An Analysis Of Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk Novel By Using Biographical Critism

Abstract

Trisna Hardiningrum; ‘’An Analysis of Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk Novel by Using Biographical Critism’’. Skripsi: English Department of Teacher Training and Education Muhammadiyah University of North Sumatera 2017. This research showed that the biography of the author indirectly attached and gave an overview of the actual content of the novel. The relationship between Ahmad Tohari as a author with his work entitled Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk was a major topic of discussion. The objectives of this research were to find out the theme of the novel and relationship between Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk novel with Ahmad Tohari’s biography. Descriptive qualitative method was carried out to analyze the data. The source of the data was taken from the novel Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk by Ahmad Tohari. In collecting the data, some references related to biographical critism were applied. The data were analyzed by reading the novel, underlining statement of Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk novel that related to Ahmad Tohari’s biography, analyzing and describing the relationship between Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk novel with Ahmad Tohari’s biography. It was concluded that the theme was the complexity of ronggeng dancer’s life, they included social, human trafficking, character assassination and politic theme and there was the relationship between the biography of Ahmad Tohari to the content of the Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk novel.