| dc.description.abstract | A Formal Analysis on Tolstoy’s God Sees The Truth but Waits and A Grain as Big
as a Hen’s Egg; Retno Tri Wulansari, 070110191033; 2013; English Department,
Faculty of Letters, Jember University.
This thesis deals with formalist analysis which concerns on the analysis of
selected short stories TOLSTOY’S “GOD SEES THE TRUTH BUT WAITS” AND “A
GRAIN AS BIG AS A HEN'S EGG”. The problem in this thesis is the language used in
both short stories above because the language used in the stories is different from
daily language. Hence, the goal of the study is to find out why different language
occurs.
The language used in literary works performs as “art as thinking in images”
which is closely related to the study of formalism. Formalism emphasizes on the
beautiful letters in conveying message that does not occur in daily spoken language.
This “art is thinking in images” relates to the creative process of the author to convert
the fabula into sjuzhet that appears as estrangement. In away “art is thinking in
images” talks about fabula, sjuzhet and estrangement as whole. Estrangement is
indeed a process of making an object strange, to touch only the senses of the object,
hence the object is not really important because the reader can perceive the idea
through the arts within the story. Thus, this writing is projected to give more
explanation on how the arts may perform in the story. Furthermore, it will give a new
way of perspective to see difference of the language used in literary works.
The data applied in this writing is qualitative data. In this case, the words or
sentences data are applied. Data collection in this thesis is documentary study. The
data is documented from Tolstoy’s selected short stories. This thesis is a descriptive
study which function is to identify the use of Fabula and Sjuzhet as well as
Estrangement. Those three terms are nothing but instruments to perform art in the
language used in literary works. In this manner, the language written in the universe
of literature can be distinguished from the daily language. Art however is something
really important in this study.
For the final comment, The God Sees the Truth but Waits displays more
sjuzhets since many object are becoming odd, and they never be explained directly
but to imply it using close reading. Not to mention the length of the story, God Sees
the Truth but Waits serves more examples of the sjuzhet. The images of the rich guy
yet pious person are the main theme of the story. While A Grain as Big as a Hen’s
Egg presents less sjuzhet because not many objects are illustrated in images, more
direct expression is applied and the length of the story. Thus, the image of the past
and the present becomes clearer.The result of this thesis indicates that there is a very
systematic process to generate meaning, idea, and notion through images. The
occurrence of arts proves that the language is beautiful. However the creativity of
Tolstoy is challenged to estrange the object | en_US |
