Love Versus Lust the Deconstructive Analysis Toward Ernest Hemingway’s Novel a Farewell to Arms
LOVE VERSUS LUST
THE DECONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS TOWARD ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S NOVEL
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Submitted to fulfill the final assignment of
Mata Kuliah Kajian Sastra Inggris Mutakhir
Magister Ilmu Susastra
Universitas Diponegoro
Nama : Tri Arie Bowo
NIM : 13010212410012
MAGISTER ILMU SUSASTRA
UNIVERSITAS DIPONEGORO
SEMARANG
2013
LOVE VERSUS LUST
THE DECONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS TOWARD
ERNEST HEMISNGWAY’S NOVEL
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Tri Arie Bowo
Magister Ilmu Susastra Universitas Diponegoro
Abstract
Literature is an autonomous artwork. It can be interpreted from its own part. The relation of parts of a literature work creates meaning. The meaning obtained from relation of parts in literary work is unreliable. A Farewell to Arms is a novel which showed that unreliability. That novel reveals ambiguous feeling between love and lust in Henry. This essay attempts to reveal the unreliability of meaning through the deconstructive analysis.
Keywords: love, lust, the deconstructive analysis
1. Preface
Literature is born from human. Literature is a reflection of human’s conditions and thought. The social and cultural background of a work of literature is crucial to the understanding of a work of literature. Those thought create confusion in understanding a work of literature because a work of literature might be interpreted in different meaning. A work of literature is a product. It has a structure and its own system. In other word, literature is an autonomous product. In order to understand an autonomous product, focus on its parts is highly needed. The connections among parts of a work of literature create a whole meaning. Eagleton (1982:94) stated that “with structures, and more particularly with examining the general laws by which they work.” that statement revealed that in a work of literature contains structures and system which organize its part. A whole meaning (logocentric meaning) is formed by the connection of parts of
THE DECONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS TOWARD ERNEST HEMINGWAY’S NOVEL
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Submitted to fulfill the final assignment of
Mata Kuliah Kajian Sastra Inggris Mutakhir
Magister Ilmu Susastra
Universitas Diponegoro
Nama : Tri Arie Bowo
NIM : 13010212410012
MAGISTER ILMU SUSASTRA
UNIVERSITAS DIPONEGORO
SEMARANG
2013
LOVE VERSUS LUST
THE DECONSTRUCTIVE ANALYSIS TOWARD
ERNEST HEMISNGWAY’S NOVEL
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
Tri Arie Bowo
Magister Ilmu Susastra Universitas Diponegoro
Abstract
Literature is an autonomous artwork. It can be interpreted from its own part. The relation of parts of a literature work creates meaning. The meaning obtained from relation of parts in literary work is unreliable. A Farewell to Arms is a novel which showed that unreliability. That novel reveals ambiguous feeling between love and lust in Henry. This essay attempts to reveal the unreliability of meaning through the deconstructive analysis.
Keywords: love, lust, the deconstructive analysis
1. Preface
Literature is born from human. Literature is a reflection of human’s conditions and thought. The social and cultural background of a work of literature is crucial to the understanding of a work of literature. Those thought create confusion in understanding a work of literature because a work of literature might be interpreted in different meaning. A work of literature is a product. It has a structure and its own system. In other word, literature is an autonomous product. In order to understand an autonomous product, focus on its parts is highly needed. The connections among parts of a work of literature create a whole meaning. Eagleton (1982:94) stated that “with structures, and more particularly with examining the general laws by which they work.” that statement revealed that in a work of literature contains structures and system which organize its part. A whole meaning (logocentric meaning) is formed by the connection of parts of
Bibliography: Culler, J. 1982. On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Eagleton, T. 1982. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Johnson, B. 1980. The Critical difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press. Johnson, B. 1985. The Critical Difference: Essays in the Contemporary Rhetoric of Reading. London: JHU Press. Wardoyo, S. 2004. A Road Map into Literary Research Method: In the Tapestry of English Language Teaching and Learning. Malang: State University of Malang Press.