THE PARTY HEGEMONY AND SURVEILLANCE IN GEORGE ORWELL’S NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
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submitted by:
Rudi Fitrianto
G1A006164
NATIONAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE PROGRAM
DEPARTEMENT OF HUMANITY
FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
JENDERAL SOEDIRMAN UNIVERSITY
PURWOKERTO
2012
1. Title of the research
The Party Hegemony and Surveillance in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four
2. Field of the study
This research will put the emphasis on sociology of literature, because literature is highly related with human. Sociology of literature is a branch of study in literature that considered social aspects (damono, 1979:2). Sociology of literature included all sorts of approaches and each of them based on a certain attitude and views.
Since the freedom in bringing any matter of ideas into a work especially the novel, automatically literatures display varied aspects of live and society. In this relation, the author inclined to function as a philosopher or even as a scientist. Without any deep comprehension and understanding to the common knowledge of the universe then literary works become poor (kutha ratna, 2005:500). With such valued content of the work, literatures tend to function as a critic toward its social environment. As andre hardjana (1985:22) states that literatures also can arouse the consciousness and lighten the conscience. From this simple quotation it is known that literature could be an idea as means of communications between the author and listener. for further purpose, literature could be containing of many ideas that probably take an advantage to develop a certain social attitude even to arouse a certain social event (damono, 1979:2)..
The object of this research is book, "nineteen eighty-four" by george orwell. the author tries to give the view about dystopia with different kinds of repressive social control systems, and various