Pramu Sutomo , 2211411057 (2017) WHITE PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS BLACK PEOPLE DURING REALISM ERA IN DESIREE’S BABY SHORT STORY BY KATE CHOPIN. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

The topic of this research is White People’s Perspective towards Black People during Realism Era in Desiree’s Baby Short Story by Kate Chopin. The purposes of this study are to identify white people’s perspective towards black people portrayed in the story during the realism era and to understand the society condition during realism era. Moreover, this study provides author’s world vision about slavery which becomes an issue in this story. The object of the study is Kate Chopin’s short story entitled Desiree’s Baby. This study conducted a qualitative-descriptive design which applied Genetic Structuralism by Goldmann as the approach to analyze the short story. From the analysis, the results of this study show that; first, the author functions as the representative of White people and Armand Aubigny as the main character in this story represented Black people although he did not realize that he was black at first. In her story, Kate Chopin as the author considered that the Black people during the Realism era got involved into a lot of conflicts due to slavery which was claimed as peculiar institution. During this era, slavery was a legal institution and for the Black people as slaves they fought it to get freedom. Kate Chopin as the author, considered Black people’s behaviour in her story as reflection of reality during slavery. Kate Chopin wanted to show the world about conflicts that had occured in her environment through her story. She wanted to tell the world through her story that slavery should be abolished. From her character’s depiction, she voiced Black people’s thought through their behaviour to fight and get freedom.

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