Portrait of Pegaten Society in the Novel 'Kubah' Based on Marxist Literary Criticism Theory

摘要

This study aims to analyze the causality of class' classification that occurred on the society of Pegaten in the Ahmad Tohari's novel Kubah based on Marxist literary criticism theory. This study is a kind of a discourse analysis that made use of the novel as the main corpus. The exposure analysis includes the discussion of class' structure on Pegaten society using Marxist literary criticism theory based on the paradigm of social class relation including the identification of social background into the context of the occurrence, and the identification of social classes. In addition, it also included the discussion of causal relationships between social classes in the novel by analysing social activities occurring among the characters; and the impact of class social causality relationships on Pegaten society. Based on the analysis, we found the form of social classes, ideology of class conscious, and positive and negative impacts of upper- and low er-class interaction in the Pegaten society.