THE POTRAYAL OF PI’S SURVIVAL IN YANN MARTEL’S LIFE OF PI A NEW CRITICISM STUDY
This study, through New Criticism, aims to discover the main theme of the text and the formal elements that help to form it. First, it tries to find out if environmental change could force humans to change in order to adapt so that they could fit with the environment. The goal is to understand w...
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Online Access: | http://repository.unair.ac.id/56758/1/ABSTRAK.pdf http://repository.unair.ac.id/56758/2/FS.%20BE.%2079-16%20Pri%20p.pdf http://repository.unair.ac.id/56758/ http://lib.unair.ac.id |
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Institution: | Universitas Airlangga |
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Summary: | This study, through New Criticism, aims to discover the main
theme of the text and the formal elements that help to form it. First, it
tries to find out if environmental change could force humans to
change in order to adapt so that they could fit with the environment.
The goal is to understand why and how the change of environment in
the book force Pi to change his thoughts and actions as portrayed in
the book. Second, it attempts to discover what the main character, Pi,
is capable of doing in order to survive and how it leads to personality
and behavioral shifting in Pi’s characterization. In this part, the writer
reveals how Pi’s desire to survive has somehow overcome his
idealism and thus causes significant changes in his personality and
behavior. Since New Criticism approach is used as the main theory,
the writer analyzes this novel using formal elements of the text, which
are; characterization, plot, setting, and symbol. The writer therefore
leaves out any external factors and focuses only on the text itself. This
study uses qualitative method which means the data is collected from
the text itself. In the end, the writer concludes that the formal elements
particularly, the characterization, the conflict, the setting and the
symbol develop the change of Pi’s attitude and behavior due to the
environmental change in order for him to survive. This is related to
theme of the text which is man’s survival. |
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