Sarah is not prepared for her reaction to the dark, swarthy pirate who makes his contempt for the English perfectly clear. It also never crosses his mind that these women might not want pirates for husbands. She challenges him from the first moment they meet. What he doesn’t count on is Lady Sara Willis, the daughter of a reformer who has appointed herself champion of the convict women. No doubt they’ll be grateful for his assistance. He wants wives for his crew and the convict ship bound for Australia is packed with women – convict women. Pirate Gideon Horn sees no fault with his logic. The self, The Pirate Lord, Existentialist Approach.What woman wouldn’t want to be rescued from a fate worse than death? What woman wouldn’t be grateful for the chance at a new start, even if it does mean marriage to a pirate? After all, isn’t marriage preferable to a life of servitude in New South Wales? Sabrina Jeffries’ wonderful book, The Pirate Lord, seeks to answer these questions. It shows that the characteristic by Sara Willis causes the conflict of her life.

Third, theory of self is the individual characteristic in human’s life. Second, based on existentialist analysis, being, existence before essence, cogito, freedom, anxiety, transcendence of ego, nothingness are reflected in Sara Willis’s life. First, based on structural element in The Pirate Lord, it shows that character and characterization, setting, plot, point of view, style, and theme are related to each other and form unity. The technique of analyzing data in this research paper is descriptive The result of the study comes to the three following conclusions. The method of collecting data is reading the novel. Primary data source is The Pirate Lord novel and secondary data source is books or any information related to the practice of self that support the existentialist approach. The data source in this research is divided into two types that are primary data and secondary data.

The researcher employs the descriptive qualitative as a type of the research. The object of this study is The Pirate Lord novel by Sabrina Jeffries. The study is intended to analyze the novel based on structural elements and to analyze the novel based on the existentialist approach. The major problem of this study how is the self reflected in Sabrina Jeffries’s The Pirate Lord novel (1998).

The Pirate Lord by Sabrina Jeffries