The Reflection of Social and Political Background on George Orwell’s The Road To Wigan Pier

Lia Rahmadani, Lia (2015) The Reflection of Social and Political Background on George Orwell’s The Road To Wigan Pier. Diploma thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

This research analysis about the reflection of social and political background as the revolution period that appeared in the novel entitled by The Road To Wigan Pier. The novel is reflecting the social and political background in social real life of the author. There was reflected about the capitalist society which obtained the class system in England. All at one, this research study about the historical values in the novel. The writer using the social-politic realism and genetic structuralism as grand theory. The social-politic realism and genetic structuralism have the same purpose. Both of them discuss about the reflection of the circumtances social and pollitical background in the novel. The object of this research is novel entitled The Road To Wigan Pier by George Orwell. In analyzing the subject of material, this research used the genetic structuralism appoarch that focused on the origin of the creation author’s literary work. The data of the resarch are form and substance contains the words, phrases, and sentences which identified the social and polical issues with the technique of collecting data by using library research, and the technique of analysing data step are; identifying, categorizing, analyzing, and making the conclusion. The result showed that social and political aspect in the novel can be found according to Genetic structuralism by Goldmann theory. The social aspect in this novel is represented by the circumstance of the society inWigan and his relationship with the worker or miners in Wigan. Orwell reflecting his social life in his novel was frankly, because the reflection of social and political background in the novel as real as his social life. Besides, there were several suggestions that can be offered that the reader should consider with the phenomena which happened in the story of the novel that reflected in the story which happened in real life of the author in order we would realize about history and get the more values.

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