theories are employed to analyze the problem: the theory of critical approaches, the theory of conflict, and the theory of mother-daughter relationship.
1. Theory of Sociocultural Approach
According to Culler 32, literature is a self-reflective context where people can reflect on what they had done in their life. Culler 32 states that
novels are about the problems and possibilities of representing and giving shape or meaning to every experience people had.
Literature is a social institution, using as its medium language, a social creation. Such traditional literary devices as symbolism and meter are
social in their very nature. They are conventions norms which could have arisen only in society. But, furthermore, literature represents ‘life’; and
‘life’ is, in large measure, a social reality, even though the natural world and the inner or subjective world of the individual have also been objects
of literary ‘imitation’. Wellek and Warren 94
As Wellek and Warren state that literature is a social institution, literature deals with society and literature cannot be apart from society. Literature
represents ‘life’ as social reality. Literature also talks about the problem in the society and all the cases people can find in the real life.
In this study, I used theory of sociocultural approach in order to analyze the cultural conflicts and the effects those conflicts on a family relationship.
According to Rohrberger Woods Jr. 6 – 15, sociocultural approach deals with the reference of social and cultural background of literary work. It is necessary to
investigate the social milieu in which a work was created and which it necessarily reflects on. The critics of this approach believe that it is necessary to investigate
the society and culture in which a work was created. The approach insists that the
way to locate the real work is in reference to the civilization of which the attitudes and actions of a specific group of people become the subject matter. It means, in
order to analyze a literary work, we need to analyze and understand the social background when the literary was produced. The proponents of this approach
analyze the sociocultural background that can be found in the story itself or outside the story in order to get the meaning of the study and give the esthetic
response to it.
2. Theory of Conflicts
