scholarly journals VIOLENCE BEYOND THE UTOPIAN SOCIETY IN LOIS LOWRY'S THE GIVER

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 90
Author(s):  
Rendry Hanifa Ak Mallyta ◽  
Hat Pujiati
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
Governing System ◽  
The Government ◽  
American Society

<p><em>This article discusses violence in a constructed utopian society in The Giver, Lois Lowry's distopian novel. We assume that 'sameness' as the governing system in the novel is the source of violence. Therefore, this article aims to reveal the real conditions beyond the utopian society. Applying genetic structuralism by Lucien Goldmann, we analyze the presentation of society in the novel through the narrative structure and relate them to discourses of American society in 1990s with Author as the bridge of the fiction and real life.  The result of this analysis shows that comfort facilities provided by the government in a society is potential to hegemonize people and dehumanize them for the sake of power.</em></p><p><strong><em>Keywords: utopian society, genetic structuralism, worldview.</em></strong></p><p> </p><p align="center"><strong>Abstra</strong><strong>k</strong></p><p><em>Artikel ini mendiskusikan tentang kekerasan dalam masyarakat utopis yang dikontruksi dalam novel distopian berjudul The Giver karya Lois Lowry. Kami mengganggap 'sameness' sebagai sistem pemerintahan di masyarakat yang ada dalam novel sebagai sumber dari kekerasan tersebut. Selanjutnya, artikel ini bertujuan untuk menggungkapkan kondisi sebenarrnya dibalik masyarakat utopis ini. Dengan menggaplikasikan teori strukturalisme genetik milik Lucien Golmann, kami menganalisa tampilan dari masyarakat di novel ini melalui struktur naratif dan menghubungkannya dengan wacana tentang masyarakat Amerika pada tahun 1990an dengan kehidupan penulis sebagai penghubung antara fiksi dan dunia nyata. Hasil dari analisa ini menunjukkan bahwa fasilitas kenyamanan yang disediakan oleh pemerintah dalam masyarakat tersebut merupakan cara untuk mendominasi dan menghilangkan rasa kemanusiaan mereka hanya untuk kepentingan kekuasaan.</em></p><p><strong><em>Kata kunci: masyakat utopis, strukturalisme genetik, pandangan dunia</em></strong><strong><em>.</em></strong></p>

scholarly journals Deconstructing the Text and (Re)Constructing the Past: History and Identity in Geraldine Brooks’ People of the Book

2008 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 125-138
Author(s):  
Ksenija Kondali
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
Spatial Representation ◽  
Past History ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Past ◽  
Prayer Book ◽  
Diverse Cultures

This paper examines Geraldine Brooks’ latest novel People of the Book (2008) in light of postmodern critiques of history and the desire to explore and signify the past through processes of deconstructing male-centered dominance and (re)constructing histories. The paper highlights ethno-spatial representation that involves intercultural dynamics behind the fate and importance of the manuscript. Drawing on discussions of postmodern views of history and identity construction, I engage the novel against the background of these and other postmodern and postcolonial concerns, also considering intertextual effects stemming from the mixing of genres and sub-genres. Lastly, I offer a reflection about the potential of this fictional account, based on the real-life fate of a prayer book that has testified to the spirit of interfaith tolerance and mutual enrichment of diverse cultures, to provide a context for understanding contemporary preoccupations with heritage, history, memory and identity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

scholarly journals KONFLIK TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL RE: KARYA MAMAN SUHERMAN: KAJIAN PSIKOLOGI SASTRA

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-46
Author(s):  
Arie Lila Utomo ◽  
U’um Qomariyah ◽  
Sumartini Sumartini
Keyword(s):  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
The Real ◽  
Karen Horney ◽  
Psychology Literature ◽  
Life Phenomenon

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendeskripsikan fenomea konflik yang dialami tokoh utama dalam novel Re:karya Maman Suherman. Mengetahui bentuk konflik dan upaya penyelesaian konflik yang dialami tokoh utama dalam novel Re:karya Maman Suherman.Pendekatan yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah psikologi sastra Karen Horney yang menitikberatkan sastra sebagai cerminan masyarakat. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalahmengetahui fenomena konflik yang terdapat dalam novel yang kemudian dikorelasikan dengan kehidupan nyata. Korelasi konflik dalam novel dengan kehidupan nyata dapat dilihat dari adanya persamaan konflik yang terdapat dalam novel Re: karya Maman Suherman dengan kehidupan nyata.   The purpose of this research is describe life phenomenon of conflict which is experiencedthe main character in the novel titled Re: by Maman Suherman. Understandingform of conflict and conflict resolution efforts experienced by the main characterthe novel Re: by Maman Suherman. Approach used in this research is psychology literature of Karen Horney which is focusing literature as society reflection. The result of this research is was to knowthe phenomenon of conflict disclosures contained in the novel and then corelating with the real life of society. The corelation between conflict in the novel with real life can be seen from the equation of the conflict contained in the novel Re: by Maman Suherman and in the real life is able to be found from similarity of conflictwhich is existed in the novel and existed in the real life.The approach in this study is the psychology of literature Karen Horney, Results froms this study is the disclosure of conflict present in the novel then correlated with in real life. Correlation of conflict in the novel with of real life can be seen from equation of conflict in the novel Re: by Maman Suherman with real life.

scholarly journals The Real America: Representation of American Society in Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Based on Michel Foucault’s Notions of Institutions, Normalization, and Surveillance

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Iraj Soleymanjahan ◽  
Nasser Maleki ◽  
Hiwa Weisi
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Jack Kerouac ◽  
The Novel ◽  
American Government ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Road ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
On The Road ◽  
American Society ◽  
Fitting In

This study aimed to scrutinize and analyze the novel On the Road by Jack Kerouac in the light of the political theory of Michel Foucault. The focus, however, would be specifically on the concepts of normalization, institutions and surveillance put forward in his book Discipline and Punish (1995), coupled with some other works that wrestle with the close links of power, society, and institutions. This research seeked to describe the real America in the 1950s, a decade that witnessed both conformism and radicality, represented in the novel. The study pointed out that the novel was a depiction of the American society in the 1950s in which distinct, overlapping institutions did a great deal in restricting the freedom of individuals who seeked liberation and authenticity. The American government draws on the power of the law, police, prison, academia, family, and different other overlapping and satellite institutions, working hand in hand to create a matrix. The concept of matrix, therefore, highlights the nexus through which the normalization and conformity of the individuals are guaranteed, leading to the creation of perfect institutionalized men who are reduced to the level of simpletons. The whole novel becomes the story of some men who advocate abnormality as their credo to live a free life. Quite the contrary, they are transitioned into meek and docile bodies whose identity hinges on being like others in fitting in and following the norms through different dominant fragmenting institutions.

scholarly journals ECONOMIC REALITIES AS DEPICTED IN `KUUSAA GADOO`

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 329-342
Author(s):  
Alemitu Oli ◽  
Eriste Akawak
Keyword(s):  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Life Situation ◽  
The Real ◽  
Real Life Situation ◽  
Research Questions

The purpose of this study is to show how Gadisa Biru who wrote the novel `Kuusaa Gadoo` represents the Oromo`s economic issues realistically in the life of characters and the major themes of the novel. The study is qualitative research, it involves textual analysis method together with relevant conceptual tools and frameworks and therefore it is analytical. Furthermore, the data used for the research is taken from a primary source which is `Kuusaa Gadoo`. From the novel, different extracts are taken based on the research questions. Extracts used as data were classified under each topic and analyzed using textual analysis methods and realism theory. Then, the analysis and discussion were undertaken by using the concept of scholars to make the research more visible and logical. As a philosophy of realism theory, realism portrays the world as it appears. Therefore, to evaluate the realistic representations of different agendas of the research, it is crucial to bring the idea in the text to the actual world. From the analysis and discussion made it is found that, in `Kuusaa Gadoo`, all events and episodes were realized in the novel without any fantasy and extraordinary overstatement. Oromos were not economically beneficial during the Derg; the economies of Oromo peoples were used by others i.e. by leaders and investors from other ethnic groups. The Oromo`s resources especially land is highly corrupted by leaders of the time. Oromo peasants had no legal protection for their economy. Hence, the novel `Kuusaa Gadoo` reflects the real-life situation of Oromo peoples during the Derg regime. The author critically observes the real economic picture of society and portrayed it logically.

scholarly journals COVID-19 denial in Turkmenistan veiling the real situation

2022 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hashim Talib Hashim ◽  
Ahed El Abed El Rassoul ◽  
John Bchara ◽  
Attaullah Ahmadi ◽  
Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Real Situation ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Public ◽  
Unethical Practices ◽  
First Case ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
The Government ◽  
Novel Coronavirus

AbstractCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) emerged in late 2019, with the first case identified in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, on 12 December 2019. In order to perceive the comprehensive impact of this pandemic, we have to know that misinformation and denials about COVID-19 have surely exacerbated its diffusion and hindered the response against it. Turkmenistan remains one of the very few countries in the world that lacks reports about emerging cases of the novel coronavirus. Turkmen authorities claim that they have adopted all attainable measures required in order to combat the virus, asserting that COVID-19 has yet to reach their country. Despite the government’s reported absence of COVID-19 in the country, rumors, media reports and independent sources suggest the spread of the pandemic in Turkmenistan. By mid-June 2020, the outbreak was referred to as being serious with patients suffering extreme health risks, and following its state of disrepair and unethical practices, many of those anticipated to be COVID-19 infected tend to suffer at home, discouraging any interaction with the healthcare system. The civil society in Turkmenistan, for the time being, takes full part of the government’s duty in the process of informing and educating the public regarding the COVID-19 pandemic, and endeavors to keep the government and WHO accountable for behaving in such repressive ways that could lead to rather preventable loss of human life in Turkmenistan. Yet, efforts hang fire before unveiling the real situation, and Turkmenistan’s government owning up to the negations and roaming speculations, not only regarding the coronavirus crisis, but every public-related issue itself.

A Space Odyssey: Decoding the Reality of Dictatorship in Carolina de Robertis’s Cantoras

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Sreeparna Das
Keyword(s):  
Social Isolation ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Political Repression ◽  
The Real ◽  
Widespread Acceptance ◽  
Different Ages

By turns brutal and beautiful, Carolina de Robertis’s 2019 novel Cantoras explores twelve years of violent Uruguayan dictatorship where five women of different ages, social, economic, and familial circumstances are yet all equally affected by misogyny, homophobia, and political repression. The women come together to create a haven of freedom wherein to navigate their sexuality without being criminalized, in the middle of a place where freedom for a better future seems to belong to “another bohemian era of dreams.” Pieced together from the real-life oral narratives and testimonies of hundreds, lost or silenced in the mainstream din, the novel brings to life a portrait of queer love and forgotten history unlike any other. This essay aims a close reading of the socio-political environment of the novel from dictatorship to the revolution which makes the journey that these women take from social isolation to widespread acceptance, their achievements, losses, and resilience shine all the more.

scholarly journals Sobre o governo do real: a vida nos domínios do capitalismo informacional / On the government of the real: life in the domains of informational capitalism

Profanações ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vinícius Nicastro Honesko
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Social Domain ◽  
The Real ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Informational Capitalism ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

A partir da apresentação da noção de crise no âmbito das humanidades, o presente ensaio pretende tecer algumas análises sobre os modos de gestão e governo dessa crise. Para tanto, investiga o deslocamento de problemas epistêmicos nas ciências (físicas e sociais) para o campo do governo no âmbito do controle das populações. Apresenta como os modos de leitura das probabilidades nas ciências acaba, no domínio do social, funcionando como uma maneira de gerir o real. Mostra como essa problemática se desenvolve e ganha em efetividade a partir das noções de cibernética. Por fim, aponta como o mecanismo do governo toma uma dimensão de totalidade no contemporâneo e, diante disso, aponta para modos de resistência a partir na noção de ingovernável. AbstractFrom the presentation of the notion of crisis within the humanities, the present essay intents to weave some analysis of the manners of management and government of this crisis. Therefore, it investigates the displacement of the epistemic problems on sciences (both physical and social) to the government field within the control of populations. It presents how the readings of probabilities in sciences work as a manner of manage the real on the social domain. It shows the development of this problem and exhibits how it grows on effectivity after the expansion of the cybernetics. It indicates how the mechanism of government takes a dimension of totality in the contemporaneous. Lastly, after these analysis, it aims to the manners of resistance based on the concept of ungovernable.

scholarly journals The Childhood Betrayal and Hope Regained in Stephen King’s The Institute

2021 ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
Anas P M ◽  
Dr. A.J Manju
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Gifted Children ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Television Series ◽  
Stephen King ◽  
The Real ◽  
Medical Experiments ◽  
Real Value ◽  
The Government

Childhood is a time worth remembering in everyone’s life. We all cherish the beautiful memories and fun we had in our childhood once we’re old. We never know the real value of a moment until it becomes a memory. Even now we are happy to go back to those places where we have spent our childhood. Thinking about it fills our heart with nostalgic feelings. But have you ever thought about children who never had such a beautiful childhood as yours? This novel takes us to those children who are being kidnapped from their parents and sent into a frightening government facility called ‘The Institute’ for gifted children! The Institute (2019) is a science fiction horror novel written by Stephen King. It is one of his terrifying novels yet. Many of his works are transformed into movies and television series. The main focus of this novel is on the childhood betrayal done by the authorities running the Institute, and the survival of the children. The story is written by taking the ideas of a fictional child abusing institution where gifted children from all over the country are taken in and they are being forced to undergo dreadful medical experiments. Most of the children have super powers of Telepathy or Telekinesis. The officials running the Institute want the children to get control over their powers and to master them, so that they can be used in wars. They can be used as weapons against terrorists, and as mind readers. The doctors don’t treat them like humans. To them they are merely test subjects. The government kills any test subjects it can’t control because only then it can keep the country safe. There is no hope of escape for the children, yet they are all finally escaped by the brave efforts of Luke Ellis, the main character in the novel and his friends.

scholarly journals Absent yet Present: On the Paradoxical Nature of Characters in Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irina Marchesini
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Core Level ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real

The present research is focused on the theme of absence, an area of inquiry that might seem dominant in the field of Nabokov Studies. The analysis, which concentrates in particular on the key figures of the novel The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (1941), notably the narrator V. and the poet Sebastian Knight, interprets the characters’ construction through the paradigm of absence. Arguably, the construction of characters in The Real Life of Sebastian Knight is paradoxical: absence constitutes their essence at a core level, as it often happens in the context of the self-conscious genre. Moreover, absence plays a key role in characters’ design, linking them to all Nabokovian novels. However, despite their innermost ‘flatness’, to use Edward M. Forster’s terminology, they still appear to be ‘round’, i.e. plausible, mimetic figures.

Washington Square

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry James
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Henry James ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Washington Square

‘She will do as I have bidden her.’ Catherine Sloper is heiress to a fortune and the social eminence associated with Washington Square. She attracts the attention of a good-looking but penniless young man, Morris Townsend. His suit is encouraged by Catherine's romantically-minded aunt, Mrs Penniman, but her father, a clever physician, is convinced that his motives are merely mercenary. He will not consent to the marriage, regardless of the cost to his daughter. Out of this classic confrontation Henry James fashioned one of his most deftly searching shorter fictions. First published in 1880 but set some forty years earlier in a pre-Civil War New York, the novel reflects ironically on the restricted world in which its heroine is marooned, seating herself at its close ‘for life, as it were’. In his introduction Adrian Poole reflects on the book's gestation and influences, the significance of place, and the insight with which the four prinicipal players are drawn. The edition includes an account of the real-life tale that sparked James's imaginative genius.

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