Prem Kumar Attempts In Maintaining Bourgeois Status Quo As Reflected In Vikas Swarup’s “Q And A” Novel

Firdiansyah, Andrew (2014) Prem Kumar Attempts In Maintaining Bourgeois Status Quo As Reflected In Vikas Swarup’s “Q And A” Novel. Sarjana thesis, Universitas Brawijaya.

Abstract

Kapitalisme sudah menjadi dasar sistem ekonomi di era modern. Uang adalah penentu status dan posisi seseorang di masyarakat. dalam system kapitalis perorangan atau kelompok yang mempunyai uang adalah golongan borjuis, dan yang tidak adalah golongan proletar. Borjuis mendapatkan surplus value dan mempertahankan keadaan sekarang akan melakukan usaha apapun, baik itu legal maupun tidak. Penelelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui upaya borjuis dalam mempertahankan status quo mereka dalam novel Q and A(2005). Approach Marxist digunakan karena upaya borjuis dalam novel Q and A merupakan representasi borjuis dalam mempertahnkan status quo dan mendapatkan surplus value. Penulis menganalisa usaha borjuis dalam mempertahankan status quo dan bagaimana borjuis melakukannya. Berdasarkan data yang dikumpulkan dari novel, penulis menemukan banyak bukti berkaitan dengan usaha borjuis mempertahankan status quo dalam perilaku karakter dalam novel ini. Usaha yang dilakukan borjuis yang menggunakan uang sebagai umpan dan memberikan harapan palsu pada kaum Proletar dan Lumpenproletar, hingga menipu dengan memberikan petunjuk yang salah dan menyiksa secara fisik dan mental yang dibantu oleh aparat kepolisian.

English Abstract

Capitalism has become the basic of economic systems in the modern era. Money determines someone’s status and position in the society. In capitalist systems, group or individual who has money is called bourgeois class, and the one that are not is called the proletariat. To get surplus value and maintain its present state, the Bourgeois class has going to do any effort needed, whether it is legal or illegal. This research aims to ensure the bourgeois’ effort to maintain their status quo in Q and A novel (2005). Marxist Approach is used because the efforts of the Bourgeois in the novel Q and A are representation the act of maintaining the status quo and the act to get a surplus value. The researcher analyzes the Bourgeois efforts in maintaining the status quo and how they do that. Based on the data collected from novel, the researcher finds a lot of evidence concerning the Bourgeois efforts to maintain the status quo in the characters behavior in the novel. The efforts taken by the Bourgeois includes using money as a bait and giving fake hope on the Lumpen Proletariat, and also deceiving the Proletariat with the wrong clues, then abusing them mentally and physically which are done by the help of the police.

Item Type: Thesis (Sarjana)
Identification Number: SKR/FBS/2014/77/051400775
Subjects: 400 Language > 420 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon)
Divisions: Fakultas Ilmu Budaya > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris
Depositing User: Hasbi
Date Deposited: 17 Feb 2014 14:41
Last Modified: 22 Oct 2021 03:36
URI: http://repository.ub.ac.id/id/eprint/101240
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