Verbal aspect in Tom Stoppard’s Drama Arcadia: The study of Tzvetan Todorov’s Structuralism

ABSTRACT

The research is entitled “Verbal Aspect in Tom Stoppard’s Drama Arcadia: The Study of Tzvetan Todorov’s Structuralism”. The researcher is interested in analyzing this drama because that is often very funny, but the easy superiority of the structural. Stoppard does not also give a wistful sense that the back, art tries to deny the grim conclusions Thomasina science ultimately leads that all equality is not reversible as the 'eternal' Newtonian universe and time moves in only one direction. Therefore, past and present are inseparable in the past as a dream sequence.
The objectives of the research are to know the verbal aspect form of Tzvetan Todorov theory in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia, to know how the result of verbal meaning Arcadia drama by Tom Stoppard, and to prove that Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia has ideas of wholeness, the idea of transformations and have the idea of regulations. The study of structural approach is to understand the intrinsic element of drama by Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. The data are in form of sentences in the text of drama. The main instrument is the text of drama by Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia. The data collections are in several steps; viewpoint and narrative, modus category, analyzing; identification and classification and discussion about the function of each element in the structure.
Based on the analysis and discussion, there are several phenomena about the structure of Arcadia. The first is about modus. There are some kinds of modus elements found, such as direct style, indirect style, time category and viewpoint category. In general, Arcadia is infusing his characters with great emotion. The plot and story are in the style of a classic comedy of errors whereas the characters have a conscious comedic function.