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CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY
In reinforcing this research, it is necessary to use a method which includes the processes of how this research systematically and accurately done. Khotari
defines research as a scientific and systematic search for pertinent information on a specific topic C.R.Khotari, 2004:1. In research, the method includes several
components such as, type of research, data collection, data processing, and data analysis which will be describe below.
3.1 Type of Research
This research belongs to the qualitative research since the datawhich are observed concern to the fact and phenomenon described on the novel The Picture
of Dorian Gray. The qualitative data are taken from the novel as the primary sources and supported by other sources such as several book, journals, articles in
website which overall are in form of words and sentences not in numerical form. The qualitative data are gathered from all selected sentences in novel and other
sources which serve several informations required by this research. This qualitative research is done to discover the particular facts related to the topic
being discussed in this research about social issues of Aestheticism emerged on the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.
3.2 Data Collection
Data collection is needed as the significant part in conducting a research. The aim of this process is to obtain the appropriate informations, in order to solve
the research problems. The data are collected by technique of documentary and close reading to the several sources. The primary data of this research are facts
and informations about the concept of aestheticism as the centre of plot in The Picture of Dorian Gray. Besides, the secondary data which are collected for this
research are facts and informations about Victorian society, Aestheticism movement in England, the concept of aestheticism, art for art’s sake, and the
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biography of Oscar Wilde taken from books, journals, articles and published thesis .
3.3 Data Processing and Analysis
In processing the data, the data are categorized into two parts for the necessity of processing. The primary data are analyzed structurally to answer the
first question of this research. I relate the events which represent the philosophical concept of aestheticism; “art for art’s sake” in the novel by using
structural theory proposed by Goldmann to get forms of relations in the novel. Furthermore, I construct the semantic poles of aestheticism to find out the forms
of aestheticism within the novel. I process the semantic poles to discover the aestheticism depiction within the novel. The result of this step helps me to analize
the relation between the aestheticism in the novel and the aestheticism in nineteenth era. I apply Genetic Structuralism theory through the fundamental
concepts of human fact, transindividual subject and significant structure to analyze the aestheticism and the social background of Victorian era. The last step
is by analysing the representation of aestheticism through the series of events within the novel,
I reconstruct the author’s world view, then the politics of Aestheticism beyond it can be revealed as the final conclusion of this research.
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CHAPTER IV. DISCUSSION
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