Portrait of Pegaten Society in the Novel “Kubah” Based on Marxist Literary Criticism Theory

DOI

10.2991/icclas-18.2019.57How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Pegaten Society, Marxist, Causality, Lower Class, Upper Class.

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the causality of class’ classification that occurred on the society of Pegaten in the Ahmad Tohari’s novel Kubah based on Marxist literary criticism theory. This study is a kind of a discourse analysis that made use of the novel as the main corpus. The exposure analysis includes the discussion of class’ structure on Pegaten society using Marxist literary criticism theory based on the paradigm of social class relation including the identification of social background into the context of the occurrence, and the identification of social classes. In addition, it also included the discussion of causal relationships between social classes in the novel by analysing social activities occurring among the characters; and the impact of class social causality relationships on Pegaten society. Based on the analysis, we found the form of social classes, ideology of class conscious, and positive and negative impacts of upper- and lower-class interaction in the Pegaten society.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Abdul Basid
AU  - M. Faisol
AU  - Zahrah Nida' Rosyida Assulthoni
AU  - Muassomah
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - Portrait of Pegaten Society in the Novel “Kubah” Based on Marxist Literary Criticism Theory
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd Internasional Conference on Culture and Language in Southeast Asia (ICCLAS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 222
EP  - 226
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icclas-18.2019.57
DO  - 10.2991/icclas-18.2019.57
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