THE HERMENEUTICS ANALYSIS OF JANE AUSTEN’S PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

ABSTRACT

By:
Estri Kurniati
04004142

One of Jane Austen master pieces is Pride and Prejudice. The interesting thing of this work is the social condition and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century. This research entitled “The Hermeneutics Analysis of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice” to describe the social condition and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century.

The writer used hermeneutics study to analyze this thesis. The type of the study is library research. It did by carefully and critically reading the novel by Jane Austen. The object of this research is the novel Pride and Prejudice. Then the research object that will be analyzed in this research are the social condition in English soiety in the 19th century and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century as reflected to the novel. The subject of the research is often called the data source. The writer classified the data source into primary source and secondary source. The primary source is the text of the novel, whereas the secondary source taken from books, magazines, and electronic device especially internet. The writer uses the library method to collect the data needed, that is observation and documentation method. After collecting the data, the writer examining the story of the novel to find the social condition in English soiety in the 19th century and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century. The writer uses literary research by descriptive qualitative method under the hermeneutics study developed by Endraswara and tries to give clearer information about social condition in English soiety in the 19th century and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century.
Some important research finding are describes social condition in English soiety in the 19th century and pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century as reflected to the novel. There are recurrent social conditions in English soiety in the 19th century, that is: (1) social life, (2) economic life. There are reccurent pride and prejudice in English society in the 19th century as reflected to the novel, that is: (1) education, (2) wealth, (3) playing music, (4) marriage, and (5) fashion.