Subject Matter Approach of the Study

CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

This chapter covers subject matter, approach of the study, and method of the study. The subject matter contains a brief description of the novel. In the next part I would like to discuss the approach which is used in this study. In the method of the study I would like to discuss the steps that I followed starting from collecting data and resources until using those data and resources to answer the two questions stated in the problem formulation.

A. Subject Matter

The subject matter of this study is Mark Twain’s The Prince and The Pauper. This novel was written by Mark Twain in 1881, based on the social life in England on the 16 th century in the Reign of King Henry VIII. The Prince and The Pauper tells a story of two young boys who are identical in appearance but come from a different social level, and exchange their position. The Prince and The Pauper is an American novel, although the setting of the story is in England in 1547. Mark Twain, the author, is considered to be one of America’s greatest humorists and writers. The Prince and The Pauper was first published in 1881. In this study, the writer used the novel which was published by P F. Collier Son Company in New York in 1921. The novel consists of 274 pages and is divided into thirty-three chapters. 31 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 32

B. Approach of the Study

In this study, I will analyze Mark Twain’s The Prince and The Pauper which reveals the social life of England in sixteenth century. The novel tells the contrasting life of the common people and the life of the higher level, the royal family life and the nobles’ life. I believe that by this novel Mark Twain would like to reveal the social life to convey his criticism through the major characters. It is necessary to analyze the background of the society of the novel. In order to have a better understanding about the story, including the society of the story, I will use the socio-historical approach to answer the second question as stated in the problem formulation part. I use the socio-historical approach to describe the society and the historical background related to the story. By using this kind of approach, I can give a description about the socio-historical background of England in the 16 th century, and also the social life at that time in order to give the insight and the information on the condition at that time. I use the socio-historical approach because I believe that Mark Twain inserted a criticism to the England social life in the 16 th century through his novel, and also based on the fact that some references state that Mark Twain was a realist and humorist writer Mark Twain Biography. Therefore, he usually wrote the things he knew about from the firsthand experience and inserted his criticism in it Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910.

C. Method of the Study