The analysis of social values in E.M. Forster’s a passage to India

ABSTRACT

Literary, works give many useful values and messages. It also gives contribution to build up sensitivity to the environment. By literature, the author has to be sensitive to the social condition in his or her society. Moreover, literature is a reflection of life experience that includes various aspects of both personal and social lives. One form of literary works is novel, which is usually tells about the condition of one society. Social values have many influences in the society. It can also determine whether one’s action to other people is proper or not and suitable with the social values or not. By value, we can determine whether something is good or bad. So, from statement above, social values can be considered as a truth and it is become the standard for people to act in order to achieve democratic and harmonious life.

A Passage to India contains social values that are revealed through the major and minor characters and their society. Related to this case, the problems of the study can be formulated: (1) What social values are found in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and (2) What are the implications of the social values to the theme of E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India. Thus, the purposes of the study are to find out the social values found in E M. Forster’s A Passage to India and to explain the implications of the social values to the theme of E.M. Forster’s A Pusxuge to India.

This research is classified into literary criticism because she tries to find out the social phenomena concerning the social values described in a literary work. In order to reach the goal, she uses structural approach. Structural approach is an approach that is used to analyze a literary work by interpreting and focusing on the text alone, apart from the author and reader. With structural approach, the researcher analyzes about social values and the implications of social values to the theme which are found in the novel.

In E.M. Forster’s م Passage to India, social values are described by describing the condition of one society. Those social values are revealed through the presentation of the major and minor character’s behavior especially Dr. Aziz and Mrs. Moore who make social relationship with their society and family. The social values that the researcher found in A Passage {() India are humanity, social relationship, family relationship and moral. In social relationship are divided into four kinds, they are; cooperation, competition, conflict and accommodation. After analyze the social values, generally we can know that the implication of the social values to the theme of the novel is power, and all of the major activities of the novel revolve around power and social class. Because the novel is tells about the occupation of India by the British, so that the researcher wants to analyze about social values that exist in that society. Power have make the British become arrogant and disrespectful to India, they also discriminate the social class. That wilt cause cooperation, competition, conflict and accommodation between the British and Indian.