern world to analyze Lancelot and the factors that lead
Lancelot to his loss of self-identity including his family problems and his reaction
toward his problems. After analysing the topic, the thesis writer concludes that a
person in Lancelot's position with his post modern background and family
problems can lose his self-identity because he chooses to make a destructive
and not constructive solution to solve his problems in which his decision deliver
him to his dissatisfied, alienated and mad.