Critics whose major interest is the socio cultural-historical approach insist that the only way to locate the real work is in reference to the civilization that
produced it. They define civilization as the attitudes and actions of a specific group of people and point out that literature take these attitudes and actions as
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ts subject matter…Rohrberger, 1971: 8 According to the statements above, the way socio-cultural historical approach related
to a literary works is in the civilization that produces the work. Civilization along with its culture defined as the attitudes and actions of a specific group of people. It is
necessary to understand the social surrounding when the novel was created to understand the culture, issues, and the way of life of the society. This approach is used
to understand about Japanese intellectual from Coldmoon’s character.
C. Method of The Study
In this study, the writer used library research. The writer managed to find suitable sources containing necessary data by considering the factors of validity,
accuracy, relevancy, and appropriateness which could finally decide the suitable source to use.
The primary source was the novel I Am a Cat by Natsume Soseki translated by Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson. The secondary data were taken from various sources.
Therefore, some review, critics, books of history about Japan, data from internet and
some works that are used in the novel as its object of study would be used also as the data that compared or conducted with the writer’s analysis.
To answer the problems, there were some steps that the writer needed to find the result. Firstly, the writer had to find the characterization of the important character
in this novel. In this case the writer uses Avalon Coldmoon’s character according to his
description and action in the novel. The theory of character by Abram in his book A Glossary of Literary Terms and characterization by Barnet in his book Literature for
Composition: Essays, Fiction, Poetry and Drama would help the writer to figure it out.The second step is connecting the society of the Meiji era with the description of
the character of Avalon Coldmoon to find the answer of the thesis which talked about Japanese intellectuals from representation of Coldmoon in the novel I Am a Cat by
Soseki Natsume translated by Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson.
