The Role of Telescreen and Thought Police as the Surveillance Media to Sustain Totalitarian Power in George Orwell’s nineteen Eighty-Fou

Sulaeman, Trian (2014) The Role of Telescreen and Thought Police as the Surveillance Media to Sustain Totalitarian Power in George Orwell’s nineteen Eighty-Fou. Sarjana thesis, Universitas Brawijaya.

Abstract

Surveillance telah menjadi fitur utama dalam sebuah sistem pengawasan penjara panopticon yang dikemukan oleh Jeremy Bentham pada abad ke-18. Kata surveillance berasal dari Bahasa Perancis, surveiller, yang berarti mengawasi. Di dalam penjara tersebut, setiap individu diawasi secara konstan, yang mengharuskannya patuh dengan peraturan-peraturan. Skripsi ini sendiri membahas bagaimana surveillance dimanfaatkan oleh pemerintah totalitarian untuk mempertahankan kekuasaannya. Novel Nineteen Eighty-Four karya George Orwell menceritakan tentang penindasan yang dilakukan oleh pemerintah terhadap masyarakatnya. Di mana setiap individu di masyarakat tersebut selalu diawasi secara konstan, sebagai upaya mempertahankan status quo Penelitian ini membahas cara pemerintah mempertahankan kekuasaannya melalui medium telescreen dan Thought Police sebagai alat surveillance. Maka dari itu, penulis menggabungkan teori panoptisisme dari Foucault dan totalitarianism dari Hannah Arendt untuk menganalisa novel. Pasalnya, dua kajian tersebut dapat membantu untuk menjelaskan bagaimana pemerintah totalitarian memanfaatkan alat surveillance untuk memiliki status quo. Hasil penilitian ini menunjukkan beberapa fungsi dari telecreen dan Thought Police sebagai alat surveillance untuk mempertahankan kekuasaan totalitarian. Fungsi telescreen dalam praktik surveillance dapat dibedakan dalam dua garis besar, yaitu level masyarakat dan level individual. Sedangkan fungsi Thought Police yaitu sebagai organisasi agen rahasia, yang bertanggung jawab dengan sistem surveillance yang ada. Dengan demikian, kedua instrumen pemerintah ini memiliki peran yang penting dalam upaya mempertahankan status quo rezim totalitarian. Penulis menyarankan, novel Nineteen Eighty-Four dapat dianalisa dengan menggunakan pendekatan psikologi, pasalnya beberapa bagian novel menggambarkan kondisi psikologis individu dan masyarakat ketika mendapat teror dari praktik surveillance yang dilakukan pemerintah.

English Abstract

Surveillance becomes a major feature in panopticon prison which is promoted by Jeremy Bentham in eighteenth century. The word surveillance is derived from French language, surveiller, which means observing. Inside the prison, each individual is constantly monitored as a way of disciplined approach them to follow the rules. The thesis discusses about the surveillance is used bytotalitarian governments to maintain power. George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty- Four depicts the government and state oppression over its population. In which, every individual in the society is observed constantly as the effort to maintain the status quo. The writer specifically analyzes how the government maintaining its power by means of telescreen and Thought Police in Nineteen Eighty-Four. The writer combines Foucault’s panopticism and Hannah Arendt’s totalitarianism theories to approach the work because those theories can help the writer to explore of how the totalitarian government maintain the status quo using the surveillance medium. The result of this research shows several functions from telescreen and Thought Police in surveillance medium as a means to maintain the totalitarian power. Telescreen functions as a surveillance practice can be divided into two major levels, societal and individual levels. While the Thought Police functions as a secret agent organization, which responsibles to operate surveillance system. Both are the government’s instruments which have important roles in maintaining the status quo of totaliarian regime. The writer’s suggestion for the further research’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, novel can be analyzed by using psychological approach because it depicts the psychological condition of individual and society whenever oppressed by the surveillance activities done by the government

Item Type: Thesis (Sarjana)
Identification Number: SKR/FBS/2014/160/051401334
Subjects: 400 Language > 495 Languages of east and southeast Asia > 495.6 Japanese
Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Budaya > Bahasa dan Sastra Jepang
Depositing User: Hasbi
Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2014 08:52
Last Modified: 18 Oct 2021 04:35
URI: http://repository.ub.ac.id/id/eprint/100847
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