Selvia Rosa Magdalena Purba, 2211417075 (2021) KINSHIP DESTRUCTION AS A RESULT OF ENGLAND’S SOCIAL STRATIFICATION REFLECTED ON GEORGE ELIOT’S SILAS MARNER. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Industrialization in England had a great impact on the life of the world. However, it is undeniable that this phenomenon has led to the occurrence of class differences which is judged from various aspects of life. The existence of stratification sometimes leads society to divisions. Since there are differences in the interests of each class, the conflict is inevitable. Social class demands society to attain a better status and to maintain dignity even though it must give up to the fracture of true human relation. This situation is reflected in George Eliot’s Silas Marner which portrays the social life and paradigm of upper and lower classes in Warwickshire, England. The aims of this study are to describe kinship destruction as the result of social stratification in George Eliot’s Silas Marner and to explain the reflection of world vision of society where the author lived on the novel. The methodology used in this study was the qualitative method. It analyzed by using Lucien Goldmann’s theory of genetic structuralism. The method of data analysis is based on the conflicts of the characters in the novel, upper and lower classes. Silas Marner shows that kinship destruction that occured is rooted from differentiation in society. The upper class are described as the one who is always placed in a good position or the one who always benefits, while the lower class is always in the opposite position. Eventually, this is evoked social jealousy and conflicts as the factors of kinship destruction. Then, society’s world vision that described is the bad result of social stratification in Warwickshire especially between landed gentry and local farmer. Eliot seemed to convey that social stratification is a trigger to a kinship destruction since differentiations have a tendency to create a conflict. Conflicts which unresolved certainly threaten human relation and eventually will lead them to a destructed relationship.

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