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BRIONY’S GUILTY FEELING AND HER ATONEMENT IN IAN MCEWAN’S ATONEMENT
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 2 No 1 (2014): Vol.2 No.1 2014
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BRIONY’S GUILTY FEELING AND HER ATONEMENT IN IAN MCEWAN’S ATONEMENT Lailatul Fitriya English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University lailafitriya71@yahoo.co.id Drs. Much. Khoiri, M.Si English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University Much_choiri@yahoo.com Abstrak Perasaan bersalah dan taubat adalah hal yang ditunjukkan oleh seseorang ketika mereka membuat kesalahan atau dosa. Ian McEwan adalah salah satu penulis yang menulis sebuah novel tentang perasaan bersalah dan taubat. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menggambarkan perasaan bersalah dan taubat dari karakter utama. Dengan menggunakan teori-teori yang relevan, studi ini menganalisis kutipan-kutipan dari dalam novel yang mewakili perasaan bersalah dan taubat sebagai sumber data. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bagaimana perasaan bersalah Briony yang menyebabkan dirinya sebagai karakter utama melakukan taubat, perasaan bersalah tersebut dapat digambarkan dalam tiga jenis. Pertama, perasaan bersalah Briony yang digambarkan ketika dia menyadari kesalahannya dan dia merasa bahwa dia melakukan hal yang salah. Kedua, perasaan bersalah Briony yang digambarkan ketika dia melakukan hal yang baik. Ketiga, digambarkan ketika dia membuat permintaan maaf dengan mengatakan kebenaran yang sesungguhnya. Setelah perasaan bersalah ketiga muncul, dia ingin mengadakan taubat atas kesalahan yang dilakukan. Berdasarkan semua perasaan bersalah dalam hidupnya, ia kemudian mencoba untuk bertaubat dengan membuat cerita fiksi antara Robbie dan Cecilia. Sebagai novelis, ia menulis sebuah fiksi yang memiliki cerita bahagia antara Robbie dan Cecilia, karena dia menyadari tentang rasa bersalahnya yang telah membuat Robbie dan Cecilia menderita sampai akhir hayat tanpa bisa memenuhi cinta mereka berdua. Kata kunci: Rasa bersalah dan taubat Abstract Guilty feeling and atonement are the thing which have been showed by the people when they make a guilt or sins. Ian McEwan is the one of the writers that wrote a novel about guilty and atonement. This study aimed to depict a guilty feeling and an atonement of the main character. By using relevant theories, the study analyses the data for example, quotation from the novel that represent guilty feeling. The result of analysis shows how Briony’s guilty feeling depicted in the atonement can be described in three kinds. First, Briony’s guilty feeling is depicted when she realized of her guilt and she felt that she did a wrong thing. Second, Briony’s guilty feeling depicted when she did a good thing. Third is depicted when she made an apology by telling the fact. After the third guilty feeling passed, she wanted to make atonement. Based on all her guilty feeling in her life, she then tried to make atonement by making a fiction of Robbie and Cecilia. As a novelist, she wrote a fiction that has happy ending between Robbie and Cecilia, because she realized about her guilt that has made Robbie and Cecilia get suffered to death without being able to fulfil their love. Key words: Guilty feeling and atonement INTRODUCTION As in a general world, there is something that is always different in each side, good and bad is opposite one. In those two actions, there are consequences that will automatically happen in our live. Such an aphorism said that "what are you planting it so shall you reap even though it was a bit". It has a meaning that if we are doing the good attitude we will get good response or if we are doing bad attitude the bad response will appear too. But, as a human being, we often done a bad attitude or guilt that makes suffer to the other one. Guilt is a cognitive or an emotional experience that occurs when a person realizes or believes accurately or not that he or she has compromised his or her own standards of conduct or has violated a moral standard, and bears significant responsibility for that violation. It is closely related to the concept of remorse. In a fairly thought, if someone doing a guilt action, he or she will feel guilty feelings. Guilty feeling is remorse caused by feeling responsible for some offense. It is analogously with the story which narrated by Ian McEwan in his novel Atonement that actually told about a guilty feelings and the atonement of someone. Seen from the morphological point of view, the word guilty which means “having done something illegal or being responsible for something bad that has happened” is derived from the word guilt which has meaning “the fact that somebody has done something illegal or responsibility for doing something wrong or for something bad that has happened”. According to Sigmund Freud, the guilty feelings may arise when individual violates some ideals or values of “superego” by responding the impulses from the “id”. It may be more accurate in Freudian theory to speak about a “guilty ego”. Historically, guilty feeling arises when individuals involved in illegal acts, such as Salzmann said "Historically, the concept of guilt has involved an act transgressing or breaking a law." (Salzmann, 1983 in John Banmen 1988:79) ". In this story, Briony as the main character feels that she was doing a guilt that makes her regret of her self in her life. Her sister “Cecilia” and “Robbie” could not get their love and they died before they could be reunited together and she wants to get atonement for her sin. Therefore, in this study wants to show how is the problem build because the guilty feeling. Some guilty that did by the main character which cause of another people had pain and how is the punishment that have done by the main character. Then author wants to describe more about how is Briony’s guilty feeling, causes of Briony’s atonement and what actually done in her life. In accordance of background study above, it can be simplify to discuss among two problems that emerge as significant concern toward this novel. How is Briony’s guilty feeling depicted in Ian Mcewan’s Atonement? How does the guilty feeling causes Briony’s atonement in Ian Mcewan’s Atonement? This study will use two concept theories which are in line with the statement of the problems. The first problem is how Briony’s guilty feeling depicted in Ian Mcewan’s Atonemen. This statement will use the concept of guilty feeling. According to Narramore individual may feel guilty because the actual violation of the law of God (Real guilt) or for emotional maladjustment (Pseudo guilt). Freud also said that, guilty feeling is based on the internalization of the values ​​of the parents and the community. Guilty feeling begins when the children are afraid of punishment and loss of love old people when they violate social norms. According to Sigmund Freud, guilty feeling occur when the ego act, or even mean, to act contrary to contrary to moral norms superego (Freud, 2006: 67). Narramore said that the Guilty feeling is divided into two types they are, the real guilt and pseudo guilt. Real guilt, every person is usually attached to the tendency to sin or transgress the law of God. Feelings have done wrong and have been proven guilty of the offense for violating the law of God is what is usually called the real guilt. Then the second problem is how ow does the guilty feeling causes Briony’s atonement in Ian Mcewan’s Atonement. This statement will apply the concept of atonement. According to Narramore (1981: 106) expresses real feelings of guilt is actually from sin and guilt is the result of violations of the laws of God and refusal to acknowledge these sins. People who feel guilty because it brought on a fault or a sin, he suffered stress , anxiety and feelings of guilt . Realized it or not, every person in his will have a feeling of guilt. People who have repented even also experience feelings of sin and guilt realistic. So, in doing a wrong action, wrongdoer must deal with his guilt by making atonement, for example, by repentance and apology to the victim, and also by making reparation and penance. It is good for the victim to forgive a wrongdoer who has made some atonement, and that removes his guilt; but if the victim refuses to forgive despite substantial atonement, the wrongdoer's guilt disappears anyway. People have some responsibility to help others of the community to deal with their guilt, by encouraging them to apologize, and by helping them to make reparation but we are not guilty for the wrong acts of anyone else. RESEARCH METHOD Research methodology that used in this analysis here must be qualified as an applying in literary appreciation. In conducting the study, the descriptive qualitative method is applied and also uses a library research. The purpose of using the descriptive qualitative method is to obtain systematical description and accurate data which are dynamic, complex, and need very deep (Sugiyono, 2010: 399). The descriptive method of this study can be elaborated as below: Data and Sources of Data The data of this study used the Novel of Atonement, the eleventh book written by Ian McEwan and was published in 2001 as the main data in the analysis. Meanwhile, according to Arikunto in Afidah ( 2009: 27), the sources of data are grouped into three types. They are people, places, and papers. But, in this study the source of the data are obtained from the papers it is a novel by Ian McEwan as sources, in this case, mean that the data are obtained form of quotations, dialogues which indicate and represent aspect of slavery and the way it is expressed. Data Collection The method of collecting data, which is used in this study, is the library method. It does not use the statistic method. Library research used an approach in analyzing this study. That is why it is not served in numbering or table. The kind of library research here are intensive or closely reading to search quotations or phrases and to analyze literary element both intrinsic and extrinsic. The references are taken from library and contributing ideas about this study from internet that support the ideas of analyzing. Data analysis The final part of research methods was data analysis. It presents some steps how to analyze the data. Some steps of how the data is analyzed will be described as follows: Classification based on the statement of the problems. This classification is used to avoid the broad discussion. There are three classifications is used to avoid the broad discussion. They are Briony’s behavior, Briony’s guilty, and Briony’s behavior causes her atonement. Describing Briony’s behavior characterization, which is stated from the quotations and statements by using theory of characterization to be applied to the data. Describing of guilty feeling. Quotations classified the guilty feeling that was done by main character in the novel. Revealing the atonement of the gulity. In this case,the quotations that are showed and indicated the reason of atonement that was done by the main character and showed how the atonement type of the main character. ANALYSIS The first section is about describtion of Briony’s guilty feeling. Briony’s guilty feeling appear when she was to be adult. She conscious that she have ever did a guilt to someone. When Briony in 13 years old, Briony witnesses a moment of sexual tension between Cecilia and Robbie from afar. she misinterprets the sexual act as rape and believes Robbie to be a "maniac". Later on at a family dinner party, attended by Briony's brother Leon and his friend Paul Marshall, it is discovered that the twins have run away and the dinner party breaks into teams to search for them. In the darkness, Briony discovers her cousin Lola, apparently being raped by an assailant she cannot clearly see. Lola is unable or unwilling to identify the attacker, but Briony decides to accuse Robbie and identifies him to the police as the rapist, claiming she has seen Robbie's face in the dark. Robbie is taken away to prison, with only Cecilia and his mother believing his protestations of innocence. From the part that was describe above, Briony was described as the young girl who is doing a wrong thing and really did a big guilt to Robbie. She did a crime to Robbie. She give a wrong witnesseth to the police.. ““She wanted the inspector to embrace her and comfort her and forgive her, however guiltless she was. But he would only look her and listen. It was him, I saw him, (McEwan, 2001:163). Although she actually knows, whose people that raped Lola, but she wants to Robbie whose became a subject of that crime to Robbie because she feel that Robbie is a man maniac that have to be punish. She told to the police that the ones of that criminal is Robbie “Robbie have been catched by two inspectors on Briony’s guilt of giving the wrong witnesseth”. (McEwan, 2001:173). What was Briony did is realy the wrong thing, she became a lier who give a wrong witnesseth. After wrongly accusing an innocent man of a horrible crime, Briony must live with the guilty. She realize that what she was done was something that made pain to someone else. Robbie cathed by the police, so he will entered to the jail. He will get a lot of pain in the jail, he should to responsible from the raped’s accusation and he would not have to meet Cecilia, his lover. He really suffered from the guilt or wrong witnesseth of Briony. Actually, Briony find a guilty feeling in her life because she did a sins or did something wrong to another. According to Sigmund Freud, the guilty feelings may arise when individual violates some ideals or values of “superego” by responding the impulses from the “id”. It may be more accurate in Freudian theory to speak about a “guilty ego”. Whereas, as mention by Salzmann in John Banmen in the previous chapter, guilty feeling arises when individuals involved in illegal acts (Banmen 1988:79). In this case, Briony’s Guilty feeling appear after she realize that she did a sins that is became a lier and did something wrong about give a wrong witnesseth to Robbie and causing him brought a lot of pain. That Briony’s guilty feeling was caused by doing sins. All off in the religious, did bad thing until made someone get suffer is one of sin and violation of the God that give an obligation to did good thing to someone else. Therefore, if have been seen by types of guilty feeling, Briony’s guilty feeling is the one of real guilty because she did something that violations of the God law. As mention by Narramor in previous chapter that the real guilty is guilty feeling because the actual violation of the law of God. What Briony did to Robbie is a guilt thing. Guilt that made someone getting suffer and injustice. In this case, Briony’s guilty feeling is the type of social guilt. Like mentioned by Cavanagh (quoted by Al-Fitr RA., 2005), Social guilt is a fault which is psychologically and physically will cause injustice to others . It should be understood that the social dimension of the system will shed light on the value of the individual on how to behave in particular that will help others and behave in a certain way that would harm others. Here, Briony really conscious about her guilt, the first Briony’s guilty feeling was depicted for desire to get an apology. Briony showed that she is really feeling guilt to Robbie , she is realized and feel anxiety about her wrong thing when she was a young, when she did not really thought about the pain that was happened into Robbie. Briony guilty feeling was realized when she was grow up becaming adult, she really found a guilty feeling in his life and actually she feel afraid for her bad and wrong thing. “She wanted the inspector to embrace her and comfort her and forgive her, however guiltless she was” (McEwan, 2001:163). After she told to the police about the wrong witnesseth, she feel afraid and anxiety. Like the stated of Narramore, expresses real feelings of guilty is actually from sin and guilt is the result of violations of the laws of God and refusal to acknowledge these sins. People who feel guilty because it brought on a fault or a sin , he suffered stress , anxiety and feelings of guilt (Naramore,1981: 106). Briony’s guilt to Robbie that cause Robbie catched by the police and entered to the jail. Robbie did not come back to Cecilia as his lover. He really disappointed with Briony’s guilt to him although it was happened in many years ago. Robbie’s experiences in the war. We follow Robbie on his retreat to Dunkirk. But, Briony’s guilty feeling was not stop with just feeling guilty and anxiety on her life. In this second part the guilty feeling of briony’s guilt also depicted. By the time World War II has started, Robbie has spent 2–3 years in prison. He is then released on the condition of enlistment in the army to fight in war. Cecilia has trained and become a nurse. She cuts off all contact with her family because of the part they took in sending Robbie to jail. Robbie and Cecilia have only been in contact by letter. Remorseful Briony has refused her place at Cambridge and instead is a trainee nurse in London. She has realised the full extent of her mistake, and decides it was Paul Marshall, Leon's friend, whom she saw raping Lola. Briony still writes, although she does not pursue it with the same recklessness as she did as a child. This part of the story is also the first time we get to experience Briony as just a normal girl. We get to follow her and a friend when they have a day off sitting in the sun in a park listening to a band playing, cheerfully talking and laughing. This event makes her into a living human being, a young girl spending time with her friend, relaxing and having fun. It gives Briony another dimension, she changes from rigid character caught up in her own world and her writing and emerges as a warm, bright, young girl just like any other 18-year-old. In the end the event makes Briony feel guilty that they had fun at all because when they return to the hospital a convoy of wounded soldiers has arrived. The fact that they were laughing in the sunlight when others were suffering makes her feel guilty, just like she probably feels guilty throughout her life for enjoying it when Cecilia and Robbie cannot enjoy their lives. In this parts, describe that Briony’s guilty feeling also depicted from the second parts of this novel. As a self punishment, Briony decides to give up all the luxuries of an upper-class life. No Cambridge, no fancy flat to live in, no traveling, no job at the ministry. Briony hopes that her duties as a nurse during the war will serve as some sort of penance towards her. Yet the cost of doing so, is a complete stripping of her identity--she fails to exist as "Briony"--with no will nor freedom to go back. Briony become a nurse to depicted her guilty feeling as describe in parts before. This was her student life now, these four years, this enveloping regime, and she had no will, no freedom to leave. She was abandoning herself to a life of strictures, rules, obedience, housework, and a constant fear of disapproval. She was one of a batch of probationers--there was intake every few months--and she had no identity beyond her badge.(McEwan,2001:260) Briony actually knows that her Sister really love to Robbie, but they could not get on together. She tried to do something good thing, may for get a penance. She tried to meet Robbie and Cecilia for a penance. How Briony get a penance or doing atonement will be explain letter in 3.2. The effort of Briony to get apologies, she won’t that the guilty feeling would continue haunt her forever in her life. Described with Robbie on his retreat to Dunkirk and all that happens to him and his companions on the way there. Cecilia, who of course occupies his mind far more than Briony does, has sent him a letter telling him that Briony wants to change her statement and make him free, not just from prison but from accusation. This gets him thinking of her and of her motive for lying and sending him to prison. His only explanation is that the feelings she had for him when she was younger were still there when she read his letter to Cecilia on that day five years ago when she accused him of a crime he did not commit. Here Briony guilty feeling is showed, she wants to change her statement and make him free, not just from prison but from accusation. She sent a letter to Cecilia as the type of her apology, Cecilia thougth that Briony wants to get a penance. Like she said in her letter, “ she’s saying that she wants to be useful in a partical way. But I get the impression she’s taken on nursing as a sort penance. She wants to come and see me and talk” (McEwan, 2001:199). Guilty feeling that was felt by Briony, made her to did a good thing. She became a nurse and wants to be useful, but actually that was the way to meet Cecilia and work in the Cecilia’s old hospital. After a crime that Briony did to Robbie Cecilia cut herself off from her family, “ she (Cecilia) would never speak to her parents, brother and sister again” (McEwan, 2001:192). It show that Cecilia really disappointed with Briony. Cecilia decided became a nurse far from her house. As told before about type of social guilt, this Briony’s guilt made Cecilia injustice. Therefore, Briony also decided to be nurse and hides her true self, the writer, behind the appearance of a nurse. Seen from the the psychoanalysis, what the Briony did is one of the way to get an apology from her guilt. Her guilty feeling is depicted when she really wants to meet Cecilia and Robbie to talk, admitted her wrong thing and to change the statement for Robbie to be free. Briony also change her life became a nurse to be useful in practical way, to found the penance. What Briony going to do is show that her guilty feeling is typically wants to covering her guilts with did a something good or usefull and tried to honest, admitted the real act that have been happened. According to Narramore, this type guilty feeling that had been showed by Briony is the guilty feeling Exemplary behavior. The examplary behavior is, when Individuals behave “friendly” and “nice” to cover her/his true feelings that happened to her/him from the guilty feeling (Naramore, 1981: 106). That was like Briony done to cover her true feeling, but actually she really in an guilty feeling with Cecilia and Robbie. Briony’s guilty feeling also change her life. Briony daydreams about being a famous writer, a name that is recognized throughout all of London for her magnificent ability at playwriting. In London, at the age of 18, she has been self-demoted to a slave, "a life of strictures, rules, obedience, housework, and a constant fear of disapproval." But what is even worse for her, is that she lives in a world where her name does not even exist. As a self punishment, Briony decides to give up all the luxuries of an upper-class life. No Cambridge, no fancy flat to live in, no traveling, no job at the ministry. Briony hopes that her duties as a nurse during the war will serve as some sort of penance towards her. Like mentioned by Narramore before about examplary behavior. Briony did not stop by did a good thing became a nurse to depicted his guilty. Briony tried to get an apology from Robbie and wants to meet Robbie and Cecilia. Here, she was ready to talk with Robbie and Cecilia who was actually did raped to lola in many years ago. Briony tried to find out the social justification from Robbie and Cecilia. She though may Robbie wants to give her an apology after she told the fact of her witnesseth. Briony met Robbie and Cecilia in Cecilia’s house. Briony said about what she is seing when that crime tragedy and whose person done a raped to lola in many years ago, although they were really disappointed and Robbie did not want to see Briony again. Like a quotation in the novel that showed Robbie ignore what Briony said, “ Briony was shaking her head and staring to speak, but Robbie ignore her and spoke over her” (McEwan, 2001:326) Its like open the past pain to Robbie, but Briony must to talk. Briony told that Paul Marshal was the criminal of raped. Briony stood too and said, “Old hardman was probably telling the truth. Danny was with him all that night”. Cecilia was about sheet of paper she had been writing on. Robbie had stoped in the bedroom doorway. Cecilia said “what do you meant by that? What are you saying?”. “It was Paul Marshall.” (McEwan, 2001:327) The explanation above described that Briony is not the only person who is guilty. Most obviously, Paul Marshall is guilty. Lola is guilty, too, in remaining silent about who attacked her. Lola finds in Briony's certainty a chance to escape the humiliation and difficulty of accusing Paul. Paul and Lola let Robbie bear the punishment for Paul's crime and are more culpable than Briony - she at least believes he is guilty while they know he is not. It is possible that Paul and Lola try to atone through their acts of charity, but theirs is a different story, not the one which Briony is intent on telling. Briony have to tell the fact about that crime to Robbie and Cecilia. All Briony did are the way to cover her guilty feeling and showed that she really wants to get an apology for her guilt. Like have been described before that Briony depicted her guilty feeling with a good thing again, she wants to responsible of her guilt. Still in agreement with Narramore said before about a type of guilty feeling, and types of Briony’s guilty feeling is Exemplary behavior. In This case Briony depicted her guilty feeling by admitted her guilty to Robbie and Cecilia and told the fact who actually did a crime to Lola. Briony have been told the fact to Robbie and Cecilia about who was raped Lola. It was make Robbie remembered a pain that he was felt because of the wrong Briony witnesseth. After Robbie get the penance of the Briony, Robbie wants that Briony give the confession to the trial and bring again Robbie’s reputation, but unfortunately all the evidences to blame Paul Marshall as the man who did a crime to Lola because Paul Marshall and Lola have been merried. Briony attends the wedding of her cousin Lola and Paul Marshall before finally visiting Cecilia. Robbie is on leave from the army and Briony meets him unexpectedly at her sister's. They both refuse to forgive Briony, who nonetheless tells them she will try and put things right. She promises to begin the legal procedures needed to exonerate Robbie, even though Paul Marshall will never be held responsible for his (supposed) crime because of his marriage to Lola, the victim. “ I want to kill him (Paul Marshal)” (McEwan, 2001:328) Robbie in a rage heard what Briony’s said about their wedding. In this case, Paul Marshall is guilty. Lola is guilty, too, in remaining silent about who attacked her. Paul and Lola let Robbie bear the punishment for Paul's crime. Kill Pul Marshall means that Robbie really disappointed because there was no way to blame him, because Lola will always cover for him from the police (trial). Briony felt tortured when she was seeing Robbie and Cecilia could not life happily. Now, there was no thing to help Robbie from his suffer, because Briony can give the evidence of the right and she could not blame Paul Marshall for gave Robbie’s reputation. In the end, Briony just could have to said sorry to Robbie and would letting his life. She spoke slowly. “I’m very sorry. I’ve caused you such terrible distress.” They continued to stare at her, and she repeated herself. “I’m very sorry.”[….] Robbie said softly, Just do all the things we’ve asked.” It was almost conciliatory, that ‘just’, but not quite, not yet.she said, “of Course”, and then turned and walked away [….] (McEwan, 2001:329) Briony guilty feeling have to desire to apology. She really wants to deal with her guilt with an apology and penance. As mentions by Narramore, People who have repented even also experience feelings of sin and guilt realistic . So, In doing a wrong action, wrongdoer must deal with his guilt by making atonement, for example, by repentance and apology to the victim, and (often also) by making reparation and penance (Narramore,1981: 106 ). Briony’s guilty feeling would deal by making an apology to Robbie and doing an atonement from the guilt, but that will explain in next part. Then, the second parts of this analysis will be describe of Briony’s guilty feeling causes her atonement. Focus on Briony’s atonement, she did an atonement after she did a guilt to someone. The Briony’s along journey with her guilty feeling is the parts to her get an atonement. Atonement here as the result of all Briony’s guilty feeling that have been described before. Briony wants Robbie and Cecilia forgive her by doing an atonement. Briony showed that she really did an atonement when she was on 77 years old or exactly in the end of this novel, after Briony realize about her guilty feeling that have been describe in 3.1. Briony’s guilty feeling that have been describe before delivered her to made an atonement. Briony remorseful for her guilt to Robbie and Cecilia, her guilty feeling that made another people get a suffer delivered her to do an atonement. After wrongly accusing an innocent man of a horrible crime, Briony must live with the guilty feeling. The fact that her actions condemned her sister’s true love to a life in prison made the feeling of betrayal all the worse. This betrayal was to live with Briony all her life and would dominate her hopeless journey to gain forgiveness that was never to be realized. “How guilt refined the methods of self-torture, threading the beads of detail into an eternal loop, a rosary to be fingered for a lifetime”, (McEwan, 2001:162) The quotation refers to a rosary which is a necklace of prayer beads, often used by Catholics when reciting Hail Mary. The Hail Mary prayer and a rosary are usually used during a request for repentance in which the person praying is feeling shame or remorse. That full of symbolism to show that Briony’s suffering is perpetual because there will never be a time that she does not feel an all-consuming regret for her actions. The only way Briony knows and thinks she can begin to atone for her sins is to attempt to cast off her guilt onto the pages of a novel. Despite the tragedy that in reality befell the young couple, Briony can use her writing to make Robbie and Cecilia survive the war and to be together at last. Briony did crime in the past to Robbie was the one of sin that have to get penance and atonement. What Briony going to do is the way for getting a forgiveness from Robbie. As mention by Narramore, Atonement is usually done After feeling a lot of sin , evil , wrong treatment and failed to meet the conditions ( Narramore, 1981). The first Briony’s guilty feeling is depicted by for desire to get an apology. Briony showed that she is really feeling guilt to Robbie , she is realized and feel anxiety about her wrong thing when she was a young, when she did not really thought about the pain that was happened into Robbie. The pain which happened between Robbie and Cecilia that they could not love life happily together cause Cause Briony’s atonement. After Robbie and Cecilia was dead without fulfill he love each other because of Briony’s guilt, Briony has spent her entire life writing drafts of this book as atonement for the crime she committed when she was young which changed the lives of people around her. Since Briony is both the author of the book and one of its characters this will reflect upon the story and the characterisations. This essay will focus on Briony and the descriptions made of her, both when the point of view is her own and when she describes herself from the other characters’ points of view. It will also take a close look at Briony as an author and how her writing develops through her life and reflects her own personality. Briony describe her atonement for all her guilty feeling when she was at the end of adulthood. Briony’s thought that It’s not death the nears for Briony at the end of the novel, but dementia - a state that promises to take her back to the childish confusion of the first part of the novel her character was so keen to conquer. She tries to convince herself that she “wasn’t distressed” about the onset of dementia. But the nearness of this condition - the disorder that it promises - makes it imperative to take stock of her life now and think about her legacy of atonement as a writer. “Lovers and their happy ends have been on my mind all night,” (McEwan, 2001:349). She narrates at the very end of the novel, “as into the sunset we sail. An unhappy inversion. It occurs to me that I have not travelled so very far after all, since I wrote my little play” Her completion of her last novel - with its fictional happy ending for Robbie and Cecilia, is her final act of atonement and order as an adult” (McEwan, 2001:349). Briony realize that her guilt make Robbie and Cecilia unhappily in their life until they dead, so by her novel she wants make a fiction that told happy ending for Robbie and Cecilia. The Second Briony’s guilty feeling is depicted in 3.1.2, that she became a nurse. Briony hopes that her duties as a nurse during the war will serve as some sort of penance towards her. Briony decided to get an atonement with her way as the writer again. Again and again to continue her wrinting. The third Brionys guilty feeling that have been describe in 3.1.3, told the fact to Robbie and Cecilia about who was raped Lola. After lying and ruining two young people’s lives, Briony seems to know even when she is older that her regret will last forever and that her sister will never forgive her, “Don’t worry. I won’t ever forgive you (McEwan, 2001:318). The last novel that she would made before she dementia as for her atonement to Robbie and Cecilia. Though the guilt caused by her selfishness would stay with her forever, there was one way in which it could have been slightly relieved, which is for Robbie and Cecilia to be reunited and live happily ever after. Since they never were able to be together, Briony wrote here sincerest apology in the story of Robbie and Cecilia’s reunion at the end of her novel. In religius theories the word Atonement “describes the setting ‘atone’ of those who have been estranged, and denotes the reconciliation of man to God. A rephrasing of the basic question Briony struggles with is this: How can I be rewarded my forgiveness if I am the one who gets to decide what happens? In other words, one cannot self-ascribe atonement. She can seek it, but is must be granted by the one who has been wronged or injured. Being author of the story places Briony in a bind because of her "absolute power to decide outcomes." She asks if she is not "also God?" meaning to the characters and episodes in her book. She is. As author she has the power to do anything to anyone or any situation. Recognizing this power, Briony concludes that there can be "no atonement for God or novelists," and only the attempt matters. . Briony’s wrote a novel is an attempt at Briony trying to find atonement for her sins. But when she herself is the author it is not an easy task: The problem these fifty-nine years has been this: how can a novelist achieve atonement when, with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also God? There is no one, no entity or higher form that she can appeal to, or be reconciled with, or that can forgive her. (McEwan, 2001:350-351) In the end she writes the novel as atonement, not as a way for her to be forgiven. She does not walk the easy path and make herself the likable character that the reader will be fond of, identify with and easily forgive, nor does she excuse herself or her actions. Having the other characters forgive her in the novel was not an option either: “I gave them happiness, but I was not so self-serving as to let them forgive me.” (McEwan, 2001:351). In the last section of the novel Briony writes from the first person point of view telling the reader about events that occurred after the completion of the novel. The impression she makes then is quite different from the one she has made throughout the story. She probably has changed a great deal since she was 18 years old (young Briony) but the major most noticeable change is that she has finally become a likable character. She has the role of the old grandmother in the heart of a big family that all love her. Though she probably has changed a great deal there are parts of her that remain the same. Briony is suffering from a disease that will make her slowly lose her memory. Before this happens she makes sure all her business is in order; she finishes of the book, files and labels all the previous drafts and makes her “tidy finish” (McEwan, 2001:330). This sense for order has been with her throughout her life and is still a prominent part of who she is. Briony in 77 years old is an author to the fingertips; she has written books her whole life and the writing of this novel is a manifestation of all her skills. A truly interesting novel cannot just tell what happened, it must be skilfully narrated to capture the reader which Briony’s novel does from start to finish. She has abandoned the modernist approach of Briony and moved back towards the writer she was when she was younger: “It occurs to me that I have not travelled so very far after all, since I wrote my little play. Or rather, I’ve made a huge digression and doubled back to my starting place” (McEwan, 2001:349-350). She realised that the most important part of a novel is plot and a narrative pull in that plot; now she writes in the same way she did in her younger days but with much more refinement and finesse. In this, the last revision of the story, she adds a scene that did not really happen and that has not been part of the previous drafts; the scene where she meets Cecilia and Robbie again. In this scene Briony meets her sister and Robbie again and they have a chance to clear things up between them. It is a chance for Briony(at the end adult) to imagine what might have happened had they been able to meet again. She is not forgiven, that she cannot bring herself to become, but there is a mutual agreement between her and the two lovers and their parting is far less hostile than their meeting. During the meeting Cecilia says; Come Back the same way she did to bring Briony out of her bad dreams when she was little but this time it is to bring Robbie back from his bad dreams. It is a clear example of how Briony alienates herself from their world; having Cecilia use the same way of bringing back Robbie from his bad dreams as Briony remembers from her childhood but so decisively excluding herself from it. She is not allowed to enter their world, or she does not allow herself to enter it. This is part of the novel is a result of her travelling back to her starting place; the ending where the lovers get each other and live happily ever after, just like they always did in her childhood stories. Briony reveal sin the final section that both Robbie and Cecilia died before they could be reunited but she herself wonders “what sense or hope or satisfaction could a reader draw from such an account?” (McEwan, 2001:350). She no longer only writes an account of what happened but also writes a novel with her reader in mind. When … the novel is finally published, we will only exist as my inventions. Briony will be as much of a fantasy as the lovers who shared a bed in Balham and enraged their landlady. No one will care what events and which individuals were misinterpreted to make a novel. I know there’s always a certain kind of reader who will be compelled to ask, But what really happened? The answer is simple: the lovers survive and flourish. As long as there is a single copy, a solitary typescript of my final draft, then my spontaneous, fortuitous sister and her medical prince survive to love. (McEwan, 2001:350) What Briony describes is the power of the novel, to make a story alive and keep it alive. This passage, again, makes us aware of the fact that it is a novel we hold in our hands and the story in it stays alive through our copy of it and our reading of it. That is also a reason for her to give them a happy ending; to make a novel that the reader will want to read over and over. The scene where the lovers end up together serves another purposeas well; it is a climax in the story. It is an event to which the others build up and from which the action then falls. It helps the story follow the Freytag pyramid (Griffith 46) and once again it is a step back from the experimental writing of her youth to the simple telling of a story. What a Briony made for her atonement by writing a novel with the reunited Robbie and Cecilia in happily ending, actually it did not change a suffer which Robbie and Cecilia felt because her guilty. Its about the guilt between her and another people, and sins for God. Briony thougth, If the forgiveness could not give from Robbie and Cecilia, she must to have an atonement. Their story has become a fiction, but also an atonement and a tribute. As Briony says, “they would soon all be forgotten anyway, without the book, and then what difference would it make what 'really happened?”(McEwan,2001:371) As purpose by Robert that Forgiveness may be considered simply in terms of the person who forgives including forgiving themselves in terms of the person forgiven or in terms of the relationship between the forgiver and the person forgiven(Robert : 2001). In her story of her novel she made, she never tries to make herself a likable character that the readers will forgive even though it would have been so easy for her to do so. She has the skills to make the readers think what she wants them to but she chooses not to use them, the novel is atonement for her sins a way to, however little, make up for what she has done, having the reader like her and forgive her is not part of that atonement. She does not want to be a pleasant character, she prefers to be the disagreeable character who is, unlike her early creations, neither good nor bad and who can be judged independently of the reader’s personal likes and dislikes. That is her Atonement and her life’s work. Her completion of her last novel - with its fictional happy ending for Robbie and Cecilia, is her final act of atonement and order as an adult. CONCLUSION As a conclusion of this study, this study would like to give the readers an overall view what she has discussed in previous chapters. Based on the analysis, there are two main conclisions : The First conclusion is concern with the analysis about Briony’s guilty feeling. Briony’s guilty feeling showed after she did a sin to Robbie and Cecilia. Briony doing a crime to Robbie that makes suffer in Robbie’s life until the end. Briony make of robbie’s pain because he cannot fulfil and reunite her love with her lover Cecilia. In this analysis Briony’s guilty feeling depicted in three kinds. First, Briony’s guilty feeling showed when she was realized of her guilt and she feel that she is did a wrong thing. Briony showed that she is really did a guilt to Robbie, she is realized and feel anxiety about her wrong thing when she was a young, when she did not really thought about the pain that was happened into Robbie. Second, Briony’s guilty feeling by became doing a good thing to cover her guilty. As a self punishment, Briony decides to give up all the luxuries of an upper-class life. She becomes a nurse in world war. Briony hopes that her duties as a nurse during the war will serve as some sort of penance towards her. Third is she made an apology by telling the fact. Briony tried to get an apology from Robbie and wants to meet Robbie and Cecilia. Here, she was ready to talk with Robbie and Cecilia who was actually did raped to lola in many years ago. 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RICARDO’S MANIA LOVE IN MARIO VARGAS LLOSA’S THE BAD GIRL
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 2 No 1 (2014): Vol.2 No.1 2014
Publisher : The English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Surabaya

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RICARDO’S MANIA LOVE IN MARIO VARGAS LLOSA’S THE BAD GIRL Deny Dwi Susanti English Literature, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University ddwisusanti@yahoo.com Drs. Much. Khoiri, M.Si English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University much_choiri@yahoo.com Abstrak Penelitian ini difokuskan pada cinta mania Ricardo dalam novel The Bad Girl oleh Mario Vargas Llosa. Cinta mania ditandai dengan emosi pada diri sendiri, upaya putus asa untuk memaksa kasih sayang dari sang kekasih, dan ketidakmampuan untuk percaya atau mempercayai kasih sayang yang dicintai sebenarnya. Pecinta mania adalah seseorang yang memiliki hiper ekspektasi yang terobsesi terhadap seseorang tanpa persetujuan tertentu diantara keduanya. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menggambarkan bagaimana cinta mania Ricardo tercermin dalam novel The Bad Girl oleh Mario Vargas Llosa, untuk mengungkapkan faktor-faktor apa yang membuat Ricardo memiliki cinta mania, dan untuk mengungkapkan dampak cinta mania Ricardo dalam novel. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori John Alan Lee dan Sternberg untuk menganalisis novel tersebut. Akhirnya, analisis penelitian ini menghasilkan tiga temuan. Temuan pertama adalah bahwa cinta mania yang dialami oleh Ricardo ini sejalan dengan jenis cinta yang dinyatakan oleh Lee dan Sternberg. Temuan kedua menunjukkan bahwa ada tiga faktor yang memicu cinta mania Ricardo; yaitu merasa sedih, kepercayaan diri yang rendah, dan kehidupan sosial yang buruk. Untuk temuan terakhir, ada tiga hal yang mempengaruhi kehidupan Ricardo yaitu efek fisik, efek psikologis, dan efek sosial. Efek-efek tersebut yang mempengaruhi Ricardo sebagai pecinta mania selama terobsesi terhadap gadis nakal. Kata Kunci: cinta mania, cinta obsesif Abstract This study focuses on Ricardo’s Mania Love in Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Bad Girl. Mania love is characterized by self-defeating emotions, desperate attempts to force affection from the beloved, and the inability to believe in or trust any affection the loved one actually does display. The manic lover is someone who has a hyper expectation to obsess a person without a certain aggreement on both sides. The purposes of the study were to describe how Ricardo’s mania love is reflected in Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Bad Girl, to reveal what factors make Ricardo have his mania love, and to reveal the impacts of Ricardo’s mania love in the novel. The study used John Alan Lee and Sternberg theories to analyze the novel. Eventually, this analysis of this study resulted in three findings. The first finding was that mania love which was experienced by Ricardo was in line with the types of love stated by Lee and Sternberg. The second finding showed that there were three factors which trigger the Ricardo’s mania love; namely feeling down, low self confidence, and poor social life. For the last finding, there were three things which affect Ricardo’s life. They were physical effect, psychological effect, and social effect. Those effects affected Ricardo as the manic lover as long as he obssessed for the bad girl. Keywords: mania love, obsessive love INTRODUCTION Love has always been a favorite topic for poets, novelists, and songwriters. It has always relationship with literature. And it is difficult to imagine literature without love. Love becomes so universal theme because of the remarkable variety of its world. Nothings else human being so impatically declares at the same time the plurality of living (Bayley in Mardianto, 2008:1). It is an emotion that nearly everyone has experienced in their life. Because the main purpose of life is to be happy and there is only happiness in life, that is love and to be loved. Literary work is a reflection of the real world. By studying the human literature we can also learn the real life world. It means to study the character of the same in the literature by studying real human character. Literary work presents a wide range of people including the possible odd or taboo if discussed. To learn it let us see the work of a famous writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Mario Vargas Llosa’s recent novel The Bad Girl centers around of love. Of course, there are a lot of literary work which uses love as the main theme. But, in this novel the reader will be brought to Ricardo’s love. Sobur said that love is a common thing in human being. Because everyone has through the love experienced in their life. And according to Watson that basically, human has three basic emotions. They are fear which can develop into anxiety, rage which can develop into anger, and love which can develop into sympathy. (Meliana, 2008:2). Everyone has an emotion to be developed, such as in anxiety, anger, or love. It depends on the people in driving their emotion. The Bad Girl is the novel which is translated by Edith Grossman, the winner of the 2006 PEN/Ralph Manheim Medal for Translation, is the translator of many works by major Spanish-language authors, including Gabriel García Márquez, Mayra Montero, and Miguel de Cervantes, as well as Mario Vargas Llosa. She lives in New York City. Additional praise for The Bad Girl, Chicago Tribune Favorite Book of 2007 and San Francisco Chronicle Notable Book of 2007. "Splendid, suspenseful, and irresistible . . . A contemporary love story that explores the mores of the urban 1960s and 70s and 80s.” -The New York Times Book Review- “Perversely charming... Irresistibly entertaining.” -The Washington Post Book World- Llosa has many awards, one of his nobel prize such as The Bad Girl that published by Alfaguara, Spain as Travesuras de la Niña Mala in 2006 which has won nobel prize in 2010. So, there is no doubt to choose his work to be analyzed in this study. The Bad Girl is begun with Peruvian Ricardo Somocurcio from the summer of 1950 when, as a teenager, he meets ‘the bad girl’ for the first time and he fell in love with her. “I like everything about you,” it showed that Ricardo really loved her so much. He expressed his love in three times and he fell in three times, too. He continuosly made effort in order to make the girl together with him untill she disappeared without explanation. In accordance of background study above, it can be simplify to discuss among three problems that emerge as significant concern toward this novel. How is Ricardo’s mania love reflected in Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Bad Girl? What factors make Ricardo have his mania love in Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Bad Girl? What are the impacts of Ricardo’s mania love in Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Bad Girl? The problem can be analyzed using psychological approach as the base of the guide and theory. Those statements will use the concept of love, obsession, and obsessive love. RESEARCH METHOD Research methodolgy that used in this analysis here must be qualified as an applying in literary appreciation. The thesis is regarded as a descriptive-qualitative study and uses a library research. This study uses novel of Mario Vargas Llosa entitled The Bad Girl that published Picador, New York in 2007 as the data source of this study. The data are in the form of direct and indirect speech of the characters, dialogues, epilogues and quotations which indicates and represents aspect of representation of Ricardo’s mania love, the factors make Ricardo’s have his mania love, and the impacts of Ricardo’s mania love in the novel. This thesis is using the library method in collecting the data. It does not use the statistic method. That is why it is not served in numbering or tables. Library research used an approach in analyzing this study. The kind of library research which is used here is intensive or closely reading to search quotations or phrases. It also used to analyze the literary elements both intrinsic and extrinsic. The references are taken from library and contributing ideas about this study from internet that support the idea of analyzing. The analysis is done by the following steps: (1) Classification based on the statement of the problems. This classification is used to avoid the broad discussion. (2) Describing representation of Ricardo’s mania love which is stated from the quotations and statements by using concept of love. (3) Revealing the factors make Ricardo have his mania love. (4) Revealing the impacts of Ricardo’s mania love. The quotations that showed how Ricardo’s life is affected by mania love are taken as data. (5) Drawing the conclusion based on the analysis which is in line with the problems. ANALYSIS The first section is about the reflection of Ricardo’s mania, is the main character in this story. Love is the main point in this novel. The Bad Girl is a story which tell about Ricardo Somocurcio was in love with a bad girl called Lily as a coy teenager in Lima in 1950. She disappeared without explanation and he loved her still when she reappeared again. The feeling of Ricardo’s love is showed by words like a calf, hundred degrees, and fell three times that agree with Sternberg, the characteristic of love which manic lover are irrational by thoughts of their lovers, affection, and defensiveness. His statement is very nice to be declared toward the girl who he loved. “I fell in love with Lily like a calf, which is the romantic way to fall in love– it was also called heating up to hundred degrees– and during that unforgettable summer. I fell three times.” (Llosa, 2007:5) In the quotation above a calf can be defined as a young bovine animal, especially a domestic cow or bull in its first year. The character of Ricardo that was compared with a calf which is obedient, obey to the intructions of its boss, not comment in everything he wanted, and let the boss to do anything toward its self. That behaviour showed that what he did in his life have a quality of irrational. According to him that fall in love like a calf was the romantic way to fall in love. So, he compared himself with a calf when he felt it. Later heating up to hundred degrees. When someone fall in love in temperature a hundred degrees, it showed that he had a deep feeling to his lover. A hundred degrees was very high temperature normally. It had high heat like as boiling water. It proved that the feeling of love was very deep and true. That is called affection, the deep feeling of love. The next was fell three times. It had mean that Ricardo intends to defend or protect himself which he was refused by the bad girl. The purpose is to give information to Lily that he will never surrender to defend his love for her although she has refused him as many as three times. Whereas usually arround our life most of people when he or she is failed or refused by her or his lover, people would look for the other than they have to suffer from his or her feeling. But, here Ricardo defended his love still she reappeared again. The characteristics of mania love besides irrational and defensiveness, it also has obsession. It can be proven by a quotation below. Ricardo relizes that he very want to get the bad girl as his lover, although his feeling occured ten years ago. He always thinking about her every time. That can be seen from this quotation: “I grasped her hand and, interlacing my fingers with hers, asked if I realized I’d been in love with her for ten years.” (Llosa, 2007:23) Agree with the mania love which obsessive that is said by Lee, Ricardo made an effort to make sure the bad girl that he always love her as long as ten years. It happened after he met the bad girl as Comrade Arlette. Although ten years ago he fell in love with Lily, he never could forget Lily and kept her always in his mind. It could be an evidence that his love as obsession. If someone has an obsession toward something, he would not surrender before he could get what he wanted or before he succed. After Ricardo fell three times, he encouraged himself to declare his feeling again. He never get the answer certainly. Besides affection which declared in romantic way, he compared himself with a calf which would do anything or obey what employer /boss wanted. "We'll see." And she blew me a kiss and moved away. "Never lose hope, good boy." (Llosa, 2007:24) The bad girl never said yes or no toward Ricardo. She declared a challenge to him by saying “we’ll see” and “never lose hope, good boy.” It showed that she gave a hope to him and proved of playful love. She regarded Ricardo’s love was just a play. That agree with John Lee’s six styles of love said that mania love is a combination of eros and ludus love, which eros that has tremendous passion, physical longing, deep intensity and intimacy and ludus called playful love. So, these statements of the girl above showed that it proved Ricardo’s love full of playing. It is proven by an action of the woman (kissing the man) and her saying toward the man (challenge words). The manic lover is someone who has a hyper expectation to obsess a person without a certain aggreement on both side. He (she) lacks the self-confidence associated with eros and the emotional self-control associated with ludus. They also imagine future with beloved. He can be obsessive toward belove as long as he never get him/her yet. It could be seen from qoutation below as an evidence that manic lover always imagine future with beloved although they was not recognized. “The fact that they were poor and embarassed by everything they didn’t have filled me with compassion, increase my love for the Chilean girl, and inspired me with altruistic plans: “When Lily and I get merried, we’ll bring her whole family to live with us.” (Llosa, 2007:10) Lee said that the manic lover was desperated to fall in love and to be loved, begins immediately to imagine a future with the partner. For Ricardo, fell three times was not make him leave his feeling toward the bad girl when she was named Comrade Arlette as the Guerilla Fighter in that time. Exactly he had compassion on her. He wanted the bad girl to live with him in the future. So, the quotation above could be an evidence which indicate mania love. As liked was imagined by Ricardo to have a future with his beloved, it could be increased Ricardo’s love feeling toward his beloved. So, it made him wanted to have the woman more and more. Mania love also indicated by forcing of manic lover. He tried to force the partner to show love and commitment. He attemppted to persuade his partner to recognize his existence and showed her commitment to love him. Liked as this quotation below which Lee said before that manic lover dependent on his beloved. “You have to leave that gentleman right away and marry me,” I told the Chilean girl the next time we saw each other. “Do you want me to believe you’re in love with a Methuselah who not only looks like your grandfather but is very ugly too?” (Llosa, 2007:48) Ricardo desperate attempts to force affection from the beloved, moreover he knew that Madame Arnoux or the bad girl or his beloved’s marriage to diplomat was a mere formality to which she has resigned herself in order to leave Cuba and settle in Paris. Ricardo is seemed in a good condition, because he very believed that one could make any sacrifice for the sake of Paris. But, when they were alone, she should not play the faithful, loving wife, because they both knew very well it was a fairy tale. Even though she was legally married to a French citizen, she could not get French natioanlity for two years. Ricardo’s effort was just not once for asking the bad girl to make commitment with him, but it was in many times. He tried and tried continuing to make the bad girl showed her love to him. Mania love is obsessive, the manic lover has to possess the beloved completely. In return, the manic lover wishes to be possessed, to be loved intensely. They tend to feel that their poor self esteem with only improve with intense love. Their sense of self-worth comes from being loved, rather than from inner satisfaction. (retrieved on April 1, 2014 at 16.30, from http://valarie-king.hubpages.com/hub/Understanding-Different-Types-of-Lovers) The second section will show the factors make Ricardo have his mania love. Obsession define as thinking about something or someone too much or in a way that is not normal, having an obsession it mean showing or relating to an obsession. When obsessed, an individual continues the obsession in order to avoid the consequent anxiety. Then love which is influenced by obsession is called obsessive or mania love. Obsessive love is a form of love where one person is emotionally obsessed to another. There some factors that cause person madly in love with someone, then he or she is obsessed to the target. Ricardo’s mania love or obsessive love for the bad girl can be occured because he does not have enough of what he want. He always long for more love, more attention, more commitment, and more reassurance. And with the bad girl. Ricardo gets something that he can not be obtained from other woman. There are three factors of Ricardo’s mania love. The first is feeling down. A person that is feeling down is more susceptible to falling in love because they want someone to relieve them of their pain. If a person feels down enough, this love turns to obsessive love. Actually, when Ricardo begins to love the bad girl he is not in a feeling down situation. But when the bad girl leave him after they met, immediately Ricardo feels down of losing her. His inability to meet her makes him falls into a deep pain. Some women’s effort to make him happy is unsuccessful, because Lily, the bad girl is the only person who able to make him happy. Grief and sorrow that he faced during his days without the bad girl never make Ricardo stop loving her. The disappearance of the bad girl surer that his feeling for the bad girl can be said as love. there are no other women in the world who make him divert his attention from the bad girl because his obsession is only the bad girl. “The only one, Elena. The only woman I’ve loved, ever since she was a girl. I’ve done the impossible to forget her, but the truth is it’s useless. I’ll always love her. Life wouldn’t have meaning for me if she died.” (Llosa, 2007:172) Ricardo’s statement when he thought about the bad girl proved that he is very feeling down of losing her. His feeling toward the bad girl made him more obsessed for her. There is no other person who made him curable but the bad girl. He spent his times for only thought about her every moment. His obsessive love or mania love with the bad girl leads him into a deep sadness when he is unable to find her. The second is low self-confidence. A person with low self confidence will always need someone to care about them so that they feel worthy. We all want someone to care about us but people with obsessive love have an unhealthy amount of this want. Men usually have a high self-esteem. They always want to be a hero for women. When women need men’s help, they self confidence is getting higher. Ricardo as a man also has that mindset. He is happy and satisfied when a woman needs him. This obsession makes way is that there is a lack of self-confidence in the person which leads to insecurity, feelings of vulnerability, and a perceived failure in their relationships. That is why they resort to certain tactics of holding on to that person. Interestingly, the exact opposite can also stand true, where a person has an inflated sense of self, is egoistic and has feelings of being special and/or different, so when there is a failed relationship, the person becomes obsessed and wants to possess and control the other. Given to their lack of self-confidence, if there is any form of inequality with the partner, either in the social class or in the level of attractiveness, they might have the need to possess and gain control over the situation thus. “The twenty-year difference in our ages didn’t seem to trouble her. It did trouble me. I always told myself that our good relationship would diminish when I was in my sixties and she was still a young woman. Then she would fall in love with someone her own age. And leave. She was attractive in spite of how little time she spent on her appearence, and on the street men followed her with their eyes.” (Llosa, 2007:249) The perfection of Marcella makes Ricardo feels uncomfortable and lost his self confidence as a man. With Marcella he feels that he is useless. Marcella always be able to handle every problem by herself without Ricardo’s help. And he lives by her expense because he is not able to be a good translator again. He is bored of going the relationship on that way. Too many difference in their ages makes Ricardo seem to trouble her. Ricardo always told himself that their good relationship would diminish when he was in sixties and she was still young woman. Moreover she was attractive in spite of how little time she spent on her appearance, and on the street men followed her with their eyes. The third is poor social life. A person with a poor social life, and not many friends, can have a tendency to rely heavily on their partner to provide them with that missing social life. Again, this dependency can lead to obsessive love. After a long years he suffer of losing the bad girl, in the end he can not to be a good translation again. It makes him get bad payment. Unfortunately, that condition makes change in his life. He becomes alone and there is no friend to share with. Moreover after his friend, Paul left him alone. He feels sad and alone because he was the best friend he had during the uncertain times of his settling in Paris. “Fat Paul’s departure left me feeling empty because he was the best friend I had during those uncertain times of my settling in Paris.” (Llosa, 2007:37) His decision to stay in a hotel with a smaller room that his own before is a proof of his separation from social life. He looks better enjoy his day alone. Thinks about her, hunts about her, recalls his memories with the bad girl in past are the things which are considered by him as a therapy to relieve himself of losing the bad girl. Then, the last section will show the impacts of Ricardo’s mania love. there are three effects of Ricardo’s mania love. The first in physical effect. Obsessive love a part of love addiction, it can have physical consequences. Manic lover may engage in risky sexual behaviors in an attempt to maintain the interest of an avoidant partner. These risky behaviors increase the risk for hepatitis and other diseases. Love addicts may also experience bouts of physical pain, as the same areas of the brain are responsible for romantic love and pain perception. Failure is also makes Ricardo get an illness that make his body in imbalance. It begins after he get deep pain of losing the bad girl from his life. Depression affects his body in broken. He don’t care about his health. Until in that time he should experience a slight stroke. “The MRI established that I had suffered a slight stroke. That was the real reason for the neuralgia and dizziness.” (Llosa, 2007:254) Ricardo experiences for the neuralgia and dizziness, so it makes him has suffered from a slight stroke. Mania love or obsessive love brings many effect for Ricardo’s life. Start from physical effects, psycological effects, and social effects. Grief and sorrow take over Ricardo’s life until he never feels a happiness for his life. Then, In psychological aspect, the effects of love rejection is on the brain. This causes a manic lover to crave another person and quickly develop deep attachments to other people. These feelings may manifest themselves as physical pain or emotional pain. It can involves the same areas of the brain as other types of addiction. People struggling with manic lover may start drinking more than usual as a way to cope with their emotional pain. A love rejection of the bad girl makes Ricardo suffer from a deep pain and sorrow. Nothing that he can do except only thingking about the bad girl again and again. Until it makes Ricardo always has an illusion about the bad girl in everytime. “Because of her, the illusions that make existence something more than the sum of its routines had been extinguished for me. At times I felt like an old man.” (Llosa, 2007:152) Ricardo has illusion about the girl because of her helpless. According to Fromm, helplessness is a transitory condition, the ability to stand and walk on one's own feet is the permanent and common one Everything that Ricardo did was not give a pleasure anymore. It influented in his working as a translator. He felt that his life is useless. Mania love or obsessive love affects family relationships, friendships, and romantic relationships. When family members and friends point out addictive behavior, the manic lover may respond with aggression and hostility. The partners may verbally or physically abuse one another. When the relationship ends, the manic lover experiences reduced self-esteem and exhibits self-destructive behaviors. Ricardo as the manic lover avoid his family to know his true relationship with the bad girl. That his uncle know is he and his wife are fine. There is no trouble in his marriage. “I never told Uncle Ataulfo my marriage had failed, and so in his letters, until the end, he would send regards to “my niece,” and I, in mine, sent hers to him. I don’t know why I hid it from my uncle. Perhaps because I would have to explain what had happened, and any explanation would have seen absurd and incomprehensible to him, as it did to me.” (Llosa, 2007:251) Ricardo avoid to give knowing that his relationship has failed. He does not know how to explain what had happened to his uncle. One way that he take for his problem is he never told to uncle Ataulfo that his relationship has broken. His life will end unhappily and full of painful. Because in marriage, mania love can not hold out in a long time, but only in a short time they can enjoy their life in a joy. To cope with his broken relationship, the manic lover may avoid spending time with loved ones because he or she would rather spend time searching for a new romantic partner. Once a manic lover finds a romantic partner, the new relationship is characterized by a period of highs and lows. The new relationship starts with infatuation, which makes it difficult for the manic lover to see the romantic partner's flaws and shortcomings. Once this phase ends, the relationship is characterized by periods of melodrama and chaos. CONCLUSION The conclusion is divided into three in accordance to the statement of problems. From the analysis that has been done, it can be conclude in the first conclusion is the study reveals mania love or obsessive love which is employed by Ricardo as the main character of the novel toward the bad girl named Lily. Mania love or obsessive love has some characteristics or elements such as irrational, extremely jealous, obsessive, emotional, and often unhappy. By those elements it can be concluded that Ricardo’s love for the bad girl is mania love or obsessive love. It starts when Ricardo fall in love with the bad girl, Lily as a coy teenager in Lima in 1950. She disappeared without explanation and he loved her still when she reappeared again. From the analysis it can be concluded that there are two characteristics to be indicative of mania love or obsessive love. First, obsessive lovers believe that only the person they fixate on can make them feel happy and fulfilled. Second, person closed to the love obsessed can also be greatly affected. Witnessing a friend or family member suffer from the disorder can be distressing. The first characteristic is similar to Ricardo who has feeling of being comfortable and happy with the bad girl. Although there are some woman fill out his life with love it makes him is not as comfortable as when he together with the bad girl. For him the bad girl is the only woman he fixates on. The bad girl can make Ricardo happy and fulfilled. Because he begins in love with the bad girl, Ricardo is also affraid of losing her in his life. The second conclusion is that there are three factors of Ricardo’s mania love for the bad girl. The first is feeling down. Actually, when Ricardo begins to love the bad girl he is not in a feeling down situation. But when the bad girl leave him after they met, immediately Ricardo feels down of losing her. His inability to meet her makes him falls into a deep pain. Some women’s effort to make him happy is unsuccessful, because Lily, the bad girl is the only person who able to make him happy. Second is his low self confidence. The perfection of Marcella makes Ricardo feels uncomfortable and lost his self confidence as a man. With Marcella he feels that he is useless. Marcella always be able to handle every problem by herself without Ricardo’s help. And he lives by her expense because he is not able to be a good translator again. He is bored of going the relationship on that way. The last is Ricardo’s poor social life. After a long years he suffer of losing the bad girl, in the end he can not to be a good translation again. It makes him get bad payment. Unfortunately, that condition makes change in his life. His decision to stay in a hotel with a smaller room that his own before is a proof of his separation from social life. He looks better enjoy his day alone. Thinks about her, hunts about her, recalls his memories with the bad girl in past are the things which are considered by him as a therapy to relieve himself of losing the bad girl. The third conclusion is the impacts of Ricardo’s mania love for his life in the novel. In loving someone too much can give him or her some effects as if in his or her physical, psychological, and social life. First, in physical aspect Ricardo suffers from a slight stroke that caused by neuralgia and dizziness. Then, Ricardo get an illness of his mental health because of a deep pain and depression of losing the bad girl. The last is Ricardo mania love affects him in his social life. Ricardo avoid his family to know about his true relationship with the bad girl. He separated from social life with families, friends, and social life. From the explanation above it can be concluded that mania love or obsessive love is one types of love that dangerous. 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KURT JANISCH’S POWER AND SEXUALITY IN ELFRIEDE JELINEK’S GREED
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 2 No 1 (2014): Vol.2 No.1 2014
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KURT JANISCH’S POWER AND SEXUALITY IN ELFRIEDE JELINEK’S GREED Annisa Firdausi English Literature, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University firdausi.annisa19@gmail.com Drs. Much. Khoiri, M.Si English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University much_choiri@yahoo.com Abstrak Kekuasaan sering didefinisikan sebagai kemampuan seseorang yang kuat untuk mendapatkan keinginannya atas kehendak orang yang tidak berdaya. Orang-orang yang memiliki kekuasaan dapat menggunakan kekuasaan mereka untuk mengambil keuntungan untuk mereka sendiri, mengontrol orang lain dan dapat juga memanipulasi orang lain. Orang-orang yang memiliki kekuasaan juga seringkali menggunakan kekuasaan untuk memuaskan nafsu seksual mereka. Michel Foucault (1978: 83) berpendapat bahwa jika kekuasaan hanya dilihat sebagai kemampuan untuk memiliki keinginan, atau jika konstitutif pada keinginan sendiri , untuk afirmasi: anda akan selalu dan sudah terjebak. Skripsi ini difokuskan pada kekuasaan dan seksualitas Kurt Janisch di novel Greed oleh Elfriede Jelinek. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menggambarkan bagaimana kekuasaan Kurt Janisch yang digambarkan dalam Greed oleh Elfriede Jelinek, dan untuk mengungkapkan bagaimana kekuasaan Kurt Janisch mempengaruhi seksualitasnya. Skripsi ini menggunakan beberapa proses analisis, yaitu: (1) mengklasifikasikan kutipan yang relevan dan sesuai dengan rumusan masalah, (2) menggambarkan kekuasaan Kurt Janisch dengan menggunakan teori five bases of power oleh John RP French dan Bertram Raven , (3) mengungkapkan bagaimana seksualitas Kurt Janisch dipengaruhi oleh kekuasaannya dengan menggunakan circles of sexuality oleh Dr Dennis M. Dailey. Akhirnya, hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa dalam novel ini Kurt Janisch menyalahgunakan kekuasaannya. Dia menggunakan setiap kesempatan yang ada untuk memaksa orang dan mengintimidasi rekan-rekannya yang lebih muda. Dapat dikatakan bahwa ia menggunakan kekuasaannya secara paksa – itu termasuk dalam coercive power. Selain itu, perilaku Kurt Janisch dalam mengintimidasi rekan-rekannya yang lebih muda dapat diklasifikasikan sebagai legitimate power. Dia juga menggunakan jenis informational power karena ia menyembunyikan informasi yang dapat membahayakan dirinya. Dengan kekuatan yang dimilikinya, ia memaksa perempuan untuk berhubungan seks dengannya. Saat berhubungan seks dengan wanita, Kurt Janisch melakukan beberapa kekerasan seksual, pelecehan seksual kepada anak, dan perkosaan yang termasuk dalam lingkaran sexualization. Fakta-fakta tersebut adalah bukti bahwa Kurt Janisch menyalahgunakan kekuasaannya untuk mendapatkan kepuasan dalam hubungan seksual. Kata Kunci: Kekuasaan, Seksualitas, Greed, Circles of sexuality Abstract Power is often defined as the capability of someone strong to achieve his desires over the will of powerless people. Powerful people can use their power to take advantage for themselves, control people can even manipulate someone else. Powerful people also oftenly use power to satisfy their sexual appetite. Michel Foucault (1978: 83) argues that if power is seen as having only an external hold on desire, or, if it is constitutive of desire itself, to the affirmation: you are always-already trapped. This study focuses on Kurt Janisch’s power and sexuality in Elfriede Jelinek’s Greed. The purposes of this study are to describe how Kurt Janisch’s power is depicted in Elfriede Jelinek’s Greed, and to reveal how Kurt Janisch’s power affects his sexuality. This study does some processes of analysis, they are: (1) classifying the relevant quotations which are in line with the problem of statements, (2) describing Kurt Janisch’s power by using the theory of five bases of power by John R.P. French and Bertram Raven, (3) revealing how Kurt Janisch’s sexuality is affected by his power by using Dr. Dennis M. Dailey’s circles of sexuality. Eventually, the result of the analysis shows that Kurt Janisch power which is depicted in the novel is abusive. He uses every opportunity that he has to force people and intimidate his younger colleagues. It can be said that he uses his power coercively--it is the coercive power. Moreover, his behaviour in pressing his younger colleagues is classified as legitimate power. He also uses the kind of informational power because he hides informations that can harm him. With the power that he has, he forces women to have sex with him. While having sex with women, Kurt Janisch does some sexual violence, child abuse, rape and sexual harassment which are included in the sexualization circle. Those facts are proofs that Kurt Janisch is abusing his power to get his only satisfication in sexual intercourse. Keywords: Power, Sexuality, Greed, Circles of Sexuality INTRODUCTION Power is often conceptualised as the capacity of powerful agents to realise their will over the will of powerless people, and the ability to force them to do things which they do not wish to do. Power is also often seen as a possession, something which is held onto by those in power and which those who are powerless try to wrest from their control. In The History of Sexuality, Vol. I, Michel Foucault argue that if power is seen as having only an external hold on desire, or, if it is constitutive of desire itself, to the affirmation: you are always-already trapped. Moreover, one must not imagine that this representation is peculiar to those who are concerned with the problem of the relations of power with sex. (Foucault, 1978: 83). The act of using one’s position of power in an abuse way is called power abuse. This can take many forms, such as taking advantage of someone, gaining access to information that shouldn’e be accesible to public, or just manipulating someone with the ability to punish them if they don’t comply. Abuse is the improper usage or treatment of an entity, often to unfairly or improperly gain benefit. Abuse can come in many forms, such as: physical or verbal maltreatment, injury, assault, violation, rape, unjust practices; crimes, or other types of aggression. Abuse of power is different from usurpation of power, which is an exercise of authority that the offender does not actually have. Sexuality is complex and spans a vast array of human experiences including family relationships, dating, sexual behavior, physical development, sensuality, sexualization, reproduction, gender, body image and more. It is a fundamental and natural part of being human, for people of all ages. Defining sexuality can be difficult, but it may help to think about Amy Schalet’s description of sexuality as posted on medscape.com, “as the expression of an age-blind desire for meaningful intimacy and connection with others”. Sexuality is much more than sexual feelings or sexual intercourse. It is an important part of who a person is and what she or he will become. It includes all the feelings, thoughts and behaviors of being female or male, being attractive and being in love, as well as being in relationships that include sexual intimacy and physical sexual activity. Jelinek’s works are mostly concern on patriarchal hierarchies define the engines of commerce and commerce defines personal relationships, its individuals’ sexuality. Besides The Piano Teacher and Women as Lovers, Greed is also regarded as one of her novels which concern on sexuality. So, this thesis will analyse Elfriede Jelinek’s Greed in the terms of its sexuality. In Greed, Kurt Janisch has a big power over the country. Unfortunately, he uses his power to harm and threaten other people. Kurt Janisch is a greedy and ambitious man. He likes to have many properties. But the way he try to get it is so nasty. He uses his power as a country policeman to get properties. He is somehow uses his power abuse. At one time, he would like to have a drink without paying it. According to him, he does not need to pay the drink because he has an authority there. Kurt Janisch realizes that he has a big power. His power is, however, influence his sexuality. He would like to have sex with women in his country just to have their properties. The women, who realize that Kurt is a powerful man, can not reject his attitude. He sometimes stop a woman for speeding then have sex with her beside her car. After that, they went to her house and Kurt can have that woman’s property. In accordance of background study above, it can be simplify to discuss among two problems that emerge as significant concern toward this novel. How is Kurt Janisch’s power depicted in Elfriede Jelinek’s Greed? How does Kurt Janisch’s power affect his sexuality in Elfriede Jelinek’s Greed? This study will uses two theories which are in line with the statement of the problems. The first problem is how Kurt Janisch’s power depicted in Greed. This statement will use the concept of power. This concept is originally introduced developed by social pschologists named French and Raven. This concept is united and merged with the bases of social power which people use in their daily life. There are five kinds of power in this concept, they are coercive power, reward power, legitimate power, referent power and expert power. There is also an additional kind of power, which is the informational power. Then the second problem is how Kurt Janisch’s power affects his sexuality. This statement will apply the concept of sexuality, especially in the circles of sexuality. This concept is developed by a man known as the pornographic professor, Dr. Dennis M. Dailey. It is about the circles of sexuality which is experienced by every human being. There are five circles, they are sensuality, sexual intimacy, sexual identity, reproduction and sexualization. RESEARCH METHOD Research methodolgy that used in this analysis here must be qualified as an applying in literary appreciation. The thesis is regarded as a descriptive-qualitative study and uses a library research. This study uses novel of Elfriede Jelinek entitled Greed that published Seven Stories Press, 140 Watts Street, New York in 2007 as the data source of this study. The datas are in the form of direct and indirect speech of the characters, dialogues, epilogues and quotations which indicate and represent aspect of power abuse and sexualization which is experienced by the main character. This thesis is using the library method in collecting the data. It does not use the statistic method. That is why it is not served in numbering or tables. Library research used an approach in analyzing this study. The kind of library research which is used here is intensive or closely reading to search quotations or phrases. It also used to analyze the literary elements both intrinsic and extrinsic. The references are taken from library and contributing ideas about this study from internet that support the idea of analyzing. The analysis is done by the following steps: (1) Classification based on the statement of the problems. This classification is used to avoid the broad discussion. There are two classifications in this study. They are the depiction of power and how it affects the sexuality. (2) Describing Kurt Janisch’s power which is stated from the quotations or statements. (3) Describing how Kurt Janisch’s sexuality which is stated from the quotations or statements. (4) Revealing the relations between power and sexuality. The quotations that showed how the character’s sexuality is affected by his power are taken as data. (5) Drawing the conclusion based on the analysis which is in line with the problems. ANALYSIS The first section is about the describtion of Kurt Janisch’s power as a country policeman. Kurt Janisch, the country policeman, is the main character in this story. For three generation, his whole family hold the power over the country. His father is a former police colonel while his son, Ernst Janisch, is employed by the Post Office as a telephone maintenance man. He attended a technical secondary school, whose graduates call themselves engineers. Being a country policeman makes Kurt Janisch hold a big power over his people. “Such a forceful, big man, who is capable of unleashing almost any kind of event.” (Jelinek, 2007: 10). Kurt Janisch is described as a forceful man. This is deal with his job as a country policeman. He has quite an authority to control people in his country so he is also described as a ‘big man’. He knew that he is the one who is more capable of making any decisions in his country and the people must live with his decisions. People mostly obey the figure of authority because they have been conditioned to do so. In this case, Kurt Janisch is in a position of power, so they are required to do so by law. Most citizens are afraid to disobey laws because they don't like the outcome or the embarrassment. The country policeman then uses his power to force his people. He forces everyone to get what he wants. From the way Kurt Janisch is described as a forceful man in using his power, it is shown that Kurt Janisch uses the kind of coercive power. As mentioned by French and Raven in the previous chapter, coercive power happens when a powerful man forces other people to do something they do not want to do (French and Raven, 1959: 87). In this case, Kurt Janisch forces his people (mostly women) to do sex and give him their properties. The behaviour of Kurt Janisch can be classified in coercive power because he is also ‘capable of unleashing any kind of event’. It might be true that he is doing his job well by helping his people in any kind of situation. But on the other side, the word ‘any kind of event’ means that he can unleash people who is guilty by giving him somtehing in return. For Kurt Janisch, he only wants sex or properties. People are forced by him to do so, and they did it because they are powerless and have no other choices. Not only unleashing any kind of event, he could also ‘create’ event so that he would get what he wants. Kurt Janisch is sometimes also in charge of maintaining traffic order. Once in a while he stop the car and inspect it. He thinks, he will get a slight advantage from it. “The country policeman only has to take advantage of the opportunity, because in their own car everyone makes a mistake once.” (Jelinek, 2007: 44). He believes that the termination of some cars, there will be some drivers who commit traffic offenses. They could be not carrying the driving license or they could even carrying drugs. If there is an offense, then he will offer them some choices. Such things like he will give him a ticket or they can give him a bribe. As a country policeman, Kurt Janisch may stop and search any person or vehicle for stolen or prohibited things. Generally weapons such as knives and guns that are made or adapted for use in accordance with certain offences which include fraud, criminal damage, theft, burglary and taking a motor vehicle without authority. But a police officer cannot simply stop and search anybody he likes. In this case, Kurt Janisch has proven that he is abusing his power. He stop and search without any reasonable grounds and he even take advantages from it. He can do this just because he has a warrant card which he shows them everytime he do stop and search. It makes people do not dare to reject him. Since Kurt Janisch has a greedy nature, he uses any ways to satisfy his ever-increasing demands. Because he is a country policeman, then he can use his power to fulfill his greediness. One of his ways is force women to give him properties. “His fingers are itching to angrily beat the woman if she doesn't want to give up her house voluntarily,” (Jelinek, 2007: 278). There is no word ‘to give up’ in the Kurt Janisch’s dictionary in getting properties. Therefore he does not hesitate to use violence to get it. In this sentence, it can be seen that Kurt Janisch had thought that he would hit the woman if she refused to give her home. However, he also forced her to hand it over voluntarily. It does not matter whether she is really voluntary or not. The important thing to him is that people know that she gave her house voluntarily. The forcing behaviour that Kurt Janisch did in getting a house can be classified in coercive power. He uses his power to force someone to do what he wants. He did not hesitate to commit coercion because he knew that he is powerful. Therefore, the people will not dare to report him. This action can also be called as an abuse of power. The effect of abuse of power in the government is that the citizens suffer. When the government abuses their power, the society cannot benefit as it properly should because those in position to help are not staying within the realm of their job. Kurt Janisch is not only misusing his power to his people in his district. People in his office also admitted that he is quite powerful. “He is otherwise something of a disrespectful man, the country policeman, and so he demands all the more respect from the young recruits.” (Jelinek, 2007: 195). Kurt Janisch is always look nice and warm in front of the women. But to his co-workers, he is described as a disrespectful man. He likes to putting someone down, trying to make them feel low and treating someone in a horrible manner. Sometimes he is also showing his co-workers that they mean less than nothing to him. He is both rude and ignorant towards another persons feeling. This behaviour is shown by Kurt Janisch mostly to the young recruits. He asked them to show him more respects. While in fact, he does not respect them as much as they do. He thinks that it should be the way, since he is a senior and they were just a young recruiter. What Kurt Janisch does to his young recruiters is included to legitimate power category. A leader who has ability to control other people’s feeling by giving them rewards or punishment is a kind of leader in legitimate power. They can give them rewards or punishment to anyone. They also can do anything to them as punishment. The subordinates have no right to reject the rewards or punishments which the leader gives. According to French and Raven in this legitimate power theory, Kurt Janisch’s subordinates will only obey him as a country policeman not spesifically in person. This power is therefore not strong enough to be Kurt Janisch's only form of influencing or persuading. Even so, he keeps doing it. For him, it is a matter of pride. “he will take every opportunity to press up against younger colleagues, to pass his hands over their hips and to let them properly feel his little fellow,” (Jelinek, 2007: 298). From the sentence above, we can see that Kurt Janisch is sometimes does not hesitate to commit physical violence against his younger colleagues. Once his younger colleagues are making mistakes, he would give them some lessons rudely. He treated them that way in order to make sure that the will not do the same mistake twice. But somehow he became too far. It is shown that he would use every opportunity he has to press up his younger colleagues. However, he press up his colleagues violently. He put his hands around their hips and punch it. He punches them quite strong so they can feel how dissappointed he is. He thinks, if he do it that way, they will learn something. Kurt Janisch is granted many powers in order to keep the peace and protect the general public. There are, of course, limits on his behaviour and if people feel he has used unlawful practices, they should contact a lawyer for legal advice. But Kurt Janisch does not get any complaints for all his behaviors which are beyond the limits. “They have the power to make people disappear without trace forever.” (Jelinek, 2007: 261). In addition to maintaining security and protecting the public, Kurt Janisch also sometimes assigned as an investigator. He admitted that policemen have a big power in almost everything. It is shown in the sentence above that they can make people disappear without any trace left. It means that he could kill people and no one will know that he is the culprit. He could use his power as an investigator to throw all the evidences. So people would not know how the victim died and who did it forever. For this, Kurt Janisch uses his power as informational power. He holds an information and he manipulated it to his people. Informational power is based on the potential to use information. Providing rational arguments, using information to persuade others, using facts and manipulating information can create a power base. In this case, Kurt Janisch is keeping the information secretly and even organizing it neatly as if nothing happened. Then, the second section will show the effects of power in Kurt Jansich’s sexuality in the novel. Sexuality is also become the main idea in this novel. The country policeman is already married, but his sexual life with his wife does not appear much in this novel. However, his sexual life with other women is much exposed. It is so much easier for him to get any women when he comes in as a figure of authority. “These female proceedings have to be conducted and intimately handled, even if what the Janischs do is not described like that. They combine the pleasing with the useful.” (Jelinek, 2007: 26). Everytime Kurt Janisch helps women, he proceeded them ‘differently’. Not only him, but his son is also joining him in handling the women. People believed that both of them are treated them unfairly. However, the Janischs have their own argument. They think of it as give-and-take. Whenever they help women, those women have to please them. Kurt Janisch is the one who is quite influential here. He uses his power to manipulate women in his sexual experiences. His act of control and influence women unfairly means that he is in a sexualization cycle. In this cycle, people can do things like flirting or even rape to get what they want. It can cause the women to feel shame and humiliation, but since he is a country policeman, they can not do nothing about it. “What interests the country policeman about women also lies more below the waistline,” (Jelinek, 2007: 199). Kurt Janisch is really do not care anything else when his lust is appearing. He's not interested in what she says. He's interested in what she has. More importantly, he is very interested in the women’s organ right under their waistline. He thinks that if he can control their vagina, he can control her completely. He knows that once a lonely woman has been satisfied, he will get what he wants more easily. People in various professional and institutional settings endure many forms of unwanted sexual acts that are perpetrated against them by people in positions of power. These perpetrators abuse their power, authority, trust, influence, and dependence to obtain sexual intercourse. (Buchhandler and Raphael, 2010: 3). The act that Kurt Janish has been done is somewhat an act of disrespectful through women. Women needs to be taken care and be loved. Men are using sex instrumentally in order to obtain and retain power over women. An evolutionary perspective does not deny the linkage between power and sex but suggests that the direction of causation is misperceived. Rather than men using sex to obtain power, it is much more accurate to say that they use power to obtain sex. (Browne, 2006: 147). Even they are being treated harshly and disrespectful, these women did not protest or report. Most of them are even delighted that they can have sex with a country policeman. “Two legs spread, for him alone, just like that, and a whole house puts in an appearance right in the middle.” (Jelinek, 2007: 117). It is easy for Kurt Janisch to get what he wants. With the power that he has, he only needs two legs spread, like it is stated on the sentence. It means that he can conquer and persuade women to have sex with him. Once the women were already conquered, then they will give him whatever he wants. This makes Kurt Janisch addicted. When he realized that he could get what he wants so easily, then he will do it continously. However, to get two legs spread, Kurt Janisch is forcing them to do so. This behaviour can be classified in the coercive power. It is so, because Kurt Janisch is forcing the women to act in an involuntary manner by use of intimidation and threats. Coercion is one method by which a powerful agent can exercise and maintain his dominance over another. When one has the power needed to credibly threaten another, one can use that power to impose one's will on her regarding many choices. In law, coercion is classified as a threat crime. Such actions are used as leverage, to force the victim to act in a way contrary to their own interests. Coercion may involve the actual infliction of physical pain or psychological harm. This act of coercion that has been done by Kurt Janisch in sex can also be called as the act of rape. Often those men who see women as sex objects and as inherently inferior to men are more likely to commit to rape. Men who hold these beliefs think that they are entitled to control women’s sexuality, and to determine what a woman really wants. Such men also think they are entitled to shape women’s sexual and nonsexual behavior, and to decide what is acceptable or unacceptable. Therefore, women should meet male needs on demand, men are entitled to force their desires onto women, and therefore, men are entitled to rape women. (Lowell, 2010: 160). Sexual abuse of power, like rape, constitutes serious harms to victims precisely because it typically violates these rights. The right to remain free from sexual coercion stands at the basis of these violations: sexual coercion occurs whenever a person engages in unilateral sexual acts with another person, by exploiting that other person’s body for the purposes of his own gratification, arousal or one–sided sexual pleasure, against the will of that other person. A little blood is coming from her vagina. What has he stuck in there this time, bigger than a slap in the face, smaller than a tractor? Perhaps the neck of the beer bottle? (Jelinek, 2007: 82) Not only described as a forceful man when it comes to sex, but he is also described as a crude person. It is stated in the sentence above that after having sex with a girl, a little blood is coming from her vagina. She also feels a great painful when she woke up. She wonders why is that happen. It was not the first time she has sex, so it is obviously not a virgin blood. It can happen because of two things. Either she was on her period or Kurt Janisch was hardly forces his cock into her vagina. From the sentence, the right answer is the second one. She is wondering what he stuck in her vagina. The pain feels more painful than a slap in the face. She presumes that he inserted the neck of the beer bottle which is very hard and painful. This is also the act of sexual assault that has been done by Kurt Janisch. it is the act of having intercourse while doing a physical violence or using a tool. It can cause a great painful, a wound and even a fatal injury. Sexual assault can also included in case of rape because Kurt Janisch forces his cock that cause her to feel great pain in her vagina. This time, he uses his overpowering strength to the woman. It is classified in the sexualization cycle because he once again use his power to manipulate and harm his victim. Like the other victims, this woman is afraid to report him to the police officer. Eventhough she dares to report him, Kurt Janisch will take care of the case. He is also capable to remove all the evidences so that her accusation will not be proceed. As a figure of authority, Kurt Janisch has done too many crimes in his country. Not only raping, but he also done such act like sexual violence. He is surely has a sexual problem. “he's blowing his trumpet into such a young girl, she's no more than a child,” (Jelinek, 2007: 83). Not enough with raping and sexual violence, he also dare to do a child abuse. It seems like his candidate for intercourse is not only adult women, but also a child. Through the statement above, we know that Kurt Janisch has an intercourse with a young girl who is described as no more than a child. This action can also be classified as raping. It was told in the story, an adult woman who has had sex with Kurt Janisch saw him having sex with a young girl. She was jealous and claimed that his trumpet is should be hers. Although Kurt Janisch has too many crimes, many women are still go after him. They all want to be treated by the country policeman. The fact that many women are after him, it makes him feels like he can own and control them. Moreover, he can control them because he is a country policeman. He did almost every crime in sexuality, like flirting, raping and even seduction. But his crimes are never been reported. His crimes are all covered by himself. He handles his own crime so nobody can jailed him. He is the one who can send people to jail and he obviously does not want to send himself. This is the power of authority, after one can control and manipulate someone, than everything can be done. Kurt Janisch has chosen to use his power to satisfy his need: sex. When his desire of sex is flaming, he would easily pick any woman to have sex with. His sexuality has become more complex lately. He would not care who the woman is, or does the woman wants it or not, he will just do it. “The age of the children is unimportant, they can be almost sixteen like Gabi,” (Jelinek, 2007: 128). It gets worsen when he started to choose a young girl as a place to release his lust. It turns out that he did not do it once. He chose Gabi, who is almost sixteen to be his victim. Kurt Janisch admitted that he does not care about her age, evethough he knows that she was almost sixteen which means that she is still under age. All he cares about is just he has some place to release his lust, so any women will do. Kurt Janisch is now got into a serious problem. His act of raping a girl under age can be classified as child sexual abuse. Child sexual abuse is fundamentally an act of violation, power and domination. The sexual abuser’s power, knowledge and resources are far greater thatn those of the child. So the abuser exploits this power difference to take advantage of the child. Children are dependent upon adults for their survival and for affection and understanding of the world. Kurt Janisch thinks that asking a girl who is in her puberty to have sex would be very easy. Girls that age are still fragile and tey can be easily manipulated. In this case, the one who manipulated her is someone who holds a big power over the country. This girl, who is known as Gabi, is just under sixteen. She is still innocent and easily trust any adults. That is why Kurt Janisch uses any tactics to get her. He gives her attention and gifts, manipulate and even threaten her. Gabi trusted him since he is the country policeman. But she never knew that he only wants her virginity. Kurt Janisch has done something terrible to Gabi. Girls at age 16 are emotionally unstable. He does not think that what he has done to her gave a big impacts in her life. Gabi does not want to let him go. She believed that she and Kurt Janisch has become a couple. But Kurt Janisch who only uses her as a relief from Gerti. He does not want that kind of relationship, so he dump her. Gabi becomes very depressed and aggressive. She still wants to be with him. However, she can not reported what Kurt Janisch has done to her. She was afraid to tell anyone. Besides, it was a shameful experience for her. So she just keep it to herself. CONCLUSION The conclusion is divided into two in accordance to the statement of problems. From the analysis that has been done, it can be conclude in the first conclusion that Kurt Janisch has a great power in the country. He is described as a forceful man because he oftenly forced people to do domething that he wants. People mostly obey him because they have been conditioned to obey the powerful people. Otherwise, people who disobey them will get a punishment. As a man who has power in his country, he tries to get any advantages he might get. He is powerful enough to get anything he wants from his people. He is described as a powerful man because he can unleash any kind of events. However, his way to unleashing any kind of events is by forcing people to have a sexual intercourse with him, otherwise, their driver’s license will be taken. Whenever he has an opportunity to take advantages, he would go for it. He will make an entrance as a figure of authority. He even forces people in a bar to give him free drinks because he said that he is on duty. While he is on duty as a traffic cop, he would also like to take advantages from the women drivers. He knows that women drivers are mostly make mistakes. So there he goes, stop and search them, threaten them and finaly forces them to give him what he wants. Kurt Janisch’s act of forcing people can be classified in coercive power. It can be seen that he oftenly forces people to do what they do not want to do. Besides using the coercive power, Kurt Janisch is sometimes also use the legitimate power. It is shown when he deliberately pressing up and beat his younger colleagues when they do mistakes and do notwant to obey him. He likes to show his seniority against his juniors in the police office. He wants to be respected, but he does not want to respect his colleagues. Kurt Janisch who is sometimes also in charge of search team uses the kind of informational power. He thinks that country policemen also have power to make people disappear without any trace left. He has the capability to hid and manipulate the information he gets to protect himself from any harm. That is why the crimes that Kurt Janisch’s done are never been proceed in the court. So, Kurt Janisch’s power that is described in this novel are very big. It can be said that Kurt Janisch is abusing his power. The second conclusion is about how Kurt Janisch power affects his sexuality. In the analysis chapter, it can be seen that Kurt Janisch likes to controlling another person in many cases. He also applied this act to have sex with women whom he forced. He likes to help women with their problems and ask them to have sex with him in return. The women can not refuse because they know that they are forced by someone with enormous power in their country. Since then, Kurt Janisch likes rough sex. He oftenly hitting the victim of both on the face and the mouth. This is the act of sexual violence. Then he also hurt the sex organs of a woman because he put his penis too hard. It causes the woman's vagina bleeding hard. In addition, he also did verbal violence by telling the women that they are just toys for Kurt Janisch which can be played at his will. The harshest thing that he did is child abuse. He raped an under-age girl named Gerti and Gabi and cause Gerti to commit suicide. All of his victims do not do any resistance. They have been threatened by Kurt Janisch to keep it. If they leak it, they will bear the severe consequences. 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RAPE AND SHAME IN J.M. COETZEE’S DISGRACE
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 2 No 1 (2014): Vol.2 No.1 2014
Publisher : The English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Surabaya

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RAPE AND SHAME IN J.M. COETZEE’S DISGRACE Salman Muhiddin English Literature, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University salmanlatieff@gmail.com Drs. Much. Khoiri, M.Si English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University much_choiri@yahoo.com Abstrak Pemerkosaan adalah setiap tindakan yang tidak diinginkan , manipulasi atau pemaksaan dalam bentuk aktivitas seksual. Tindakan pemerkosaan berdampak bagi pemerkosa dan korbannya. Dampaknya terhubung ke masalah psikologis , seperti kecemasan , depresi , dan gangguan mental lainnya serta perilaku moral yang bermasalah. Skripsi ini difokuskan pada tindak perkosaan yang dialami oleh karakter dan bagaimana hal itu menyebabkan rasa malu dalam novel Disgrace karya JM Coetzee. Secara khusus, tujuan skripsi ini adalah untuk mendeskripsikan bagaimana gambaran perkosaan yang dialami oleh karakter dan untuk mengungkapkan bagaimana perkosaan itu menyebabkan rasa malu dalam novel Disgrace karya J.M. Coetzee. Dalam analisisnya, skripsi ini menggunakan beberapa proses analisis , yaitu: (1) mengklasifikasikan kutipan-kutipan yang sejalan dengan masalah laporan, (2) menggambarkan tindakan perkosaan yang telah dialami oleh karakter, (3) mengungkapkan bagaimana pemerkosaan menyebabkan malu. Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa ada tiga macam pemerkosaan yang digambarkan dalam cerita. Pemerkosaan pertama terjadi antara David dan pekerja seks bernama Soraya. Pemerkosaan kedua terjadi antara David dan muridnya, Melanie. Yang ketiga dialami oleh putri David, Lucy. Setelah pemerkosaan itu, pelaku dan korban perkosaan merasa malu. David sebagai pemerkosa mendapatkan aib dan tekanan publik dari komite universitas dan mahasiswanya. Dia kemudian meminta maaf kepada keluarga Melanie. Sedangkan korban akan merasa malu untuk tampil di publik karena mereka takut aibnya terbongkar. Kata Kunci: Pemerkosaan, Malu, Aib Abstract Rape is any unwanted, manipulated or coerced forms of sexual activity. The act of rape has an impact to both the rapists and the rape survivors. The impact is connected to psychological problems, such as anxiety, depression, and other mental disorders as well as problematic moral behaviour. This study focuses on the characters’ experience in raping and being raped, and how it leads to shame in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. In particular, the purpose of this study is to describe how rape is depicted by the characters and to reveal how the characters’ rape leads to shame in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace. In the analysis, this study does some processes of analysis, they are: (1) classifying the quotations which are in line with the problem of statements, (2) describing the rape that has been experienced by the characters, (3) revealing how rape leads to shame. The result of the analysis shows that there are three kinds of rape which is depicted in the story. The first rape is happened between David and the prostitute named Soraya. The second rape is between David and his student, Melanie. The third one is experienced by David’s daughter, Lucy. After the rape, the rapist and the rape survivors get shame. David is getting disgrace and gets public pressure from the university committees and the students. He then ask for apologize to Melanie’s family. While the rape survivors are getting shame after being raped. They are shame to make a public appearance because they are afraid of being discovered or found out by another person. Keywords: Rape, Shame, Disgrace INTRODUCTION The definition of rape varies state-to-state and can include anything from touching to actual penetration, but, generally, rape is any “unwanted, non-consensual, manipulated or coerced forms of sexual activity” (http://www.umich.edu). The act may be carried out by physical force, coercion, abuse of authority or against a person who is incapable of valid consent, such as one who is unconscious, incapacitated, or below the legal age of consent. The term rape is sometimes used interchangeably with the term sexual assault, and the term of violent change into rape survivor. The rape effects can include both physical trauma and psychological trauma. Rape will also lead to shame. The feeling is connected to psychological problems such as eating disorders, substance abuse, anxiety, depression, and other mental disorders as well as problematic moral behavior. The shame is also reformed from some culture that sees the rape victims are dirt. For example, a rape victim especially one who was previously a virgin, may be viewed by society as being damaged. According to Alliance, victims in these cultures may suffer isolation, be disowned by friends and family, be prohibited from marrying, and be divorced if already married, or even killed. This phenomenon is known as secondary victimization. Secondary victimization is the re-traumatization of the sexual assault, abuse, or rape victim through the responses of individuals and institutions. Rape also affects the rapist. If someone known as a rapist he will be the public enemy. The rapist may lose their dignity, job, and friends. Punishment for rape in most countries today is imprisonment. Thus he will get ashamed but the right term for rapist is disgrace. On the previous study Feminine Shame Masculine Disgrace, Nurka put little bit different from shame, “people with disgrace will automatically being shame. Disgrace is brought from without (‘put to shame’), or is directed outward from its source (‘a person who or thing which is the cause or source of disgrace’).” (Nurka, 2012: 311). J.M. Coetzee is a South African writer born under the apartheid government. Coetzee is unveiling many fragile topics in South Africa from many of his books. He elegantly put the theme rape over the race to depict the social condition of ‘New South Africa’. Rape of women by men has occurred throughout recorded history and across cultures. As the novel background, South Africa is often labeled the rape capital of the world. The prevalence of rape, and particularly multiple perpetrator rape, is unusually high. Coetzee puts the concept of rape and shame in novel ‘Disgrace’. The narrative follows a white South African professor’s, David Lurie, escape to his daughter’s farm, after he raped his student, Melanie. The farm is soon attacked and robbed by three black men, and the daughter raped. As father and daughter piece together their strained relationship and individual lives, they must reconcile their positions in the “New South Africa,” to Lucy, is gang-raped by three men on her smallholding in the Eastern Cape, but she chose to say nothing about what happened to her. She decided to take the shame on her own. While on David, he rents a room in Grahmstown to help his daughter at the market once a week and to dedicate himself to the disposal of the dogs' bodies at the shelter. He cannot back to Cape Town because he has nothing left there for his disgrace. The university had replaced him with another professor. Once he went to Melanie house bring up all his disgrace to ask for forgiving to her parents for what he did through Melanie and family. In accordance of background study above, it can be simplify to discuss among two problems that emerge as significant concern toward this novel. How rape is depicted by the characters in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace? How the characters’ rape leads to shame in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace? To answer the first problem, this study uses the concept of rape. Rape is a multidetermined behaviour that will ultimately be explained only by models incorporating a multitude of dimensions.” (Prenkty and Knight, 1991: 657). The dimensions that are possibly to explain rape are through feminist theory, evolutionary theory, self-controlled theory, narcissistic theory, and crime theory. (Lowell, 2010: 159-161). Those theories can be used to help explain how rape occurs. Feminist theorists explain that the culture of male dominance is responsible for rape occurring. On his book Rethinking Rape, Cahill simply delivered that feminist theorists assert that rape is only one symptom of the larger problem of a male dominated society. Feminist theorists see rape as more of a violent act than a sexual act, and claim that rape is inspired by political motivations to dominate and degrade. Feminist theorists also deny that rape has an individualistic nature, but claim that rape is “nothing more or less than a conscious process of intimidation by which all men keep all women in a state of fear” (Cahill, 2001:16). Self control theory can lead to a man committing rape against a female. It is based on the premise that the male sex drive is uncontrollable. Men with this belief say that their sexual urges cannot be controlled and they are not responsible for their actions. Proponents of this theory “[propose] both that men’s sexual energy is difficult to control and that women have a key role in its loss of control,” since women deny sex to men who have to relieve their sexual drive (Polaschek & Ward, 2002, p. 13). This theory can be tied to Gottfredson and Hirschi’s low self-control theory. Low self-control theorists posit that, since criminal acts provide immediate gratification, criminals will engage in them because they are not able to defer gratification. A biological explanation of rape includes Thornhill and Palmer’s evolutionary theory of rape .Proponents of this theory claim that those men who were able to force their sexual desires on women were able to reproduce more efficiently, and thus have more offspring with their traits. Thornhill and Palmer are “dismissive of rape theories that emphasize the role of culture and learning in the acquisition of rape-prone traits, arguing that culture is only possible because individuals have evolved capacities that enable them to learn” (Siegert & Ward, 2002:6). Another theory that can explain rape is the narcissistic reactance theory, which is also tied to Gottfredson and Hirschi’s (1990) low self-control theory. In this theory, narcissists are defined as having a “lower proneness to shame and guilt,” having “unrealistically positive self-evaluations,” and being “especially likely to respond to bad evaluations by blaming other sources, including the evaluator and the technique of evaluation” (Baumeister et al., 2002: 3). These theorists claim that the, “tendency to respond to esteem threats by getting angry and blaming others may contribute to the elevated level of interpersonal difficulties that narcissists report” (Baumeister et al., 2002: 4). The second problem is using the concept of shame. Some victims of rape are feeling dirty, devalued, and humiliated as a result of a sexual assault. Feelings of shame are often related to the powerlessness and helplessness victims experience during a sexual assault. Shame may also be a reaction to being forced by the assailant to participate in the crime. Shame is the painful feeling of having done or experienced something dishonourable, improper and foolish. Shame is what prevents many survivors from speaking about what happened to them. Shame is an attack on the survivor as a person. It is the feeling you get when you are sure that someone will think poorly of you because you were assaulted. Shame is longer lasting, and ultimately more dangerous than guilt. The feeling of shame is so intense for rape victims that many of them never tell anyone what happened to them. Even in psychotherapeutic settings, victims of rape often avoid talking about what happened to them. (http://www.healthyplace.com/abuse/articles/guilt-and-shame-of-being-raped/, retrieve on: 15 April 2014). Shame is already bears the germ of guilt. Shame becomes guilt when the social norms are internalized as one’s own feelings of value and when self-condemnation anticipates public exposure. This presupposes the development of a personal centre, with the beginning capacity to regard oneself as the originator of one’s actions, to evaluate and feel responsible for them. In contrast to shame, guilt is no more bound to the immediate presence of the other; its impact is more lasting. The event one is to be blamed for sin in the past. Thus the present rejection of shame becomes the already executed expulsion of elementary guilt. Instead of being exposed to, and paralyzed by, the others’ gazes, the culprit feels, as it were, already abandoned. (Thomas Fuchs, 2003: 8). RESEARCH METHOD Research method that used in this analysis here must be qualified as an applying in literary appreciation. The thesis is regarded as a descriptive-qualitative study and uses a library research. This study uses novel of J.M. Coetzee, entitled Disgrace that published by Vintage, Random House, 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London, Great Britain, 1999 as the main data of the study. The data are in the form of direct and indirect speech of the characters, dialogues, epilogues and quotations which indicate and represent aspect of rape by the characters that lead to shame. This thesis is using the library method in collecting the data. It does not use the statistic method. That is why it is not served in numbering or tables. Library research used an approach in analyzing this study. The kind of library research which is used here is intensive or closely reading to search quotations or phrases. It also used to analyze the literary elements both intrinsic and extrinsic. The references are taken from library and contributing ideas about this study from internet that support the idea of analyzing. The analysis is done by the following steps: (1) Classification based on the statement of the problems. This classification is used to avoid the broad discussion. There are two classifications in this study. They are the depiction of rape and how it leads to shame. (2) Describing David Lurie’s and Lucy’s rape which is stated from the quotations or statements. (3) Describing how the shame and disgrace they got which is stated from the quotations or statements. (4) Revealing the relations between rape and shame. The quotations that showed how the characters’ rape leads to shame are taken as data. (5) Drawing the conclusion based on the analysis which is in line with the problems. ANALYSIS The first analysis is the depiction of rape. In Disgrace the rape parted in three different background and motif. The first rape is from David to Soraya the prostitute woman. David uses his financial advantages to buy woman for sex. After the relationship with Soraya ended David engage to a scandal with his Student Melanie. David admits that he misused his authority as a lecturer to have sex with his student. This depicts the condition of male domination particularly in South Africa. The last rape happened to David’s’ daughter, Lucy. She raped by three black African intruders. The rape of Lucy remains mystery for her silence to not tell the policemen about the incident. In his age of fifty two, and divorced, David proclaim that he has solved problem of sex rather well even without a wife. However, the reason of his ‘solved problem of sex’ for over one year is Soraya, a high-class prostitute girl from an escort service. She is a coloured woman that David has a historical interest. She has a honey brown body. She is tall and slim, with long black hair and dark, liquid eyes. Simply said this beautiful girl becomes his sources of happiness. “It surprises him that ninety minutes a week of a woman's company are enough to make him happy, who used to think he needed a wife, a home, a marriage” (Coetzee, 1999:5). David’s ideal marriage is with a wife that is a prostitute, but for him only and only at certain times. He met Soraya only on Thursday. On the other day he is back to his normal life. With Soraya he already find the happiness he belief. It makes him thought; there is no need to search for another life destination such as home and real wife. It made David rely on prostitution in his sexual life. Prostitution as the solution allows him to fantasize that a woman mirrors his wishes. He bought sex he wanted and she got extra money from him. For David money is no problem concerning that he lived alone with his salary as a professor and lecturer. As a consequence, he paid double for her. At least his money is worthy for finds her entirely satisfactory. As a customer, David is on dilemma seeing this prostitution. He knows that every woman in the prostitution is perforce. Women in prostitution would leave if they could. The term is an indicator of their hopelessness. “They tell stories, they laugh, but they shudder too, as one shudders at a cockroach in a washbasin in the middle of the night” (Coetzee, 1999:8). In their mind, they see that women in prostitutes are disgusted with their customer, so does the customers. Soraya just pretended to keep their customer satisfied. Prostitutes sometimes talk of the feeling of power they experience when they are with their customer. They are talking about a feeling of control when engaged in sexual acts. They soon feel the disadvantages of that particular way of life. It also exposes the fragility of the illusion of control over what another subject wants. If a man wants a woman to want what he wants, he can only force her to pretend to want his desire and then he has also to deny that pretence. David then met Melanie, his student. He treats her under the wine and romantic music, the Mozart clarinet quintet. He made his move to seduce Melanie in some conversation. He talked about poetry, music, food, and his past life. Then, after he offered some liqueur, the higher alcoholic drink, he said directly to Melanie, asking her to do something reckless. He touch her and said “You're very lovely ... Stay. Spend the night with me.” (Coetzee, 1999: 16). Melanie refused his liquor but accept a shot of whisky in her coffee. She should say no at that time instead wonder and ask why. She trapped to this conversation: ‘Why?’ ‘Because you ought to.’ ‘Why ought I to?’ ‘Why? Because a woman's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.’ (Coetzee, 1999: 16) As a professor of language and communication, David, could easily manipulate the words, he says. The way he talked to Melanie reflects his experience through many women. “Smooth words, as old as seduction itself.” (Coetzee, 1999: 16). He says it indirectly to make Melanie believes what he belief. He makes the statement so convincing and become hard to decline. Melanie herself was mistaken to ask more to David, because she did not know how to deal with him. Instead saying ‘why’, she should say ‘no’ to David when he asked her to stay. So she would not get in this complicated situation. Maybe she should already say ‘no’ when David asked her to come to his house. David was in a grip of something and he would not let it go. However, what is done is done. The next day David asked Melanie to go lunch. Again, Melanie cannot reject David offer. There is still time for her to tell a lie but she is too confused, and the moment passes. In the restaurant, they got an awkward situation because Melanie lost her appetite and there was a long silent. Then David asked to Melanie about what is on her mind: `Is something the matter? Do you want to tell me?' She shakes her head. `Are you worried about the two of us?' `Maybe,' she says. `No need. I'll take care. I won't let it go too far.' Too far. What is far, what is too far, in a matter like this? Is her too far the same as his too far? (Coetzee, 1999: 19) After the harassment from David a day before, Melanie must wonder about his plan. The women should worry about her safety. Because feminist, Cahill, agree that one of the rape purpose is to take women into state of fear, and it is he responsibility of masculinity and the construction of patriarchy. Men are possible to keep women as a fragile creature and need protection. Knowing that Melanie may feel bad about this situation, David guarantees that the thing would not go too far, he put Melanie to feel safe at least. This is another tactical seduction that is done by David. He manipulates the situation and manages it like there is nothing happen like everything is fine. It is not hard for him to do it concerning that Melanie was an easy target for him. The rapist always seeks the powerless people to be his target. Finally, they have sex for the first time. Even though, it is not the first time for both of them. David took Melanie to his house after getting lunch in the restaurant. They did it on the living room with rain sound pattering. Melanie is passive on the first time they have sex. While David finds the act of her passivity is so enjoyable. Melanie is passive like Soraya. She does not crawling, bite, and aggressive. She is his typical woman he was searching for. He was having sex with another whore after Soraya left him. But he did not like it because she is aggressive. So he never does it again with her. His desire was only on Melanie this time. It is stated in the novel that “She struck up a fire in me” (Coetzee, 1999: 166). Fire is a symbolization of energy that can stimulate one’s desire. This fire heat up his libido that pushes him doing something undesired to the core. In the rape theory, David can be considered as narcissistic because he tend to be willing to do whatever it takes to achieve the goal that they want from a relationship, including rape. In this theory, narcissists are defined as having a lower proneness to shame and guilt, having unrealistically positive self-evaluations, and being especially likely to respond to bad evaluations by blaming other sources, including the evaluator and the technique of evaluation. Narcissistic suits David as a rapist. He has lower sense of shame, as teacher and student he took Melanie to go out lunch just the two of them. Considering that he is the famous person in the city, people will wonder what is he up to. In the restaurant he seduced her and ask her to do something wild. He is implying that she has to have sex with him. But the relationship become a scandal that makes him lost his job. After realizing that there's nothing left for him in Cape Town, David wanted to change the atmosphere. He moved to the east across the country to the rural town of Salem in the Eastern Cape, where his daughter Lucy lives alone on a smallholding, growing vegetables to sell at the Saturday market and running a kennel for dogs. David begins a new life there, helping Lucy at the market, assisting Lucy's neighbour Petrus with odd jobs as “I am the gardener and the dog-man” (Coetzee, 1999: 64), and volunteering at the Animal Welfare Clinic with Bev Shaw. Lucy is leftish which make her the reversal of her father. She even did not want call herself a boss by Petrus. She is not individualist but socialist. She helps people no matter who they are. But this time she made big mistake by risk herself to strangers. Lucy tells David to stay outside while she takes the tall man indoors to use the phone. The second man runs in to the house behind them and locks David out. In a total panic, David let go of the bulldog's strap and commanded the dog to go after the boy. Then he kicks down the kitchen door. David tried to save Lucy but he felt someone whack him over the head. He falls down, barely conscious, and feels himself being dragged across the floor. When he realize, he's locked in the bathroom and wondering what's going on with Lucy. The second man comes in to get the car keys from David and then locks him back in. Meanwhile, he looks out and sees the tall man with a rifle. The tall man starts shooting the dogs one by one, splattering brains and guts all over the place. And if that isn't bad enough, the second man and the boy come back in the bathroom, douse David with alcohol, and set him on fire, luckily just his hair catches burning and he extinguishes himself in the toilet. They leave, stealing David's car. David and Lucy are left to deal with everything that just happened. During this whole nightmare, Petrus is nowhere to be found. After being raped, Lucy decided to not report the rape to the police. The silent of Lucy depict the subjugation or conquest. “No I am not blaming you, that is not the point. But it is something new you are talking about. Slavery. They want you for their slave.” (Coetzee, 1999: 159). Lucy response him and disagree with “Not slavery. Subjection. Subjugation.” (Coetzee, 1999: 159). This makes Lucy as the rape survivor depend on men to get protection. The second analysis is about how rape leads to shame. In Disgrace the rape that experienced by the rapist and the rape survivor transform and effect their life worst then before. From the previous study Nurka classified the effect of rape by gender: (1) Female as the object will get shame, (2) men as the subject will take disgrace. (Nurka, 2012: 310). The male character, David Lurie, got disgrace after doing sexual harassment to his student, Melanie. As the rapist, David will be haunted by his sin and losing his reputation and his job. While Lucy, the rape survivor got shame after being raped. The act of rape means to take away by force which the dignity is to be taken. Loosing dignity makes woman feel shameful. It turns out that the act of rape is not only giving shame feeling to the victims but also to the rapist. Soraya knows about the attachment of shame for being prostitute. Then when she met David in the midtown, she was afraid if the public know who she is. This is because David is the famous person in Cape town. “He has always been a man of the city, at home amid a flux of bodies where Eros stalks and glances flash like arrows” (Coetzee, 1999: 6). Concerning that shame is social affect associated with being discovered or found out by another person, she knew that he is the famous person in the city. It is too risky to stay in public with him. There is a high possibility that her secret will spread. Then to keep her pride for her children Soraya decided to quit the job. She did not want her children knows their real mother is. So she decided to resign from the escort and disappeared from that business. David ought to end but he pays a detective to tracking Soraya instead. When he got the number he makes a call. Soraya surprise and wondering abot how he gets the numbers. She did not talk for a moment. She wondered because the agency has a rule about keeping the former prostitutes identity. After the silent she said “I don't know who you are,' she says. ’You are harassing me in my own house. I demand you will never phone me here again, never.” (Coetzee, 1999: 10). After this moment he did not contact Soraya anymore. For Melanie, after she gets the coercive sexual by David, she becomes a different person in class. She even absent when it was on midterm test. Then she told her boyfriend that her professor have sex with her. The boyfriend then angry to him and vandalize his car, deflated the tires and injected a glue on both door. “After this coup de main Melanie keeps her distance. He is not surprised: if he has been shamed, she is shamed too.” (Coetzee, 1999: 31). The gossip may be starting to spread so she tries to not meet him. But on Monday she reappears in class and beside her, leaning back in his seat, hands in pockets, with an air of cocky ease, is the boy in black, the boyfriend. The student in the class knew about what is going on from the gossip. They are clearly waiting to see what the professor will do about the intruder. Professor let the boyfriend intrude to the class but then he asked Melanie to come to the office and tell her to not let the boyfriend do that again. After that moment Melanie never come to the class anymore. Furthermore, after being ashamed she decided to give up her study in the university. Thus her father asked David to tell Melanie to not give up. At this moment, Melanie’s father , Mr. Isaacs did not know that David is the causes of his daughter wanted to quit the university. As David thought “I am the worm in the apple… how can I help you when I am the very source of your woe?” (Coetzee, 1999: 37). After knowing that David rape his Doughter Mr. Isaacs tell him that what e sad done is not right. He imply that he does not sending her daughter to the nest of viper that poisoned her daughter with the act of rape. He feels ashamed about what was happen. He disappointed that an educated person like Professor David do an embarrassing and stupid thing. After the university fired David, Melanie continued her study. From the university scandal Melanie is regarded as victims and the professor is the one who responsible. Thus the disgrace runs to David. Even though Mr. Isaacs’ family got ashamed too from his rape they not reported this to the policemen. David is lucky this time. It is obvious that the rape survivor will blessed with so much shame. It is also happened on Lucy. The first thing she did is staying at home. She does not want to go outside. The trauma and the fear will grow upon her. In earlier days after the rape he stated that he was nothing, heist e dead person. She did not want to meet people too. She would rather hide her face, and he knows why. Because of the disgrace. Because of the shame….. Like a stain the story is spreading across the district. Not her story to spread but theirs: they are its owners. How they put her in her place, how they showed her what a woman was for. (Coetzee, 1999: 115) It is a related to shame that person who gets shame will hide itself from public. Lucy was avoiding he people talk and question. It takes a time to recover from this trauma. But she could not let it go to long because if she do not going outside she will lose her job and stall in the market. To replace her, David and Petrus doing her job in the market. The damage that is given to Lucy, the rape survivor, may attached forever. She felt everything will never be the same. “One is never oneself again?” (Coetzee, 1999: 124). Is “Lucy” still “Lucy”? Lucy also emphasizes the existence of herself “I am not the person you know. I am a dead person and I do not know yet what will bring me back to life.” (Coetzee, 1999: 161). With nothing to left she got nothing to lose. Then she decided to take consequences of human body in pain. Lucy takes the consequences of human body in pain. “I must learn to accept. To start at ground level. With nothing. Not with nothing but. With nothing. No cards, no weapons, no property, no rights, no dignity.” (Coetzee, 1999: 205). From the sentence above it is shown that Lucy is starting to understand her condition after being raped. She decided to start her business in farm and her vendor. Although she realises that she has nothing left. The rapist also takes her dignity that is the biggest loose after the rape. A woman without a dignity will judge herself as a shameful person. She also feels that she has no right to her own land and properties. It is because Petrus take over it. As the rapist, David Lurie got public pressure from university committee and the students. At first he does not confess that he is guilty. But after her daughter being raped by three African intruders he contemplate and change his attitude. Then he ask for apologize to Melanie’s family. After the scandal of lecture and his student were reported in university newspaper, the university made a committee. When answering the question, David giving no clue to the judges. David was making confusing issues to them. The committee not wanted to force David to make apologize. They wanted to help David to keep doing his career by making a statement to make it clear. But he resisted by saying “I am being asked to issue an apology about which I may not be sincere?” (Coetzee, 1999: 58) David’s refusal to be “disgraced” can be read as a warlike strategy in the realm of sexual politics. For by renouncing the assault, David transfers the shame he feels upon Melanie in an attempt to strengthen his wavering masculinity and suppress her intimidating femininity. He plead guilty when he was in the committee. He remains silent and giving no story from his side. When David asked someone in the neutral position that is his former wife, Rosalind. She told him that he should have known that he is too old to be meddling with other people's children. He should have expected the worst from the scandal. She also blame the two for all that happened. `Don't blame her! Whose side are you on? Of course I blame her! I blame you and I blame her. The whole thing is disgraceful from beginning to end. Disgraceful and vulgar too. And I'm not sorry for saying so.' (Cortzee, 1999: 45) David feels disgrace on himself but he still cannot accept it. He said nothing to the committee and plead guilty. But from her former wife explanation he cannot resist it. Even though he must be so angry when he heard what she said. But he controlled his emotion and accept the disgrace given by the rape. For earlier, David is described as “mildly smitten with Melanie” and that “it was no great matter: barely a term passed when he did not fall for one or other of his charges” (Coetzee, 1999: 11-12,). Masquerading as the tragic subject of the ungovernable impulse of Eros, David publically justifies and renounces the stigmatization of Melanie’s rape.David’s lack of a sincere apology and his refusal to publically acknowledge the assault, along with his fanciful illustration of himself as a “servant of Eros” (Coetzee, 1999: 52) demonstrates the way in which disgrace (though masked as desire) is felt by men as a response to threatening femininity. Spurned and embarrassed by the loss of his womanizing charms, David’s shame is directed into lust, later to be passed off as “Eros” when he encounters Melanie Isaacs, whom he refers to as “Melanie: the dark one” (Coetzee, 1999: 8). As with Soraya, David’s seduction of Melanie is an attempt not only to reclaim sexual privilege, but to emphasize the traditional patriarchal procedures of the European culture, in which such privilege, like Lurie himself, is embedded. The worst thing from David’s disgrace is how he, an intellectual person which had title a professor, becomes a person who can do nothing except working in bad place. To be a dog-man, that he already underestimate it on Petrus. By the time, David realized that he can’t do nothing but accept what the destiny does. The situation that makes him to take any job turned David into a rational man. What David has and does in the university, which let him to become an intellectual people, disappear when he moved out. He then realized that what he writes about Byron and natural poets all this time is all about the death person. He never writes something in contemporary. CONCLUSION There will be two conclusions which are in line with the statement of problems. The first conclusion is about the depiction of rape in the novel Disgrace. The second conclusion is about how rape lead to shame through the rapist and the rape survivor. From the analysis that has been done about the depiction of rape. It can be concluded that that the author, J.M. Coetzee use the rape to describe the condition of race in post apartheid. All the rape in this novel is interracial rape. There are three kinds of rape experienced by three female characters. The first and the second rape was done by David, white male character that desiring ethnic women. He lived in promiscuity or womanizer that used to have sex with a lot of women. Then in the end he involved in scandal with his student, Melanie. Then the third rape was done to David’s daughter, Lucy. She was being raped by three African intruders. The first rape is happened between David and the prostitute, Soraya. On his age of 50 he has no plan to married again. Thus, it made David rely on prostitution in his sexual life. His ideal marriage is with a wife that is a prostitute, but for him only and only at certain times. He met Soraya only on Thursday. On the other day he is back to his normal life. With Soraya he already find the happiness he belief. It makes him thought; there is no need to search for another life destination such as home and real wife. Prostitution gives the solution that allows him to fantasize a woman to mirrors his wishes. This can be classified as rape concerning that every women in prostitutes would leave if they can and she has to do it because there are no other choices. But in the end Soraya decided to quit the job as prostitutes so he has no other place to suit his lust. Then, accidently David met Melanie on the way home. She is his student from romantic class. Melanie is a colored girl, this make David interest to her concerning that he is desiring ethnic women. He forced her to have sex. He did not force her physically but seduced her with suggestive words. The relationship between them then became a scandal in the campus and also became the talk of the city. He left the town and visits his daughter in other town to run away from the situation. During his visits to his daughter, three black men attack Lurie and Lucy at home. The men lock Lurie in a bathroom and rape Lucy in the bedroom. The second half of the novel deals with the aftermath of that moment. Lucy did not want to tell the police and keep silent about what happened to her. She also rejected her father offer to move to Holland. She claimed that it is a private matter and not to be shared. With nothing to left she got nothing to lose. Then she decided to take consequences of human body in pain. Accepting the subordinates , she is willing to sacrifice herself, brings peace between the different racial groups in South Africa. The second conclusion is about how rape lead to shame. In Disgrace the rape that experienced by the rapist and the rape survivor transform their life worst then before. The act of rape means to take away by force which the dignity is to be taken. Loosing dignity makes woman feel shameful on herself. While the rapist that considered as a thief will judge as disgraceful person after the rape. The male character, David Lurie, got disgrace after doing sexual harassment to his student, Melanie. As the rapist, David will be haunted by his sin and losing his reputation and his job. While Lucy, the rape survivor got shame after being raped The first shame is from the prostitute, Soraya. She felt the shame for being prostitute because every prostitutes is attached to shame. Then to keep her pride for her children, Soraya decided to quit the job. She did not want her children knows their real mother is. So she decided to resign from the escort and disappeared from that business. The second shame is from Melanie that involved in scandal with her lecture, David. She was shame for being reported even as victims. She often not attended the class even it was a midterm test. But she still survives to continue his study to university. This is maybe because David was kicked out from the university and not to be someone near her. The third shame is from Lucy, she raped by three African intruders. She is a lesbian that live alone in the small town. She thought that the rape that she got is the payment for living in South Africa. She felt that the rapist wants her to back home to Europe because the westerner’s does not belong to South Africa. Then she decided to stay and stay silent about the rape, and keeping her shame as a private matter. The last disgrace is from David, as rapist, David Lurie got public pressure from university committee and the students. At first he does not confess that he is guilty. He loses his job as a professor and turn to be an animal’s clinic assistance for killing unwanted dog. After her daughter raped by three African intruders he then contemplates and changes his attitude. He ask for apologize to Melanie’s family for his feeling guilty that he never confess before. The ending of the novel shows us that Lucy as the rape survivor could start her life again from the start. She continued to seeding a new plan even she is on pregnancy. He father, David, started to understand that he live in South Africa. Then, he stop complaining about the condition. Disgrace ends with Lurie staying on in Graham’s town, continuing to help out at the animal clinic. 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POWER AND LOVE IN KHALED HOSSEINI’S AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED DIAH HAYUSULISTYO W
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 2 No 1 (2014): Vol.2 No.1 2014
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POWER AND LOVE IN KHALED HOSSEINI’S AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED Diah Hayusulistyo Wardani English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University diahwardani2@gmail.com Prof. Dr. FD Kurnia, M.pd. English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University Abstrak Naskah ini berkenaan dengan cinta dan kekuatan yang digambarkan secara berbeda pada tiap jenis cinta yang terjadi antara karakter-karakter pada And The Mountains Echoed, Baba Ayub, Qais, Abdullah, Pari Wahdati, Markos Varvaris, Nabi, Pari Abdullah, dan Nila Wahdati. Cinta dan kekuatan telah menjadi topic utama novel ini sejak di terbitkan pada tahum 2013. Karenanya pembelajaran ini focus pada dua masalah utama, (1) Apa jenis-jenis cinta yang digambarkan pada Khaled Hosseini novel And The Mountains Echoed, dan (2) Bagaimana cinta dan kekuatan digambarkan pada Khaled Hosseini novel And The Mountains Echoed. Data- data pada skripsi ini diambil dari novel yang menjadi sumber data utama dan membaca intensif untuk langkah analisa selanjutnya. Terdapat tiga konsep utama yang akan digunakan, pertama adalah teori umum tentang cinta oleh Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, dan Richard Lanon, kedua yakni jenis-jenis cinta oleh C.S Lewis, dan yang ketigaadalah konsep cinta dan kekuatan oleh Adam Khane. Untuk menjawab masalah yang pertama, pembelajaran ini menggunakan konsep jenis-jenis cinta yang digambarkan oleh karakter-karakter pada novel. Kemudian masalah kedua dijawab dengan konsep dari cinta dan kekuatan oleh Khane dan mencaritau perbedaan penggambaran cinta dan kekuatan pada tiap jenis-jenis cinta. Selain itu, skripsi ini menggunakan kajian pustaka, analisis dan deskripsi. Kajian pustakadigunakan untuk mengumpulkan data yang diperlukan. Analisa digunakan untuk menganalisa data yang telah didapat berdasarkan teori teori. Deskripsi digunakan untuk mendeskripsikan hasil analisa. Setelah melalui analisa panjang dengan menggunakan tiga macam metode diatas, hal ini dapat mengungkapkan penggambaran dari jenis-jenis cinta bahwa Kasih Sayang digambarkan anatara Baba Ayub dan Qais, Abdullah and Pari Wahdati, dan atara Shuja(seekor anjing) dan Pari; Pertemanan digambarkan antara Markos dan Nabi, dan atara Pari Wahdati dan Pari Abdulah; Percintaan digambarkan antara Nabi dan Nila Wahdati; Derma digambarkan oleh Markos Varvaris. Cinta dan kekuatan digambarkan pada tiap jenis-jenis cinta dengan caranya masing-masing.menyatukan atau dengan sengaja menjauhkan dua orang, menuturkan sejarah kehidupan, saling melengkapi dan berjalan beriringan sty sama lain. Katakunci: Cinta, jenis-jenis cinta, cinta dan kekutan Abstract This paper deals with power and love that depicted in different way by each kinds of love that happened between characters of And The Mountains Echoed, Baba Ayub, Qais, Abdullah, Pari Wahdati, MarkosVarvaris, Nabi, Pari Abdullah, and NilaWahdati. Love and power has become the main topic of this novel since it was published in 2013. Thus this study focuses on two major problems, (1) What kinds of love are depicted in KhaledHosseini’s AndThe Mountains Echoed, and (2) How are power and love depicted in KhaledHosseini’sAnd The Mountains Echoed. The data of the thesis is taken from the novel as the main source and intensive reading to next step of analysis. There are three main concepts that will be used, first is the general theory of love by Thomas Lewis, FariAmini, and Richard Lannon, second is kinds of love by C.S Lewis, and the third is the concept of power and love by Adam Khane. To answer the first problems, this study are using the concept of kinds of love that depicted by the characters in the novel. Then the second problems are answered by the concept of power and love by Khane and find out the different depiction of power and love in each kinds of love. Moreover, this thesis used library research, analysis and description. Library research is used to college data needed. An analysis is used to analyze the collected data based on the theories. Description is used to describe the result of analysis. After getting through long analysis by using three kinds of method above, it can reveal the depiction of kinds of love that Affection depicted between Baba Ayub and Qais, Abdullah and Pari, and between Pari and Shuja (a dog); Friendship depicted between Markos and Nabi, and between PariWahdati and Pari Abdullah; Eros depicted between Nabi and NilaWahdati; and Charity, depicted by MarkosVarvaris. Power and love depict by each kinds of love in their own way, unites or intentionally spares the two people, resembles the history of life, complete and walks together side by side. Keywords: Love ;Kinds of Love; Power and love. INTRODUCTION Love is an interesting topic to be discussed. In fact, when we do search in Google about love, we can find that there are 5,930,000,000 posting discuss love. Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon in their book titled A General Theory of Love explain that love can deliver us to understand our self, and it can also shape our personality. From the beginning till the end of human life, love is not merely centered to the activity we have but also to the life power of the mind, decide our feelings, balancing the bodily rhythms, and reconstruct our brain arrangement. Our identities is fixed and determined by relationship that guaranteed by the body’s physiology (2000, p. viii). We can find love in much kind of literary works. Love has always been a favorite topic for poets, novelist and songwriters. It has always relationship with literature. And it is difficult to imagine literature without love. Love becomes so universal theme because of the remarkable variety of its world. Nothing else unite human being so emphatically declares at the same time the plurality of living (Bayley; 3, 1960) One of the novelists that keen on writing love as a topic is Khaled Hosseini, an Afghan-born American physician. He is one of the most widely read and beloved novelist in the world. He has told his reader many things about love with Afghan as a background. The Kite Runner published in 2003 by Riverhed Books, Penguin Group division. Although the themes of the novel are about familial relationship, particularly father and son, the price of disloyalty, the inhumanity of rigid class system, and the horrific realities of war, the main theme of Khaled’d writing was LOVE, described trough that universals aspect. In 2007, The Kite Runner was followed by his second novel A Thousand Splendid Suns, which has spent 21 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback fiction and 49 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller, list for hardcover fiction (number one for 15 of those weeks). This novel told the reader about two women find comfort and positive side following their self revelation under the endorsement of particular tradition that used to be perceived as the symbol of female subordination of love. The recent Khaled’s novel is And The Mountain Echoed published in 2013 by River Head Books, a member of Penguin Group in New York. Khaled provide the great example of power and love which makes the readers find refreshment. The main story was bout the great affection between motherless siblings. Other kinds of love also provide by Khaled trough the supporting characters and they are also interesting to be discussed. He explores many ways in which family members love, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for another; and how often the readers surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the time that matter most (And The Mountains Echoed cover). REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE General Theory of Love In A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Richard Lannon, and Fari Amini in their book preface explain that love can deliver us to understand our self, and it can also shape our personality. From the beginning till the end of human life, love is not merely centered to the activity we have but also to the life power of the mind, decide our feelings, balancing the bodily rhythms, and reconstruct our brain arrangement. Our identities is fixed and determined by relationship that guaranteed by the body’s physiology (2000, p. viii). Given the open-loop physiology of mammals and their dependence on limbic regulation, attachment interruptions are dangerous. They ought to be highly aversive. And so they are: like a shattered knee or a scratched cornea, relationship ruptures deliver agony. Most people say that no pain is greater than losing someone they love (2000, p. 93). A child enveloped in a particular style of relatedness learns its special intricacies and particular rhythms, as he distills a string of instances into the simpler tenets they exemplify. As he does so, he arrives at an intuitive knowledge of love that forever evades consciousness. He owes the ignorance of his own heart not to repression but to the brains dual memory design. The frustrating illegibility of love's book is, as software makers say of problems with their programs, a feature and not a bug (2000, p. 116). If a child has the right parents, he learns the right principles—that love means protection, caretaking, loyalty, sacrifice. He comes to know it not because he is told, but because his brain automatically narrows crowded confusion into a few regular prototypes (2000, p. 116). Kinds of Love The author of best seller fantasy novel titled Narnia, C.S Lewis, in his book The Four Loves (1960), argued that love is divided into four types. They are affection,friendship, eros and charity. 1. Affection Storge or affection is a love happened between parents with their offspring and also the offspring for parents. In order to explain this term, Lewis provide an example begun from a mother nursing a baby, a bitch or a cat with a basketful of puppies or kittens; all in squeaking, nuzzling heap together; punings, lickings, baby-talk, milk, warmth, the smell of young life(1960, pp. 53-54) Affection, for Lewis, is enlarging far away beyond the relation between mother and her offspring, it happened in animal life, moreover to our own. The feeling get it satisfaction when get together, more than have everything, warm and so comfortable. This is the kind of love that least discriminating, even the unlucky woman or man that have nothing to offer, but the object of this affection is whoever they are; the ugly, the stupid, even the exasperating. It does not need to find out the source of bounding. The brotherhood relation help someone feel better. It happens also between two people that have different thought for instance a clever young man from the university and an old nurse. Lewis has found that affection happened not only between men and dog but amazingly between dog and cat, Gilbert White claimed has found between horse and hen. It is able to proof that even the barrier of species does not able to influence the affection (1960, pp. 54-55). Lewis claimed that affection has its own standard. Its objects must be familiar. The very day and hour when we fell in love or began a new friendship sometimes became the things to point out. But Lewis doubt that we can guess when is the beginning of the affection. When we recognize to guess when affection started is the time when affection has already been going for some time (1960, p. 55). It is the humblest love, it gives but not expect the replies (1960, p. 56). 2. Friendship Philia or friendship is a love among friends-it is a friendship. Borrowing from Aristotle, Lewis explained that friendship is something that quite marginal not a main course in life's banquet; a diversion; something that fills up the chinks at one's time (1960, p. 88). Lewis argued that people can life and breed without friendship, but not without eros and affection, eros present offspring of our own genes, affection completing our life with comfortableness. Biologically, we do not need friendship (1960, p. 88). Lewis also stated that Companionship is the matrix of Friendship. It is often called as Friendship because many people, when they speak of their “friends” mean only their companions. Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions find that they have in common insight or interest, for instance a common religion, studies, profession and many more. People share their vision then Friendship is born. They stand together in an excellent solitude (1960, p. 96) Lewis argued, friendship is extremely useful, perhaps necessary for survival, to the individual. A Friend will, to be sure, prove himself to be also an ally when alliance becomes necessary; will lend or give when we are in need, nurse us in sickness, stand up for us among our enemies, do what he can for our widows and orphans. But such good offices are not the stuff of Friendship (1960, pp. 101-102). 3. Eros Eros (ἔρως) for Lewis is love in the sense of 'being in love' or 'loving' someone, as the love that belong to lovers. With the consideration that human have similar sexual function with animal, Lewis described Affection as the love in which our experience seems to come closest to that of the animals, but the discussion of eros is not just simple human sexuality. The complex states for being in love happen when we make sexuality as the part of our subject. That sexual experience can occur without Eros, without being "in love," and that Eros includes other things besides sexual activity, Lewis take for granted. If you prefer to put it that way, Lewis was inquiring not into the sexuality which is common to us and the beasts or even common to all men but into one uniquely human variation of it which develops within "love" what I call Eros. The carnal or animally sexual element within Eros, Lewis intend following an old usage (1960, p. 131) Eros turns the need-pleasure of Venus, a perfectly obvious sense of sexual by those who experience it, could be proved to be sexual by the simplest observations (Lewis, 1960, p. 132), into the most appreciative of all pleasures; but nevertheless Lewis warned against the modern tendency for Eros to become a god to people who fully submit themselves to it, a justification for selfishness, even a phallic religion (1960, p. 133). 4. Charity Lewis recognizes Charity or agape (ἀγάπη) as the greatest of loves, and he sees it as a specifically Christian virtue. He said that this love is really and truly like love Himself. By that, there is a real nearness to God (by Resemblance); but not, therefore and necessarily, a nearness of Approach. (1960, p. 153) According to Lewis, charity is the natural loves that are not self-sufficient. Charity revealed as goodness, and finally as the whole Christian life in one particular relation, must come to the help of the mere feeling if the feeling is to be kept sweet. It is the love of God. To explain this, he likened to the example of garden that needs tending. They cannot be their beautiful selves without allegiance to God (1960, p. 163). Power and Love Khane in his book titled Power and Love: A Theory and Practice of Social Change, state that power is the way we change one condition, or in the similar term with make a new social realities. The generative aspects of power itself are the entire will pointed to ‘get ones job done’. Power expresses our purposefulness, wholeness, and agency. Although power is the drive to realize one’s self, the effect of power goes beyond one’s self (2010, p. 13). Love according to Khane is what makes power generative instead of degenerative (2010, p. 7). Love is not something that suddenly strikes us—it is an act of the will. By “an act of will,” Love is an intentional disposition toward another person (Khane, 2010, p. 31). Khane also quote some expert statement about love: Humberto Maturana, a Chilean cognitive biologist who also worked with Peter Senge at the Society for Organizational Learning, offers a similar definition: “Love is the domain of those relational behaviors through which another (a person, being, or thing) arises as a legitimate other in coexistence with oneself”. And Khane also borrows the idea of Jungian Robert Johnson, who wrote “Love is the one power that awakens the ego to the existence of something outside itself.” All of these definitions, from the worlds of management, biology, and psychology, are congruent with Paul Tillich’s from theology. Love is the other-acknowledging, other-respecting, other helping drive that reunites the separated (2010, p. 32). Khane also pictures how love and power condition while both of them unbalance by saying “We fall down painfully when, like a scarecrow or a marionette, our two legs become disconnected from each other. We fall down when our power and our love become polarized: when our power is without love and our love is without power. We fall down when, intentionally or unintentionally, we make the elementary and common error of treating the relationship between power and love, which is a dilemma, as if it was a choice (2010, p. 57). Khane has done observation about it with himself; there are three states from progression: when we are falling, we are unable to co-create new social realities; when we are stumbling, we are unstably able; and when we are walking, we are confidently able. This does not mean that we can always progress linearly from one state to the next; often, lacking awareness or capacity, we regress. In fact Khane has sometimes progressed and sometimes regressed, which is why Khane related the stories in his book in a non-chronological order (2010, p. 56). According to Khane working through in our individual actions (bold undertaking) the same progression from falling to stumbling to walking that I have described at the level of collective actions. First, we must pay attention to and keep in connection our power and our love. Second, we must balance ourselves by building up and bringing in our weaker drive. And third, we must practice moving forward through shifting fluidly between these two drives, so that they become one (2010, p. 128). ANALYSIS The Depiction of Kinds of Love The Depiction of Storge-Affection - Baba Ayub and Qais Storge love firstly depicted from the character of Baba Ayub in the tale that told by Saboor to their children. In Saboor’s story Baba Ayub is father who deeply loves his children, but he has one deeper to one of them, Qais. Though he loved all of his children, Baba Ayub privately had a unique fondnees for one among them, his youngest, Qais, who was three years old. (ch.1, p.2) From the quotation above we know that Qais is Baba Ayub’s son, the kind of love shared between Baba Ayub and Qais or vice versa is the Storge love or affection. Lewis argued that the feeling get its satisfaction when get together, more than everything, warm and so comfortable (1996, p. 55). Of course that affection also happened between Qais and his father Baba Ayub as Khalid told in his novel: When Baba Ayub came home after a long day’s work, Qais would run from the house face-first into his father’s belly, […]. Baba Ayub would lift him up and take him into the house, and Qais would watch with great attention as his father wash up, and he would sit beside Baba Ayub at suppertime. After they had eaten, Baba Ayub would sip his tea, watching his family, picturing a day when all of his children married and gave him children of their own, when he would be proud patriarch to an even greater brood. (ch.1, p. 3) The quotation above explain how happy was Qais feeling when he knew that this father is home from work, it proves that Qais affection to his father get it’s comfortableness when he was gathered with his father. And so did Baba Ayub, with his affection feeling Baba Ayub lift Qais up and take him into the house, when Baba Ayub take a look at all his children he was imagine that this togetherness of affection felling will be more great and prideful when he get grandchildren from them. - Abdullah and Pari Secondly storge or affection depicted by love of Abdullah to Pari, storge love here is not the usual storge love like has been discussed before that generally it happen between parents to their offspring or vice versa, in case, the storge love here belongs to the relation between siblings. Abdulah was Pari’s brother, because their mother has been passed away. Abdullah substituted the mother role in taking care Pari while she was a baby. Abdullah love to Pari here is a storge love, not a brotherhood love, but more, it is affection as parents to the child. He was the one raising her. It was true. Even though he was still a child himself. Ten years old. When Pari was an infant, it was he she had awakened at night with he squeaks and mutters, he who walked and bounce her in the dark. He had changed her spoiled diapers. He had been the one to give Pari her baths. […]. Thus the care had fallen to Abdullah, but he didn’t mind at all. He did it gladly. He loved the fact that he was the one to help with his firs step, to gasp at her first uttered word. This was his purpose, he believed, the reason God had made him, so he would be there to take care of Pari when He took away their mother. (ch. 2, p. 31) As C.S. Lewis explanation about Storge, he provides an example begun from a mother nursing baby, a bitch or cat with a basketful of puppies or kittens; all in squeaking, nuzzling heap together; punings, lickings, baby-talk, milk, warmth, the smell of young life (1960, p. 54). This condition happen also with Abdullah and pari even thogh Abdullah is not her mother, from the quotation above we know that Abdullah was the one who nursing her while he was a baby, he awakened at night with, he walked and bounce her in the dark. He changed her spoiled diapers. He had been the one to give Pari her baths. - Pari and Shuja (a dog) Shuja was a dog but, it never be impossible for Lewis storge/affection happened between them. He avoided everone in Shadbagh but Pari. It was for Pari that Shuja lost all composure. His love for her was vast and unclouded. She was his univers. In the mornings, when he saw Pari stepping out of the house, Shuja sprang up, and his entire body shivered. The stump of his mutilated tail waged wildly, and he tap dance like he was treading on hot coal. He prance happy circle around her. All day the dog shadowed Pari, sniffing at her heels, and at night, when they parted ways, he lay outside the door, forlorn, waiting for morning. (ch. 2, p. 25) Love between Shuja and Pari is affection, from the quotation above we know that Shuja used to stay near Pari, as what C. S. Lewis explained that affection get it satisfaction when get together, more than everything (1960, p. 54-55). This may help to answer of why Shuja was happy to cirle around Pari, shadowed Pari all the day, sniffing at Pari’s heels, and lay outside the door in the night to waiting for morning, to saw Pari stepping out of the house again, and sprang up, and tap dance like a treading on hot coal. The Depiction of Philia-Friendship - Markos and Nabi In Khaled’s, character of Markos and Nabi have shared philia/ friendship. Their companionship has been build up after they were spending much time together. They had been known each other for about seven years. In his latter Nabi wrote: Let me state now what a pleasure it has been to know you over the last seven years, Mr. Markos. As I write this, I think foundly of our yearly ritual of planting tomatoes in the garden, your morning visit to my small quarters for tea and pleasanty, our impromptu trading of Farsi and English lessons. I thank you for your friendship, your thoughtfulness, and for the work that you have undertaken in this country, and I trust that you will extend my gratitude to your kindhearted colleagues as well, especially to my friend Ms. Amra Ademovic, who has such capacity for compassion, and to her brave and lovely daughter, Roshi. (ch. 4, p. 73) Companionship is the matrix of Friendship (1960, p. 96). Companionship between Nabi and Markos happened in a long time, it was seven years. They have in common insight or interest: planting tomatoes in the garden, morning visit to Nabi’s small quarters for tea and pleasanty, and also their impromptu trading of Farsi and English lessons. To Lewis, Friendship exhibits a glorious "nearness by resemblance" to Heaven itself where the very multitude of the blessed (which no man can number) increases the fruition which each has of God. For every soul, seeing Him in her own way, doubtless communicates that unique vision to all the rest (1960, p. 93-94). As what had Nabi written in his latter that he trusted Mr. Markos will extend Nabi’s gratitude to his kindhearted colleagues as well, […] (c. 4, p. 73). Frinedsihip by C.S Lewis is depicted between Nabi and Markos, when Lewis argued that the least jealous of loves is the true friendship. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. For in this love "to divide is not to take away." this is depicted on the quotation above, beside friendship happened between Nabi and Markos, They have other friend, Ms. Amra Ademovic. Then, it is known that friendship depicted trough Nabi and Markos. - Pari Wahdati and Pari Abdullah Pari Wahdati was Abdullah’s sister and Pari Abdullah was Abdullah’s daughter. Even though, their generation is different, but they were depict a good friendship as well. But how could this two personality that just meet each other when one was a fifties old woman and one other was the twenties girl? , Moreover it seems contradictive with Lewis theory about friendship that arise out of mere companionship. This quotation from Khaled’s provides the answer: And so Baba’s little sister, Pari, was my secret companion, invisible to everyone but me. […]. I saw her in the bathroom mirror when we brush our teeth side by side in the morning, we dressed together,. She followed me to school and sat close to me in class—looking straight ahead at the board, I could always spot the black of her hair and the white of her profile out of the corner of my eye. I took her with me to the playground at recess, feeling her presence behind me when whooshed down a slide, […]. (ch. 9, p. 347) The quotation above answered that actually Pari Wahdati and Pari Abdullah was truly depicted Lewis’s Philia love or friendship. They were companion as Lewis’s has argued. Pari Wahdati in the shape of little girl was life in Pari Abdullah’s daily. They have done many things together, wherever, whenever. The Little image of Pari Wahdati never escapes from Pari Abdullah’s eyes. To emphashise more about this this two Pari’s Friendship, another quotation provide the support: Sometimes, when no one was around we ate grapes and talked and talked --about toys, which cereal was tastiest, cartoons we like, school kids we didn’t, which teacher’s we mean. We shared the same favorite color (yellow), favorite ice cream (dark cherry), TV show (Alf), and we both want to be artist when we grew up. (ch. 9, p. 347) Lewis argued that Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions find that they have in common insight or interest (1960, p. 96). This is what has been depicted by Pari Wahdati and Pari Abdullah, they have in common insight or interest as what the quotation told, they talked about toys, the tastiest cereal, cartoons they like, school kids they didn’t, which teacher’s they mean. According to Lewis, people share their vision then Friendship is born. They stand together in an excellent solitude (1960, p. 96). Pari Wahdati and Pari Abdullah shared the same favorite color (yellow), favorite ice cream (dark cherry), TV show (Alf), and both of them want to be artist when we grew up. That is why even though Pari Wahdati in the shape of a little girl was just only Pari Abdullah’s imagination, they were as a friend stand together in excellent solitude. The Depiction of Eros-Romance - Nabi and Nila Wahdati Nabi was the assistance of Nila Wahdati’s husband. From the first time he meet Nila when he drove Mr. Wahdati fisited Nila’s house before they were married, Nabi felt that Nila was “a particular woman” like what Lewis stated, it shown clearly while Nabi describe about Nila in his first sight. It was then that the front gates opened and a black-haired young woman emerge. She wore sunglases and a short-sleeved tangerine-colored dress that fell short of the knees. Her legs were bare, and so were her feet. I did not know wheather she had noticed me in the car, and, if she had, she offred o indication. She rested the heel of one foot against the wall behind her and, when she did, the hem of her dress pulled up slightly and thus revealed a bit of the thigh beneath. I felt a burning spread down from my cheeks to my neck. (ch. 4, p. 80) According to Lewis in Eros, a need, at its most intense, sees the object most intensively as thing admirable in her (1960, p. 136). From the quotation above Nabi express his admiration to Nila by describing the beautiful of Nila in vivid way. Begin from that moment Nabi has made up his opinion that Nila is special for him. Moreover, in Lewis argument founded that the admiration of Nabi to Nila continued after she moved to Mr. Wahdati’s house: I had never in my life encountered a young woman like Nila. Everything she did—the way she spoke, the way she walked, dressed, smiled—was a novelty to me. Nila pushed against every single notion I had ever had of how a woman should behave, […]. (ch. 4, p. 87). Lewis argued that the complex states for being in love happened when we make sexuality as the part of subject (1960, p. 21). That what also present between Nabi and Nila, sometimes the admiration bring sexuality as the part of subject. The Depiction of Charity-Agape - Markos Varvaris and Christ The depiction of Lewis’s Charity in Khaled Hosseini’s AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED found trough one supporting character named Markos Varvaris that known as a Christian from the quotation below. This evening I come home from clinic and find a massage from Thalia on the landline phone in my bedroom. I play it as I slip of my shoes and sit at my desk. She tells me she has a cold, one she is sure she picked up from Mama, then she ask after me, ask how work is going in Kabul. At the end, just before she hangs up, she says, Odie goes on and on about how you don’t call. Of course she won’t tell you. So I will. Markos. For the love of Christ. Call your mother. You ass (ch. 8, p. 279). The quotation above is the part of novel that told using the point of view of Markos Varvaris, from the quotation especially from Thalia’s said ‘For the love of Christ. Call your mother’, we got that Markos was a Christian. As Lewis argued that, Charity is the love for the Christian virtue (1960, p. 153). Markos Varvaris was the character that depicts Lewis’s Charity. Markos Varvaris was the doctor of plastic surgeon. He ungrudgingly leaves his city and his beloved mother to go to Kabul to help people there. This is depicted Lewis explanation of charity trough the imagery of garden that he said when God planted a garden He set a man over it and set the man under Himself. When He planted the garden of our nature and caused the flowering, fruiting loves to grow there, He set our will to "dress" them (1960, p. 164). What Markos did is to “dress” his life, by his decision to help people. Lewis said that it is easy to love fellow-creatures less and to imagine this is happening because we are learning to love God (1960, p. 165). To help people like what Markos did is one of the reflections of loving the fellow-creatures, because he was learning to love his God. The Depiction of Power and Love The depiction of Power and Love - Baba Ayub and Qais Baba Ayub and Qais depicted storge love, a great affection of parent and offspring. From the story, Baba Ayub beloved son’s Qais has to be given to the div, off course this makes Baba Ayub felt down. Tomas Lewis et al argued that love decides our feeling (2000, p. viii). No pain is greater than losing someone they love (2000, p. 93). Baba Ayub feeling of great pain depicted from the quotation below: Where was I? Ah yes. There followed a forty-day mourning period. Every day, neighbors cooked meals for the family and keep vigil them. People brought over what offerings they could—tea, candy, bread, almonds—and they brought as well they condolences and sympathies. Baba Ayub could hardly bring himself to say so much thanks. He sat in the corner, weeping, streams of tears pouring from both eyes as though he meant to end the village’s streak of droughts with them. You wouldn’t wish his torment and suffering on the vilest of men (ch. 1, p. 6) From the quotation above, we got that love has decide Baba Ayub feeling from the tough man of family head into torment and suffering on the vilest of men, sorrowful, until tears pouring from both the eye of a “man”, and it is off course depict Lewis et al theory that no pain is greater than losing someone they love (2000, p. 93). That theory also emphasized with another argument that the daily anodynes: our lovers, spouses, children, parents, and friends delivering the magic of forgetfulness from the twinging ache of mammalian loneliness (2000, p. 96). Khane borrow the idea of Jungian Robert Johnson, who wrote “Love is the one power that awakens the ego to the existence of something outside itself” (2010, p. 32) when ego, according to Freud is the one that can produce—or feel anxiety (2009, p. 33). From that theory that power came as the same thing happened with Baba Ayub, after a long time he passed to receive the loss feeling of his beloved son, Baba Ayub woke up. The depiction of Power and Love – Abdullah and Pari Wahdati Abdullah and Pari Wahdati depicted a deep Affection love. At the moment when they were child they were being separated, their father sold little Pari to Wahdati family. Then, the ten years Abdullah feeling a deep lost. According to Lewis et al A child enveloped in a particular style of relatedness learns its special intricacies and particular rhythms, as he distills a string of instances into the simpler tenets they exemplify (2000, p. 116). Both of them feeling lost of each other. Many years has passed till they grow as an old person in the separated places, Pari at that time was too small to remember everything, but their Power and Love resembles trough generation till unite them again even in a very late of time. Khaled argued that Love has two sides, one generative and the other degenerative. Our love is generative when it empowers us and others: when it helps us, individually and collectively, to complete ourselves and grow. Our love is degenerative sentimental and anemic, or worse—when it overlooks or denies or suffocates power (2010, p. 50). This theory depicted by Pari, Pari’s love is a generative because it empowers her and Abdullah, help them individually and collectively, complete them self, as the quotation below explained. We are passing by Redwood City on our way south. I reach across her lap and point out the pessanger window. “Do you see that building? The tall one with the blue sign?” “Yes?” “I was born there.” “Ah, born?” she turns her neck to keep looking as I drive us past. “you are lucky.” “How so?” “To know where you came from.” “ I guess I never gave it much thought” “Bah, of course not. But it is important to know this, to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand.” I imagine this is how Baba feels these days. His life, riddled with gasp. Every day mystifying story, a puzzle to struggle through. (ch. 9, p. 356) From this quotation we got that Pari depicted Khane argument that her love is generative when it empowers us and others: when it helps us, individually and collectively, to complete ourselves and grow. Her Love and Power bring her into and understanding that it is important to know your roots. To know where you started as a person. If not, your own life seems unreal to you. Like a puzzle. Vous comprenez? Like you have missed the beginning of a story and now you are in the middle of it, trying to understand. The same thing has happened with Abdullah, which his daughter explained that what Abdullah feels these days was his life, riddled with gasp. Every day was mystifying story, a puzzle to struggle through. When both of them meet each other, suddenly Abdullah was on the condition of senility. As Lewis et al explained Given the open-loop physiology of mammals and their dependence on limbic regulation, attachment interruptions are dangerous. They ought to be highly aversive. And so they are: like a shattered knee or a scratched cornea, relationship ruptures deliver agony. Most people say that no pain is greater than losing someone they love (2000, p. 93). A deep lost that Abdullah felt when he has to separate with Pari while they were child has made an agony which hurt Abdullah psychology in her old. His memory was stuck that the one he lost is her little sister Pari that is a little girl. He could not accept the reality that she was growing into an old woman right now. But Pari was not give up she tries hard to wake his brother about this thing trough another way. The depiction of Power and Love – Pari and Shuja (a dog) It has been known from the analysis of C. S Lewis’s Kinds of Love depiction that storge/affection love happened between Pari and Shuja. Eventhough it is known that Pari was a human being and Shuja was a dog but, it has been proved by the C.S Lewis theory and also Gilbert White. As like other loves, animal’s love also has a power. The depiction of Khane theory of Powe and Love also find in it. His days in Shadbagh were numbered, like Shuja’s. He knew this now. There was nothing left for him here. He had no home here. He would wait until winter passed and the spring thaw set in, and he would rise one morning before dawn and he would step out the door. He would choose a direction and he would begin to walk. He would walk as far from Shadbagh as his feet would take him. And if one day, trekking across some vast open field, despair should take hold of him, he would stop in his tracks and shut his eyes and he would think of the falcon feather Pari had found in the desert. He would picture the feather coming loose from the bird, up in the clouds, half a mile above the world, twirling and spinning in violet currents, hurled by gusts of blustering wind across miles and miles of desert and mountains, to finally land, of all places and against all odds, at the foot of that one boulder for his sister to find. It would strike him with wonder, then, and hope too that such things happened. And though he would better, he would take heart, and he would open his eyes, and walk. (ch. 2, p. 49) Khane argued that Love and Power condition while both of them unbalance we will fall down painfully when, like a scarecrow or a marionette, our two legs become disconnected from each other. We fall down when our power and our love become polarized: when our power is without love and our love is without power. We fall down when, intentionally or unintentionally, we make the elementary and common error of treating the relationship between power and love, which is a dilemma, as if it was a choice (2010, p. 57). This is depicted by Shuja, he has fell down, unintentionally, he made the elementary and common error of treating the relationship between power and love after he lost Pari, that is why he was walking far away tried to find her again somewhere. He was on the dilemma and he has chosen to over it by keep walking to find Pari. The depiction of Power and Love – Nabi and Markos Nabi and Markos have shared philia/ friendship, their companionship has been build up after they were spending much time together for abot seven years. When Khane argued that Power is the way we change one condition, or in the similar term with make a new social realities (2010, p. 13), Nabi and Markos love of friendship has depicted it. They made a new social reality, if two different thing is not easy to bound, they proof this is not always happened. Markos was a Christian and Nabi was a Muslim, Markos was a plastic surgeon doctor which is educated person, but Nabi was an uneducated servant, but Power of friendship they shared has change one condition that difference can even unite them. Khane argued that Love is something that makes power generative instead of degenerative (2010, p. 7). Love is not something that suddenly strikes us—it is an act of the will. By “an act of will,” Love is an intentional disposition toward another person (Khane, 2010, p. 31). Love between Markos and Nabi is a friendship love. Their friendship love is generative too. It is not strike any of them to have friendship outside theirs. The proof is shown in the quotation below: Let me state now what a pleasure it has been to know you over the last seven years, Mr. Markos. As I write this, I think foundly of our yearly ritual of planting tomatoes in the garden, your morning visit to my small quarters for tea and pleasanty, our impromptu trading of Farsi and English lessons. I thank you for your friendship, your thoughtfulness, and for the work that you have undertaken in this country, and I trust that you will extend my gratitude to your kindhearted colleagues as well, especially to my friend Ms. Amra Ademovic, who has such capacity for compassion, and to her brave and lovely daughter, Roshi. (ch. 4, p. 73) Love as Khane said that is not strike any of them (Khane, 2010, p. 31) was shown obviously here from that quotation we see that beside their friendship, Markos and Amra Ademovic was friend too. It was not closed the possibility that any of them will have other friends outside the boundaries, which is allowed, never strike, because it was love of friendship. Khane said that love is generative (Khane, 2010, p. 31). Love of friendship between Markos and Nabi was also generative because their love is growing well till the end of Nabi’s life, even after Nabi’s death, Markos love trough Nabi still alife by the fact that he keep any message that Nabi left, and make his wish came true. The depiction of Power and Love – Pari Wahdati and Pari Abdullah Power and Love of Khane between Pari Wahdati and Pari Abdullah was always depicted Khane theory of Walking states. They were always walking rhythmically, engage Power and Love, each balancing out and bringing in and building up the other. When they walk, they move forward, learning as they go (2010, p. 103). “I am really sorry,” I say “Why are you sorry?” “That you found each other too late.” “But we have found each other, no?” she says, her voice cracking with emotion. ”And this is who he is now. It’s all right. I feel happy. I have found a part of myself that was lost.” She squeezes my hand. “And I found you, Pari” Her words tug at my childhood longings. I remember how when I felt lonely, I would whisper her name—our name—and hold my breath, waiting for an echo, certain that it would come someday. Hearing her speak my name now, in this living room, it is as though all the years that divided us are rapidly folding over one another again and again, time accordioning itself down to nothing but the width of photograph, a postcard, ferrying the most shining relict of my childhood to sit beside me, to hold my hand and say my name. Our name. I feel a tilting, something clicking into place. Something ripped a long ago being sealed again. And I feel a soft lurch in my chest, the muffled thump of another heart kick-starting anew next to my own. (ch. 9, pp. 391-392) The engagement of their Love and Power were obviously showed when Pari said that “I feel a tilting, something clicking into place. Something ripped a long ago being sealed again. And I feel a soft lurch in my chest, the muffled thump of another heart kick-starting anew next to my own”. So that it find that they Love and Power of a friendship is balance and building up together, because each of them fell the same thing. According to Khane the relation of power and love will give its understanding while we understand the nature of love itself. Khane argued that Love has two sides, one generative and the other degenerative. Our love is generative when it empowers us and others: when it helps us, individually and collectively, to complete ourselves and grow. Our love is degenerative sentimental and anemic, or worse—when it overlooks or denies or suffocates power (2010, p. 50). Power and love relation between Pari Wahdati and Pari Abdullah is on the side of generative, their power and love is empowers each other. Pari Abdullah felt down when she has to face his Father was in the very bad condition till she has to decide sent him to the nursing house. She felt very sad of this but, she was helped by the presence of Pari Wahdati which was always stayed beside her, support her, and makes her dreams comes true. The depiction of Power and Love – Nabi and Nila Wahdati Nabi and Nila Wahdati shared Eros love, but they depicted Khane Power and Love Stumbling states. According to Khane stumble when our power dominates our love, or our love dominates our power. Stumbling is not controlled and smooth; it is uncontrolled and unstable. When we stumble, we move forward, but haltingly and erratically and always at risk of falling down (2010, p. 75). What happened between Nabi and Nila was their loves dominate their power. This was happening because Nabi was the assistance of Nila Wahdati’s husband. From the first time he meet Nila when he drove Mr. Wahdati fisited Nila’s house before they were married, Nabi felt that Nila was “a particular woman” like what Lewis stated, it shown clearly while Nabi describe about Nila in his first sight. But still, they could not unite because Nabi was a loyal servant, he respected his lord a lot which is Nila’s husband. And Nila decide to keep his marriage by avoid Nabi’s love and keep treating Nabi as a servant. As depicted trough the quotation below. To this I could think of nothing to say. I longed to climb into the back seat beside her and pull her into my arms, to soothe her with kisses. Before I knew what I was doing, I had reached behind me and taken her hand into mine. I thought she would withdraw but her fingers squeezed my hand gratefully, and we sat there in the car, not looking for at each other but ant the plains around us,[…]. Nila’s hand in mine, I looked at the hills and the power poles.[…], and I would happily sat there until the dark. “Take me home,” she said at last, relasing my hand. “I am going to turned in early toninght.” “Yes, Bibi Sahib.” I cleared my throath and dropped the shift into first gear with a slightly unsteady hand. (ch. 4, p. 95) Their Eros love was expressed trough kisses and holding hand. But after that all, they are conscious that what they have done was exactly wrong. So they decide to forget everything and back to their real life as a lord and servant. Nila statement of “Take me home,” she said while releasing Nabi’s hand. “I am going to turned in early to night” was obviously indicate that she emphasized herself as Nabi’s lord that her order must be obeyed. And so did Nabi to adrees Nila “Yes, Bibi Sahib” was to show he recognize that he was her servant and respect Nila as his boss. The depiction of Power and Love – Markos Varvaris and Crist As a Christian, Markos Varvaris depicted Charity love, a love of God. His love was reflected from his action that shown his care and love of the fellow-creatures, especially, his sympathy to Manaar. Like what C. S. Lewis mentioned that Lewis found the fact that humans cannot even remain themselves and do what they promise to do without God's help from this it can be said that the loves prove that they are unworthy to take the place of God (1960, p. 170). It is the same thing happened with Markos trough Manaar he got an inspiration of how he could love his God deeper. And Khane Power and Love of Walking states is depicted here. That in the Walking states we engage our power and our love, each balancing out and bringing in and building up the other. When we walk, we move forward, learning as we go (103, 2010). Markos experienced the same thing. I am not saying that Manaar changed everthing. He did’t. I stumble around the world for still another year before I finally find medical school application. In between Manaar and the application are the two weeks I spent in Damascus, of which I have virtually no memory other than the grinning faces of two women with heavily lined eyes and a gold tooth each. Or the three months in Cairo in the basement of ramshackle tenement run by a hashish-addicted landlord. I spent Thalia’s money riding buses in Iceland, tagging along with a punk band in Munich. In 1977, I break an elbow at an antinuclear protest in Bilbao. (ch. 8, p. 317) Lewis statement of the fact that humans cannot even remain themselves and do what they promise to do without God's help, was absolutely true. In the quotation, it is happened in Markos “I am not saying that Manaar changed everthing. He did’t.” the quotation obviously showed how Markos understand that the one who changed him is not Manaar anyway, but God. He emphasized, “He did’t”, to indicate recognize that God did it. The Power and Love of Khane in Walking sates depicted in Markos when he realized to continue sharing and caring his love trough the fellow creature. His decision to take medical school becomes the perfect way. Khane said that when we walk, we move forward, learning as we go. Markos move forward to take a step ahead in his passion to love, care, and help the fellow creature as the way he is learning to love God, Christ. According to Khane, working through in our individual actions (bold undertaking) the same progression from falling to stumbling to walking that he have described at the level of collective actions. First, we must pay attention to and keep in connection our power and our love. Second, we must balance ourselves by building up and bringing in our weaker drive. And third, we must practice moving forward through shifting fluidly between these two drives, so that they become one (2010, p. 128). Markos effort to love his God is not complete enough, he has Love and Power, he has paid attention to and keep in connection our power and our love by being a doctor of plastic surgeon ang help people with their problems. He has balanced his selves by building up and bringing in his weaker drive. He moved to Kabul- Afghan to help the victim of war. And he practiced the two drives, but they have not find it become one. Because his mother is not acquiesced his son was far away from her, but after her mother said that she was sincere, everything changed. CONCLUSION Based on the previous chapter, we can infer that there are two points of this thesis can be seen: First is there are four kinds of love (Affection, Friendship, Eros and Charity) depicted in Khaled Hosseini’s And The Mountains Echoed. Affection is the love that full of comfortableness, depicted between the characters of Baba Ayub and Qais, Abdullah and Pari, and between Pari and Shuja (a dog). Friendship is the love that shaped by companionship and similarities depicted between the characters of Nabi and Markos Varvaris, and between Pari Wahdati and Pari Abdullah. Eros is romance, love between lovers that sometimes involve Venus in more appreciative way depicted between Nabi and Nila Wahdati. And Charity is the natural and greatest love, love of God, in the view of Christian virtue depicted by Markos Varvaris. The second is that power and love depicted in each kinds of love in their own way, unites or intentionally spares the two people, resembles the history of life, complete and walks together side by side. Between Baba Ayub and Qais, power and love has bring Baba Ayub sincerely let Qais live in the div place for Qais happiness and life. Power and love depicted between Pari and Abdullah that make them unite again from fortyish separated in a long distance. Power and love between Shuja and Pari depicted in unbalance condition, this made Shuja made the elementary and common error of treating the relationship between power and love after he lost Pari. Markos and Nabi are depiction in power and love in the states of Walking, balance out and bringing in and building up the other, so they are able to complete each other necessity, until Markos resembled Nabi’s life history. Pari Wahdati and Pari Abdullah is also depiction power and love in Walking states, power and love of a friendship is balance and building up together, because each of them fell the same comfortableness as they are together. Power and love between the lovers Nabi and Nila Wahdati depicted in the states of stumbling, in which their loves dominate their power, they were in the risk of falling down, so they prefer to avoid falling by back to the reality as they were a servant and boss. The last is the depiction of power and love by Markos Varvaris and God. Markos depicted the Walking sates when he realized to continue sharing and caring his love trough the fellow creature and he take an action to create it by applying medical school. Markos move forward to take a step ahead in his passion to love, care, and help the fellow creature as the way he is learning to love God, Christ. All those above, are prove that love and power are able to make step forward in human life, but they can also bring someone falling deeper, it depends on our effort to choose one of them. REFERENCES Bayley, John. 1960. The Character of Love. London: Constable, Inc. Falvlun. 2012. Agape Love vs Philia Love. 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Aggression Depicted in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games NANING CHOIRUN NISA
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 2 No 1 (2014): Vol.2 No.1 2014
Publisher : The English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Surabaya

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Aggression Depicted in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games NaningChoirunNisa English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Surabaya Naningc5@gmail.com Prof. Dr. FD Kurnia, M.Pd. English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, State University of Surabaya Abstrak Studiinimembahastentangagresi yang dilakukanolehparapesertaThe Hunger Games, merekaadalahKatniss, Peeta, Cato, Clove, Glimmer, dan Thresh. Agresitelahmenjaditopikutamadidalam novel yang diterbitkantahun 2008 ini.Olehkarenaitu, studiinimembahasduapermasalahan, yakni (1) bagaimanaagresidigambarkan di The Hunger Gameskarya Suzanne Collins, dan (2) mengapaagresiterjadisebagaimanasepertiyang digambarkan di The Hunger Games karyaSuzanne Collins. Data daristudiinidiambildari novel sebagaisumberutamadanjugamembacasecaraintensifsebagailangkahselanjutnyauntukanalisis.Studiinimenggunakankonsepagresidaribeberapaahlidankonsepdeath instinctdari Sigmund Freud.Untukmenyelesaikanrumusanmasalahpertama, studiinimenggunakankonsepagresiuntukmendiskripsikanbagaimanaagresidilakukanolehparapeserta di dalamThe Hunger Games.Kemudianrumusanmasalahkeduadiselesaikanmenggunakanpendekatanpsikologiyakniteorideath instinctdanjugakonsepagresidari Anderson & Bushman untukmengungkapkanfaktorsituasidibaliktindakanagresiparapeserta.Terlebihlagi, penulismenggunakanpendekatanperpustakaan, analisis, danpenggambaran.Pendekatanperpustakaandigunakanuntukmencari datayang kemudiandianalisisberdasarkanteori yang ada.Penggambarandigunakanuntukmenjelaskanhasildarianalisis.Setelahmelaluianalisis yang panjangdenganmenggunakantigametodetersebut, makadapatdigambarkandenganjelasagresi yang dilakukanolehparapeserta, yakniKatniss, Clove, Cato, Peeta, Glimmer, dan Thresh.Hampirsemuatindakanagresimerekadipengaruhiolehdeath instinct, tindakanyang mengarahkepembinasahan, dantindakanagresikarenafaktorsituasi, sepertiisyaratagresi, provokasi, frustrasi, perasaansakitdantidaknyaman, obat-obatan, sertadorongan. Kata kunci :Agresi; kekerasan; death instinct; danfaktorsituasi. Abstract This paper deals with aggression done by the tributes of the hunger games, they are Katniss, Peeta, Cato, Clove, Glimmer, and Thresh. Aggression has become the main topic of this novel since it was published in 2008. Thus this study focuses on two major problems, (1) how is aggression depicted in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games, and (2) why is aggression happened as depicted in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games. The data of the thesis is taken from the novel as the main source and intensive reading to next step of analysis. The concept that will be used includes the concept of aggression by several experts and death instinct by Sigmund Freud. To answer the first problem, this study is using the concept of aggression to depict the aggression that is done by the tributes in the hunger games. Then the second problem is answered by using psychological approach of death instinct theory and the concept of aggression by Anderson & Bushman to reveal the situational factors behind their aggressions. Moreover, the writer used library research, analysis and description. Library research is used to college data needed. An analysis is used to analyze the collected data based on the theories. Description is used to describe the result of analysis. After getting through long analysis by using three kinds of method above, it can reveal the depiction of aggression that is done by the tributes, Katniss, Clove, Cato, Peeta, Glimmer, and Thresh and most of their factors to do aggression is following their death instinct to destruction and aggression because of the situational factors, such as aggressive cues, provocation, frustration, pain and discomfort, drugs, and incentives. Keywords: aggression; violence; death instinct; and situational factors. INTRODUCTION: One of the main concern that has been increased nowadays is the issue of violence. Violence must be close related with aggression. As the World Health Organisation (1996) defines violence as an action that used the intentional of physical power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or comunity that has results of harm. Anderson et al. (2002:29) state that violence is aggression whose goal is serious and extreme harm, i.e. death. All violence can be defined as aggression. However aggression is not always violent,i.e., a dentist intentionally gives a patient a shot of Novocain (it might be hurt), but the goal is to help rather than hurt the patient. In social psychology, the term of aggression is generally defined as any behavior that is intended to harm others who does not want to be harmed. Aggression is an external behavior that can be seen. i.e., a person shoots, hits, slaps, or threats someone. Aggression is a social behavior. It involves at least two people. In addition, aggression is intended to hurt, it is not happened accidental. Hence, an extreme and serious aggression may lead to violence. Aggression on violence has been a serious problem over the past decades. It can take several forms; physical aggression, verbal aggression, and relational aggression. Moeller (2001:25) defines physical aggression as actual physical activities that is intentionally intended to harm another person, animal, or object. i.e., hitting, pinching, hair-pulling, arm-twisting, strangling, burning, stabbing, punching, pushing, slapping, beating, shoving, kicking, choking, biting, force-feeding, threats with a weapon or object, any other rough treatment, or even murder.Verbal aggression involves the use of words to harm another persons,i.e.,teasing andthreatening (Moeller, 2001:25). Crick et al. cited in Moeller (2001:25) define relational aggression as “behaviors that harm others through damage (or the threat of damage) to relationships or feelings of acceptance, friendship, or group inclusion”. Whereas relational aggression, Crick &Grotpeter (1995) state that it is a behavior that is intended to hurt someone by harming their relationships with others. Furthermore, aggression on violence has portrayed in literature, i.e., in the novel. Novel deals imaginatively with human experience. Novel is a genre of fiction, and fiction may be defined as the art through the written word, representations of human life that instruct or divert or both(http://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/421071/novel). One of the American author deals with the theme of aggression and violence in its works is Suzanne Collins. She is the author of several novels for younger readers. Collins, a 48-year-old mother of two children, began her writing career in television. Collins spent the 1990s writing kids’ shows for Nickelodeon, including Clarissa Explains It All (1993) and The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo (1997-98). She has also written for pre-school viewers on programs like Little Bear (1995-2003) and Oswald (2001-2008). Few other famous works of Collins includes her book Fire Proof: Shelby Woo (1999). When Charlie McButton Lost Power (2005) and When Charlie McButton Gained Power (2009). Then Collins switched to writing novels for young readers, and between 2003 until 2007 published five novels in The Underland Chronicles series: Gregor the Overlander (2003); Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane (2004); Gregor and the Curse of the Warmbloods (2005); Gregor and the Marks of Secret (2006); and Gregor and the Code of Claw (2007). In the same way, between 2008 until 2010 she published the other Series under the name The Hunger Games trilogy. These three books were The Hunger Games (2008); Catching Fire (2009); and Mockingjay (2010). Overall the series of The Hunger Games has been a great success, they are sold in more than 50 million print and electronic copies. The Hunger Games book has made a film version released in 2012 and for the second book Catching Fire in 2013. In addition, TheHunger Games novels have made Collins extremely popular amongst readers, and led her to be named one of Time Magazine’s Top 100 people in 2010, The New York Times Bestseller, 2009-10; Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year, 2008; American Library Association (ALA) Best Book for Young Adults, 2009; and others. The Hunger Games has spent more than 260 consecutive weeks or more than five consecutive years to date on The New York Times bestseller list since publication in September 2008, and has also appeared consistently on USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. It has been sold into 56 territories in 51 languages. However, some critics still appreciate the novel. “I was so obsessed with this book … The Hunger Games is amazing.” --- Stephanie Meyer. (http://www.thehungergames.co.uk/press_and_reviews) Hence this paper will discuss aggression in the hunger games based on Suzanne Collins’ first trilogy The Hunger Games where she reveals an outsize imagination for suffering and brutality in the post-apocalyptic nation of Panem, formerly known as North America. In Panem, the hunger games are an annual game which one boy and one girl between the ages of 12 to 18 years from their respective districts around the Capitol compete in a deadly battle until only one winner remaining. The winner will be famous and given prosperous life. The Hunger Games much presents on aggression that leads to violence. As Dewall et al. (2011:2) argue that violence is any aggressive behavior which is aimed to make harm physicaly, such as injury or death. Hence, theory of death instinct (thanatos) by Sigmund Freud and concept of aggression by Anderson & Bushman have developed to explain the reason of the tributes (Katniss, Peeta, Cato, Clove, Glimmer, and Thresh) doing aggression and violence acts. Thus, this study will discuss deeper aboutwhy people develop behaviors intended to hurt others as seen in The Hunger Games. Theoritical Framework Toassistandstrengthenthe datatobe analyzed, it willusea concept of aggression by several experts. To analyze the reasons that influence aggression, it will be explained frompsychological perspective (death instinct) by Sigmund Freud adds with concept of aggression by Anderson & Bushman. Based on the background of the study above, the questions below will be answered. How is aggression depicted in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games? Why does aggression happen as depicted in Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games? Data Collection The data collection is taken from the novel The Hunger Games including the quotations, phrases, dialogues, or monologues in which reveal thought, speech, action, and attitude that reflects the idea of aggression. Limitation of the Study This study is limited and focused on aggression as depictedin Suzanne Collins’ The Hunger Games.The subject of this aggression is the tributes of The Hunger Games. They are KatnissEverdeen, Peeta, Cato, Clove, Glimmer, and Thresh. Thus, the focus on this study is the tributes of the hunger games who have done much aggression to hurt and harm others. The actions of the tributes of The Hunger Games in form of quotations, phrase, dialogues, or monologues in the novel that reveal as aggression, are taken as the data. Procedure of Analysis There were some steps taken in conducting this study. The first step is close reading of the novel to determine the major issue of it. The major issues are collected and proposed into a topic of the study by seeing the conflict, the monologue, the dialogue in the novel. After the topic is already decided, it is tried to figure out what should be analyzed with the topic. Thus it is collected two statements of problems. They are the depiction of aggressionand the factors that influence aggression in The Hunger Games. The next step is searching related information about concept of the topic and to figure it out, it is used a concept of aggression and a theory of death instinct (thanatos) by Sigmund Freud adding with concept of aggression by Anderson & Bushman. The synchronization of analysis and related concept was arranged to get the conclusion. RESULT Concept of Aggression In essence, aggression is an action that harms person or object (Moeller, 2001:2). Bartol cited in Moeller (2001:24) defines aggression as behaviors intended intentionally to harm another person physically or psychologically or to destroy or to take that person’s property. In additional, The Collins Concise Dictionary also defines aggression as “an attack, a harmful action, an offensive activity, a hostile, or destructive mental attitude.” (Harding, 2006:3). Aggression can start from the “low-level” acts, such as being impolite, making minor threats, and violating minor rules that are generally annoying acts. (Moeller 2001:22) Bartol et al. cited in Moeller (2001:25) state that aggression can also be hostile, instrumental, or reactive. Hostilehas the main purpose to harm or suffer the victim.Hostile aggression is driven byarousal, impulsivity, and immediate to situationalprovocation. It may be closer to the kinds of aggressionidentified by instinct theories. It includes irritableaggression.Instrumental aggression refers to unprovoked aggression used more force to get nonaggressive actions from the victim. Instrumental aggression is a learned response where aggression is a mechanism forachieving certain goals.In this mode aggression is just another way of gettingwhat you want or avoiding being criticised by authorityor gaining normal awards. i.e., a child beats another child to take some money (Bartol et al. cited in Moeller, 2001:25). In essence, instrumental aggression is not commonly followed by emotional feeling. It is just used as a way to get something else. Instrumental aggression involves defensive action, fight to get authority or want to dominate others.Whereas reactive aggression called as provoked aggression. It refers to an angry acts in response to some provokating environmental event or behaviors (Bartol et al. cited in Moeller, 2001:25). According to Pawlik et al. (2000:195) state that aggression that is used to survive depends on the individual organisms securing environmental resources. i.e., water as resources is freely available in humid country, so it does not need to fight to get it. The predatory species always hunt to get the food, on the contrary the prey (food) may resist themselves. Both predators and prey may engage in aggressive attack and defensive actions in this case. Furthermore, in his term of “intra-specific interactions”, Pawlik et al. explain that as individuals of the same species often have to compete for resources such as food or shelter. In one hand, in intra-specific antagonism aggression may occur in competition for social resources, i.e., mating partners or alienating. Characteristics of Aggression From some explanation of aggression above can be concluded the characteristics of aggression are: Aggression is aimed to hurt, to harm or to destroy others. Aggression is a release action of frustration, anger, or bad feeling. Types of Aggression Physical aggression Moeller (2001:25) defines phisical aggression as actual phisical activities that is intentionally intended to harm another person, animal, or object. i.e., hitting, pinching, hair-pulling, arm-twisting, strangling, burning, stabbing, punching, pushing, slapping, beating, shoving, kicking, choking, biting, force-feeding, threats with a weapon or object, any other rough treatment, or even murder. Verbal aggression Verbal aggression involves the use of words to harm another persons for such as teasing andthreatening. (Moeller, 2001:25) Verbal aggression includes acts such as insulting with bad language, displaying anger, threatening, swearing and being sarcastic all in order to cause emotional and psychological pain (Sameer &Jamia 2007), while National Youth Violence Prevention Research Centre (2002) state that verbal aggression includes such behaviors as threatening, intimidating others and engaging in malicious teasing and name-calling. (Onukwufor, J., 2013:64) Teasing is one of the type of verbal aggression. Teasing can be “playful” or “hurtful”. According to Dess, J. et al. (2011:2) state that teasing can be “playful” when; (1) teasing is used when we are talking with friends and everyone involves in the teasing, it is called as ‘teasing pie’, (2) teasing isn’t aimed to hurt, (3) teasing is done by closed friends, and (4) teasing is repeated again. However, teasing can be “hurtful” when; (1) teasing tends to direct into one person in a group, (2) teasing is sometimes repeated, (3) teasing is done by someone whom we do not recognize, (4) it is used to make fun of someone who having disability. Relational aggression Crick et al. cited in Moeller (2001:25) define relational aggression as “behaviors that harm others through damage (or the threat of damage) to relationships or feelings of acceptance, friendship, or group inclusion.” Crick &Grotpeter (1995) also agree that relational aggression is behavior that is intended to hurt someone by harming their relationships with others.(http://www.hopehouseonline.org/pages/gorls.shtml, 2010-2011) Little, Jones, Henrich, & Hawley cited in Young E. (2010:2) categorize relational aggression into two parts; reactive relational aggression and instrumental relational aggression. Reactive relational aggression is used to respond to provocation. People used this aggression by manipulating social issues, such as spreading rumors, as a response to feeling threatened or angry. Whereas instrumental relational aggression is “manipulating relationships or using aggression to get what one wants.” The Relationship between Aggression and Violence Anderson, C., &Huesmann, L. cited in Hogg & Cooper (2003:298) state that aggression is any behavior that is intended to harm directed toward others. Furthermore the agent of aggression will make sure that his aggression will harm the target. However, the target will automatically avoid the aggression as a defensive action. Anderson, C.A., & Bushman B.J. (2002:29) state that violence is aggression that has extreme harm as its goal, i.e., death. Tolan and Guerra cited in Moller (2001:2) state that violence is “the most extreme and serious” form of aggression. Anderson et al. (2002:29) state that all violence can be defined as aggression. However, in some cases of aggression are not always violent. i.e., a child is pushing his friend’s tricycle is an act of aggression but is not an act of violence. To reach that serious and extreme goal, such as injury or even death, must be expressed into visible way, i.e., physical aggression. Thus aggression can lead to violence if it is happened on physical aggression. Because the goal of aggression that leads to violence is to hurt and to harm the target of aggression. Moreover, Anderson, C., &Huesmann, L. cited in Hogg & Cooper (2003:298) also agree that “violence is physical aggression at the extremely high end of the aggression continuum, such as murder and aggravated assault.” Harding (2006:4) adds that aggression is the easiest to recognize in violence. She calls it as “the rawest manifestation being ‘destructive motor action’.” In addition, The World Health Organisation (1996) also defines violence as an action that used the intentional of physical power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or comunity that has results of harm or even death. Hence, in social psychology, violence is aggression that has extreme physical harm as its goal, such as injury or death. One child intentionally pushing another child down is an act of aggression but it is not an act of violence. One person intentionally hitting, kicking, shooting, or stabbing another person is an act of violence. Thus, violence is a subset of aggression. All violent acts are aggressive, but not all aggressive acts are violent (only the ones that are intended to cause extreme physical damage are called violent). Factors Influencing Aggression Drives Drive derived from a German word Trieb which refers to a stimulus within person. This word is generally understood as instinct, inborn patterns of behavior that are biologically determined rather than learned with its characteristics that are both physical (bodily needs) and psychological (wishes). Drives operate as a constant motivational force. Freud proposed that drives consists of two parts; sex (eros) and aggression (thanatos). (Feist, 2008:31) Death Instinct Death Instinct is the concept made by a psychoanalist, Sigmund Freud. Thomas cited in Moeller (2001:26) states that Freud assumes that human born with a drive, called the Thanatos. To Allen (2006:24), thanatos is the instinct toward destructiveness and death which is aimed at returning living things to their original lifeless state. Freud stated in Li (2011:116) defines thanatos as “an urge inherent in organic life to restore an earlier state of things”. Thanatos might be directed toward the self that is resulting in self-injury or even death, it can be also directed toward others that is resulting in aggression. The instinct theory of aggression derives mainly from two sources: psychoanalysis and ethology. According to psychoanalytic theory, human behavior is motivated by two sets of opposing instincts: Eros, consisting of all those forces aimed at furthering life, and Thanatos, consisting of all those forces striving for the destruction of life (Freud, 1933). When Thanatos, the death instinct, is discharged outward, the result is aggressive behavior. If this instinctual drive is not expressed, it continues to build up within the individual until it is relieved either by an explosive act of violence or until it is turned inward as self-destructive behavior. Since the aggressive drive is constantly seeking an outlet, the theory is basically a pessimistic one in that aggression is seen as an unavoidable part of human behavior. Indeed, Montague (1968) has argued that instinct theory, in its emphasis on the hostile and destructive nature of humans, relates quite closely to the doctrine of the "innate depravity" of man, a doctrine which we have seen first gained ascendancy in medieval theological thought. (Goldstein, et al., 1981: 4) However, there are some ways to shift the strength of death instinct (thanatos). Those are through defense mechanism of sublimation, displacement, and chatarsis. (Moeller, 2001:26) Sublimation Thomas cited in Moeller (2001:26) defines sublimation as “a process by which unacceptable drives are channeled into socially acceptable alternatives.” i.e., children can drain or sublimate their aggressiveness drive toward positive activities, such as sports that trained physically. Displacement Feshbach cited in Moeller (2001:26) states that children tend to displace their aggressiveness drive toward other things. This is happened because they can not express their aggressiveness drive directly toward person that caused frustration. Catharsis Renfrew cited in Moeller (2001:26) states that in the discussion of aggression, Freud assumes that “if the strength of the aggressive drives begins to build up, something must be done to release the energy associated with the drive before it becomes too intense and overt aggression is discharged in its entire fury.” Level of Awareness In his theory of personality, Sigmund Freud categorizes human’s level of awareness into three types; conscious, preconscious, and unconscious. Freud stated in Feldman (2003:328) states that unconscious motivated much of our behaviors. He defines unconscious as “a part of the personality of which a person is not aware.” Whereas conscious is just the upper of our psychological. Some of our conscious is made by our preconscious, an action that is not threatening and be able to remember easily, i.e., 2 + 2 = 4. Hence, instinctual drives that Freud proposed into two parts, eros and thanatos, exist in unconscious. Eros and thanatos are hidden from conscious awareness because they will cause pain in our lives. To Freud, unconscious considered as “safe haven” of threatening events (Feldman, 2003:329). Id, Ego, and Super ego To describe the structure of personality, Freud develops three components of human psychic as Id, Ego, and Super ego. The id is the raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality. From the time of birth, the id attempts to reduce tension created by primitive drives related to hunger, sex, aggression, and irrational impulses. These drives are fueled by “psychic energy”, or libido as Freud called it. [...]. The ego strives to balance the desire of the id and the realities of the objective, outside world. [...]. The super ego, the final personality structure to develop, represents social right and wrong as taught and modeled by a person’s parents, teachers, and other significant individuals (Feldman, 2003:329). According to Brakel, et al. cited in Allen (2006:23-24) state that the id is the origin of personality. The Id is beyond conscious awareness. It operates based on the pleasure principle, which is aimed to reduce the tension and get the satisfaction of physical drives, involving sex and hunger, or primitive psychological needs, such as comfort and protection from danger. The Id satisfies its needs without consideration whereas it is right or wrong. Furthermore, Freud cited in Allen (2006:24) assumes that id is the place where instincts existed, which consists of instinct toward life, called Eros, and instinct toward destructiveness and death, called Thanatos. The Id is powered by libido, involves “physical desire”, “erotic tendencies”, “sexual desire in the broadest sense”, and “the motive forces of sexual life”. The ego works based on the reality principle. It prevents the fulfillment of the demand of the id until an appropriate object is found that will allow gratification without harmful side effects. The instinctual energy from the id will be controlled based on reality of the individual safety and the social factors. Allen (2006:24) defines the ego as “a coherent organization of mental process that develops out of the id energy, has access to consciousness, and is devoted to contacting reality for the purpose of satisfying id needs”. The ego operates through secondary process, i.e. thinking, evaluating, planning, and decision making. It plans for actions in the real world that will satisfy the id. However, the ego is not totally conscious. On both conscious and unconscious levels, the ego gets easily both external and internal dangers. External dangers involve insufficient food, water, and physical comfort as well as threats of physical or psychological injury and lose of parental love. Internal dangers involve uncontrollable increases of instinctual energies, particularly sex and aggression. In essence, the ego process increases the likelihood that the id will experience satisfaction of its effect without of harmful side effects. For the third personality structure, the super ego. Allen (2006:24) defines it as “the representation of society in personality that incorporates the norms and standards of the surrounding cultures.” The super ego works based on morality principle, a code that concerns society’s values regarding right and wrong. The super ego is divided into two parts; the conscience and the ego-ideal (Feldman, 2003:329). The conscience prevents us from behaving in a morally improper way by making us feel guilty if we do wrong, and the ego-ideal, which represents the “perfect person” that we wish we were, motivates us to do what is morally right (Feldman, 2003:329). Like the ego, the super ego develops from the id energy. The most important function of the super ego is to help control the id impulses by directing energy toward entirely inhibiting the id’s expression of its sexual, aggressive, and other antisocial instincts. In essence, the super ego, like the ego, addresses the id needs, but the super ego seeks to suppress those needs rather than satisfy them (Allen, 2006:26). Situational Factors 1. Aggressive Cues Aggressive cues related to objects that influencing on aggression. Berkowitz &LePage cited in Anderson & Bushman (2002:37) do the research on the angered participants and conclude that the presence of weapons such as gun can increase such aggressive behaviors. In additional, Anderson & Bushman state that aggressive cues exist in human memory. Thus the existence of weapons or any other things that can be used to harm can automatically prime aggressive thought that causing on aggression in reality. 2. Provocation Berkowitz &Geen cited in Anderson & Bushman (2002:37) state that interpersonal provocation is one of the factors that influencing on human aggression. Cowie et al. &Folger et al cited in Anderson & Bushman (2002:37) also argue that provocations involved unpleasant treatment such as any rough treatment of verbal aggression and physical aggression and one’s interfere to reach the goal. 3. Frustration According to Anderson & Bushman (2002:37) define that frustration is an obstacle to reach the goal. Most of the actions of provocation can be the type of frustration. Moreover, frustration will identify someone who causes its failure and it is succeed to increase the aggression against someone who is responsible of this frustration and even someone who is not responsible for this failure too.Moreover, frustration commonly happens related to hostile aggression and uncommon happens in instrumental aggression. 4. Pain and Discomfort Berkowitz cited in Anderson & Bushman (2002:38) states that any discomfort feeling or ‘non social aversive condition’, i.e., hot temperatures, noises, and unpleasant odors will increase aggression. Berkowitz et al. add that the worse unpleasant condition such as pain will also produce on aggression. 5. Drugs Bushman (1993) cited in Anderson & Bushman (2002:38) states that any kind of drugs and alcohol lead to aggression. This aggression tends to be indirect rather that direct. 6. Incentives According to Anderson & Bushman (2002:38) state that incentives almost has the same purpose with instrumental aggression. It is an urge to own someone’s things. More valuable the object, more people want to get it. Thus it produces on aggression. Role of Anger Anger is the causes of aggression. Anderson & Bushman (2002:44) propose into five roles of anger on aggression; (1) anger may give a justification of a revenge attack and anger may interfere with higher cognitive process, (2) anger allows person to defend their aggressive intention over time. In provoking situation, anger will increase the attention and the depth of it, (3) anger as information cue, (4) anger primes aggressive thoughts, scripts, and related with any expressive motor behaviors, (5) aggressive behavior has the main energy or source from anger feeling. DISCUSSION: Physical Aggression The first physical aggression in the novel is depicted by KatnissEverdeen, a tribute from district twelve, in the quotation below. It’s excellent shooting. I turn to the Game makers. A few are nodding approval, but the majority of them are fixated on a roast pig that has just arrived at their banquet table. Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig. My heart starts to pound, I can feel my face burning. Without thinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the Gamemakers’ table. I hear shouts of alarm as people stumble back. The arrow skewers the apple in the pig’s mouth and pins it to the wall behind it. Everyone stares at me in disbelief. (ch.7, pp.101-102) Physical aggression is the most visible violence. Physical aggression uses physical power intentionally to harm or destroy object or person. i.e.,hitting, pinching, hair-pulling, arm-twisting, strangling, burning, stabbing, punching, pushing, slapping, beating, shoving, kicking, choking, biting, force-feeding, threats with a weapon or object, any other rough treatment, or even murder. From the words ‘I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the Gamemakers’table’ clearly shows the depiction of physical aggression that is done by Katniss. Moeller (2001:2) argues that aggression is an action that harms a person or object. From the words ‘The arrow skewers the apple in the pig’s mouth and pins it to the wall behind it’ become the part that shows the purpose of aggression that is to harm or to destroy something. The object that is destroyed here is the apple that is in the pig’s mouth. Katniss does her aggression is supported by the presence of weapon, that are bow and arrows. This weapon smoothens her to attack the game makers who do not give attention to her talent. Moreover, the bow and the arrows have been existed in her hand at that time. So it is easy to her to use it. Even it happens beyond her awareness to use the arrows to attack the game makers. Her aggression is categorized into hostile aggression. Bartol et al. cited in Moeller (2001:25) state that Hostilehas the main purpose to harm or suffer the victim.Hostile aggression includes irritableaggression. Hence Katniss does the aggression is motivated by her anger feeling and her revenge because she is not given attention from the game makers. Without thinking any longer she shoots the apple in mouth of the dead pig on the table of the game makers. So all the game makers now give her full consideration. Verbal aggression “Forget it, District Twelve. We’re going to kill you. Just like we did your pathetic little ally . . . what was her name? The one who hopped around in the trees? Rue? Well, first Rue, then you, and then I think we’ll just let nature take care of Lover Boy. How does that sound?” Clove asks. “Now, where to start?” (ch.21, p.285) From the quotation above, the words ‘We’re going to kill you. Just like we did your pathetic little ally’ depict the threatening action that is done by Clove. She says that she wants to kill Katniss like she has done to Rue. Those words also explain the purpose of verbal aggression, sarcastic action that is done to cause emotional and psychological pain of the target. From the words ‘your pathetic little ally . . . what was her name? The one who hopped around in the trees? Rue?’ clearly depict that Clove has insulted Rue as a trifle tribute who is able to kill every time. She says so to make Katniss feels more furious and this will make Clove satisfies with her verbal aggression. As we know that the goal of verbal aggression is to harm the target by using words. Moreover, Clove also tries to make her target becomes fear of her. It is shown from the words ‘Forget it, District Twelve’. It means that she makes sure that Katniss will not be able to go home to her district again because she will die. The words ‘your pathetic little ally’ also said by Clove to tease Katniss. She calls Rue not by her name but she makes her own name –calling for Rue. It depicts the insulting action done by Clove. Moreover, she also teases Katniss by giving a name-calling to Peeta with ‘lover boy’. As the purpose of verbal aggression is to make the target furious and hurt psychologically. The words ‘Now, where to start?’Also depicts her teasing before she begins her aggression to Katniss. The point is she wants to make Katniss becomes fear with all her actions and it results on satisfy and pleasure to her. Psychological Factor Aggression is firstly depicted by KatnissEverdeen, a tribute from district twelve, in the training season of the hunger games. When she shows her talent in front of the game makers in an excellent shooting, unfortunately she does not get full attention from the game makers. This makes her becomes mad and do the aggression towards the game makers to express her anger feeling. It’s excellent shooting. I turn to the Game makers. A few are nodding approval, but the majority of them are fixated on a roast pig that has just arrived at their banquet table. Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig. My heart starts to pound, I can feel my face burning. Without thinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the Gamemakers’ table. I hear shouts of alarm as people stumble back. The arrow skewers the apple in the pig’s mouth and pins it to the wall behind it. Everyone stares at me in disbelief. “Thank you for your consideration,” I say. Then I give a slight bow and walk straight toward the exit without being dismissed. (ch.7, pp.101-102) From the psychological perspectives, Freud explains that human born with its death instinct that leads to destructiveness. From the words ‘Withoutthinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the Gamemakers’ table’ clearly shows the purpose of the death instinct. The words ‘without thinking’, describes her unconscious that Freud said it is the major driving power of death instinct. From the words ‘Thank you for your consideration’, shows the id of hers. She has gotten attention from the game makers. It means this is her purpose to reach the satisfaction and pleasure. As Brakel, et al. cited in Allen (2006:23) states that the idoperates based on the pleasure principle. Hence the Id satisfies its needs without consideration whereas it is right or wrong. Situational Factor Aggression done by the tributes can be caused by the situational factors involving aggressive cues, provocation, frustration, pain and discomfort, drugs, and incentives. This concept of aggression is taken by the explanation of Anderson & Bushman (2002). Situational factors that influencing the aggression of the tributes is firstly depicted by KatnissEverdeen, a tribute from district twelve. She attacks the game makers because she does not get the attention from them and any other situational factors also can be influencing her indeed. It is shown in the quotation below: It’s excellent shooting. I turn to the Game makers. A few are nodding approval, but the majority of them are fixated on a roast pig that has just arrived at their banquet table. Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me. That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig. My heart starts to pound, I can feel my face burning. Without thinking, I pull an arrow from my quiver and send it straight at the Gamemakers’ table. I hear shouts of alarm as people stumble back. The arrow skewers the apple in the pig’s mouth and pins it to the wall behind it. Everyone stares at me in disbelief. “Thank you for your consideration,” I say. Then I give a slight bow and walk straight toward the exit without being dismissed. (ch.7, pp.101-102) From the quotation above, there are several situational factors of causing violence that will be explained. The words ‘Suddenly I am furious, that with my life on the line, they don’t even have the decency to pay attention to me’ shows the anger feeling that becomes the reason of her to do the aggression. Anderson & Bushman (2002:44) said that anger allows person to defend their aggressive intention over time. It is shown from the words ‘I give a slight bow and walk straight toward the exit without being dismissed’. She still feels angry till go out without given a permission from them. It is because she has been furious being ignored by several game makers that should pay attention to her. From the words ‘That I’m being upstaged by a dead pig’ shows her revenge toward the game makers who have compare her with a dead pig until they all more attentive to a dead pig than to her. Thus this feeling influences her to do aggression as a retaliation. As Anderson & Bushman (2002:44) said that anger may give a justification of a revenge attack. Hence, they argue that aggressive behavior has the main energy or source from anger feeling. Moreover, ‘an arrow’ that is provided in the arena with game makers can also be one of the factor that influencing on her aggression. As Anderson & Bushman (2002:44) said that the arrows indicates on the aggressive cues. They explain that aggressive cues exist in human memory and its existence can automatically prime aggressive thought that causing on aggression in reality. CONCLUSION: Based on the analysis explained in the previous chapter, there are two main conclusions about aggression depicted by the tributes of The Hunger Games since in the training until in the arena is influenced by two factors: aggression because of death instinct and aggression because of the situational factor. Aggression done by the tributes is generally influenced by death instinct. Death instinct as behaviors intended intentionally to harm another person physically or psychologically or to destroy or to take that person’s property clearly depicted in the hunger games. Death instinct that has the main purpose of destruction may leads people to do aggression because of their pleasure. Death instinct might be directed toward the self that is resulting in self-injury or even death, it can be also directed toward others that is resulting in aggression. The tributes’ actions from physical aggression until verbal aggression show the purpose of the aggression that is harming others or objects.The tributes do the aggression beyond their conscious. The unconscious part supports their Id works. The Id operates based on pleasure principle. It will develop death instinct to hurt others or to destroy anything. Hence aggression is done to satisfy their desire. By expressing their destructive instinct, they can reach their pleasure and satisfaction. Aggression done by the tributes is also much influenced by the situational factors; aggressive cues, provocation, frustration, pain and discomfort, and incentives. First, the presence of weapon may lead the tributes to do aggression. The game makers of the hunger games provide the weapon supply for the tributes so that they can survive in the arena. It can be seen that the presence of weapon much influence them to be aggressive and attack others. On the other side, weapon can be used as a defensive action, however, they still tend to use violence to protect themselves from dangerous. Second, provocation may lead the tributes to do aggression. Provocation involves unpleasant treatment such as any rough treatment of verbal aggression and physical aggression and one’s interfere to reach the goal. The third is frustration. Frustration much influences the tributes to do the aggression. It happened if someone is blocked by something to reach its goal, need, want, and hope. The tributes do the aggression as a response toward their frustration. It commonly accompanied by a strong anger feeling. Fourth, Pain and discomfort may also influence the tributes of the hunger games to do the aggression. Pain commonly comes when someone feels discomfort and it urges them to do the aggression toward anything around them. Thus pain and discomfort become one of the factors influencing the tributes to do the aggression. The last is incentives. Incentives much influence the tributes to attack others, however, it is not aimed to hurt or destroy other physically or verbally. It generally does because of the desire to own the other’s thing. Thus they do the aggression to reach their goal. The last factor/reason that much influences the tributes to act aggressive in almost every single aggression is anger feeling. When they feel angry, they must have a feeling of aggressing, slamming, and destroying anything which reflected as bad behaviors, so they express it a response of anger feeling. Anger comes from any factors; hurt physically, humiliation, disappointment, threat, and other rough treatments. Those actions can prime an aggression happened. 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Domestic Violence in Danielle Steel's Journey (A Liberal Feminism Approach) ARYANI FITRI HIRA KARTIKA
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Domestic Violence in Danielle Steel's Journey (A Liberal Feminism Approach) Aryani Fitri Hira Kartika English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University Aryanifitri11@gmail.com Fabiola Dharmawati Kurnia English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University fabkurnia@gmail.com Abstrak Permasalahan kekerasan dalam rumah tangga selalu menjadi ancaman bagi wanita. Hak asasi manusia mereka ditiadakan oleh suami.Tujuan penelitian ini adalah menganalisis bagaimana kekerasan dalam rumah tangga dan bagaimana wanita melawan kekerasan yang tergambarkan pada Journey karya Danielle Steel. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode data deskriptif-qualitatif dengan pendekatan konsep kekerasan menurut Paula and Margie untuk menunjukkan bentuk kekerasan dalam rumah tangga dan liberal feminisme menurut Naomi Wolf dan John Stuart Mill untuk menunjukkan usaha wanita untuk melawan kekerasan dan bangkit dari permasalahannya. Hasil penelitian ini mengungkapkan (1) bentuk kekerasan yang dialami Mddy, tokoh utama dalam Journey yang ditinjau dari pendekatan liberal feminisme adalah kekerasan emosional; penghinaan, ancaman, menganggap rendah, dan pengisolasian sosial, sementara kekerasan seksual;pemaksaan seks, pemaksaan sterilisasi, penyiksaan secara seksual, dan menganggap wanita sebagai objek seks. (2) Bagaimana Maddy melawan kekerasan melalui berani berbicara ketika Ia ingin diberi kesempatan untuk memberi ide-idenya dalam area pekerjaan, membuat keputusan dalam hidupnya, bersosialisasi dengan teman-temannya, melalui tindakan ketika Ia menentang perintah suaminya untuk menjauhi anak istrinya, keinginan Maddy tetap pada merawat anaknya, dan yang terakhir melalui personal autonomi ketika Ia mengambil sikap untuk berpisah dari suaminya demi terbebas dari kekerasan suaminya. Berpisah dari suaminya, Ia bisa hidup mandiri tanpa bayang-bayang suaminya. Keywords : Kekerasan, Wanita, Perlawanan, Liberal Feminisme Abstract Violence always becomes threat for women. Their human rights are denied by their husband.The purpose of this study is analyzing how domestic violence to woman and how woman resists against violence as reflected in Danielle Steel’s JOURNEY. This research of method used to analyze the data is a descriptive-qualitative with an approach of domestic violence by Paula and Margie to show the forms of domestic violence and liberal feminism by Naomi Wolf and John Stuart Mill to show her efforts to resist against violence and revival from her problems. The result of this research exposes that (1) violence experienced by Maddy as the main female character are emotional abuse; humiliation, threats, belittling, and social isolation, meanwhile sexual abuse; rape, enforced sterilization, torturing sexually, and looking woman as sexual object. (2) How Maddy resists against violence through speak out as she wants to be given opportunity in giving her ideas in her working place, making her own decisions in her life, socializing with her friends, and, through doing action as Maddy tries to oppose every her husband’s commands, one of them is her decision for taking care her children and through being personal autonomy when she decides to divorce with her husband and lived independent with working without the shadows of her husband. She has had power to be personal hood in determining self, mind, body, and feeling that divorce is the best way for sake of happiness and pleasure (freedom of emotional and sexual abuses) perpetuated by her husband. Keywords : Violence, Women, Resistance, Liberal Feminism INTRODUCTION: God creates a man to the earth for living in love with others but in reality lately the acts of violence has always been part of the human experience. Acts of violence can happen in everywhere, be experienced by anyone, and be perpetrated by anyone (Dustin, 2009:87). However, survey from UNICEF Research Centre in 2000 states that violence is regular part of women’s experience in domestic violence. They are unable to make their own decisions, voice their own opinions or protect themselves and their children for fear of further repercussions. Their human rights are denied and their lives are stolen from the abuser by regularly getting threats of violence (Khan, 2000:2). Many factors make women experience violence, one of them is gender bias, unequal power relations between men and women in which women is forced into a subordination position compared women than men that leads women as the victim of men dominance and discrimination and to prevention of the full advancement of women (Khan, 2000:2). Violence in domestic life always happens toward wife as a party who is regarded weaker than her husband. Joda et al, 2009:2 states that husband often do not feel guilty with what he does even he feels no breaking the law when he commits violence to his wife. Some women activists believes that violence in domestic sphere is rooted in belief of patriarchal system that still applied by husband in system of his household. According to Dobash, patriarchy contributes toward wife abuse. The system had defined the differences of gender between men and women. Husband was supposed to be strong, dominant, authoritarian, aggressive, and rational provider while women had devalued as secondary and inferior who had been assigned to be irrational, dependent, passive, submissive, soft, nurturing (in Margie, 2002:34). Patriarchal society regarded women as men’s property and gave authority toward husband to control and decide decision for wife. Araji and Carlson (2001) argued that patriarchal societies may foster domestic violence because the dominant male is perceived to be appropriately disciplining and controlling the behaviour of the subordinate wife in the family (in Florence, 2008:592). The forms of women abuse can be classified into three forms, those are physical abuse, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse. Physical abuse is like grabbing, hitting, and kicking, sexual abuse is like demanding sex when one’s partner is unwilling, enforced to sterilization, regarding women as a sex object, and emotional abuse is like humiliation, threatening, belittling, and social abuse (Paula, 2006:5 &16 and Margie, 2000: 3-6). Bhasin states that patriarchy as a concept to refer social system of masculine domination over women. Patriarchal society places men in superior or masculine position meanwhile women is put in subordinate position (2000:10). Murniati states that patriarchy is a system of socio-culture that marginalizes women’s position in all aspects including in economic, social, education, politic sphere as if the system legitimizes some a various inequality, deprivation, and oppression over women (2004:227-229). In patriarchal situation, women had only little influences in society where they did not have rights on common areas in society such as in family, social, government, education. So, women’s economic social, political, psychological condition depended on men. Domestic violence always becomes the hidden issue. Almost all of the victims are unwilling to report the police because wife still depends on financial on husband, wife still loves her husband, and many reason else. Summer states that many the victim is always silent toward violence perpetrated by her husband, never resists the abuser and never tells anyone (Summers, 2002:170). Moreover, according to Joyce, victims of violence over time experiences more serious consequences than of one-time incidents. Domestic violence against women where husband as the perpetrator can lead psychological consequences for the victim (2009:134-135). Gender bias that causes women are always marginalized, subordinated, and oppressed in the family at the place of work, and in society emmerges feminism. Feminism is an awareness of women oppression at the place of work within the family and an awareness of patriarchal control (Bhasin, 2000:31). Meanwhile Carter states that feminism is a movement for women that attempts to resist the dominance of a patriarchal society have a long history (2006:910). One of feminism movement that defend equality rights between men and women is liberal feminism. Liberal feminism is a movement that is reflected in every struggle done by women to demand the right of freedom (Humm, 2002:250). Liberal feminism emphasizes the importance of individualism, freedom, especially freedom of choice. The feminist movement is that women gain control. Both of the body itself as well as the social world. They reject the gender symbols attached to each sex and gender socialization to children that had been done. Women experience discrimination because of gender inequality but women should have same opportunity like men in all of aspects, including private field, or public field, or public field (Ritzer, 1992:450). John Stuart Mill states that women must be personal autonomy as women are rational beings and have the same capacity as men. Problems faced by women more often caused by women if legal reform has happened to make equality between men and women (Tong, 2009:29). Women who success financially comfortable, succesful does not guarantee them will freedom from discrimination and violation. As women regard themselves as the victim of discrimination and violation, Wolf states that women have the power to control what happens to them so stop thinking of themselves as victim and to capitalize on the power inherent in their majority status. Society does not oppress them. It is time for women to do self defeating (speak out) against violation and discrimination. Proclaiming themselves as victimhood does not project strength (Wood, 2009:84). Journey is a novel that will be analyzed. This research chooses the novel as the main female character, experiences violence emotionally and sexually during her marriage life however Maddy is a representation of woman’s movement who is brave to speak out against violence perpetruated by her husband but she never tries to hate marriage institution. Maddy as a woman who is not afraid to out of comfort zone and false happiness created by her husband after getting supports from her friends, a support group for battered women, daughter. She escapes from the shackle of oppression to be an independent, free women with her daughter and her friends who support her not like many wives commonly are afraid to escape from violence or say divorce cause they still depend on their husband. Based on the explanation above, the writer is interested to analyze how domestic violence is reflected using the concept of domestic violence from sociological approach by Paula and Margie and how woman resists against violence and revival from her problems by using liberal feminism by Naomi Wolf and John Stuart Mill. Theoritical Framework In producing a good understanding of the conflicts in domestic life which woman experiences and how woman resists against violence in Danielle Steel’s Journey, this study applies extrinsic approach in analyzing the problems. The theory of domestic violence by Paula and Margi is chosen as the tool to find out domestic violence to woman is reflected in Danielle Steel’s Journey. Theory of domestic violence is a theory which is used to analyze how the forms of abuses which is experienced by the victim. The types of domestic violence according to Paula and Margie consist of physical abuse, emotional abuse, and sexual abuse. (1) Physical abuse is the action of physically assaults, causing injury, pinching, or squeezing, (2) emotional or psychological abuse is consistently doing or saying things verbally that results in fear, loss of confidence, loss of the ability to act, a sense of helplessness and or severe psychological suffering on a person, and (3) sexual abuse is including sadism and forcing a person to have sex when he or she does not want to, forcing a person to engage in sexual act that he or she does not like or finds unpleasant, frightening, or violent, touches the victim sexually in uncomfortable ways, and regards women as a sexual object. Liberal feminism is chosen as the tool to analyze how woman resist against violence. Its feminism emphasizes that violence toward women is based on unequal power relations between women and men. Its theory emphasizes equal individual rights and liberties for women and downplaying sexual differences. Liberal feminist propose a series of strategies for eliminating gender inequality; supporting individual in challenging sexism wherever it is enccountered in daily life without hating the marriage institution. As women experience inequality, the soulution is on women themselves (Ritzer, 1992:452-53). In challenging discrimination and violation toward women, Wolf demands woman to do self defeating (speak out). Its concept is used by Wolf to give powerness for women resist against discrimination and violation (Wood, 84). Wolf states that women are not needed to ask for permission toward anyone for achieving social equality (1999:79). Meanwhile John Stuart Mill gives powerness on women for being personal autonomy. Personal autonomy is a autonomous decision making. John Stuart Mill states that women have powerness as personhood over their self, their thinking, their feeling, their body in determining a choice in their living for sake of happiness and pleasure but not obstruct another people’s right in the process (Tong, 2009:16) Based on the background of the study above, the questions below will be answered. (1). How is domestic violence to woman reflected in the Danielle Steel’s Journey? (2). How does woman in Danielle Steel’s Journey resist against violence? Research Design and Method: To analyze Danielle Steel’s Journey, this study uses descriptive qualitative. Thomas (2003) defines qualitative methods as method that involves research by describing kinds of characteristics people and events without comparing the events in term of amounts. The main data is the novel entitled Journey by Danielle Steel, published in 2000 by Dell Publishing, New York. Meanwhile the additional data are taken from many sources such as journal, book, and internet sources. Besides that, quotations in the novel is taken also related how domestic violence to woman is reflected and how woman resists against woman as represented by the main female character of Maddy. There were some steps taken in conducting this study. First, reading was the first step to do to gain the idea the novel intends to deliver. After the writer has finished reading the novel, the next step which was hold was close reading. This step was applied to find quotations related to the topic and problems going to analyze. Close reading was done three times. The first close reading was to find the quotations which are related how domestic violence to woman, then the second close reading was to find how woman resists against woman as represented in Danielle Steel’s Journey. The data observed from the novel were then analyzed to the statement of the problems. It was then synchronized with the similar concept of domestic violence by Paula and Margie, concept of victimization by Joyce, and the concept of liberal feminism by Naomi Wolf and John Stuart Mill taken from journals, books, and critical essays. The synchronized data were useful to take final conclusions. Therefore, the significance of the study can be achieved well. Data analysis For the first question this study take theory from the theoritical framework which concerns with forms of abuse toward woman. The concept of domestic violence by Paula and Margie will be explained in this research to find out how domestic violence to woman is reflected in Danielle Steel’s Journey. In this research, the writer only found two forms of abuses to women, they are emotional abuses, and sexual abuses. For the second question this study take theory from the theoritical framework which concerns with women’s efforts to resist against violence. The concept of liberal feminism by Naomi Wolf and John Stuart Mill which are used to reveal how woman in Danielle Steel’s Journey resists against violence. RESULT (1). As the explanation of the domestic violence, this study finds out domestic violence to woman into two forms of abuse, they are emotional abuse and sexual abuse. Emotional Abuse consists of humiliation, threatening, belittling, social isolation. Meanwhile sexual abuse consist of rape, enforced sterilization, torturing sexually, and looking woman as a sexual object. (2). As the explanation of liberal feminism by Naomi Wolf and John Stuart Mill, this study reveal how woman resists against violence. The strategy of Maddy’s resistance to get out of domestic violence in Danielle Steel’s Journey through speak out, doing action, and being personal autonomy. 1.1 Emotional Abuse 1.1.1 Humiliation “I don't give a damn what you think. I don't pay you to think. I pay you to look good and read the news of a TelePrompTer. That's all I want from you. And with that, he walked into his bathroom, and slammed the door behind him, as she burst into tears in their bedroom. (Steel, p. 34) The quotation above show the form of humiliation by men toward women. In this Journey, Jack always puts his wife into subordinate position. Jack never regards his wife having capability in thinking. Jack just cares how Maddy could look beautiful in front of audiences without giving opportunity for her in giving her arguments or ideas as she is delivering the news. Jack will getting angry as Maddy tries to oppose his commands. One of his commands is prohibitting his wife to hold the program of editorial however Maddy still holds it for the sake of helping her new friend who committed suicide due to abused by her husband, Jack’s friend also. 1.1.2 Threatening “I heard you, she said numbly. And I hate you for it. I don't give a damn what you think or feel about this. I only care about what you do, and it goddamn better be the right thing this time, or you're finished. With me and the network. Is that clear, Mad? She looked at him for a long moment and then turned on her heel and walked swiftly down the stairs, back to her own floor. She was pale and shaking.” (Steel, p.63) The quotation above shows that Jack always tries threats for Maddy, his wife. Besides she will loss her jobs, Jack will divorce Maddy as his threat for his wife as she does not obey what Jack says to her. Maddy loves so much her husband and also depend financially with her husband. That’s Maddy has no other alternatives to leave her husband. In her marriage, Maddy has no power over her husband. Jack always regards her as his property that could be ordered by Jack. Jack feels Maddy as his wife and his employee so he deserves to control his wife as she tries to show her potential in giving comments which acrosses with Jack’s principles. 1.1.3 Belittling “That's insulting! It's the truth. As I recall, Mad, you never went to college. In fact, I'm not even sure if you finished high school. It was the ultimate put-down, insinuating that she was too stupid and uneducated to think (Steel, p. 90) The quotation above shows that Maddy tries to oppose all of belittling which is perpetruated by Jack to her however Jack gives awareness to Maddy that the reason of belittling is because Jack doubts whether Maddy ever finished her school or not. The unequal power relation in educational things lead discrimination over Maddy by Jack. Jack belittles Maddy as a stupid wife so Maddy should put down with her husband’s commands. 1.1.4 Social Isolation “She didn't have that many friends in Washington, she'd never had time to make them and those she had made, Jack never liked, and eventually pressured her not to see them. She never objected because Jack always had some objection to them, regarding her friends were fat, ugly, inappropriate, or indiscreet. He kept Madeleine carefully guarded, and inadvertently isolated. She knew he meant well in protecting her, and she didn't mind, but it meant that the person she was closest to was Jack, and in recent years, Greg Morris.” (Steel, p. 25) From the quotation above, social isolation is as form of discrimination. Men have full power over women as well as limits women to socialize with their friends. In Journey, Jack as the head of family, he determines which is a friend should be and should not be met by Maddy. Meanwhile Jack is freedom to choose which a friend he wants to meet. Besides his bussiness relation, he can also meet with woman. The quotation can be seen below: “He had been so quick to explain the photograph of the woman he’s been with at Annabel’s in london (Steel, p.159) 1.2 Sexual Abuse 1.2.1 Rape “He was smiling at her, and he reached out a hand and gently touched her breast, and then before she could stop him, he had grabbed her so hard, it made her gasp, and she begged him to stop “Why, baby? Tell me why? Don't you love me? I love you, but you're hurting me. There were tears in her eyes as she said it. I don't want to make love tonight, she tried to say, but he didn't listen, he grabbed a handful of her hair and sharply pulled her head back. What she sensed most in his love for her was danger. (Steel, p.87) From the quotation above shows that Jack regards Maddy as his own property which could be used by Jack anytime Jack wants. Jack always controls Maddy’s sexuality. It can be shown from the quotation above as Jack always forces Maddy to have a sex with him although Maddy does not want to have a sex with Jack or finds unpleasant, frightening, violent when having a sex. Jack does not care with his wife’s refusal, instead Jack grabs a handful of her hair and sharply pulled her head back to make his sexual impulse satisfied. 1.1.5 Enforced Sterilization “Jack convinced Maddy that children will obstacle her career. Jack had made it very clear to her right from the beginning that he didn't want children. And after a brief period of mourning for the babies she would never have, at Jack's insistence, Maddy had had her tubes tied. It seemed easier to give in to Jack's wishes and not take any chances. He had given her so much, and wanted such great things for her. She could see his point that children would only be an obstacle she'd have to overcome, and a burden on her career. But there were still times when she regretted the irreversibility of her decision. (Steel, p. 15). From the quotation above shows forcing woman to tie the rope uterus shows the violations of human rights because it is band for woman’s reproduction where woman will never have children again. The factors that leads this abuse still attached to the dominant assumption has the right to control the weak and the wife playing the role of a person who is required to comply, in terms of the economic dependence of women makes women cannot do anything other than comply with applicable rules. Jack Maddy action to force the rope cut the uterus with the aim that Maddy is not hampered career is a form of self control female reproduction by males while liberal feminism oppose the restrictions on reproduction for having offspring is the right of every individual, and no one was allowed to prohibit or restrict. 1.1.6 Torturing sexually “Are you going to be a good girl now?” he asked, taunting her, torturing her with pleasure. “Do you promise?” “I promise,” she said breathlessly. “Promise again, Mad.” He was a master at what he was doing, it had taken long years of practice. “Promise me again“I promise I promise I promise I'll be good, I swear.” All she wanted now was to please him, and from the distance, she knew she hated herself for it. She had sold out to him again, given herself to him again, but he was too powerful a force to resist (Steel, p. 70) From the quotation above can be stated that Jack as a husband who tries to pressure toward his wife in order to always being submissive and does not break commands which have applied by her husband. Jack reminds his wife with torturing her sexually slow by slow when having sex, in order to his wife realizes that the acts which have been done by Maddy is wrong. As Maddy’s position is in inferior status and depends financially toward her husband, Jack regards her as his own property that can be treated anything. 1.1.7 Looking woman as a sexual abuse “They often lay there for a while before they went to sleep, talking about what had happened that day, the places they'd been, the people they'd met with, the parties they'd been to. As they did now, and Maddy tried to guess what the President was up to. I told you, I'll tell you when I can, stop guessing. Secrets drive me crazy, she giggled. You drive me crazy, he said, turning her gently toward him, and feeling the satin of her flesh beneath the silky nightgown (Steel, p. 15). The quotation above shows that woman still is put in inferior position. Because of her position in inferior, man always regards woman’s existence as a sexual object not as a friend in helping her husband in solving the problems. From the quotation above, Maddy feels curious what is talking with her husband with the president, she tries to ask well but her husband instead say crazy to Maddy. Jack only focuses on her body which is reflected in he stops her husband’s conversation which tries to ask what happens between her husband and president, Jack instead turns Maddy gently toward him, and feeling the satin of her flesh beneath the silky nightgown. 2. The Strategy woman’s resistance against violence 2.1 Speak out “Have you ripped Jack's head off yet about our editorials? He grinned at her. No, but I will later, when I see him. As Jack and Maddy sped together toward Georgetown, she said to Jack “What the hell happened to our editorials? “Bullshit, Jack, they love them. Whydidn't you say something to me about it this morning?” She still looked annoyed. You never even asked me. It would have been nice to know. I think you really made the wrong decision on that one. (Steel, chapt 3: 27) The quotation above shows that Maddy tries to do refusal against Jack’s treatment that suddenly stopped the editorial program which is hosted by Maddy. For Maddy, the act of Jack that has stopped the editorial program which is hosted by her is as form of individual rights violation as Jack who always created his own decisions without giving freedom his wife to speak or deliver her ideas or just giving refusal with Jack’s concepts which must be runned by his wife. In working place, Jack is as a concept maker meanwhile Maddy is just a puppet that only run the duties of work from Jack without being given the opportunity to give her ideas. Maddy dare to challenge Jack the event that a decision to dismiss an editorial decision is the kind of action one dared speak against the arbitrary actions of Jack who always underestimate the ability of Maddy in guiding news event. “I'm so proud of you, Madeleine,” said a soft voice Phyllis Armstrong , wife of the president. “That was a very brave thing you did, and the editorial is very necessary. It was a wonderful broadcast, Maddy.” “Thank you, Mrs. Armstrong, said Maddy.” (Steel, chapt 3: 32) The quotation above shows that Maddy has strengtheness against Jack’s commands which acrosses with Maddy’s principle. She does not want to regard herself as victim of victimhood. Although Jack has stopped the program however Maddy is not afraid to air the program without unbeknownst by Jack. Without helping from Jack’s concepts, Maddy actually has power in delivering news well. It can be shown as many audiences and the president’s wife commend her broadcast is very amazing. For Maddy, the struggle which has done by her toward Janet is a form of struggle as woman to help other women and also her efforts to show her existence. In the sphere of work, Maddy does not want to regulated by Jack, she wanted to be given the opportunity to organize the editorial program which is ever hosted by her. 2.2 Doing action Liberal feminism supports that every women have equal rights and freedom same as men, including freedom in making choice for reproduction. As Maddy decides to marry with Jack, she thinks that her life will brings happiness. Jack always brings luxurious gifts for Maddy, she never got abuses physically like her marriage life with Bobby Joe and her childhood life that her father always beats her and his mother. However, Jack never gives rights as individual and social beings. One of human right violation which is perpetrated by Jack to Maddy is prohibitting Maddy to have a baby that Maddy must allow her tube of uterus tied in the name of love her for Jack. “Why didn't you tell me that you'd had a visit from my daughter?” Her eyes never lefthis as she asked the question, and she saw something cold and hard come into his, a burning ember that was rapidly being kindled by anger. “Why didn't you tell me you had a daughter?” he asked just as bluntly. “What I want to know from you is why you didn't tell me that you saw her. What were you saving it for?” (Steel, 111) The quotation above shows that as a woman, Maddy wants to her existence can be regarded, a form of recognition of the existence of women by men with giving woman to create reproduction choice. From the quotation above is explained that Maddy shows her anger to Jack as he has intended Maddy to meet her daughter who has ever regarded lost. The action of Jack to Maddy can be categorized with human rights violation to have descent. Understanding that Jack never accept Lizzy’s presence, Maddy does not care how Jack will respond the situation. In Maddy’s mind is only Lizzy. She deserves to have a right for having a child after Jack ever loss Maddy’s opportunity. As stated by Naomi Wolf that social equality is not things that are entreated from others. Women must be ready to have a place that has become their rights. Maddy realizes that she has a right to be mother without asking for permission from Jack, she still maintain her rights to regard Maddy to be her children and meets with her. The quotation can be seen below: “Where were you? Try telling me the truth this time.I was with Lizzie. Who is that?” My daughter. Oh, for God's sake,” he said.” (Steel, p.129). 2.3 Being Personal Autonomy “You owe me everything. And I hope you realize you'll be out of a job if you leave me.” His eyes glittered like steel.“Possibly. I'll let my lawyers handle that, Jack. I have a contract with the network.You can't just throw me out without notice or compensation.” She had gotten braver and smarter while fighting for her life in the rubble. (185) Based on the above text can be proved that maddy had dared to oppose, and to threaten Jack behind. The quotation above explains that the woman has power to determine self, body, and mind. Maddy has shows how she is able to stand alone. For sake of happiness and pleasure, she does not let his wife to hurt her heart agains. She deseves to find her autonomous choices witthout being afraid with threats from her husband as stated by John Stuart Mill above. After she decides to leave living which is borrowed by Jack, Maddy get offers to become a broadcaster of three big television station still she thinks that it is time for her taking care her daughter and her son first. She wants to feel how being a mother thrutfully as John Stuart Mill states that women have power to determine her self, her body, and her mind. In this case Maddy wants to determine her self as a mother first, “I don't know yet. I want to go back to work, but I want to enjoy you and Andy for a while. This is my first chance, and my last, to be a full-time mother. Her lawyer was organizing a major lawsuit against Jack and his network. He owed her a huge severance for kicking her out of her job, and there was the issue of slander, malicious intent, (Steel, p. 201). She also wants to determine her body as Madelaine Beaumont. Determining self, body, and mind according his or her own wishes without getting a force from other, it means that he or she has been personal autonomy. The quotation can be seen below: “She didn't want anything more to do with Jack Hunter. Even if she went on another show again, she had decided to do so as Madeleine Beaumont.” (Steel, p. 199) The quotation on 199-201 above can be explained that Maddy as an individual that has found her true identity as a woman, who ever had been despoiled by Jack, her husband. With the emergence of self confidence on Maddy cultivates an attitude of optimism in her mind that without abundant wealth from, happiness could be achieved by Maddy with is accompanied by her children. Maddy could choose to leave her husband, changes her name with using her own name and decides to work again without any coercion from others, she has personal autonomy, a autonomous decision making. Besides she has been personal autonomy, she also becomes a flourishing person that she still decides to work and she is not afraid to sue her husband and her husband networking as he had done violation toward Maddy’s name. CONCLUSION The first problem is domestic violence to woman reflected. Based on the result of data analysis and discussions which have been explained on previous chapter, it is revealed that in Journey happens oppression which is perpetrated by Jack to Maddy in their marriage life in some aspects, including emotional, sexual abuses then discrimination in sphere of work. Emotional abuse is reflected in Journey including humiliation, threatening, belittling, social isolation which is committed all by the main male character to the main female character. Meanwhile sexual abuse is reflected in Journey including prohibition to have a baby by the main male character, Jack to the main female character, Maddy, forces in having sex, use torturing sexually when having sex as a punishment so that the main female character is submissive with the main male character. Discrimination in working spheres also reflected in Journey including subordination toward integrity of woman, for instance woman is considered incapable of doing anything without the concept of men's, women in this novel is described only as a performer who does things her own unsubstantiated opinion, and woman is only regarded as an benefit asset in increasing television program which is guided by the main female character. Woman in Journey need only look beautiful in a career without having to use her mind and her ability as an independent individual. In Journey, the female character, Maddy is always prosecuted for looking beautiful, elegant and not much demand to her husband. Woman does not have important role in all of spheres such as in her private life at home and in her public life at working place. The second problem is how woman resists against violence. The forms of woman’s resistance which are reflected in Journey, including speak out action, act of courage to speak to her husband when finding things that are not in accordance with her conscience in addition to speak out, the main female character in Journey resists violence through doing action, against the rules which across with the principle of the main female character mind as the image of woman in Journey is reflected very dare to oppose rules which limit ability of woman in expression. As her husband still does not show change in attitude, finally the main female decides to become personal autonomy, dare to take a firm stance with which she considers leaving her husband and had trampled her dignity as a woman. In the field work, Maddy in an attempt to show her integrity dare express her opinions, and show the concept of the work which should become her responsibility. Besides she is brave to speak out, the main female character in attempt to get happiness she is brave to oppose all imposed restrictions by the main male character, Jack. Form of opposition is reflected in Journey is she keeps on airing the program of editorial, which has been banned by Jack. The main female character presents the editorial in an effort to gain public attention over the fate of other women, still socialization with her friends, and meets with her daughter although she gets refusal from her husband. Besides doing action, the female character chooses to be personal autonomy with leaving home in order to getting happiness in her life. She has successed in determining her self, her body, her thinking that she will be happy without her husband. The resistance of female character to her husband for leaving her husband is having arisen awareness in women that she can be independent in the material, social, and can decide for the direction and purpose of her life with the ability, intelligence, skills she has with supporting her friends, and her daughters. She wants to reach her dreams to achieve happiness without getting abuses, and being a mother for her daughter who is ever entrusted in baby house and a new baby whom she gets from her friend, find another men who can love her so much and understand her weakness or her excess. SUGGESTION From some of the conclusion above, the writer can propse following suggestions: a) Gender injustice can happen anytime and anywhere and overwrite both men and women in all aspects and levels of life. 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Request Strategies of Children Character in Diary of A Wimpy Kid Movie AGUSTINA ALIDA KHOIROTUN NISA
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 2 No 1 (2014): Vol.2 No.1 2014
Publisher : The English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Surabaya

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Request Strategies of Children Character in Diary of A Wimpy Kid Movie Agustina Alida Khoirotun Nisa’ English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University Agustinanisa59@yahoo.co.id Lisetyo Ariyanti English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, SurabayaStateUniversity Lisetyo.a@yahoo.com Abstrak Menarik untuk mendiskusikan ucapan anak-anak dalam menggunakan ungkapan permintaan dalam konteks teman sebaya dan keluarga. Anak-anak di usia ini mempunyai kemampun yang baik dalam menggunakan strategi yang berbeda dalam menyatakan permintaan. Studi ini mencoba mencari tipe-tipe apa yang dipakai anak-anak di usia sebelas tahun dalam film Diary of A Wimpy Kid dan alasan mengapa mereka menggunakannya. Dengan menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif, study ini menemukan bahwa anak-anak di umur sebelas tahunberhasil menggunakan ungkapan permintaan dengan benar sesuai dengan partisipan, situasi serta topiknya.Karena anak-anak di usia sebelas tahun telah mengerti tentang tindakan face-threatening, mereka bisa memilih strategi yang sesuai berdasarkan power variabel, distance, dan tingkatan imposition. Kata kunci : Kesopanan, Permintaan, Respon, Anak-anak, Keluarga, Teman Sebaya Abstract It is tempted to discuss about children utterances in using request strategy, especially in peer and family context. Children in that age have good competence in using different strategy in asking request.This study tries to find out the type of request which are used in children in the age of eleven by using Diary of A Wimpy Kid movie and the reason why they use that. By using descriptive qualitative this study has been found that children in the age of eleven is success in using request properly based on situation, topic and participant.This study says that request strategies can be displayed in children utterances. Since children in the age of eleven have understood about face-threatening act, they can choose proper type and strategy based on such variable power, distance and rating of imposition. Keywords : Politeness, Request, Response, Children, Family, Peer INTRODUCTION: In sociological side, politeness is not a choice, but rather an obligation that responsible members of society are expected to show. Politeness is the norm, and lack of politeness will likely cause problems in society and breakdowns in interactions. Request as a basic polite speech act is examined in this study. Request action is defined when someone indicates that he wants hearer to do something or refrain from doing some act. (Brown and Levinson, 1987). In daily conversation there are many ways to get the things that someone wants. They usually say to a group of friends, “Go get me that plate!”, or “shut up!” In the other hand when they are in the formal situation which contain a group of adult like parents they must say “Could you please pass me that plate, if you don’t mind?” and “I am sorry”. I don’t mean to interrupt, but I am not able to hear the speaker in the front of the room”. Different situations force people to adjust themselves, their behaviour and their words to fit the occasion. Socially it would seem unacceptable if the phrase were reversed. Many recent studies discover politeness phenomena in language usage and language context. Request is the most area which is observed because it obviously deals with face threatening act. Gender context merely describes the difference of female and male utterance in using request (Ruli, 2010).That study use found that Male tend to be direct when aexpress their need rather than Female. The thesis is from State University of Surabaya which describe the request strategies in the gender differences context. This study show the gender differences phenomena and show the women dominantly minimize face threat rather than man. Oppose to Aji’s thesis, this study do not examine gender differences in children the age of eleven. Family and peer context is emphasized in this study. Cross-cultural context dominantly explores the difference between native English and non-native English(Fukushima, 2003). Children area is alsonecessary to be explored since the certain age determines the capability of children in using request. (See further explanation in Chapter 2) Dealing with children, many linguists are more concern with their acquisition of morphology, phonology which is described more in psycholinguistic area. It deals with their competence and performance of their language development. That development happens through their early age. After they are in the middle school that are in the age between eleven until thirteen they must be good in language use and language context. The children do not get rid of their acquisition of politeness. Ervin-Trip (1977: 175) suggests that 3-year-old children begin to use variety forms to convey requests such as imperative form (Can you..), permission form (Can I..) or model embedding (You can..). Gordon and Ervin-Tripp (1984) also suggests that 4-year-old children can understand the situation e.g. ‘it goes there’ become ‘that doesn’t go there, it goes there’ which describe rule or norm oriented request and want/need statement e.g.’Mommy I need..’. Children in the age of nine until ten capable to use ‘can you’ and ‘could you’ and use request form with softening device ‘please’. As a result children in the age of eleven will perfectly recognize all request form since the acquisition of the politeness in request has been increased and improved through elementary school period. Beside language acquisition, children also learn politeness (Brown & Levinson, 1978 p.36). Politeness constitutes more than the ability to comprehend and produce particular linguistic forms. In home, children apply polite form independently with or without instruction of their parents. Home is first place in which children are exposed to social norms and language samples that represent and convey these norms is usually the family. In the family, caregivers and peers provide input for children to work on, and they also help children in socialization. It is also the important place for children to construct politeness term. In this place a naturally symmetrical power relationship between parents and children is appeared obviously.Parents teach their children how to speak with older people, how to be polite in dinner table and many other. Sometimes children learn politeness by imitating older person. Children are trying to imitate what they hear (Fromkin, Rodman, and Hyams: 2007, p.325) and have possibility to imitate what they see. Children at the early age like to mimic or imitate those adults around them that they love. Children love to please their parents then they will naturally do the same thing they do. They will be the followers of parents act and as a result parents should be careful of what kind examples which they display before their children follow that. Ladeegard (2004) argues that, according to the sex, boys and girls at that age under fifteen still have same level in acquisition of politeness. As a result this study does not display gender differences in children utterance. Children whether it is boy or girl, learn to be able to choose the proper utterance when they ask request to older people in their family. Their requests are less courteous than adults. It is not like language acquisition for example syntax and semantic that can be learned by children spontaneously. Children in acquisition of politeness routine have to be constructed with certain rules which should be taught by parents (Gleason & Perlman, 1985). Parents should take an active part explicitly instructing their children in the use of appropriate politeness device. The use of polite forms is motivated by children to sound competent (Achiba, 2003). Not only parents but also older brother or sister have a similar role to teach politeness speech act to younger, although the degree of closeness between parents and children is more intimate than their siblings. In relative power, children must be good because its must. They learn firstly in their home so that they will be ready to accept their personality in society. Peers also have a crucial rule for the children to build their communication. Like in the Diary of A Wimpy Kid movie, peers also take active part for children to develop communication system and linguistic devices. Diary of a Wimpy Kid is based on novel with same title which the first published in 2007 and was written by JeffKinney. The film was released in 2010. It tells about boy named GregHeffley and his struggles in middle school. Greg has a bestfriend named Rowley which he thinks that Rowley is too childish for boy in the age of eleven. Greg is the second son from three siblings. The relation among family member is as well as among their peers. This film tells about a middle-school boy who always stuck in bad luck. He actually wants to be a popular student the school and tries to do anything to make him become extraordinary student. Unfortunately, everything happens in the opposite way and become popular in the negative side. That is make Greg goes awry then writes all of his experience in the diary which he insists that it is journal of him. His ambition become a well-known boy in the school make him ruins his friendship with Rowley. In this movie, there are many children charactersand their utterance can be discussed. They have interaction with their peers in school and their family in their home. Children in this movie are about eleven years old who have competent in language acquisition. Since the main character in this movie is Greg who are very ambitious, arrogant and save his image, he can choose proper strategy when he wants to express his need according to situation, the addressee and weightiness of his need. In this age, children have capability to save his face and also threaten his image (see ch. 2). This study concerns with relationship between children and parents as an asymmetrical relation. In the other hand, the relationship among children and peer also sibling as a symmetrical relation. Theoritical Framework This study tells us about children pragmatic competence in this case about of politeness in request. The theory from Brown and Levinson (1987) is used to become theoretical framework in this study. They define face as self public image that everyone owns which contains positive and negative face. They (Ibid: 61) distinguish two types of face: positive and negative face. Positive face refers to the need for approval and appreciation, need to be accepted or valued by others or to be connected by others, to be treated as a member of the same group and to know that his or her wants are shared by others, while the negative face refers to the want for autonomy, freedom from imposition which not to be imposed on by others, and freedom of action which need to be independent. There are many part of politeness according to Brown and Levinson’s face-threatening act (FTAs) such as orders, requests, warnings, reminding and threats. Infact, this study discusses about request form. The requests fall into five strategies which contain bald on record, off record, negative politeness and positive face, and no FTA. There are also strategies in each types but not all of strategy is fulfilled in this study. Each strategies are provided based on the utterances which avaible in the movie. Brown and Levinson (1987:74) state that the degree of seriousness in doing FTA is based on the three factors; the social distance (D) of speaker and hearer which reflect a symmetric relation in children with their peers. Secondly is the relative power (P) of speaker and hearer which concern with an asymmetric relation in children with their parents and older brother and the third is about the absolute rating of imposition (R) in certain situation. Based on the background of the study above, the questions below will be answered. (1). What types of request are used by children character in Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie? (2). Why do children in Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie use that request strategy? Research Design and Method: This study uses descriptive qualitative.Thomas (2003) defines qualitative methods as method that involves research by describing kinds of characteristics people and events without comparing the events in term of amounts. The characters which are observed is children in the middle school (11-year-old kids). The characters in this movie dominantly use children character in peer and familtywhich suitable to conduct this study. To get an accurate data without manipulating the data, observation is needed. Several movie had to be watched and selected which one can be the most represented this study. Finally this study took Diary of A Wimpy Kid which was able to display the Request strategy in children utterance. The researcher, as an instrument of the study, watched the movie for several times to understand and got the data. Some notes which relating to the utterances about request had to be taken.After watching the movie, the scripts are searched in internet to identify the data. These scripts of the movies which had been gotten by search in internet were learned and then the children’s utterances which contain with request phenomena were taken.As the final method of collection data, the data is classified into type of the request. Analysis data technique according to Sugiyono(2011) is aimed to answer the research question in the study. After finding the utterances which related to request form, the data will be organized systematically.And the utterances which contain request form will be underlined. Participant refers to the speaker and hearer that can be disinguished as requester and requestee. Setting and scene refers to the time and place of a situation that the utterance happen. The dialogue is segmented into the type of request in order to make it easier to conduct the study. Data analysis For the first question this study take theory from the theoritical framework which concern with politeness in requesting to support the data. The children utterances which belong to request form will be identified and described whether it is bald on record, off record, negative or positive politeness, and say nothing. Second question deals with the reason why the character use the strategy. This part has to find out the background story and the motivation of the speaker to do that. This study also finds out the relationship between speaker and hearer. RESULT As the explanation of the request strategies, this study describe request into five possible types; Do the act on-record baldly (direct request). Do the act on-record with positive politeness. Do the act on-record with negative politeness. Do the act off-record (nonconventional indirect). Do not do act or no FTA (say nothing). On record On Record utterance is utterances directly addressed to another.Brown and Levinson (1987) categorize on record into two subcategorised; without redressive action or baldly (which FTA is not minimized, where face is ignored or is irrelevant) and with redressive action or baldly (which minimize face threats by implication). 1. Without redressive action Rowley: So I left my racing game at your house and Collin is sleeping over tonight so, I need it back (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 01:19:20) Rowley adds some information to assure that his request will be accepted by the hearer. This situation Rowley as a speaker maximizes FTA and ignores negative face of the hearer which needs to be free from action and imposition. This request is categorized as request for an action. Rowley uses bald on record because he wants to threat negative face of the hearer. Rowley easily damaging Greg’s face.. It is obvious that Rowley wants to redress hearer’s face by the request which he makes in direct way. The degree of closeness and intimacy is very low since they have been argued each other. 2. With redressive action Greg : Hey I forgot my raincoat, so I’m gonna need you to walk the kids home today (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 54:05) Speaker obviously does FTA but he tries to minimize face-threatening by adding some explanation and the reason why the speaker made that request. Itis because he has power distance over the hearer since both of them is close enough.Speaker thinks it is fine to threaten hearer’s face since hearer does not have power over the speaker and high degree of closeness. Speaker tends to express his need directly and assumes that the request will be accepted because hearer has knowledge about speaker’s condition. Greg : Mom stop dancing, you are embarassing me. Mom: Oh come on. I’m just keeping time to the music. Greg : I’m begging you, please stop it. Mom : Oh, okay (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 01:16:00) With imperative form, the utterance is obviously threatening negative face of the hearer to make his mother really can catch the request. In the first request his mother ignores him and keeps dancing. Then he continues to give additional expression with mitigation aspect which provide softening deviceto make the request appears less threaten and more polite.He is in the embarrassing situation. Bald on record is used when speaker has consciously chosen to be maximally offensive. Although the relationship between them is mother and her son which imply high power relation, in this situation this factor is avoided. High rating of imposition becomes main factor in this situation. Greg uses that to assure hearer that Greg as speaker truly wants his other receive the request. Positive politeness 1. By using in group identity markers Speaker can use address form, jargon or slang to mention something but speaker and hearer have known about it. Fregley : Hey guys wanna see my secret freckels? (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 08:41) Fregley in this situation minimizes face threat and satisfies the hearer’s positive face. He also emphasizes closeness and intimacy between speaker and hearer. He tries to convey in-group membership by saying “hey guys”. Fregley as a speaker, who is still just friend like other, wants to show that he wants to be part of them. It is because he wants to look familiar and implies that he want to be accepted in that group. Since the relationship between speaker and hearer is friend with lack of likeness degree. 2.By asserting or presupposing speaker’s knowledge, and concern for hearer’s wants Speaker states the utterances which want to presuppose that speaker’s want would become hearer’s want also. Angie : You know, I really like your point of view, you should sign up to the school paper. (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 24:29) With declarative form,Anggie as a speaker redresses directed toward positive face of hearer which need to be respected, accepted and approved. Speaker’s want thought be desirable for hearer too. This request does not threatening hearer’s face if speaker wants to show his desire to make hearer to do something for speaker. Anggie uses that strategy because she wants to put pressure on Greg to cooperate with her. It is also to imply knowledge of hearer’s wants and willingness to fit one’s own wants with them. Since the relationship between them is a girl with a boy with getting knows her name, Anggie tries to emphasize their intimacy and shows that both of them have similar interest in school paper. 3.By including both speaker and hearer in the activity Speaker conveys their closeness and intimacy by using some expression. This solidarity strategy will be marked via inclusive terms such as ‘we’ and ‘let’s’ to invite hearer in activity together. Greg : Oh man, this one, we burn. (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 35:05) Although the utterance indicates direct request, but the expression “oh man” and “we” emphasizes equality between them. Positive politeness strategy is oriented toward the positive face of the hearer which has desire to be approved as a member in a group. It also minimizes FTA by assuring the hearer that speaker consider himself to be ‘of the same kind’ that hearer also wants speaker’s want.Greg uses this strategy because he wants to satisfy positive face of the hearer. The word “we” in this situation actually does not mean ‘you’ and ‘i’ which just include speaker in the activity. Since relationship between them is best friend, stressing closeness suitable to be applied. Speaker treats the hearer as a member of an in-group, a friend. 4.By asking for reasons Speaker asks the reason why hearers do not do based on what speaker wants to ask to the hearer. Greg : You know what, if you like it so much, then Why don’t you go do it yourself? (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 53:32) Actually this situation leads to pressure to go off record, to test hearer and see if he is cooperative. If hearer is likely cooperative enough, the context may be enough to push the off-record reason into an on-record request. Since positive politeness is in the indirect request area, FTA is minimized and tries to satisfy hearer positive politeness which wants to be appreciated and approved. It is because Greg as a speaker assume that Rowley as a hearer wants speaker’s want. Indirect suggestion is actually demanded rather than give the reason. Since the relationship between speaker and hearer is friendship, power distance between them is high enough. Speaker is trying to be indirect to save hearer’s face and does not damage speaker’s face. Negative Politeness Negative politeness strategies refer to the use of conventional indirectness or please to maximize the hearer’s freedom of actions (Brown Levinson, 1978). It is oriented mainly toward partially satisfying (redressing) hearer’s negative face, his basic want to maintain claims of territory and self-determination. There are four strategy which is provided in this study. 1. By being conventionally indirect By being conventionally indirect degrees of politeness in the expression of indirect speech acts. Rowley : Can I throw at you now? Greg : Later. You’re better at riding than I am, and I’m a better thrower. (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 28:12) Rowley as a speaker tries to minimize FTA. As a result face-saving aspect is dominantly used in the situation. Speaker explicitly formulates a question, and, by implication, intends that question to be taken as a requestSince Rowley wants to be a thrower he uses negative politeness because there is a big possibility for speaker to refuse the request. This strategy gives redress to hearer’s negative face by explicitly expressing doubt “can I..”. Rowley tries to avoid face damage because of hearer’s refusal although he tries to convey his want. The relationship between them is best friend. So each other do not have power to emphasize their need directly in this situation. 2. By questioning or hedging Speaker can show his feeling about he has not taking full responsibility for the truth of his expression. Questioning or hedging can also show strengthen face of threatening act of speaker. Greg : Don’t you ever say “hi” or “hello” before you start talking? (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 24:08) The utterance is not directly addressed to the hearer. This type helps speaker to avoid responsibility of doing FTA when speaker actually wants to do FTA but wants to be indirect also.Greg uses the strategy because he actually feels uncomfortable and asks question like that to make Anggie realizes that he does not like her. The utterance could be glossed as “I indirectly ask request to you to say ‘hi’ or ‘hello’ before interrupting us”. Since the relationship between speaker and hearer is a boy with a girl who ‘just getting know her name’, they have lack of closeness degree. Greg tends to be indirect since power of distance between them is low. 3. By being pessimistic Speaker is not sure with what s/he wants to ask for and this strategy expresses asking permission to make request. This strategy describes that speaker asks request to hearer indirectly to do a particular act by questioning hearer’s ability to do that act (can you). Greg : Mom, can you tell him to stop calling me like that? How if somebody hears? (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 39:13) Negative politeness eliminates FTA and emphasizes face-saving aspect. Speaker tends to save hearer’s negative face which has a right and autonomy to be free from action and imposition. Since relationship between them is a son with his mother, asymmetrical relation is emphasized. As a vertical relationship, the power of mother is higher than her son. Greg avoid direct request like an assertion “I’d like you to tell him stop calling me like that” because he has to save hearer’s face who has power over him. The speaker wants to communicate his desire to be indirect even though in fact the utterance goes in direct. 4.By going on record as incurring a debt, or as not indebting hearer Speaker actually wants to ask request in direct way. But to make the request less threaten they use some additional expression. Greg : Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to secure the perimeter. (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 47:30) With declarative form, Greg as a speaker wants to be direct but in indirect way, since this utterance tends to be conventional indirect. This utterance also belongs to request for permission because speaker does not ask hearer to do something but ask her to permit speaker to do something. Greg uses this strategy because Greg is trying to preserve his face and also satisfy hearer’s face wants. He wants to save Anggie’s face as a redress. This strategy is suitable to be applied since the relationship between hearers and speaker is friend which has low degree of degree. The more distant someone, the more indirect the utterance he made. Off Record Off record which belongs to nonconventional indirect make speaker less threaten hearer’s face. 1. By giving hints Speaker provides some hints that consist in ‘raising the issue of’ some desire to do something, say, stating motives or reasons for doing action. Quentin : What did he just say to you? Greg : Oh, I think my ride is here (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 16:44) The utterance is not directly addressed to the hearer. This type helps speaker to avoid responsibility of doing FTA when speaker actually wants to do FTA. Speaker decides to say something, he does not have to ask for anything. It is because he wants to evade the responsibility of damaging hearer’s face by leaving the option for hearer to interpret that as off record requests. Since the relationship between speaker and hearer is a boy with someone who ‘just know the name’ as the result Greg with low degree of closeness to do FTA or even FSA (Face-saving act). 2. By being overstate Speaker tends to says more than is necessary. He delivers the utterance by exaggerating or choosing a point on a scale which is higher than the actual state of affairs. This strategy can be found in this movie when speaker use “I’ve told you like a billion times” when actually speaker does not say that in billion times. Greg : ‘Play’ rowley, ‘play’? I’ve told you like a billion times that the guys in our age say “hang out”, not “play” (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 17:30) This declarative form is used when speaker wants to do an FTA but in indirect way. Speaker threatens Rowley’s negative face implicitly. If a speaker wants to do it off record and leave it up to the addressee to decide how to interpret the utterance. Speakersays something which higher than actual state. It is just implicature that he has been told hearer for many times. Rowley as a hearer is expected to understand what speaker wants to ask. Since relationship between them is friendship, the message can easy to be understood and Greg as a speaker does not get trouble if he threatens his friend’s negative face and damages his positive face. No FTA No FTA or say nothing is type of request which explain that nothing is said. It is because the risk of face loss is extremely great (Yule: 1997). No FTA indicates performing no face-threatening acts. There are two strategies in this type; when speaker provvide hints and when speaker shows his mimic. 1.Hint in this situation, when they want to express their need, speakers says nothing but the provide a hint. Greg and Rowley : (Stands and brings tray) Bryce : That seats is saved. (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 15:45) Actually they want to sit in the table like other student. But they are afraid. As a result they just stand there and expect their friends understand that Greg and Rowley want to sitthere. Speaker rejects to do FTA by saying nothing. Speaker does not threaten hearer’s FTA or damages them. Greg also does not use face-saving aspect in their action. It is because the risk of face loss is extremely great. Nothing is said makes the speaker seems to prefer to have their needs recognized by the other without having to express those needs in language. Since relationship between them is boywith someone who get to know their name. Solicitousness is expected to be gotten by Greg who needs to sit at same table. 2.Mimic Without any verbally request, speaker can just show his mimic. Rowley : Oh, Greg is only here because he really wants to be something... Greg : Rowley!! Rowley : (silent) (Diary of A Wimpy Kid, 24:15) He tries to avoid face-threatening act by saying nothing. However he hopes that Rowley agrees with Greg to shut up.Since the relationship between them as close friend, their intimacy makes the communication can be easily understood to one another. Greg provides a hint by calling hearer’s name to make hearer feel conscious with that request. Nothing is said make the risk of face loss is extremely great. Those analysis are summarized into table which contain the request utterances, the type and the strategy. No. Request Utterances Type Strategy 1 So I left my racing game at your house and Collin is sleeping over tonight so, I need it back On record Without Redressive Action 2. Hey, I forgot my raincoat, so I’m gonna need you to walk the kids home today On record With Redressve Action 3. Mom stop dancing, you are embarrassing me. I’m begging you, please stop it. On record Withhout & With Redressive action 4. Hey guys, wanna see my secret freckels? Positive Politeness By using in group identity markers 5. You know, I really like your point of view, you should sign up to the school paper Positive Politeness By asserting or presupposing speaker’s knowledge, and concern for hearer’s wants 6. Oh man this one, we burn. Positive Politeness By including both speaker and hearer in the activity 7. Why don’t you go do it yourself? Negative Politeness Asking the reason 8. Can I throw at you now? Negative Politeness Conventionally indirect 9. Don’t you ever say ‘hi’ or ‘hello’ before you start talking? Negative Politeness By questioning 10 We should probably do something outside Nwgative Politeness By Hedging 11 Mom, can you tell him to stop calling me like that? Negative Politeness Bybeing pessimistic. 12 Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to secure the perimeter. Nrgative Politeness By going on record as incurring a debt. 13 Oh, I think my ride is here Off-record Giving hint 14 I’ve told you like a billion times that the guys in our age say “hang out”, not “play” Off- record Overstate 15 Rowley!! No-FTA Mimic 16 (Stand and bring tray) No-FTA .Hint Table 1: Request Utterances Context situation, participant, setting, and topic are basic factors that influence the children character using the type of request itself. Participants include who is asking and who is s/he asking to. It refers to variable which include in the dialogue (Age, distance). The setting of the interaction includes when and where they are speaking. The topic means what is being talked. Setting concerns with the third variable which include rating of imposition. Children in the age of eleven can differentiate their language usage based on who requestee is. Since the requestee is friend who was same age, they tend to satisfy hearer face by using positive politeness. They also still maximize FTA since hearer does not need to be respected. In the other hand when the requestee is older than them or with requestee with low degree of closeness they tend to respect them by being indirect and minimizing FTA. It is appeared when children try to imply they want, they tend to use negative politeness and on record but with mitigating device. Children in this movie can use certain request strategy based on the topic which being talked by them. Topic deals with the rating of imposition that requester may indirectly or directly asks request based on what they want to ask. The more burden which want to express, the more indirect the request is uttered. Situation holds an important role in the use of request strategy. When in danger or urgent situation, requester does not have to minimize FTA or be indirect. It is because the ambiguity or unambiguous in the communication can happen. As a result clear, direct and fast response is needed to make requestee responds and catches the message fast. Children in this movie can successfully minimize the FTA by using certain request strategy which is reflected in the language usage. Greg tends to be direct, and Rowley as his friends tends to be indirect. Since Greg is a reflection of ambitious, bossy and arrogant boy and Rowley is a childish, innocent and caring heart. DISCUSSION: It is tempted to interpret that this study finds that children in the age of eleven use all of types in the request succesfully. It is more likely that the data reported tells something about children pragmatic’s competence and their awareness of applying sociolingusitics area. According to Ladeegard, there is not gender differences of children in the age of 3 until 7. Not only boys but also gilrls, use same umitigated and/or mitigated device in their utterances. This statement is confirmed in this study. Although the children’s utterances which are analysed through this film is a boy, this study can speculate that girl also have similar degree in using those types of request, which also inlclude mitigated and umitigated device. The three varibles including power, distance and rating of imposition influence the choice in requesting and responding strategies between children and their requestee. These result support Brown and Levinson’s claim that their three variables are crucial in determining the choice of politeness strategies which is used in request strategies, especially in family and peer context. Since the children grow up, they also learn how to express their want more proper by the time they get older. As Ervin-Tripp has said that (in Ch. 1) children in the age nine until ten they can differentiate the using ‘can you’ and ‘could you’. They also has used ‘please’ to soften their request. This may indicate that children in the age of eleven is the perfect age to be expert in using request strategies according to situation, participant and topic. And it is obviously proven in this study when the children in the age of eleven are succesfully accomplished their request in six different types according to theory of Brown and Levinson’s politeness with various situations, participants and topics. According to Ladeggard (2003; 2018)argues that “Children have a high degree of pragmatic competence because they know the contextual norms of the public context where peer group influence is the predominant force of children’s play and interaction and where assertive behaviour, not politeness is being rewarded” That statement is confirmed in this study since children in the age of eleven are able to use request strategies properly when they are with their peer. Ladeegard (2003; 2019) also speculates that “They are aware of a different set of norms applying to the home context where, pressummably, parents will expect their children to act politely and consequently reward them when they do” From his speculation, it has been proven in this study since children in the age of eleven also are able to be indirect when they are with their parents. It is because in the age of eleven children has capabilty to apply social norm not only in their peer group but also with their family. Direct request form has been uttered by children when the requestee is their peer and their sibling. When they are with their parent, they tend to be indirect by using negative politeness. They even use on record as a direct request but with mitigating device ‘please’ to soften hs utterance. CONCLUSION: There are two statements of the problem n this study. The first statement of the problem is about the type of the request which is used by children in Diary of A Wimpy Kid. This problem is answered with using Brown and Levinson’s theory. Based on Ervin-Trip’s theory which state that children in the age ten can differentiate the using “can you” and “could you” , this study finds that in the age of eleven children must be able to use request strategy in different types. This study do not differentiate the children based on their gender. Because based on Ladeegard (2003), there is not gender difference in using language when they are still under twelve. Parents use similar way to teach them how to express their need. By using 16 data utterances, this study shows that children have capability to use request strategy based on context, especially in peer and family context. Six types of request which is provided in this study based on Brown Levinson’s theory have been accomplished by children in the Diary of A Wimpy Kid movie. Five types includes on record, off record, negative politeness, positive politeness, and no FTA. Children are able to do FTA whether maximise or minimise face-threatening aspect. Children also have capability to do face-saving act since they want to satisfy hearer’s face by their request. The next statement, after analysing the type, the reason children in this movie use that strategy is found. This statement is also answered by giving strategy in every type of the request based on Brown and Levinson’s theory. It is assumed that children in the age are able to show different strategy consider to the person whom he is talking to the topic, the situation, the ways of making request (including intonation) and the choose the right types of request when they perform the request. Children who produce request must pay attention with those considerations, in order to maintain a good relationship with other participant unless it would be assumed as rudeness, sarcasm or even joking since the hearer completely misinterprets the given message. 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FLORENS’S RESISTANCE AGAINST SLAVERY IN TONI MORRISON’S A MERCY DWI ARUM MARYATI
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 2 No 1 (2014): Vol.2 No.1 2014
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FLORENS’S RESISTANCE AGAINST SLAVERY IN TONI MORRISON’S A MERCY Dwi Arum Maryati English Literature, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University dwiarummaryati@yahoo.com Drs. Much. Khoiri, M.Si English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Surabaya State University much_choiri@yahoo.com Abstrak Studi ini berpusat pada Florens sebagai karakter utama dan sebagai orang kulit hitam dan pengalaman hidupnya dalam sistem perbudakan pada abad ketujuh belas di Virginia dan perlawanannya terhadap hal tersebut yang terungkap dalam novel A Mercy. Penelitian ini menggunakan kedua konsep, yaitu konsep perbudakan dan teori Marxis feminis oleh Karl Max. Selain itu, untuk perlawanan yang dilakukan oleh karakter utama, konsep pertahanan seperti istilah silent oleh Audre Lorde, divisi Lanser tentang feminisme dan konsep Engel tentang meniru kaum borjuis juga digunakan untuk melakukan analisis. Selain itu, latar belakang perbudakan di Virginia juga disampaikan untuk memberikan gambaran tentang perbudakan untuk menjawab alasan mengapa Florens ingin melawan sistem perbudakan. Data dalam bentuk kutipan, komentar, dan dialog dalam novel yang mengekspos perbudakan dan pengalaman hidup Florens dan perlawanannya. Analisis kehidupan perbudakan yang dialami oleh tokoh utama dalam novel ini menunjukkan bahwa ia telah hidup sebagai budak kulit hitam dan tidak memiliki hak untuk memiliki kehidupan yang lebih baik. Cara karakter utama mengungkapkan perasaannya tentang perbudakan melalui surat yang ditulis untuk majikannya dan sikap yang meniru kaum borjuis mencerminkan perlawanannya terhadap perbudakan. Kata Kunci: teori Marxist Feminist, perbudakan, orang kulit hitam, perlawanan. Abstract This study is centered on Florens as the main character and as a Negro and her life experiences of slavery in the seventeenth century in Virginia and her resistance against it in the novel A Mercy. The study uses both slavery concept and Marxist Feminist criticism by Karl Max. In addition, for the resistance that the main character does, the concept of resistance such as silent terms Audre Lorde, Lanser’s division of feminism and Engel’s concept about imitating bourgeoisie are also used to conduct the analysis. Moreover, slavery background in Virginia is also delivered to give a description about slavery to approach the reason why Florens wants to resist the slavery system. Data are in form of quotations, comments, and dialogues inside the novel that expose the slavery of Florens’s life experiences and her resistance. The analysis of slavery life experienced by the main character in the novel shows that she has lived as Negro slave and has no rights to have a better life. The way the main character expresses her feeling about slavery through the letter that she writes for her master and her attitude that imitating the bourgeoisie is reflecting the resistance against slavery. Keywords: Marxist Feminist criticism, slavery, Negro, resistance. INTRODUCTION Slavery is a relationship in which one person is controlled by violence through violence, the threat of violence, or psychological coercion, has lost free will and free movement, is exploited economically, and paid nothing beyond subsistence. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery retrieved on October 20th, 2013). Slave means a person who is legally owned by someone else and has to work for them, while slavery means the activity of having slaves or the condition of being a slave. Historically, slaves were institutionally recognized by many societies. They recognized slaves merely as property but others saw them as dependents who eventually might be integrated into the families of slave owners. By the end of 17th century, there were many slavery system and freedom power of the different classes. In America Literary Thought Book reveals that indispensible to the rich sugar economy of the British West Indies, slavery at first was more a convenience than a necessity in the thirteen colonies. Slavery had been practiced in British North America from early colonial days. In 1619, twenty Africans were brought by a Dutch soldier who had seized them from a captured Spanish slave ship and sold to the English colony of Jamestown, Virginia as “indentured servants”. The Spanish usually baptized slaves in Africa before embarking them. As English law considered baptized Christians exempt from slavery, these Africans joined about 1,000 English indentured servants already in the colony. By Colonial America Period, in 1671 Governor Berkeley of Virginia reported 2.000 slaves in the colony as against 4.000 white servants, but after 1680 the Negro population began to grow enormously, and in 1715 had reached 23.000 in Virginia alone. (Horten and Edward, 1967: 376). The novel is A Mercy, and this novel has many sources in culture values and social status values. Both of them are combined into many action and many different events in each period at that time. Then, A Mercy by Toni Morrison depicts slavery which is happened in the end of 17th century. The author describes about the slavery situation, women slaves, the economic situation, and the resistance against slavery in Virginia to amuse reader in understanding this country. The issues are the slavery situation, women slaves, and resistance against slavery. These issues will be discussed more interesting and that the novel can reveal more complex than one perspective or a certain point in one character, or a setting of the study. Toni Morrison’s ninth novel, A Mercy, published in 2008. It is set in the 1690s, in the slave era, at a time when it was perilous to be without the “protection” of a man, independent women were still suspected of being witches and paternalistic relations between men and women were still the norm. In this novel, Morrison brings together representatives of all the major racial categories in the New World—African, Native American, Anglo and mulatto. A Mercy is set in the America of the 1680s, a dangerous time for everyone, male or female, slave or free. There’s Florens, Rebekka, Vaark’s wife; Lina, a dependable servant who is also Rebekka’s closest friend; Sorrow, an odd girl whose dreamy ways make her a poor slave; and Florens’ mother. As Morrison makes clear, all women in this world are at the mercy of the men in their lives; without them, these women are as good as lost. As one character notes, “To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal. Even if scars form, the festering is ever below.” By the slavery period in 1680’s, the slavery status can be treated and ruled. They did nothing, because of powerless people in a discrepancy, and there was a choice of freedom to get satisfaction. Florens, Lina, Sorrow, Willard, and Scully were the sacrificed people to be exploited in work area of slavery system by the master of household, and slave trades. As the novel progresses, other characters bring the New World to life, and each struggles to survive in the face of the wilderness that surrounds them. In addition to Florens, several other women add perspective to the novel, and each proves that no woman is truly free, regardless of color or station. In accordance of background study above, it can be simplify to discuss among two problems that emerge as significant concern toward this novel. How is slavery experienced by Florens in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy? How is Florens’s resistance against slavery in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy? This study will uses two concepts and one theory which are in line with the statement of the problems. The first problem is how slavery experienced by Florens depicted in A Mercy. To answer the first problem, this study uses the concept of slavery. Slavery is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work, (Brace, 2004: 163). There is also an additional slavery background in Virginia which is use to support the analysis. Then the second problem is how Florens’s resistance against slavery. This statement will apply the concept of resistance and Marxist feminist. This concept is developed by Karl Marx. It is use to analyze the bad treatment that Florens had as the oppressed low class woman from the brutality of her owner, her experience to confront the slavery and finally her resistance from slavery. RESEARCH METHOD Research methodology that used in this analysis here must be qualified as an applying in literary appreciation. The thesis is regarded as a descriptive-qualitative study and uses a library research. This study uses novel of Toni Morrison entitled A Mercy that published in 2008 as the data source of this study. The datas are in the form of direct and indirect speech of the characters, dialogues, epilogues and quotations which indicate and represent aspect of slavery and the way it is expressed. This thesis is using the library method in collecting the data. It does not use the statistic method. That is why it is not served in numbering or tables. Library research used an approach in analyzing this study. The kind of library research which is used here is intensive or closely reading to search quotations or phrases. It also used to analyze the literary elements both intrinsic and extrinsic. The references are taken from library and contributing ideas about this study from internet that support the idea of analyzing. The analysis is done by the following steps: (1) Classification based on the statement of the problems. This classification is used to avoid the broad discussion. There are two classifications in this study. They are the depiction of slavery that experienced by Florens. (2) Describing the reason for being slave. Quotations classified the reason for being slave that was done by main character in the novel. (3) Describing the slavery that experienced by the main character. In this case, the quotations that showed and indicated the slavery experienced that was done by the main character. (4) Describing the main character’s resistance against slavery. In this case, the quotations that are showed how the resistance was done by the main character. (5) Drawing the conclusion based on the analysis which is in line with the problems. ANALYSIS The first section is about the description of Florens’s experiences being slave in Master Jacob house. Master Jacob brought Florens from Mr. D’Ortega to pay the whole amount he owes to Master Jacob. Sir saying he will take instead the woman and the girl, not the baby boy and the debt is gone. A minha mae begs no. Her baby is still at her breast. Take the girl, she says, my daughter, she says. Me. Me. Sir agrees and changes the balance due. (Morrison, 2008: 07) That quotation is revealed that Florens was a girl who had been purchased by the Master of Slave at America Slavery. Master Jacob brought Florens from Mr. D’Ortega to pay the whole amount he owes to Master Jacob. After losing the majority of his crew from bad management decisions, D'Ortega offers to give a slave to Jacob to settle their debt. Jacob initially refuses, but requests D'Ortega's favorite servant. Instead, the woman offers her daughter – Florens. The word “minha mae” here means a call for a mother in Portuguese language. She lived with her mother and her brother in Mr. D’Ortega’s house. Her mother had been slaved in Senhor house, who is a Parliament member in Maryland. In the beginning of the novel, Florens still call Jacob as “Senhor” and call Mr. D’Ortega as Sir. It means that at that time when the story took place, Florens still Mr. D’Ortega’s slave. In the other hand, if the slaveowner can sell or exchange their slave with a debt, the person who their change it must be a slave. Because if they change with a free person is set the law of human right, in that time (in 1690) slave usually can exchange with another materials for their Senhor. For the next psychical condition of Florens is she is known as the seven age years old when she firstly come to Master Jacob’s house, and she grow up to the sixteen years when Rebekka as her Mistress Jacob’s wife send her to find the blacksmith. Lina says from the state of my teeth I am maybe seven or eight when I am brought here. We boil wild plums for jam and cake eight times since then, so I must be sixteen. (Morrison, 2008: 05) When Florens firstly came to Master Jacob’s house she just seven years old, and she did not much understand how and why someone must say and faithful, because she is too young for understanding all things. Here she actually do not know her age exactly, perhaps she never given knowledge of her age from her another, that is why she write with word “or”. Here Florens just make statement “I am maybe seven or eight when I am brought here” it can be explained that she is seven ages when she bought to Master Jacob’s house. And when she retells her story, she just grows up as a girl in sixteen. Then, Florens also passed her day as a slave with her mother in the previous master’s house, as describe, Before this place I spend my days picking okra and sweeping tobacco sheds, my nights on the floor of the cookhouse with a minha mae. (Morrison, 2008: 05) This quotation above described Florens’s work in the previous master, Mr. D’Ortega. Her mother had been slaved in Senhor house, who is a Parliament member in Maryland. This condition makes Florens became a slave, because she was born from a slave. She has to fulfill her duties and help her mother. Because she was very young when she lived in Mr. D’Ortega, she got an easy job. She spend her days picking okra and sweeping tobacco sheds. In the night, she sleeps on the floor of the cookhouse with her mother. As a slave, she had no right to ask for a room to sleep, even she was in good health or sick. Moreover, Florens also got a similar treatment when she lives in her new owner, Master Jacob. As follows, In cold weather we put planks around our part of the cowshed and wrap our arms together under pelts. […] in summer if our hammocks are hit by mosquitoes Lina makes a cool place to sleep out of branches. (Morrison, 2008: 06) From the quotation above indicates that Florens treated not too different from the old master. In Master Jacob’s house, she sleeps in cowshed with Lina. They just use a planks to separated them with the cows and use the pelts to warm their hands and their body. And when summer comes, they sleep in hammocks that they bonded between two trees. If their hammocks are broken hit by mosquitoes, they build a bed from branches to sleep. Florens would do the slavery with a pleasure, and she wanted to a good treatment. Mistress Jacob had given her a training system to be a servant of household. And as a slave, she must obey all Mistress’s order. As reflected in her statement “It proves I am no body’s minion but my Mistress (Morrison, 2008: 111)”, it means that there was inseparable relationship between slave and their master because the slave owner paid for unlimited work. They have to fulfill their duty from their master at everytime and everywhere. Because the slave master has complete control over all aspects of the life of the slave, whether the slave is educated or provided medical treatment, what the slave eats and wears, and when the slave can ends their work at that day and sleeps. In America Slavery, there were many servants of the Master who had power and powerless in slavery system implied by the Master and Plantation Owners at that time. All the slaves had suffered on the slavery, because of them had no hope to change in the life chances of slavery. With the same position of them, they had worked on the time regularly and they had worked where the slavery rules was obeyed by the slaves. Therefore, this issue would appear a resistance against the slavery. Resistance occurs when some people feels something wrong against their will or unaccepted behaving. Also according to Marx, resistance occurs as class struggle for exploitation as the fundamental cause, due to the extent which increases the size of the exploitation of working class. In this case, the resistance in this novel has been done by a woman slave, named Florens. In contrast, she lived under a tremendous burden. As woman there are treated as inherently inferior to men and are mostly viewed as servants. She has the freedom of movement when she met the blacksmith. She had the thought of being married and changed her life as a free woman. Thus she has the freedom of choice. Moreover, this freedom of choice is complemented by her freedom of thought. The impetus of the entire novel is testament to Florens’s thought, as she narrates it to the reader. When a child I am never able to abide being barefoot and always beg for shoes, anybody’s shoes, even on the hottest days. (Morrison, 2008: 04) On this quotation revealed that Florens always want to life better. She was born as a nigger, but her desire to live like bourgeoisies lady is huge. She always wanted the best for her. But, born as a slave cause limitations to achieve her dreams. Even for shoes she has to beg for anybody. She tried to convince herself to make a change for her and the other slave. They may poor and worthless, but they want to live like a normal people whose not slave. She never let her foot being barefoot and hurt when she step her foot on the ground, just like bourgeoisie lady. This quotation can supports Marx and Engels’s prediction about woman and children in worker class will be a part of worker market, it is not impossible to them making reaction over the capitalism exploitation which increased not by doing revolution but slowly return woman and children into human source in order to imitate the bourgeoisie life style. Florens, she says, it’s 1690. Who else these days has the hands of a slave and the feet of a Portuguese lady? (Morrison, 2008: 04) From this quotation then can be said that her heart start to resist and says “enough” for the slavery thing. She decided that one day she will get her freedom but she is not taking some act directly. She waits till the right time show up and she will use that chance. As a starting, she changes her attitude and her perspective like a Portuguese lady which always live in glamorous. Moreover, Florens can read and write among three women in Master’s house. It can be seen in Lina’s statement about Florens, “Already Florens could read, write. Already she did not have to be told repeatedly how to complete the chore.” (Morrison, 2008: 61). That quotation revealed that Florens is a clever person, only herself who can read and write among three women. Master and Mistress also do not need to tell Florens many times to fulfill her work in the house. It means that Florens always one step ahead from others. This makes it easy for her to achieve her dream to be free and have a better life when she has a great thought. The highlight point on her resistance is she resists with non-violence actions as the author writing styles with full of simplicity. Until the time Master Jacob develops the pox while building his own grand home, and when close to death, he requests to be brought to the new house to die. After Jacob dies, Rebekka develops pox herself. It brings Florens to her passionate love for the unnamed man comes up again. Her obsession with the man illustrates her youth and inexperience in love. This man also happens to be Florens's lover, and she goes to him with hope in her heart for a new and different life. Lina sends her on a wagon to find the blacksmith since he was able to cure Sorrow of her pox previously. She thus begins her journey alone to find the man she loves with the medicine Rebekka needs. “I’m adoring you” Florens said “And a slave to that too” “You alone own me” (Morrison, 2008: 141) Indicates that her desire becomes stronger and she does not want to postpone it. This thinking is related to Lanser’s theory about the first level of feminism. “Feminine: The main female character in that literary looking about respect for her existence and tries to find a space in togetherness live with other social classes (man).” She belongs to this level due to her thought about marriage things. She wants to find a man who will pay the refund for her to Vaark’s family. Also her thinking also refers to find her existence while all the daylong she is considered as never existed. The blacksmith leaves almost immediately in order to reach Rebekka before the illness takes her life. The man who loved by Florens choose his child rather than being married with Florens. While Florens is overjoyed to be with the blacksmith again, she realizes that he may not feel the same way. He has adopted a young boy, and Florens is worried because the blacksmith acts as if the boy is his future. Not Florens. He tells her, "Own yourself, woman, and leave us be". Florens is in shock over her lost love and once again feels the pain of abandonment she first experienced when her mother urged Jacob to take her. It means her internal conflict appears again and she already thinks about getting her freedom. Her desire to get free is close enough and makes her thinks to leave Vaark’s family as soon as she can. Since her way to get freedom from being married with the blacksmith is failed. Thus, Mistress is now paying Willard and Scully to help out on the farm, while Mistress herself "beats Sorrow, has Lina's hammock taken down, and advertises the sale of Florens" (Morrison, 2008: 155). This quotation revealed that as Florens’s owner, Mistress uses her power and authority to anything to her slave, including sell her to the new owner. Scully allows these things to happen without remarking on them because he needs the money Rebekka is paying him in order to one day be free. As Rebekka considers selling Florens and giving Sorrow, the girl who has an imaginary friend and is too naive to understand her pregnancies away, Sorrow wants to escape. But, Florens wants to finish her story to the blacksmith and Mistress. Afterwards, she runs back to the Vaark farm. Florens is writing her story on the floor and walls of the big house Jacob insisted upon constructing. “You won’t read my telling. You read the world but not the letters of talk.” (Morrison, 2008: 160). She writes both in hopes that the blacksmith will one day read her account as well as a means to catharsis, to free herself from the pain of her multiple abandonments. Florens laments the changes Rebekka has undergone as a result of her new religious piety and the cruelty she has enacted upon the slaves, as described, Downstairs behind the door in the room where Sir dies. Mistress slaps her face. Many times. […..] Her churchgoing alters her but I don’t believe they tell her to behave that way. (Morrison, 2008: 159) Florens' reiterates the blacksmith's conviction about intellectual slavery and writes "that it is the withering inside that enslaves and open the door for what is wild" (Morrison, 2008: 187). Even though the process of writing is painful, "My arms ache but I have need to tell you this" (Morrison, 2008: 188), it is necessary to do so in order for Florens to be free, as follows, I am become wilderness but I am also Florens. In full. Unforgiven. Unforgiving. No ruth, my love. None. Hear me? Slave. Free. I last. (Morrison, 2008: 161) From the quotation above indicates that she begins saying her opinion, her willing to get free through the letter. Like Audre Lorde’s statement about silence transformed into an action, Florens statement is considered to be her action form and also as David B. Loughram stated about resistance types: speech and action. Actually she really in a crisis situation because she can get caught and killed by stating statements that she wants to be free by herself not by her master. Her action actually has a big risk, remembering the rule of slavery is they do not have any rights to speak or against their owner as the person who has the power in exploiting and controlling them. Declaring that she is free by herself clarified that she is truly freed from Mistress Jacob’s slavery. This quotation strongly supports Florens to classify as the second level feminist according to Lanser. Therefore, she belongs to the second level feminism because she already takes an action by brave stating her freedom and took a defense from the physical abused from her owner. CONCLUSION In this chapter, the conclusion of the study of Florens’s Resistance Against Slavery in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy is stated. Based on the analysis of the study there are two conclusions which related with statements of the problems drawn: the depiction of Florens’s experienced in Slavery in Toni Morrison’s A Mercy, and the resistance against slavery in the novel. First, the study shows the events were depicted the slavery that experienced by the slave who served their master in the novel. There is a main character who is Florens and some other supporting character who had been slave. Florens is African Black Slave Girl, Lina is Native American Slave, Sorrow is a mixed – blood girl and she was an unpaid slave, Willard and Scully are indentured servants from Europe. Therefore, they get different responsibility and different treatment of Master Jacob’s determination in the farm house, and companies. Toni Morrison shows up a certain illustration of a slavery background and how Florens was working and getting a different treatment and a different benefit that lead to resistance against slavery. Florens came from family in a poor line, and she was taken by Master Jacob Vaark, and she had helped to the Jacob’s family as a household. At the last period, she was a Negrita Girl. Florens has worked to the tobaccos company, and Master provided to her in living, and he also gave a good care for her condition. After Master died, she did not find a protection from Mistress. She wanted to escape from a Big House when Mistress wants to sell Florens again for the second time. Same as Florens, Sorrow wanted to escape from a Big House after Master died, because Mistress Jacob gave displeasure treatment on her works in a garden and sewing training. She also treated by Mistress Jacob with displeasure when she took a care for her baby intensively. Mistress Jacob did not like Sorrow’s baby while she had lost of her baby. Second, the main character, Florens, resists the system of slavery by doing resistance to her owners, Vaark’s family. Her resistance can be seen from her action and also her speech through letter that she written in Big House as the types like David B. Loughram stated. Her resistance also categorized as non-violence resistance because she does not do anything harmful when she resists them. It also the way to fulfill her material needs; freedom (as in historical materialism discussed). She also categorized into second level feminism as Lanser observed; she declare her freedom by herself is categorized into the second level. Because she already brave to speak up and take some action to realized her dream. Moreover, she considers as young sophisticated woman because all education and knowledge that she got when she was working as slave in Vaark’s family. This case also represents Engels’s theory in his works which stated about “Imitating bourgeoisie”. Florens in here is the represent from Engels’s theory. She imitates the bourgeois life style. She speaks like them, her style like them, and also wants to marry and living like them. REFERENCE Brace, Laura. 2004. “Slaveries and Property: Freedom and Belonging”. The politics of property: labour, freedom, and belonging. Edinburgh: University Press. Engels, Friedrich. 1884. The Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State. Atlanta: Pathfinder Press. Horton, Rod W and Herbet Edward. 1967. Background of American Literary Thought. New York: APPLETON-CENTURY-CROFTS Division of Meredith Corporation. Loughran, David B. 1998. Rebellion. Scotland: Stewarton Bible School Press. Marx, Karl. 1887. Das Capital. Moscow: Progress Publishers. Morrison, Toni. 2008. A Mercy. New York: A Division of Random House, Inc. Olson, Loster C. 1997. “On the Margins of Rhetoric: Audre Lorde Transforming Silence into Language and Action”. Quarterly Journal of Speech 83. pp. 49-70. Internet Source: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Virginia) retrieved on October 20th, 2013. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery) retrieved on October 20th, 2013.
FEMALE REPRESENTATIVE AND RESISTANCE IN OKA RUSMINI’S EARTH DANCE
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 2 No 1 (2014): Vol.2 No.1 2014
Publisher : The English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Surabaya

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FEMALE REPRESENTATIVE AND RESISTANCE IN OKA RUSMINI’S EARTH DANCE Mita Hati Priyantini English Literature, Faculty of Language and Arts, Surabaya State University. Mitahati@rocketmail.com Mamik Triwedawati SS. M.Pd. English Department, Faculty of Language and Arts, Surabaya State University Abstrak Novel Earth Dance merupakan novel karya Oka Rusmini yang menyuarakan kaum subordinasi seperti wanita maupun queer. Dalam tesis ini, penelitian di lakukan terhadap dua tokoh representatif yakni Telaga sebagai tokoh utama dalam novel dan Kenten sebagai karakter queer. Dengan demikian, dapat di rumuskan tiga masalah yaitu (1) Bagaimana penggambaran representatif wanita dalam novel Earth Dance oleh Oka Rusmini; (2) Bagaimana representatif memimpin perlawanan dalam novel Earth Dance oleh Oka Rusmini; dan (3) Bagaimana dampak dari perlawanan terhadap tokoh-tokoh dalam novel Earth Dance oleh Oka Rusmini. Data dari tesis ini di ambil dari novel sebagai sumber utama dan membaca intensif untuk langkah berikutnya. Untuk menjawab semua masalah, penelitian menggunakan teori Feminisme untuk menggambarkan representatif dan perlawanan perempuan, baik penyebab dan dampakanya. Penelitian kepustakaan di gunakan sebagai data pendukung dalam analisis. Selanjutnya, deskripsi analisis di gunakan untuk menjelaskan hasil analisis. Setelah merumuskan tiga masalah dan langkah penelitian di atas, di temukan bahwa representatif wanita yang melakukan perlawanan di sebabkan karena adanya dominasi laki-laki yang meminggirkan wanita dalam konteks budaya Bali. Namun, pada akhirnya perlawanan wanita tetap mendapatkan hukuman dari para dewa yang harus di terima. Kata Kunci: wanita, representatif dan perlawanan. Abstract Earth Dance is novel by Oka Rusmini which championing the subordinate group such as woman or queer. In this thesis, the study is focused on two representative characters; they are Telaga as the main character and Kenten as a queer character in the novel. Thus, there are three problems which will describe in this study (1) how is female representative depicted in Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance; (2) how is female representative leads to female resistance in Oka Rusmini’s Earth dance; and (3) how is the impact of female resistance in Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance characters. The data from this thesis are taken from novel as the main source and intensive reading for the next step. To answer the three problems, the research use theory of Feminism to depict female representative and resistance, whether the cause and impact to the doer. Library research is used as supporting data in analysis. Next is the analysis description used to explain the result of analysis. after the discussion the three problems above, the result is, that female representative did the resistance is because the male domination which subordinate them in the context of Balinese custom. Yet, in the end, these female resistance have to willingly accept their punishment from the gods. Key words : woman, representative and resistance. INTODUCTION The term of women derives from rakta swanita which means women’s seed. Balinese custom were originates from Hinduism, in which the concept of Balinese women is contiguous as Hindu women; they are born, lived and are bound with their desa adat. The concept of of unity between men and women is called arddanisvarimurthi in which men and women are described to complete each other. While Balinese custom establish the joint responsibility of a marriage couple for sociopolitical and religious duties, the earlier ethnography of Bali has often associated men as the heads of the households with the role of representing households (Nakatani, 1997:727). Nakatani found that Balinese women have not only double but also triple roles. This research is done on women’s roles in her family as a wife and mother, their social roles and a breadwinner in the custom. At the end, she calls Balinese women as wonder women. If super women are demanded to do their house chores as well as their career, ‘wonder women’ are demanded to do their role in desa adat as one of the characteristic of Balinese women. Bali which is known as the patriarchal system which oppressed women to will under men’s dominance. Balinese custom arranged women to submissive to their husband though the women is in a high caste or lower caste status without a protest (Chaitanya, 2010:4-5). For Balinese women, the primary tasks are to produce a good quality children, fostering balance and harmony within family and to work as a family team in society/adat (Suyadnya, 2006:6). In the previous age, Balinese women are work in the house and made songket to earn more money and fulfill the household needs. Married women in Balinese have also roles in maintaining the ritual represented their household. They must take care of preparation and presentation of offering, ceremonial gift-giving and ritual assistance as their main task or they divide the certain task, especially the presentation of offering and gift-giving to their daughter or another female member in the house (Nakatani, 1997:736-737). Through Nakatani’s definition of women, that the society prejudice women’s main chores are to maintaining the household and take care of their family and it has become obstacles for their career. Most of Oka rusmini’s works break taboo to tradition and vividly talking about body and erotic caused much controversy among her family, friends and even society who read her works. They might be disturbed, but she ignored. As an author, she can do something expressing her dissatisfaction, unhappiness and anxiety via the written words. Oka had produced three novel, collection of short stories and poetry, those are, Tarian Bumi (Earth Dance translated into English by Lontar foundation and German as Erdentanz), Putu Menolong Tuhan (Putu Helps His God, translated in English by Vern Cork), Sagra, Pemahat Abad (The Sculptor of the Century, translated in English by Pamela Allen), Tempurung, and Pattiwangi. In every her novels, poetry, and short stories, Oka Rusmini works are ingenious in the sense that focus almost solely on female characters and convey feminine perspective in a consistent and provocative manner. In addition to critiquing the caste system, which in her view is very much shaped and controlled by patriarchal system in Balinese Hindu, Oka depicts competition and tension among her main female characters, and this competition can often be fierce, sometimes even be violent. She explores without reservation the positive as well as the negative qualities of Balinese women from both social groups., but at the same time she never forget to reiterate that patriarchy bears the ultimate responsibility for the social problem related to the caste system. Based on background of the study above, it can be simplify the three problems which emerge as the discussion in this study. How is the female representative depicted in Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance? How does female representative leads to female resistance in Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance? How is the impact of female resistance in Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance characters? In analyzing the data, this study use the theory of feminism. The theory of female resistance contains the definition of female representative which leads to resistance and the impact to the main character in the novel. RESEARCH METHOD In carrying out the study, the library reasearch, which used for literary work deal with this study, is basically descriptive and qualitative research. Most of the data collected from many speech dialogue in Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance as the object analysis which define into twenty chapter in the novel. Earth Dance was firstly published by Indonesia Tera, Magelang, Indonesia in 2000 and was originally serialized in the newspaper Republika, 4 march-8 April 1997. The data is analyzed by using feminism criticism, which is why the librarian research is used as the method. Conducting this analysis will be used to answer the questions in the statement of the problems. The procedure of analysis divided as follows; (1) The first step is to collect data speeches, thoughts, and quotations which have relation to the discussion, (2) Then clasify the data of speeches, thought and quotations to the Telaga and Kenten as the object of analysis, (3) Selecting quotations of the data are finally analyzed by the theories that are mentioned above to describe the concept of female resistance, (4) The ideal characteristic of female resistance begins with the description of female in this novel in order to know what is the impact on Telaga’s character as the main character through other characters, (5) Finally, to depict the characterization of Telaga and the impact of female resistance to indicate the significance of resistance in Telaga’s personality, the analysis is done by the theories that have been mentioned in preeceding explanation. ANALYSIS The first question will be revealed the main problem that focuse on how female representative in Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance. In this discussion, the female representative divide into three sub-chapters; (1) Physical description of Ida Ayu Telaga Pidada as a brahmana, (2) physical description of Kenten as a lesbian character, and (3) diferentiate of language uses between brahmana and sudra. The second question will be revealed the second problem which focuse on how is female resistance in Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance. The discussion is emerge the main character rebells her own fate as a brahmana and female queer character who ignores the society which determine her as queer. The last question is, how is the impact of female resistance to the main character will be revealed by the discussion which divide into four sub-chapters; (1) punishment for rebel the caste system, (2) Telaga exilled from griya, (3) Telaga changing caste, and (4) Kenten isolated from society. Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance brings up the issues of gender and class-society. Narrated by Ida Ayu Telaga surrounded by four women who shapes Telaga’s character and resist from her own custom, which in Telaga’s mind was unfair. Telaga is a brahmana woman who feels trapped and unhappy with her own caste and custom. Her mother was a sudra who ambitious to married only to brahmana man. One the issue which cause problematic among woman is physical appearance. It is like that they were race as the most beautiful among others. Physical appearance of main character in Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance Telaga is describe as beauty as a goddess and belongs to brahmana. Made the other girls envy of her. When she was danced oleg, it had always been a public secret that nobody could surpass Ida Ayu Telaga Pidada. Oleg is a dance of love, a dance about delights of romance, about the beauty of courtship (Earth Dance, 2011:13). One of the prominently character named Kenten. She is a best friend of Sekar and also the female queer character. She is a commoner and living only with her mother. Her father was disappeared and doesn’t mention in the novel. she was a woman with ten men power and well built phsically strong. Kenten realizes since the begining of her different in desire. Although, she has to play the role of woman, especially in every month when a blood flows between her two legs. She needs to cleanse her body every month. Language system to caste is describes in Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance in some of dialogues and monologue of Telaga’s, as in evident in Telaga’s speak as third-person narratives below: “Telaga considered him as an idiot, but an idiot who she had to approach with respectful titles: aji – noble father, or ratu – lord. He was a man without character; a man who could be proud of nothing but his masculinity. How could she trust him? As a child, Ida Ayu Telaga Pidada had ashamed to call him her respected father. Telaga’s father had an Ida Bagus as a father and Ida Ayu as a mother, so people said his noble blood was of the very highest carat. And so, Telaga had to call this man she hardly knew “Ratu”.” (P.17) Through the quotation above is proving that Language uses was strictly adhered by Balinese people. In the past infringement of these rules were harshly punished by fines and even debt slavery. Today, the extreme of language use have been largely abandoned because these sanction can no longer be applied. In Balinese caste system, everything has arranged even in the language uses. The Balinese language is itself a hierarchical, while most words have only one form and is thus insensitie to status; some 1,500 everyday words have two or more lexemes which are hierachically ranked and thus status highly sensitive. The basic rule is that the inferior must uses refined when speaking to a superior caste, whereas superior may use less refined to inferior caste (Howe, 2005:113). In Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance brings up the issues of gender and class-society. Narrated by Ida Ayu Telaga surrounded by four women who shapes Telaga’s character and resist from her own custom, which in Telaga’s mind was unfair. Telaga is a brahmana woman who feels trapped and unhappy with her own caste and custom. Her mother was a sudra who ambitious to married only to brahmana man. Throughout her entire childhood, Telaga witnesses the oppresive forces of adat and their impact on her mother, wondering if this is what it means to be a noble woman. She can only oppose the practice silently, asking herself many questions while watching the harsh life that her mother has to endure as an ex-sudra woman who has dared to enter the sacred brahmana realm. Telaga’s own daily life is mostly confined by the griya walls and the complex rules that regulate her almost every move. Telaga’s state of mind with regard to all these restriction is conveyed by free indirect speech. “Unfortunately, she could not enjoy that time for long. Telaga inevitably had to return this borrowed era to Life. She wished she could trick her way back into childhood, even just for a day or two. If only she could, she would grab that time and hide it so Life couldn’t find it and ask Telaga for its return. But Telaga could not persuade all-powerful Life to compromise. Life insisted on the following of rigid rules: rules that could not be bent, even slightly.” (P.57) The quotation blur’s the narrator voice and what occur’s in Telaga’s mind. The narrator is involved emotionally in Telaga’s lament concerning her lost childhood because of her noble status. Telaga is actually complaining about the gods’ cruel decision to snatch her childhood so quickly from her, but such complain can only be uttered in the form of a monologue. And moreover, it is softened to the point that it sounds more like nagging than protesting, as if Telaga wants to be sure that it will not offend the gods. Differ from Telaga, Kenten is sudra and the queer character who has different desire for mostly normal women. in Oka Rusmini’s Earth Dance who describe as a stubborn woman. No one dared to bother her. Like Luh Sekar, she disdains men, but whereas Luh Sekar is willing to use men to achieve her ambitions, Luh Kenten does not need men and never intends to marry one for any reason. The novel describes her as a lesbian. She feels sexually aroused by looking at Sekar’s naked body, but develops an aversion towards her own feminine body. As the result of resistance, female representative in the novel are willingly to receive the consequences of their desire against the rules. The main characters in the novel; Telaga and queer character; Kenten, are the most impacted because of their desire to resistance from the persistent custom which subordinate them. The consequences which had to be submissive by Telaga and Kenten will impact on their entire life. Delueze explain that power do not repression of desire, instead it is the expansion of desire (Colebrook, 2002:91). Ideology is take the concepts of how individual acts against their interest. Colebrook framed that feminity seen in the Jane Austen’s or any novelistic composition of character describes on the fabrics, skin colour, gestures, rhythms of speech and body parts – the thiness of waist which it is become the misspresented of ideological stereotypes of woman. Woman is a group of socialy coded affect and intensities that have gone into making up the image of personhood (Colebrook, 2002:93). It is the law of Balinese hinduism if a noble woman who marry man bellow their caste will be exilled from her house. She no longger posses nobility and she cann’t posses everything from her former house. Her child will be her husband caste (Avelling, 2006:2). Telaga and Wayan couldn’t bear the feelings any longer even they tried harder to ignore it. So, they decide to face every risk which confronts them. Begin with Telaga who exilled from griya and do not allowed to bring anything from her former house. She her child must join to Wayan’s caste as a sudra and living with her mother-in-law who opposes her marry to her only son. Yet, because Telaga is no longer a brahmana, she must address everyone in griya with the highest title – Ratu. The worst of it, Wayan found dead in his studio. Telaga had to endure Wayan’s mother and sister who since begining didn’t accept she coming to their house. Luh Gumbreg who realize that Telaga didn’t get blessing from her family before she married with Wayan, ask Telaga to held pattiwangi ritual. The ritual which is remove the noble status from noble woman who marry a commoner. The ritual is also become the reminder for the others noble women to not do the same thing as Telaga. CONCLUSION Oka Rusmini is a Balinese writer who assert Balinese tradition in every her novel. Earth Dance is one of her novel which brings up the issue of female representative who resist against subordination. The main character, Ida Ayu Telaga as the narrator, represent female in high class-caste society who against the people grouping in Hinduism. Divide people into four categories and determine them based those categories. The higher the class-caste, the more they receive privilages and subordinate the lowest caste. While, the queer character – Kenten as a commoner must facing society’s judge because her queerness. Both Telaga and Kenten who are representative their female in Balinese society and resist with their own ways. Telaga choose to betray her caste by marrying a commoner – Wayan Sasmita, and receive insult whether from people in griya even her own mother and from Wayan’s family. She is no longer a noble woman, instead she is a commoner such her husband. Her child also bear the caste of her husband as a commoner. Through Telaga’s action, she unintentionally purify her mother’s past mistake by marry a brahmana man. Kenanga who was a pragina is a sudra who ambitious marry only to a brahmana man, after she finally marry Ida Bagus Tugur – Telaga’s father, she never living a peace. Ida Bagus Tugur was marry Kenanga only to posses Kenanga’s body. Differ from Telaga, Kenten as a female queer resist from her society by ignoring people’s jugdements. Kenten is Kenanga’s close friend. They become closer because of people in the village consider them as a shame. 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