Fikhi Zakhiyati , 2211411011 (2016) SYMBOLS OF CAPITALIST SOCIETY AS REFLECTED IN JOHN GALSWORTHY’S NOVEL,THE MAN OF PROPERTY. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Capitalist society is a group of people who are applying capitalism in their daily social life. They are people who invest in a business. Capitalism itself is characterized by the private ownership of resources and the use of a system of markets and prices to coordinate and direct economic activity. It is an economic system based on the private ownership of wealth. Regarding to this conception, The Man of Property by John Galsworthy reflected some symbols of capitalist society through the intrinsic elements of the novel. The main focuses of this study are to elaborate the symbols of capitalist society which is found in the intrinsic elements of the novel and how the symbols represent capitalist society. The researcher employed a descriptive-qualitative method in which the data were taken in the form of words, phrases, and sentences. By using it, the researcher interpreted and reported the data descriptively. The approach of this study was sociology of literature since it conceived shapes, manners, and social meanings that related to history and social situation in a time period. By using the approach, the researcher did the analysis to get the result of the study. In collecting the data, the researcher used several steps by reading the novel thoroughly, identifying, advisory, inventorying, selecting, classifying, and reporting. Based on the analysis, the researcher found that there are some symbols of capitalist society found in the intrinsic elements of the novel, The Man of Property. They are fashionable clothes, nickname, big houses, city, great horses, and expensive barrister. Supporting by an idea of sociologist named David Popenoe, all of those symbols indicate three basic characters of capitalist society, property, profit, and competition. In this study, the characteristic of property is indicated by the symbols of big houses and fashionable clothes, the characteristic of profit is indicated by the symbols of city and nickname, and the characteristic of competition is indicated by the symbols of great horses and expensive barrister. In addition, the symbols of capitalist society in the novel also depict capitalist society in the late-nineteenth-century of England. Finally, this study is expected to give a new view to the readers about symbols that can have the deep moral values found in literary works, and they can be the picture of our today condition and heighten our awareness toward life.

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