The novel of The Queen’s Gambit written by Walter Tevis was the object of this study. This study was intended to analyze the needs experienced by Elizabeth Harmon as the main character in The Queen’s Gambit Novel, also including to describe the characteristics of a self-actualized person portrayed in the Elizabeth Harmon as the main character in the novel The Queen’s Gambit based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Need theory.
The method used in this study was the Qualitative Method. There were two types of the data. The primary data were taken from the novel as form in narratives and dialogues. While the secondary data were taken from related literature about the Hierarchy of Human Need by Abraham Maslow. To take the data, there were several steps must to do, such as reading the novel, identifying the data, then classifying the data, and last reducing the data.
There were two points concluded based on the findings. The first was related to the needs experienced by Elizabeth Harmon as the main character in the novel The Queen’s Gambit (1983). She has fulfilled all the needs, including the physiological need, the safety need, the love and belonging need, self-esteem need, and self-actualization stage. The second was about the characteristics of a self-actualized person depicted by Elizabeth Harmon as a self-actualized person in the novel The Queen’s Gambit (1983). She had four characteristics as a self-actualized person, they are acceptance, the need for privacy, spontaneity and naturalness, and peak experience.
Keywords: Hierarchy of Needs, Self-Actualization, Characteristics of a Self-actualized Person, The Queen’s Gambit Novel