Significance of Drinking as Seen in Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises

AGGATA HESTU PUTRIAS, Drs. Bernadus Hidayat, M.A.

2016 | Skripsi | S1 SASTRA INGGRIS

Penelitian ini membahas makna dari minum di novel karya Ernest Hemingway yang berjudul The Sun Also Rises. Adegan-adegan minum di dalam novel memainkan peran penting bagi narasi karena di situlah para karakter sering berkumpul dan berinteraksi terhadap satu sama lain. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk menginvestigasi pentingnya minum di The Sun Also Rises. Kegiatan minum di The Sun Also Rises dipercaya membawa beberapa fungsi berbeda terhadap cerita. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan strukturalistik formalisme dan metode studi pustaka. Sumber primer yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah novel karya Ernest Hemingway yang berjudul The Sun Also Rises. Sumber sekunder yang berfungsi sebagai referensi diperoleh dari perpustakaan dan situs web. Penelitian ini menemukan empat fungsi dari minum di The Sun Also Rises yaitu sebagai kegiatan minum sosial, sebagai pelarian, sebagai representasi dari kepribadian karakter, dan sebagai panggung dramatisasi konflik. Kegiatan minum di The Sun Also Rises memiliki peranan penting dalam menampilkan kepribadian para karakter maupun hubungan-hubungan di antara mereka. Kegiatan minum juga menjadi setting penting dimana banyak dialog dan peristiwa penting terjadi.

This study discusses the significance of drinking in Ernest Hemingway's novel entitled The Sun Also Rises. Drinking scenes in the novel play an important role to the narration because it is where the characters mostly gather and interact with each other. The aim of this study is to investigate the significance of drinking in The Sun Also Rises. It is believed that drinking in The Sun Also Rises conveys several different functions to the narrative. This study applies structuralistic formalism approach and library research method. The primary resource used in this study is Ernest Hemingway's novel entitled The Sun Also Rises. The secondary resources which served as references are collected from library and websites. This study discovers four functions of drinking in The Sun Also Rises which are as social drinking, as an escape, as a representation of a character's personality, and as a stage of conflicts dramatization. Drinking in The Sun Also Rises has a significant role in portraying the characters' personalities as well as the relationships amongst them. Drinking also becomes an important setting where many important dialogues and events occur.

Kata Kunci : drinking, functions, conflicts, structuralism