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show the relations between literature and society, but also suggest for the defined conception of what the relations should be, both in present society and in a future
‘classless’ society. It tells us not only what were and are the social relations and implications of an author’s work but what they should have been or ought to
Wellek and Warren, 1956: 95-5. Marxist literary critics tend to look for tensions and contradictions within literary works. This is appropriate because Marxism was
originally formulated to analyze just such tensions and contradictions within society.
Thus, the Marxist approach is appropriate in analyzing Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea since alienation, oppression, and class consciousness are the central
theme in Marxist writing. Marxist approach on literary text reveals also about how having classes within society is the catalyst for oppression and unfairness. Marx
gives the idea that oppresses should speak out against oppression and alienation they face in capitalist country so that they can liberate themselves.
3.4 Procedure
This thesis uses a library research as the method of the study. The primary source is Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea. The secondary sources are books,
which provide the theories that are needed. In conducting this study there are some steps to be done. The first was by
reading the whole story again and again in order to gain well understanding of the content of the story. This study used one of the intrinsic elements to develop the
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The second step was by finding some theories or any sources that support the analysis. The source which contains the supporting issues were collected and
those become references to limit and develop analysis of this study. The third step was stimulating the problems, which were going to lead the
study to find the personality development as the focus of the study. The forth step was identifying the element of the novel to be discussed.
The element was personality development. The suitable approach was the marxism approach. This study chose this approach as the appropriate one since the
study concerned about class conflict and racial discrimination. The fifth step was analyzing the data gained from the library research by
applying the theories on the analysis. The sixth step was drawing a conclusion based on analysis. The
conclusion would be a kind of review of the previous chapters, in which the writer tried to clarify the elements, that was personality development, and give
suggestion to further researchers, and recommend how to make use of the real to teach language skills especially reading for the second grade of Senior High
School. The seventh step was writing the report in such a way so that it would be
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