QUESTIONING MORALITY THROUGH ABSURDITY IN S.E HINTON’S THE OUTSIDERS


Nugraha Hery Setiawan, 2211413038 (2020) QUESTIONING MORALITY THROUGH ABSURDITY IN S.E HINTON’S THE OUTSIDERS. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

In this particular study, the researcher has two main goals. They are; (1) to explain how morality is portrayed in the novel and (2) to explain how morality is questioned through absurdity. This study is a qualitative analysis by applying Derrida's deconstruction theory. The data were collected by reading, identifying, and classifying excerpts from the novel and analyzed by interpreting the process of elucidating the binary opposition which later was reversed (the hierarchy) by using deconstruction theory. After conducting this study, the researcher came to two conclusions. First, the morality in The Outsiders was portrayed by appearances and judgments, neglecting various factors such as reasons, conditions, and motives behind particular actions. Second, considering other factors mentioned before, the researcher inferred that most of those moral-immoral things portrayed in the novel were merely bias. In oversimplified words, morality is an idea coming from one’s perspective (subjective), yet many people thought they could differentiate the right from the wrong. Thinking those entire possibilities, raised fundamental question, is not morality so absurd? Does morality even exist in the first place?

Item Type: Thesis (Under Graduates)
Uncontrolled Keywords: Morality, Absurdity, Deconstruction
Subjects: L Education > LT Textbooks
Fakultas: Fakultas Bahasa dan Seni > Sastra Inggris (S1)
Depositing User: TUKP unnes
Date Deposited: 31 Aug 2021 06:54
Last Modified: 31 Aug 2021 06:54
URI: http://lib.unnes.ac.id/id/eprint/45192

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