| dc.description.abstract | Novel as one of literary works is classified as a prose. It is written in the
form of narrative and descriptive. Middlesex is a novel written by Jeffrey
Eugenides published in 2002. Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Award
for Fiction.
This topic is interesting to discuss because it concerns with human choice
as the attempt to look for meaning. Cal’s has to choose the gender he belongs to
his consciousness.
This thesis that was origionally entitled “Transgender Phenomenon in
Jefffery Eugenides’ Middlesex” concerns with Cal’s consciousness toward his
gender identity. Consciousness as mental activity can be analyzed from the words,
physical sensation and the sensation complex that give a meaning to mind and
awareness. Grounded Theory is the approach purposed by Glaser that concerns to
exprore the data from literature to understand the consciousness of the main
character phenomenon. To understand the problem of the sexual genital organ and
the gender construction, Gender Study is used for the study of how gender is
being constructed in the novel.
This thesis is expected to give some contributions in understanding
transgender and how gender is being interpreted in society. Cal’s decisions can be
understood and can be seen as the pure and natural choice of life from his inner
consciousness. For the organization of internal elements of this novel, the author
perceives traditional Greek mythology which can be seen how he describes his
point of view.
Applying some theoritical methods to study this novel is needed to get
deeper comprehension why the story uses transgender and hermaphrodite as the
majors problem in the novel. The goal of analizing novel is not only to get
aesthetic aspect, but also to understand the reciprocal relation of novel and the real
life. As the winner of 2003 Pulitzer Award for Fiction, Middlesex certainly has the
purpose to deconstruct its reader’s point of view toward gender and hermaprodithe
and to understand why the novel arises in society. | en_US |
