Social Disparity Reflected In Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park (1814): A Sociological Perspective

The research is aimed to know the social disparity in Jane Austen „s Mansfield Park novel by using Sociological Perspective. Therefore, the study analyzes the novel in terms of it‟s structural elements and based on the sociological perspective. This research belongs to descriptive qualitative study. In this method, the writer uses two data sources; they are primary data and secondary data source. The primary data source and the object of this study is the novel Mansfield Park, meanwhile the secondary data sources are any books of literature and sociology and websites related to this study. The writer collects the data from both primary and secondary data sources in a short of document evidence. The study comes to the following conclusion. First, based on structural analysis, it is apparent that in Mansfield Park novel, Jane Austen conveys message that different lifestyle because of social classes. Second, it is clear that there is a close relation between this novel and the social reality of England in the early nineteenth century. Mansfield Park shows that the lives of the upper class were filled with luxurious, stands in sharp contrast with the lives of the lower class are shabby and uneducated

Women’s Rebellion in Khaled Hosseini's A Thousand Splendid Sun: A Marxist Approach

As one of the literary works, Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns can be seen as the means to deliver the certain message to the society. The message can be considered as the author’s struggle to find equality. Therefore this research investigates how the women rebellion is described in the novel and what indicators are stated as the women rebellion. This research belongs to a qualitative study, which uses two data sources. The primary data source is the novel A Thousand Splendid Suns itself meanwhile the secondary data sources are any literatures or previous studies related to the novel. The data from the data sources are collected in a sort of document as evidence. The findings show that; first, Hosseini describes the rebellion through the women characters that are subordinated by the men characters to show the oppression relationship. Second, the novel tells of the women’s rebellion actions which are divided into the common rebellion and the radical one which can be analyzed in the frame of Marxist theory. The last, Hosseini writes the story from the women’s point of view in order to raise the sympathy of the Afghan women

Violation of Human Rights Delineated in Sidney Sheldon's Are You Afraid of the Dark? Novel (2004): A Sociological Approach

This research focuses on the human rights violation issue delineated in Are You Afraid of the Dark? novel (2004) by Sidney Sheldon. The perspective that is used in analyzing this novel is theory of sociology. This research uses documentation method to collect the data. This research is conducted to analyze the indicators of human rights violations in the novel, how the human rights violation is delineated in the work, and the reason of the author in addressing human rights violations issue. The researcher uses primary and secondary data source. Are You Afraid of the Dark? novel is the primary data source. Other book, journal, and website that relate the issue of human rights violations are the secondary data source. There are three main findings in this research. First, there are found five indicators of human rights violations in the novel such as violation of human rights to life, violation of human rights to free from torture, violation of human rights to get education, violation of human rights to work, and violation of human rights to get liberty. Second, the author delivers the idea of human rights violations through character, event, setting, and style in the novel. Third, the author addresses human rights violation issue based on the social situation where he lives in which war happens and human rights violations occur everywhere

Anarchism Movement As Depicted In Erin Gruwell’s The Freedom Writers Diary

Erin Gruwell’s The Freedom Writers Diary is a book which highlights the problem that occurs in American education. It does not just shows the reader how the education is run, but it presents the social condition of the education itself. It relates with some notable issues namely inequality, racial tension and class struggle which then were explored with Anarchism perspective. Therefore this research investigates what characteristics and indicators of Anarchism are described in the Freedom Writers Diary, how the depiction of Anarchism is described, and how the effect of the Freedom Writers Diary to the larger society is revealed. In conducting this research, this research applied descriptive qualitative research. The data of this research was taken from the dialogues and statements in the book and from other sources. The instrument of this research is the researcher himself who collects, analyzes, and presents the data findings of the research then draws the conclusions. The result of the analysis shows: (1) The anarchism characteristics in the Freedom Writers Diary are Liberty, Equality and Solidarity. (2) There are eight indicators of characteristics of Anarchism. (3) The Anarchism is depicted in the Freedom Writers Diary through the plot, character and characterization and the author’s style. (4) The release of the Freedom Writers Diary gives some effect to the larger society, it encourages the rise of tolerance and awareness of disadvantaged students

Afghanistan Under The Four Regimes Reflected in Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns Novel (2007): A Sociological Approach

The research discusses the Afghanistan‟s socio-political phenomenon during four decades under the four different regimes in Khaled Hosseini‟sA Thousand Splendid Suns novel. The purpose of this study is to understand phenomenon of the Afghanistan regimes reflected in the novel using the sociological approach. Khaled Hosseini used the novel as a tool to show the world that Afghanistan needed the aid and Hosseini wanted deliver reflection of Afghanistan country in the past. This study is a qualitative research. The primary data were taken from A Thousand Splendid Suns novel; the secondary data were obtained from some sources like literature book, virtual sources, and some related source. The conclusion of the study: (1) The difference characteristics between the Daoud Khan regime, Soviets Union regime, the Mujahideen regime, and Taliban regime. Each regime was explained through some aspects namely political aspect, women aspect, culture aspect, education aspect, and health aspect; (2) The four regimes were depicted through the characters of the regimes, the settings of the novel, the important events and the styles used in each regime; (3) The reason of Khaled Hosseini writing the novel was due to the result of his care towards Afghan society

Representation Of Saddam Hussein And George W. Bush In Timemagazine 2003 A Critical Discourse Analysis

The purpose of the study is to showthe representation of Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush in TIME magazine 2003. The first is analyzing the news based on structural element of discourse. The second is analyzing the news based on the representation analysis. This study isqualitative research. There are two types of data; primary and secondary. The primary data sources are three news in TIME magazine 2003; Can This War Be Avoided?, Saddam Addresses Iraqi People and “We Got Him”. The secondary data are another material from some books or internet which related to the study.Both data are collected by library research and analyzed by descriptive analysis. The finding of the research shows as follows: firstly, based in the structural analysis,macrostructure, superstructure and microstructure are arranged well by the reporters. It makes relationship one another.Secondly, based on the prepresentation analysis, Saddam was represented as the criminal and Bush was represented as the hero. Their representation is cause by the reporter’s background which consist of personal identity, knowledge, cultural and value background

The Need For Sacrifice In Law Enforcement In John Grisham’s The Racketeer (2012): A Sociological Approach

This study is about The Need for Sacrifice in Law Enforcement (2012) which is analyzed by using Socilogical Approach. The objective of the study are to know what problem arising in law enforcement is, to analyze who becomes a barrier in law enforcement and to know how to people cope with the obstacle in law enforcement. The researcher concerns about law enforcement based on Socilogical approach by Swingewood and Laurensoon. This research belongs to qualitative research. The primary data of this research is The Racketeer by John Grisham’s in 2012, while the secondary data of this research are take from other source likely essay, critics, comments, historical information, biography of John Grisham, website, internet and other information. The researcher draws three conclution in this research. First, problem arising in law enforcement consist of the unfair treatment, insufficient efidence and unproffesional administration. Second, those standing against law enforcement are corrupt lawyer, FBI agent, corrupt judge and prosecutor. Third, coping with the obstacle consists of the sufficient evidence and applying disciplene of legal officer. Keywords: The Racketeer, Sacrifice, Law Enforcement, Sociological Approac

Pleasure - Seeking Personality Reflected In Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie (2005): A Psychoanalytic Approach

The aim of this research is to describe ‘Sister Carrie’ novel based on structural elements of the novel and to analyze how pleasure-seeking personality is reflected in Theodore Dreiser’s Sister Carrie by using psychoanalytic approach. This research is qualitative research and technique of analyzing data is descriptive analysis. The techniques of collecting data are (1) Reading the novel repeatedly and underlying the important data. (2) Exploring the main data of character that will be analyzed. (3) Identifying a particular part that is important and relevant for the analysis. (4) Making note both primary and secondary data, and (5) Classifying the data into some categories. Based on the psychoanalytic theory, it can be concluded that the personality of major character in ‘Sister Carrie’ is classified as pleasure-seeking personality. Carrie’s Id is more dominant than Ego and superego. Carrie’s personality is caused by economic situation

Khaled Hosseini `S Worldview In The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, And And The Mountain Echoed: A Genetic Structuralism Approach

Every literary works had each own structures, a literature as a structure of the work couldnot be understood as a whole if the totality life of the society in whict the text of the work was produced by the author was obeyed. Therefore, this study discussed how the structure of literary works in the novel The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And The Mountain Echoed were described by the author, and had corelation with the stucture of the author’s social realities in which he lived, and publihed his woks. Further more, this study also discussed about author’s world view not as an individual person but as the member of his society, his worldview represented the idea and mind of the society in his era. This research belongs to a qualitative study, which used two data sources. The primary data source was the novel The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, and And The Mountain Echoed itself meanwhile the secondary data sources were any materials or previous researchs in line with the novel. The materials from the data sources were collected in a united data as evidence. The findings showed that: first, the structure of the literary work in Hosseini’s works showed a coherent relationship between one element and another that built a unified as a whole that created the novels become more interesting to read and easy to understand by readers. Second, American society was the social structure targeted by the author in which Khalled Hosseini as the author’s of the novels live and publish his works there. Finally, Hosseini wrote a story that described the social condition contrary with the social realities happened in the United State as the warning and suggestion to the readers about the important of respect to each other in humanism. His world view was represented by his works. Through his works, Hosseini wanted to convey a message to his readers that success and victory are not the only aspect that could create one's happiness, but there were another aspects that could create one’s happiness, they were; love, respect each others, loyalty, sympathy, empathy, and other social values

Sex and aggression in f. Scott fitzgerrald’s novel The great gatsby (1925): a psychoanalytic criticism

The major issue of this study is what and how causes of sex and aggression reflected in The Great Gatsby novel (1925) by F. Scott Fitzgerrald?. The objective of this study is, 1) to describe The Great Gatsby novel based on structural elements of novel, and 2) to analyze sex and aggression in The Great Gatsby novel(1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerrald based on a Psychoanalytic Criticism. The research is qualitative study. The researcher uses primary data source and secondary data source. The primary data sources The Great Gatsby novel by F. Scott Fitzgerrald and the secondary data sources related the study, such as: website, dictionary, some books that support the analysis. The data collection method used by the researcher is reading the novel, taking notes, arranging the data, selecting particular parts of the script, determining the character that will be analyzed, classifying and determining the relevant data and browsing on internet. The data analysis method is descriptive qualitative analysis descriptive analysis concerns with structural element of the novel on sex and aggression. The results of the study shows the following conclusions. First, based on the structural analysis, it can be concluded that there are several moral messages appear in The Great Gatsby novel, the author conveys a moral messages that this novel involve the love and lust sometimes cannot be distinguished from one another. Second based on psychoanalytic analysis it can be found that in this novel the author illustatees the psychological phenomenon related with causes of sex and aggression