Study with the several resources on Docsity
Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan
Prepare for your exams
Study with the several resources on Docsity
Earn points to download
Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan
Community
Ask the community for help and clear up your study doubts
Discover the best universities in your country according to Docsity users
Free resources
Download our free guides on studying techniques, anxiety management strategies, and thesis advice from Docsity tutors
of the collected data. The purpose of step of data analysis is to classify the the innec conflict of “Fences” drama film based on Alex Sobur's conflicts.
Typology: Schemes and Mind Maps
1 / 66
This page cannot be seen from the preview
Don't miss anything!
A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Humaniora in English and Literature Department of the Faculty of Adab and Humanities of UIN Alauddin Makassar By : M. Furqan Ruslan Reg. Number: 40300114178
A. Background Literature is an art; not because of what is writing about, but because of the artistic point of view, the artist’s transformation of ideas and notions (Junaid, 2013: 02). These ideas and notions can be applied in many kinds of literary works, such as prose, novel, movies, etc. The researcher thinks movie is one of the most become the most interested literary works today. Many factors make movie famous, such as the story, the characters, even the conflict inside it. The story that is built in a literary work (novel, poetry, drama) is a description of the existing community environment (Wati, Asri, Ismail, 2012 :1).Therefore, literature cannot be separated from the social system and society, both of which give influence to the creative process of the creation of every literary work. There is a kind of social portrait that can be drawn from literary works. Most elements in literary work are social, namely norms that can grow in society, such as ideology, religion, politics, culture, law and so on.Various things can be discussed in a literary work, the author can reveal the hidden things in humans or characters in literary works, such as conflict. Conflict can be defined as a part of a story where a character or a group of characters that faced a problem or a dilemma in their life in accomplishing a purpose in their journey. Conflict also has a big influence in the continuation of someone’s life, as well as the character on a movie. According to Ratna (2011: 342), human will lose control as the time goes on, and eventually going to start a
The verse above explains that in people’s hearts there are doubts and damages as a result of which they are tested by God by doing various kinds of immorality that require torture for them, so that God also adds doubts to their hearts and for them sad torments due to their lies and hypocrisy. Talking about character, one of literary works that contain conflict as the main part of itself is Drama or Play. Abrams (1999: 69) states Drama is a form of composition designed for performance in the theater, in which actors take the roles of the characters, perform the indicated action, and utter the written dialogue. (The common alternative name for a dramatic composition is a play. ). in this case, the researcher actually more specific about the manuscript of the drama. The drama that the researcher wanted to analyze is an American drama entitled Fences. The drama itself has a really simple story about a daily life of a family, with the main character named Troy as the head of the family who lives with his wife and a son. Troy faced many hard things in his life, such as racism when he was an athlete, being imprisoned when he committed robbery in his younger life, and some economic problems in his old life. Although the movie seems pretty simple,yet the movie has a strong conflict, not just some regular conflicts but also internal conflict, which become the main object for the analysis. The main character experiences some sort of dillemma in his life, specially when he tries to admit some bad things he has committed, such as when he intended to admit to his wife that he cheated with another woman. The main character faced a terrible internal conflict at that moment.
The reason why the researcher chose the Fences Drama because this drama has some unique things that makes it different with other play, for example the setting of the drama is focused on a single setting, the house backyard of the main character. Although the drama mostly talk about family problem, it is also contain a lot racism terms which makes it more interesting. The researcher has a big interest on conducting the research because the researcher realized that there are a lot of phenomenon about literature that people need to aware of. One of the phenomena is the existence of many literary works that contains weak conflict, so the work does not have a full potential to become a great work. Therefore, by realizing this phenomena, in the future, the existence of strong conflict in literary works will be guaranteed. The research analyzed the research with Alex Sobur’s internal conflict theory. The researcher chose Alex Sobur’s theory because the way he defines and divides the internal conflict is really clear and the theory is suitable with the research itself. Based on the background above, the researcher believed this research has a big potential as good research, since the essence of the research itself is really important for literature, its conflict. The conflict of the movie hold a great impact for a better literary works that may exist in the future. B. Problem Statement Based on the explanation of the background above, the researcher formulated the research question as followed:
provide other researchers with useful information about the issue of internal conflict in the movie. E. Scope of the research The researcher had to make a limitation on the research. The researcherwill not discuss about the whole drama but only analyze the manuscript of the drama which contains some terms that have a relation to the internal conflict. The research analyzed the data by using Alex Sobur’s internal conflict theory (2011). The researcher thought that the research would be suitable to be analyzed with Sobur’s theory because Alex Sobur’s specify kinds on conflict and explains them completely, one of the theory that mentioned by Sobur is the internal conflict theory.
A. Previous Findings There are 3 Previous findings that have relation with the current research, They are a thesis by Pedro Benigno with his Study on Internal Conflict of the Main Characterin John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (201 3 ). Fitri Amriani with the title Lady America’s Internal Conflict in Kiera Cass’s Novel “The Elite” (2014), and Rohmat Anang Fakhruddin with the title The Internal Conflict faced by Victor Frankenstein in Mary Shalley’s Frankenstein (2015). First is a thesis by Benigno (201 3 ) with his research Study on Internal Conflict of the Main Character in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. This thesis aims to find out the internal conflicts faced by the main character of the novel, to discuss, and to analyze the causes of emergence and the resolutions taken to overcome the internal conflicts. This thesis is considered a qualitative study in which the analysis is in the form of description. The theoretical framework of the analysis is based on the objective theory of M. H. Abrams, in which the analysis is viewed solely from the point of view of the intrinsic elements of the novel– setting, plot, characters, and theme. The analysis then shows that the novel takes place during the hard time of the America‟s Great Depression around 1930‟s. Steinbeck portrays Tom Joad, besides as a greatly devoted man towards his mother and his family, as an on- parole man.
B. Pertinent Ideas
1. Conflict Conflict is an existing state of disagreement or hostility between two or more people. Conflict also connotes different perceptions, which may not necessarily result in hostility. This way, conflict simply means ‘a different perception’ or view to an issue or situation (Barash and Webel, 2002; Stanton, 2007: 31). In literaary work such as novel, Conflict becomes the most important part of a story. The importance of the presence of conflict in a story is about the two basic elements that build a plot are conflict and climax. Every work of fiction has at least an internal conflict (which it seems clear) that is present through the desires of two characters or one's desires character with the environment. These specific conflicts are subordination of one major conflict that is external, internal, or both (Stanton 2007: 31). Thus, from this explanation the importance of presenting conflict in a story cannot be denied. This is because without a conflict in a plot, the contents of the story in the work will be less dramatic or boring. The fiction will not be interesting because there is no climax process which is the highest peak in a series of peaks where forces in conflict achieve the highest intensification (Tarigan 1984: 128). Conflict always comes to the life of human beings. It is inevitable that human being has to undergo what is called conflict in his/her life. The word of “conflict” is taken from Latin words “contra” meaning against and fligare
meaning to strike. Conflict is a part plot and becomes a story interest for readers actually the back bone of the story. Conflict provides the readers with pattern and direction and gives them the sense of a story. A story without conflict will not arouse and maintain the reader’s interest in a story (Roda’i, 2012: 2). Therefore, conflict is very important in a novel and even it is said as the “heart of novel”. Conflict is a necessary element of fictional literature. It is defined as the problem in any piece of literature and is often classified according to the nature of the protagonist or antagonist.
2. Kinds of Conflict. Jones in his book “Outline of Literature” (1968: 122), states that there are three kinds of conflict. They are: a. Physical conflict is a conflict between human being and nature and environment. This type of conflict is a type of conflict that occurs in a story when individual characters struggle against other external forces. A character may struggle against other characters, animals or even natural forces b. Social conflict is a conflict between one person and another. Social conflict occurs when two or more actors oppose each other in social interaction, each exerts social power with reciprocity in an effort to achieve incompatible goals whilst preventing the other from attaining their own. c. Psychology conflict is a conflict between man and himself, his conscience, his guilt, or simply trying to decide what he is going to do. It occurs in the form of a figure in the struggle against himself, so that it can cope with and determine what it will do.
