Kitabina: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Arab
Vol 6 No 1 (2025): KITABINA Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Arab

Analysis of social conflict in Naguib Mahfouz's novel "Heart of the Night" (a socio-literary study)

Kurniawan, Dandi (Unknown)
Dandi, Dandi Kurniawan (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
21 Dec 2025

Abstract

The novel "Qalbul Lail" is a novel that describes the life of a young man named Jaafar who lost everything, his family, wealth, and social status due to bad decisions. This novel also displays a lot of social conflicts. Based on this, the researcher is interested in analyzing social conflicts in the novel Qalbul Lail. The purpose of this study is to describe the forms of conflict and consensus as well as power and authority that occur in the novel Qalbul Lail by Najib Mahfouz, to describe the groups involved in the conflict contained in the novel Qalbul Lail. This study uses a qualitative-descriptive method. The data for this study is in the form of information about the text units of the novel Qalbul Lail, the results are in the form of written words. The data collection technique used in this study is by using the reading and note-taking technique. While the data analysis technique uses descriptive analysis. The results of this study are: The forms of conflict and consensus as well as power and authority that occur in the novel Qalbul Lail are conflicts due to differences in views, violent conflicts, conflicts over matchmaking, political conflicts, and conflicts in the form of murder. As for the consensus, namely consensus regarding teaching agreements, consensus on matchmaking, and consensus on continuing education. Power, the power of grandfathers over grandchildren, fathers over children, and mothers over children. authority over property. The groups involved in the conflict in the novel Qalbul Lail include interest groups and pseudo groups.

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KitabinaBSA

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Religion Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media Other

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Kitabina:Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra Arab (ISSN online 2775-1309 ) is an open access and a double blind peer-reviewed journal on Arabic Language and Literature in the world. This journal is published by the Arabic Language and Literature Departement, Faculty of Adab and Humanities, Raden Fatah State ...