Theoretical Framework THEORETICAL REVIEW
subject matter. It is necessary that the critic investigates the social milieu in which a work was created in a vacuum and second, literature embodies ideas significant to the
culture that produced it. There are two factors that need to get attention to socio- cultural. First, accuracy in the presentation of historical facts is of value to the
historian, but not necessarily to the author. Second, a work of literature might have a historical significance, but not necessarily a literary significance.
The themes of Cry, the Beloved Country is about social inequality and injustice in the main character’s conflicts; the focus of the sociocultural-historical is
the South African society, the time when Paton lives and exists. Nevertheless, he is able to join with the culture and society at that time was bad, especially for the Black
people, the working class. They were described as a second class in society because of the politics Apartheid. Looking at the bad conditions, Paton, who came from the
white society but born and live in South Africa wrote a novel about the condition of South Africa, he put his criticism on it.
I use the sociocultural-historical approach because of its relation between the author and the society at the time Paton wrote the novel. In the novel, Paton wants to
criticize the society at that time and he describes it through the representation of each character problem in the novel. The sociocultural-historical approach also related to
this study which examining the criticism and the conflicts and the causes of the conflicts of the main character personality which closely related with the society and
the background of the author. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI