social setting in the story represents the reality, the setting is the copy of the real society, just like what we learn in sociology. Therefore, when the story reflects
as a social life, that story is a copy of the real social world. In addition, Durkheim in Faruk, 2012:53 with his outline social theory, stated that literature is tightly
tied with social solidarity development that becomes a power of social order. A story in literary works can be an analog of a society, which represents
imaginatively the social relations and patterns in society Faruk:2012. The novel Anna and the King of Siam was an analog of Siamese society which represented
imaginatively the social relations and patterns in society. It gave us an explanation of Siamese culture and what social problems that happened in Siam.
1.2 Reasons for Choosing the Topic
I cho se Margaret Landon‟s Anna and the King of Siam as the object of my
research and the problem of western hegemony as the topic of my final project because of the following reasons:
1. Anna and the King of Siam is an interesting novel which reflected Siamese
social life at that time. Margaret Landon, the author of this novel, said that the novel she created was seventy-five per cent fact, and twenty-five per cent
fiction based on fact. She spent years of painstaking research among old Siamese records, letters and documents to fill out this poignantly intimate
story of life behind the palace walls in the Siam at eighty years ago Landon: 1956. Reading this novel was very entertaining because the romantic side of
the story between the King and Anna Leonowens blended with the political
aims of ruling and saving Siam from western imperialism. This story brought me an experience about their life story.
2. Western hegemony played an important role in Siamese society. British, at
that time, under the reign of Queen Victoria, was the greatest country in the world. Queen-empress dominated over 200 million people living outside
Great Britain. They became the richest and the most powerful country because 1 in 4 people on the earth were under British rule. It was nice to talk
about how western hegemony could influence their social life since western power was very massive at that time.
3. The power of western great domination around the world also brought
Siamese a set of control under their power. British at that time had most colonies in the world. The King of Siam took the best strategy to rule his
country safely by following western social life, so that another countries would see Siam as modern as western countries. Then, we could see how
Western ideology hegemonized them by forcing them to imitate the west.
1.3 Research Questions
