Discrimination suffered by Nyai Ontosoroh in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s "This Earth of Mankind"
Daftar Isi:
- The research aimed to discuss discrimination in Pramoedya Ananta Toer “This Earth of Mankind”. The objectives of the research were to describe the Nyai Ontosoroh characterization. After described the Nyai Ontosoroh characterization in the novel, would be kinds of discrimination that Nyai character suffered. The theories that used in this study were characterization, post-colonialism, setting, and discrimination. Theory of characterization is useful for knowing the development of characters in literary works such as novel. Theory of post-colonialism used to understand the civilization and improvement serves as the impact experienced by the third world societies in the past, present, even in the future. The setting theory was to describe the society that lived in the specific place and time means post-colonialism era. The discrimination theory was to analysis the events related to discrimination and the form of discrimination itself that exists in literary works such as novels. The technique of data collecting was library research, while the method of this research was descriptive. There were four approaches used in the study. They were feminist, moral, psychological and sociological approaches. The result of this research showed about discrimination that suffered Indonesian people because of the Dutch related to the novel This Earth of Mankind by Pramoedya Ananta Toer. The statement of problems in this research divide into two. First problem is Nyai Ontosoroh characterization as followed a well- educated woman, a straight forward woman, brave and wise woman, responsible woman, respected woman, a persevered woman, realistic and persistent woman, and a competitive woman. The second problem is discrimination suffered by Nyai Ontosoroh as followed unable to fill the gabs, judge as sinner, betrayed by her parents, treated like slaves, judged as being a bad influence, accused as a murderer, accused as a thief, and treated unfairly legally.