Drug Addiction Portrayed in Hubert Selby Jr’s Requiem for A Dream and Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting: A Comparative Literature Analysis
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2021Author
Andary, Cindy Dwi
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Pardede, Martha
Lubis, Swesana Mardia
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This thesis is entitled “Drug Addiction Portrayed in Hubert Selby Jr’s Requiem for a Dream and Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting: A Comparative Literature Analysis.” This thesis contains a study of comparative literature which involves two literary works from two different nations with similar motifs, which is drug addiction. The aims of this study are (i) to find out how drug addiction is portrayed in the two literary works, (ii) to find out what are the causes and the impacts of drug addiction, and (iii) to find the similarities and differences of drug addiction portrayed in both literary works. The writer uses comparative literature theory as well as looking at the intrinsic elements of literature in analyzing both literary works. In completing the analysis, the writer uses descriptive qualitative method which represents all the data in forms of words and sentences. The data sources of this study are Hubert Selby Jr’s Requiem for a Dream and Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting. Based on the results of the analysis it can be concluded that the two literary works show similarities and differences regarding drug addiction that happen to the characters in both literary works Skripsi ini berjudul “Drug Addiction Portrayed in Hubert Selby Jr’s Requiem for a Dream and Irvine Welsh’s Trainspotting: A Comparative Literature Analysis.” Skripsi ini berisi analisis sastra bandingan yang melibatkan dua karya sastra dari dua negara berbeda dengan motif yg sama, yaitu kecanduan narkoba. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah (i) untuk mengetahui bagaimana kecanduan narkoba digambarkan dalam kedua karya sastra tersebut, (Ii) untuk mengetahui penyebab dan dampak dari kecanduan narkoba, dan (iii) untuk menemukan persamaan dan perbedaan kecanduan narkoba di kedua karya sastra tersebut. Penulis menggunakan teori sastra bandingan dan melihat elemen intrinsik karya sastra dalam menganalisis penelitian ini. Dalam menyelesaikan analisis ini, penulis menggunakan metode deskriptif kualitatif karena semua data disampaikan dalam bentuk kata-kata dan kalimat. Sumber data dari oenelitian ini adalah kedua novel Requiem for a Dream oleh Hubert Selby Jr dan Trainspoting oleh Irvine Welsh. Berdasarkan hasil analisis dapat disimpulkan bahwa kedua karya sastra menunjukkan persamaan dan perbedaan mengenai kecanduan narkoba yg dialami karakter-karakter di kedua karya sastra.
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