SOCIOLOGICAL CRITICISM IN F. SCOTT FITZGERALD’S “THE GREAT GATSBY”
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.2023/snasppm.v8i1.1986Keywords:
Literature Approach, Sociological Criticism, The Great Gatsby NovelAbstract
Penelitian ini tentang Sociological Criticism pada novel karya F.Scott Fitzgerald yang berjudul “The Great Gatsby”. Penelitian ini memfokuskan pada pendekatan kritis terhadap karya sastra khususnya kritik pada bidang sosiologis dalam novel. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui (i) Jenis-jenis kritik sosial dalam novel “The Great Gatsby” (ii) dan Bagaimana kekuatan lingkungan sosial terhadap peranan individu. Pada penelitian ini metode penelitian deskriptif kualitatif digunakan sebagai desain penelitian ini. Data sumber penelitian ini adalah novel “The Great Gatsby” oleh F.Scott Fitzgerald itu sendiri. Peneliti menggunakan analisis dokumen dan pengambilan catatan sebagai pengumpulan data yang akan dianalisis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat empat jenis kritik sosial yang ditemukan dalam novel “The Great Gatsby”. 4 jenis kritik social tersebut adalah, kritik sosial masalah ekonomi, kritik sosial masalah pendidikan, kritik sosial masalah budaya, dan kritik sosial masalah moral. Pada penelitian ini juga ditemukan lingkungan social yang mempengaruhi individu, dan menimbulkan status social diantara tokoh dalam novel, seperti status old money (uang lama), new money (uang baru), dan no money (tidak ada uang).
References
H. P. Noviasari, C. I. T. Panggabean, and U. Yuliasari, “WRITING STRATEGIES APPLIED BY THE FOURTH SEMESTER STUDENTS IN THEIR ARGUMENTATIVE WRITING AT ENGLISH,” Pro-ELLitera, vol. 1, pp. 6–18, 2023.
S. Endraswara, “Metodologi Penelitian Antropologi Sastra,” Yogyakarta: Penerbit Ombak, p. 263, 2013, [Online]. Available: www.penerbitombak.com
J. F. English, “Everywhere and nowhere: The sociology of literature after ‘the sociology of literature,’” New Literary History, vol. 41, no. 2. Mar. 2010. doi: 10.1353/nlh.2010.0005.
B. Nurgiantoro, Theory of Fiction Analysis (Teori Pengkajian Fiksi). 2002.
A. C. Rahayu, “Three Critical Approaches in Literary Criticism: an Example Analysis on Matthew Arnold’S Dover Beach,” ANAPHORA J. Lang. Lit. Cult. Stud., vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 64–72, 2020, doi: 10.30996/anaphora.v2i2.3366.
“The Historical Development of the Sociological Approach to the Study of Literature,” 2014. [Online]. Available: www.ijird.com
P. Forster and C. Kenneford, “Sociological Theory and the Sociology of Literature,” 1973.
J. B. Hall and D. Daiches, “Critical Approaches to Literature,” Comp. Lit., vol. 9, no. 3, p. 263, 1957, doi: 10.2307/1769028.
M. Abubakar and A. S. Tsuraya, “Journal of Literature , Linguistics and Social c riticism in Oliver Goldsmith ’ s She Stoops to Conquer,” vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 27–33, 2022.
İ. Güçlü, P. Meslek, and Y. Okulu, “Karl Marx and Ralf Dahrendorf: A Comparative Perspective on Class Formation and Conflict,” Karl Marx Ralf Dahrend. A Comp. Perspect. Cl. Form. Confl., vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 151–168, 2014.
H. R. Kerbo, “SOCIAL STRATIFICATION,” 1983.
R. R. Minanga, D. D. Moelier, and A. Asyrafunnisa, “Social Criticism In Wladyslaw Szpilman’s Novel The Pianist,” Hum. J. Linguist. Lit. Educ., vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 38–47, 2022, doi: 10.56326/jlle.v2i1.1449.
A. C. Leiwakabessy and E. Ermansyah, “ANALYSIS OF CAPITALISM IN THE NOVEL ‘THE GREAT GATSBY’ BY F SCOTT FITZGERALD (Sociology of Literature Approach),” J. Adv. English Stud., vol. 3, no. 2, p. 78, 2020, doi: 10.47354/jaes.v3i2.86.
S. Ayu and I. Maharani, “the Three Dimensional Aspects of the Main Character of the Great Gatsby,” Int. J. Linguist. Discourse Anal., vol. 1, no. 2, 2020.
M. Ishtiaq, “Book Review Creswell, J. W. (2014). Research Design: Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Methods Approaches (4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage,” English Lang. Teach., vol. 12, no. 5, p. 40, 2019, doi: 10.5539/elt.v12n5p40.
MAO Yuqing and ZOU Jianling, “An Analysis of the Female Characters in The Great Gatsby From Feminism Perspective,” US-China Foreign Lang., vol. 19, no. 11, pp. 309–314, 2021, doi: 10.17265/1539-8080/2021.11.003.
