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2.5 Superiority PrincipleSuperiority principle is one of theindividual psychology theories stated ominferiorityprinciple is wrong, because these twoprinciples is closely and complementary.However, as a principle, the two termsare different, so that the discussionwasdistinguished,despiteinoperational is can not be separated.Adler assumed that human are aggressiveand should always aggressive when theywant to survive. Then, this aggressiveimpulsive grows into the impulsive tofindimpetus to find strength, bothphysically and symbolically to survive.People want power and from this conceptgrows that people expect to nefforttoleaveinferiorityfeeling, but superior inhere is not a power to surpass others,but an effort to reach the superiorcondition and is not always to competewithothers.Thissuperiorityissuperior on self. People have manydifferent way to be a superior. Adlerconsidered this is a lifestyle. Thislifestyle followed by a combination oftwo things, namely the inner self drivenbehaviors that set the direction andencouragement from the environment thatwould increase or inhibit the impulse bythe inside. Looked superiority principleseparate from inferiority principle.3. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY3.1 Research DesignThe method used in this research isdescriptivequalitativemethod.According to I Made Wirartha (2006:155)descriptive qualitative is a method toanalyze, describe, and summarize thevariousconditions,situationsandvarious data collected in the form ofresults or observations, interview orstudied problems that occur in thefield.3.2 Source of DataAs the source of data, the writer usedFifty Shades trilogy, they are FiftyShades of Grey, Fifty Shades Darker andFifty Shades Freed as the main data.Jurnal Ilmiah Sastra Volume 4. No. 1, Juni 2016This novel was written by E.L James.Those novels helped the writer a lot todo this study. Fifty Shades of Grey waspublished in 2011 in the United Kingdomby Vintage Books, Fifty Shades Darkerwas published in 2012 in the UnitedKingdom by Vintage Books and FiftyShades Freed was published in 2012 inthe United Kingdom by Vintage Books(April 17, 2012) and Arrow Books (April26, 2012). The novels’ genre is eroticromance and was written by E.L James.Meanwhile, to complete the data andtheories, the writer used some books andinternet which are related to the topic.4. RESULT AND DISCUSSION4.1 Characteristic of ChristianGreyThe characters have an important role inastory.AccordingtoAbrams(inNurgiyantoro 1995: 165) characters arethe people who appear in a work ofnarrative or drama by readers of themoral quality and certain tendencies asexpressed in words and actions. Based onsuch understanding, the characters arefictitiousindividualwhohasaparticular character and behavior ofperpetrators who experienced the eventsin the story.One of the problem formulationswhich will be answered in this chapteriswhatisthecharacterizationportrayed in Christian Grey in the FiftyShades Trilogy. The characterizationwill be illustrate the characteristic incharacter in a story.According toNurgiyantoro, the characters may be thecharacteristics of the characters in thestory. However, in this study the writeronly focused on the characteristics ofChristian Grey. The researcher on theory by Minderop:1. Self ConfidentAccording to Kamus Besar BahasaIndonesia, self-confident is a person’sdeep feeling that they were able to dosomething useful both for themselves andothers.Theresearcherfoundselfconfident in character of Christian Greythat shown by the dialogues between himand others. The researcher know aboutthis characteristic by looking the novel103

by the tellingMinderop.andshowingstatedby2. ArrogantAccordingtoOxfordAdvancedLearner’s Dictionary, arrogant meansbehaving in a proud, unpleasant way,showing little thought for other people“I employ over forty thousand people,Miss Steele. That gives me a certainsense of responsibility-power, if youwill. If I were to decide I was nolongerinterestedinthetelecommunications business and sell,twenty thousand people would struggle tomake their mortgage payments after amonth or so.” (Fifty Shades of Grey 1:11)3. BossyAccordingtoOxfordAdvancedLearner’s Dictionary, bossy is alwaystelling people what to do; fond ofgiving people orders; domineering.“You need to eat. That’s why you were soill.Honestyly,it’sdrinkingrulenumber one”.4. RomanticAccordingtoOxfordAdvancedLearner’s Dictionary, romantic is (ofpeople) showing feelings of love.“Ana, there’s a package for you.”I open the parcel, and inside I find ahalfleatherboxcontainingthreeseemingly identical old cloth-coveredboks in mint condition and a plain whitecard. Written on one side, in black inkin neat cursive handwriting, is : Whydidn’t you tell me there was danger? Whydidn’t you warn me? Ladies know what toguard against, because they read novelsthat tell them of these tricks.5. ry,caringmeanskind, helpful and showing that you careabout other people. This caring trait isowned by Christian Grey. It is one ofthe good characteristic in himself.“Just ensuring you make it through thedoor, Miss Steele.” He gives me a smallsmile. Obviously, he’s referring to myearlier less-than-elegant entry into hisoffice.Iflush.“That’sveryconsiderate, Mr. Grey,” I snap, and hissmile widens. I’m glad you find me104entertaining, I glower inwardly, walkinginto the foyer. I’m surprised when hefollows me out. Andrea and Olivia bothlookup,equallysurprised.(FiftyShades of Grey – 1:16)6. nteresting because you do not know muchabout them.“Would your friends say you’re easy toget to know?” And I regret the questionas soon as I say it. Its’ not on Kate’slist. I’m a very private person, MissSteele. I go a long way to protecy myprivacy. I don’t often give interviews ”(Fifty Shades of Grey – 1:12).7. SelfishSelfish means put yourself in themiddle of the goal and do not care aboutthe suffering of others, including hisloved or who is considered a closefriend.OxfordAdvancedLearner’sDictionary stated that selfish is caringonly about yourself rather than aboutother people. A word of selfish sensehave a negative meaning.“But I’m a selfish man. I’ve wanted yousince you fell into my office. You areexquisite, honest, warm, strong, witty,beguilinglyinnocent;thelistisendless. I am in awe of you. I want you,and the thought of anyone else havingyou is like a knife twisting in my darksoul. (Fifty Shades Darker – 2:36)8. GenerousOxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionarystated that generous is giving orwilling to give freely; given freely.“Christian, why do you think you have adark soul? I would never say that. Sadmaybe, but you’re a good man. I can seethat . . . you’re generous, you’re kind,and you’ve never lied to me. And Ihaven’t tried very hard.” (Fifty ShadesDarker – 2:36)9. Control FreakThewriterfoundanothercharacteristic in Christian Grey. It iscontrolfreak.AccordingtoOxfordAdvanced Learner’s Dictionary, controlfreak means a person who always wants tobe in control of their own and others’Indah, Nurochman, Setiarini, The Superiority in.

lives, and to organize how things aredone.“You sound like a control freak.” Thewords are out of my mouth before canstop them.“Oh, I exercise control in all things,Miss Steele”.10. HotheadedHotheaded is a person who often actstoo quickly, without thinking of whatmighthappen,havingan impetuous or quick-tempered nature:“Oh yes. He was very hotheaded when hewas younger.” She shudders (Fifty ShadesDarker – 7:147).11. StubbornAccordingtoOxfordAdvancedLearner’s Dictionary, stubborn meanshavingorshowing dogged determination notto change one’s attitude or position onsomething, especially in spite of goodreasons to do so.“Because we’re getting to know eachother,andyou’restubbornandcantankerous and moody and difficult,” Imurmur breathlessly, shifting my head togive him better access to my throat. Heruns his nose down my neck, and I feelhis smile.“I’m all those things, Miss Steele. It’sa wonder you put up with me.” (FiftyShades Darker – 12:267)12. Kind HeartedAccordingtoOxfordAdvancedLearner’s Dictionary, kind-hearted ishaving a kind and sympathetic nature.No, no, he’s not. I bristle internally.He’s not dark. He’s a good man, and he’snot in the dark. He’s joined me in thelight. And now she’s here, trying todrag him back with some warped idea thatshe loves him. (Fifty Shades Darker –15:360)4.2 The FormsSuperiorityofExpressionofSuperiority is the form of attitudewhich people feel better than others.According to Oxford Advanced Learner’sDictionary is show by your behaviourthat you think you are better thanothers. Superiority is the state orquality of being better, more skilful,Jurnal Ilmiah Sastra Volume 4. No. 1, Juni 2016more powerful, greater, etc.than erioritysupremacy;majority.In this chapter, the writer wants toanalyzed to solve the second problemformulation that superior that shows byChristian Grey in the novel. Grey hasmany things in his life so that he feelhe is superior than others.There are many dialogues or scenethat writer found in the novel thatshows the superiorities in ChristianGrey. The writer refers to the theory ofIndividual Psychology by Alfred Adler,where people wants to be superior.Christian Grey, with any wealth that heowned surely made him to be superior.1. AttittudeThewriterseetheformsofexpression of superiority from ChristianGrey by looking some aspects. One of theaspects is an attitude. The writer knowsthe superiority shown in Christian Greybased on his attitude. One of thedialogue that writer found in the novelthat shows the superiority in ChristianGrey based on his attitude. The firstthing is attittude.“If you’re looking for your jeans, I’vesent them to the laundry.” His gaze isdark.“Oh.” I flush scarlet. Why oh why doeshe always catch me off balance?“I sent Taylor out for another pair andsome shoes. They’re in the bag on thechair.” (Fifty Shades of Grey – 5:6).2. ExpressionTheotheraspectsthattheresearcher found as forms of expressionof superiority from him. The writerfound many evidence that histhoughtshown the forms of superiority inhimself in dialogues in novel. One ofthe dialogues is when Christian wasinterviewed by Anastasia Steele in hisoffice.“Business is all about people, MissSteele, and I’m very good at judgingpeople. I know how they tick, what makesthemflourish,whatdoesn’t,whatinspires them, and how to incentivizethem. I employ an exceptional team, andI reward them well.” He pauses and fixesme with his gray stare. “My belief is to105

achieve success in any scheme one has tomake oneself master of that scheme, knowit inside and out, know every detail. Iwork hard, very hard to do that. I makedecisions based on logic and facts. Ihave a natural gut instinct that canspot and nurture a good solid idea andgood people. The bottom line is, it’salways down to good people.” (FiftyShades of Grey – 1:10)3. Face ExpressionThe writer knows the superiorityshown in Christian Grey by looking hisfaceexpression.Apersonwhoissuperior always shows their expressionas an expression shows indirectly thatthe other person is not better thanthem. Face expression can show howperson feel themselves is superior.“Don’t you have a board to answer to?” Iask, disgusted.“I own my company. I don’t have toanswer to a board.” He raises an eyebrowat me (Fifty Shades of Grey – 1:11).4.3 The Factors Influence theAppearance of the SuperioritySuperiority is one of the interestingtopics to analyzed. Alfred Adler statedin his Journal of Humanistic Psychologyin his Individual Psychology Theory. , 1993: 220) explains thatinferiority is any less valuable sensearisingfromtheinabilityofpsychological or social or subjectivelyperceived as less than perfect physicalstate. The inferiority appears in ahumanslife,butpeopletrytocompensate their weakness with their allpower. In this effort, the compensationis decided by lifestyle and effort to besuperior.Someone who is superior usually hasbeen through the phases of inferiorit.They know their weaknesses and try tocompensate to turn it into a betterthing so they get a positive result. Theurge to be superior this is an attemptto leave a feeling of inferioritybecausepeoplewantapowerandperfection. Superior is not the power toexceed other people, but efforts toachieve a superior in self that was106driven by the factors which shapehuman’s behavior and encourage them toachieve superiority.Christian Grey is a character thatshows superiority in himself based onthe Fifty Shades trilogy. After read allof the novels, the writer knows thatthere are many factors that was drivenChristian shows the superiority.1. Dark Past TimeChristianGreyisknownasasuccessful young entrepreneur. He lookshandsome, prestigious, smart, brave,impressive. He is a rich man. He is aCEO in his own company namely GreyEntreprises Holdings. He has many car,helicopter and he funds a lot eenexperienced dark past time when he was achild and teenager. Christian Grey hasbeen through the dark past time when hewas young. This dark past time dividedinto some parts to describe cleary whatChristian Grey has been through until hecan be a superior.A. TormentIn dark past time, Christian Greyever been experienced tormented.Torment cause to experience severmentalorphysicalsuffering.Tormented is certainly the one thatforms the Christian personality as asuperior. He was trying to beat hisdark pastby being superior forhimself or for others. There aresome tormented that was experiencedby Christian Grey. The writer foundthe dialogue that shows ChristianGrey has a trauma that caused bytorture that he experienced. Thetormented that was experienced byChristian as mental and physicalsuffering.One of the evindencesthat shows Christian Grey has everbe tormented in his past time canseen below. When Christian looked ather mom that was hits by her pimp.B. Sexual ViolenceThereareseveralfactorsthatinfluence the appearances of thesuperiority in Christian Grey. Afterreadingthenovel,thewriterrealized that there are some aspectsinfluence why superiority appears inIndah, Nurochman, Setiarini, The Superiority in.

himself. One of the factorssexual violence factor.isaA long time ago, Christian is apoor child. His biological mother isa slut and have been passed awayyears ago, and his biological fatheralways do a violence to him and hismother. After his mother passedaway, Christian was adopted by acouple namely Grace and Clark. As anadopted child, Christian grew upwith a lot of love and adequace ofhis parents, but without realizingby his parents. Christian got anysexual violence by his mother’sfriend namely Mrs. Robinson. He gotmany sexual violence called BDSM.BDSM is an acronym of Bondage andDiscipline, SADISM and Masochism(bondage, discipline, sadistic andmasochistic). This term is a sexualpractice that involves pain duringsex and violence and hurt themselvesor couples to achieve satisfaction.Thesexualviolencethatwasexperienced by Christian since hischildhood by his mother’s friend strilogy.Based on the characteristic thatwas made by the writer in ChristianGrey, one of them is control-freak.In the game of BDSM, there isdivided into two parts, they aremaster(dominant)andslave(submissive). The dominant holdscontrol over all activities, whilesubmissive loses its power over thebody and mind. During experiencedsexual violence by Mrs. Robinson,Grey acts as a submissive.For many years that he has beenthrough until Mrs. Robinson did notdo any sexual violence anymore,Christiantraumasandhisexperienced made him as a dominantcharacter. His experiences as asubmissive in sexual violence madehim as a control-freak person. Hewants to control a lot of things toshow that he is a dominant. Thisexperiences made a superiority inhimself.Therearealotofevidences that the writer found thatChristian experienced any sexualviolence in the novel.Jurnal Ilmiah Sastra Volume 4. No. 1, Juni 2016C. spasttimeispoornerss. He has ever been feelhunger and could not eat anything.Helivedwithdeprivation.Thewriter found some dialogues thatshows Christian Grey is a poor childbefore he was adopted.“Sometimes in the dreams she’s justlying on the floor. And I thinkshe’s asleep. But she doesn’t move.She never moves. And I’m hungry.Really hungry.” (Fifty Shades Darker– 15:345)2. SuccesfulA person who is a superior alwaysthrough many experiences in their lives.They must be have an inferiority feelingthat push them to be better and reachthe perfection called as superiority.Christian Grey has been through hisinferiority time in his childhood. Afterhe has been through his inferiorityfeeling, he passed any succesfull in hislife as an entrepreneur in his owncompany.Based on his past life, Christianluckily was adopted by a rich family,but his successful is not he getswithout an effort. He ever felt howbecame poor, how feel hunger and heknows how hard his life is. After he wasadopted, his adoptive parents send himinto the school. After all, he majoredin economics at Harvard. Based on histitle, he tried to build things and nowhe proved that he can be successful inhis business. Build a company is noteasy, but Christian with his ambitionmake it happened.AfterChristianGreyhasbeenthrough his inferiority feeling, he hasan ambition with his new family. Heproved it and get majored in economicsthen made him try to do business andhas his own company. Finally, after hewastryingsohard,hegotanachievement in his life, a succesfull.After reading the novel, the writerknows that Christian compensate hisdark past time by work hard and heproved that he reached the succesfullas young entrepreneur. His successfulis not he got easily without an effort.107

He works hard to success and he ownedhis company.“Do you feel that you have immensepower?3. Wealth“I employ over forty thousand people,Miss Steele. That gives me a certainsense of responsibility power, if youwill. If I were to decide I was nolongerinterestedinthetelecommunications business and sell,twenty thousand people would struggle tomake their mortgage payments after amonth or so.” (Fifty Shades of Grey 1:11)A person who successfully certainlyhas a wealth. Christian Grey known as asuccessful entrepreneur. His age isstill very young, but he has reachedmany achievement in his life. Successfulmade Christian Grey as a rich man. Hehas much money, transportation and etc.His wealth is one of the factors thatinfluences the superiority appears inChristian Grey. He has been lived poorlyand after he was adopted by a richfamily,heworkshardandreachsuccessful and become one of the richestentrepreneur.The writer found some evidences thatshows Christian Grey is a rich man. Hiswealth made him as superior and feelthat he is better than others. One ofthe evidences is when Ana is picking upher backpack, she wander upstairs to herbedroom and check out the walk-incloset. It’s still full of clothes-allbrandnewwithpricetagsstillattached.“I check the tag on one of the eveningdresses: 2,998. Holy fuck. I sink tothe floor.”“This isn’t me. I put my head in myhands and try to process the last fewhours. It’s exhausting. Why, oh why,have I fallen for someone who is plaincrazy-beautiful, sexy as fuck, richerthan Croesus, and crazy with capital K?”(Fifty Shades Darker – 5:104)4. PowerThereisanotherfactorthatinfluence the appearance of superiorityin Christian Grey. Based on the novelwas read by the writer, the writer knowthat besides any sexual v

the Fifty Shades trilogy one by one,marks down the dialogue and line in the novel, classifying the data that shows (1) the characters of Christian Grey, (2) the forms of expression of superiority from Christian Grey, and (3) the factors that influence the appearances of the superiority in Christian Grey, and makes sure that