Dian Iriani, 2211411045 (2015) THE REFLECTION OF WESTERN HEGEMONY IN LANDON’S ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM. Under Graduates thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SEMARANG.

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Abstract

he King of Siam. In the 19 th century, western expansionism over the world was really great. Their power had impacted many countries, including Siam. In the reign of King Mongkut, Siam felt the Western expansionism for the first time. They had been hegemonized by the Western power to maintain their independence. This final project was aimed at analyzing the reflection of Western hegemony in Anna and the King of Siam, and the objective of the study was answering the statements of problem as below: first, illustrating how western hegemony was reflected in Siamese social life; second, analyzing the ways western ideology hegemonized Siamese society. I used Margaret Landon‟s novel Anna and the King of Siam as the object of study. This was a descriptive qualitative study with sociology of literature as the approach. I collected the data by reading the novel thoroughly, identifying, inventorying, and selecting them to be analyzed. This study finally concluded that: first, Western hegemony was reflected in Siamese society; then, second, Western ideology did hegemonized Siamese society.

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