Rich and poor myth in Eugene O'Neill play the hairy ape

Bukhori, Muhamad Happy (2018) Rich and poor myth in Eugene O'Neill play the hairy ape. Diploma thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

The research focuses on sign and myth, it uses the semiotic analysis to find that the meaning contained in signs and cultural context. In semiology point of view, everything has sign and meaning. Therefore, the researcher chooses the play to find out how the sign and myth work. The source of data in the research is The Hairy Ape play by Eugene O'Neill's, created in 1922. The Hairy Ape play consists of eight scenes, it is an Electronic Classics Series Publication, published in 2010 by Jim Manis. The research uses subjective approach, it is a qualitative, because the qualitative method as a research procedure that produces descriptive data in the form of written words from the characters or behavior that can be observed. To understand a play as sign production and myth building, it used the semiotic analysis of Roland Barthes about two orders of signification. By using the two orders of signification, the meaning of denotation and connotation will be revealed. As well as myth, it will reveal, when they have to reveal. Based on carefully of observation, it found that represented the rich and poor myths in The Hairy Ape play. First, rich and poor myths as the distinction of class, between Yank and Mildred, or rich and poor social class, such as in scene I, II, and III. Second, rich and poor myths as the struggle of social class, between poor and rich class such as in scene IV, V, VII, and VIII. Then, it found that rich and poor myth explain the characters.

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