THE INFLUENCE OF ENGLISH SOCIETY ON ELIZABETH GASKELL’S MARY BARTON: A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH

• Main Author: WAHYUNI , SRI
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: L Education (General)
• Online Access: https://eprints.ums.ac.id/10792/
• Summary: This study elaborates people’ struggle in surviving their life in the English society as depicted in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Mary Barton, based on Sociological Approach. The aims of this study are to expose Elizabeth Gaskell’s criticism against the domination of the upper class in the English society and to identify relation between the structure of Mary Barton and the social condition of England in the early of nineteenth century. This study belongs to qualitative study. In this method, there are two types of data source, which are used, namely primarily and secondary data sources. The primary data source and the object of the study is the novel Mary Barton itself, meanwhile the secondary one is any literature related both this study. The writer collects the data from both, primary and secondary data sources in a short of document as evidence. The study uses library research to collect the data. The collected data are analyzed by means of descriptive analysis. Having analyzed this novel, the conclusions are as follows: first, a literary work involves the response of the author toward the social reality where they live. Second, Elizabeth Gaskell criticizes the condition at that time. It was strongly dominated by the upper class of the social structure in English society has dominated and exploited the classes below them. Elizabeth Gaskell’s criticism which spirit of her nationalism to restructure the society and to build her ideal society.