Simbolisme dan Signifikansinya dalam Novel Brave New World Karya Aldous Huxley
| Main Authors: | , FAISHOL GHONI, , Dr. Aris Munandar, M. Hum. |
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| Format: | Thesis NonPeerReviewed |
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[Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada
, 2014
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| Online Access: |
https://repository.ugm.ac.id/128959/ http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=69334 |
Daftar Isi:
- Brave New World is a novel about dystopian (negative utopian) future. It was written by Aldous Huxley in 1931 and published a year later. With the setting of London of AD 2540 (632 A.F. in the book), the novel pictured an advance of technology and pharmacy that can overpower the humanity of the people in the name of State�s stability. This study is aimed to discover the symbols about politics in the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley and to inquire the meaning of these symbols. The writer utilizes Objective Approach by M. H. Abrams as and the concept of Three Effects of Symbolism offered by Robert Stanton to analyze the symbol in the work. As political references, this study adopts political concept from Antonio Gramsci namely Cultural Hegemony to understand the political issue in the work. After analyzing the data, there are eight symbols that are associated to politics theme and have correlation each other namely comparative idea between World State and Reservation, and between in-group and out-group of the society. The symbols are Ford, Soma, bottle, and belt. Whereas the symbols of reservation are snake, whip, knot, and warden.