CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION
A.
Background
Literature is an arts work that is very
interesting to discuss it can be functioned as an entertainment and give us much information about life, which we are not able to pass it through because of the
limited time and movement we have.
Rene Wellek and Austin (1956:94), says
:
“Literature is a social institution, using as its
medium language, a social creation. The relation between literature and
society is usually discussed by starting with the phrase, derived from De
Bonalt, that literature is an expression of society.”
Based on the explanation above that language is an instrument that indicated creation ability and imagination author for
expression return a certain reality objective which have discovered from result
life experience which expression through work literature as message to other
people which relevant aspect human life.
Some of the very common
activities of human beings is hearing and telling. All of us like to hear
things. We like to hear stories, music and tell people about thing that
happened the other people. The radio, movies and television are all ways
increasing our experience to do things.
Abdul Halim (2003:2), says:
“Literature is simply another way we can experience
the word around us through or imagination.”
In short, it is said that the first is
literature of knowledge, or informative literature, functioning to teach, and
the second is literature of power or imaginative literature functioning to move.
Literature seems to have an
organic structure consisting of body and soul. The soul of literature is
feelings, thought, and experience while the body of literature is experience by
using good language so that will entertain its readers or audience.
Clara Reeve In Wellek and Warren (1987:282),
explain about novel is:
“The novel is a picture of real life and manners, and
of the time in which is written. The romance, in lofty and elevated language,
described what never happened nor is likely to happened”