Nurul Awaliasari, 2211417016 (2021) ALIENATION AS THE RESULT OF MEXICAN TRADITION INFLUENCE REFLECTED IN LAURA ESQUIVEL’S LIKE WATER FOR CHOCOLATE. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Mexico is a country with a vast and extraordinary cultural heritage, which is the result of a rich history of cultural exchange, syncretism and transculturation. One of them is the culture of marriage in Mexican families. Anyone who does not follow these rules will be alienated from those closest to them. The term of alienation is currently used to describe the condition of separateness occuring in human groups. Until early in this century, the form of alienation are still widely found and occur in social life nowadays. In literary works, alienation can be experienced by the character. This situation is reflected in Laura Esquivel‘s novel entitled Like Water for Chocolate which mostly portrays the life of Tita, under her mother‘s oppression during Mexico Revolutin era in the 20th century. This study aims to find the form of alienation justified in the novel, and described that form of alienation. The method of this study is a qualitative study that relies on the power of word or explanatory reasoning. The data were collected by reading, identifying, classifying and analyzed using the structuralism. This study contained the binary opposition to see the gap between the dominant and subordinate character. The results of this study were to shows that the alienation towards the character is created from the opposition between the freedom and the limited, the controlling and controlled, and the one who alienate and the one who being alienated. The Like Water fo Chocolate also shows that the alienation that occurs in the novel is the result if a person does not obey the prevailing traditional rules, and this can have an impact on that person's life in the future.

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