Skripsi ini membahas sikap patriotik tokoh-tokoh cerita di dalam tiga ceritapendek Guy de Maupassant. Dengan menggunakan analisis sintagmatik dan paradigmatik, sikap patriotik tersebut diteliti berdasarkan peristiwa-peristiwa cerita, deskripsi tokoh, serta latar ruang dan waktu. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa tokoh-tokoh, baik tokoh utama maupun tokoh pendukung di dalam Boule de Suif, Mademoiselle Fifi, dan Le Lit 29, bersikap patriotik. Tokoh-tokoh tersebut membawa ide-ide patriotik Maupassant selama perang Prancis-Prusia berlangsung.

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The focus of this study is the patriotic attitude of the characters in the three short stories of Guy de Maupassant. Using the syntagmatic and paradigmatic analysis, that patriotic attitude could be observed based on the story events, characters description, and by the places and times as well. The result of this study shows that the characters, whether the main characters or the secondary characters in Boule de Suif, Mademoiselle Fifi, and Le lit 29 are patriotic. Those characters represent the patriotic ideas of Maupassant during the Franco-Prussian war.