AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS. Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters

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1 REPRESENTATION OF FRENCH SOCIETY IN THE 18 TH CENTURY THROUGH SETTING TO REVEAL FREEDOM OF RELIGION OF STEVENSON S TRAVEL WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By MARIA KRISTIANINGRUM Student Number: ENGLISH LETTERS PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2008

2 REPRESENTATION OF FRENCH SOCIETY IN THE 18 TH CENTURY THROUGH SETTING TO REVEAL FREEDOM OF RELIGION OF STEVENSON S TRAVEL WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By MARIA KRISTIANINGRUM Student Number: ENGLISH LETTERS PROGRAMME DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS SANATA DHARMA UNIVERSITY YOGYAKARTA 2008 i

3 A Sarjana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis REPRESENTATION OF FRENCH SOCIETY IN THE 18 TH CENTURY THROUGH SETTING TO REVEAL FREEDOM OF RELIGION OF STEVENSON S TRAVEL WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES By MARIA KRISTIANINGRUM Student Number: Approved by Gabriel Fajar Sasmita Aji, S.S., M.Hum. Date: September15, 2008 Advisor Dewi Widyastuti, S.Pd., M.Hum. Date: September15, 2008 Co-Advisor

4 A Sarjana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis REPRESENTATION OF FRENCH SOCIETY IN THE 18TH CENTURY THROUGH SETTING TO REVEAL FREEDOM OF RELIGION OF STEVENSON S TRAVEL WITH A DONKEY IN THE CEVENNES By MARIA KRISTIANINGRUM Student Number: Defended before the Board of Examiners On September 27, 2008 and Declared Acceptable BOARD OF EXAMINERS Name Signature Chairman : Dr. Francis Borgias Alip, M.Pd., M.A. Secretary : Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka, M.Hum. Member : Dewi Widyastuti, S.Pd., M.Hum. Member : Gabriel Fajar Sasmita Aji, S.S., M.Hum. Member : Modesta Luluk Artika Windrasti, S.S. Yogyakarta, September 30, Faculty of Letters Sanata Dharma University Dean Dr. I. Praptomo Baryadi, M.Hum.

5 Before a dream is realized, the Soul of the World tests everything that was learned along the way. It does this not because it is evil, but so that we can, in addition to realizing our dreams, master the lesson s we ve learned as we ve moved toward that dream (Paulo Coelho) iv

6 LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH UNTUK KEPENTINGAN AKADEMIS Yang bertanda tangan di bawah ini, saya mahasiswa Universitas Sanata Dharma: Nama : Maria Kristianingrum Nomor Mahasiswa : Demi pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan, saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma karya ilmiah saya yang berjudul: Representation of French Society in the 18th Century through Setting to Reveal Freedom of Religion of Stevenson s Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Dengan demikian saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma hak untuk menyimpan, mengalihkan dalam bentuk media lain, mengelolanya dalam bentuk pangkalan data, mendistribusikan secara terbatas, dan mempublikasikannya di Internet atau media lain untuk kepentingan akademis tanpa perlu meminta ijin dari saya maupun memberikan royalti kepada saya selama tetap mencantumkan nama saya sebagai penulis. Demikian pernyataan ini yang saya buat dengan sebenarnya. Dibuat di Yogyakarta Pada tanggal : 30 September 2008 Yang menyatakan (Maria Kristianingrum)

7 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS First of all, I would like to thank the Almighty Jesus Christ who always gives me blessings, guidance, love, hope, care along my life and a way to finish this undergraduate thesis. Then, I would like to thank my parents, Y. Suyamto and Ly. Sunarsih, my sister Melan, my brother Agus, ( ) grandmother and my cousin Eko for the support, pray, care, help, love and attention. I would like to thank Gabriel Fajar Sasmita Aji, S.S., M.Hum, my advisor and my co-advisor Dewi Widyastuti, S.Pd., M.Hum. for the guidance, advice, and patience that helped me finish this undergraduate thesis. My thanks also go to mbak Ninik and all the lecturers and the administrative staffs of Department of English Letters for the years of my study. My gratitude also goes to Mudika friends: mbak Nia, mbak Erna, Irine, Niken, mas Gunawan, mas Sigit, Teguh, Rina, Agnes, mas Plerik, Aditya, Dewi and all mudika friends for the help, spirit and suggestions, my friends in boarding house: mbak Teti, mbak Hendri, mbak Anna, Vita, Irine, Eky, Mapy, mbak Rere, and Eveline for the supports, helps remind me finishing this thesis and for lovely moments living together in three years. For my best friends - in English Letters Department 2004: Monic, Ani, Susan, Diah, Adi, Bayu, Bendhot really thank you for the supports, helps and everything, also for the pleasant moments we have shared together. I would like to thank Eka, Soni and Aditya PBI USD 2004 for the kindness and helps. Last, I thank everyone whose name can not be mentioned one by one in helping me to finish this undergraduate thesis. Maria Kristianingrum vi

8 TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE... i APPROVAL PAGE... ii ACCEPTANCE PAGE... iii MOTTO PAGE... iv LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI... v ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS... vi TABLE OF CONTENTS... vii ABSTRACT... ix ABSTRAK... x CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION..... A. Background of the Study... B. Problem Formulation... C. Objectives of the Study... D. Definition of Terms CHAPTER II: THEORETICAL REVIEW A. Review of Related Studies... 7 B. Review of Related Theories Theory of Setting Theory of the Relation between Literature and Society Theory of Society Theory of Representation C. Review on Socio-cultural Historical Background of French in the Eighteenth Century D. Theoretical Framework CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY.... A. Object of the Study... B. Approach of the Study... C. Method of the Study CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS... A. The Setting of Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes.... B. The Representation of French Society in the Eighteenth Century through the Setting of Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes C. The Representation of French Society to Reveal the Freedom of Religion CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION vii

9 BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDICES.. Appendix Stevenson s Cevennes Summary of Robert Louis Travel with a Donkey in the Appendix 2 Biography of Robert Louis Stevenson.. viii... 61

10 ABSTRACT MARIA KRISTIANINGRUM. Representation of French Society in the 18th Century through Setting to Reveal Freedom of Religion of Stevenson s Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata Dharma University, Literature can represent the truth about reality and reveal its own meaning. The phenomenon of reality and its meaning can be seen through setting, such as religious controversy issues in French started in some centuries ago. The novel Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes views this issue, the freedom of religion. The main objective is done through three steps. The first objective is to identify the setting in the novel. It explains how the setting in the novel is described. The second objective is to identify how the setting represents French society in the eighteenth century. This part matches the description of the setting with the actual condition of French society in the eighteenth century to prove that the setting represents French society in that period. The last objective is to reveal the freedom of religion through the representation of French society in the eighteenth century. The writer applied library research method in this analysis. The sources were books and website about the theories, approach, and criticism that are used to analyse the problems. The writer also collected related studies about opinion, and information about the novel and author. This thesis used the socio-cultural historical approach to reveal the ideas behind a work of literature. As the result of the analysis, the writer concludes that first, the setting is described through geographical location, the occupational and daily manners of living of the characters, the time and period in which the action takes place and general environment of the character. All of them explain the poverty and difficult condition for people like the peasants, shepherds and sellers. Meanwhile the clergy is prosperous in life. The setting also explains the religious view and moral condition in the society. Second, the description of setting has similar characteristics with French society in the eighteenth century, which shows that the setting truly represents French society at that time. The setting represents the peasants, clergy and the French society s view toward religion in the eighteenth century. Third, the result of the representation is focused on the characteristic of society in the society s view toward religion. Religious tolerance is shown off by religious fanaticism as the binary opposite. Religious fanaticism looks like having a religion with its pure faith. In fact, religious fanaticism presents that having a religion is an obligation that forces someone to do it. Basically, having a certain kind of religion is individual right. Someone may not oblige someone else to profess the certain one. Thus, tolerance for other people is required. The prominent of religious tolerance shows that religious tolerance reveals freedom of religion. Finally, the essence behind the representation is revealed. ix

11 ABSTRAK MARIA KRISTIANINGRUM. Representation of French Society in the 18th Century through Setting to Reveal Freedom of Religion of Stevenson s Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letters, Faculty of Letters, Sanata Dharma University, Karya sastra dapat merepresentasikan realita kebenaran dan mengungkapkan pesan di dalam karya itu. Fenomena dari kebenaran dan artinya dapat diungkapkan melalui latar belakang cerita, seperti masalah tentang agama di negara Perancis yang telah dimulai pada beberapa abad lalu. Novel Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes memperlihatkan masalah ini yaitu tentang kebebasan beragama. Tujuan utama penelitian ini dilakukan melalui tiga tahap. Tujuan pertama yaitu mengindentifikasi latar belakang cerita dalam novel. Hal ini menjelaskan bagaimana latar belakang cerita dalam novel digambarkan. Kedua, mengidentifikasi gambaran latar belakang cerita yang merepresentasikan masyarakat Perancis abad ke-18. Bagian ini mencocokkan gambaran latar belakang cerita dengan kenyataan masyarakat Perancis abad ke-18. Tujuan terakhir penelitian ini mengungkap kebebasan beragama dilihat dari representasi masyarakat Perancis pada abad itu. Penulis menggunakan studi pustaka dalam menganalisa. Data bersumber dari buku dan situs website tentang teori-teori, pendekatan, dan kritik yang digunakan dalam menganalisa rumusan masalah. Penulis juga mengumpulkan data tinjaun studi yang memuat opini, dan informasi mengenai novel ini dan pengarangnya. Skripsi ini menggunakan pendekatan sosio-kultural historikal untuk mengungkap gagasan dibalik karya sastra ini. Sebagai hasil analisis, penulis menyimpulkan bahwa pertama: latar belakang cerita dijelaskan melalui keadaan geografis, jenis pekerjaan dan kebiasaan tokoh-tokohnya, tempat terjadinya peristiwa dan kondisi umum tokohtokohnya, yang kesemuanya itu menjelaskan kemiskinan dan kondisi sosial yang sulit bagi masyarakat seperti petani, penggembala dan pedagang. Sementara para rohaniwan menikmati kehidupan yang makmur. Latar belakang cerita juga menjelaskan pandangan masyarakat yang berkaitan dengan agama dan keadaan moral. Kedua, gambaran latar belakang cerita mempunyai kesamaan dengan karakteristik masyarakat Perancis abad ke-18 dan hal itu membuktikan bahwa benar representasi masyarakat Perancis abad ke-18. Latar belakang cerita merepresentasikan petani, rohaniwan, dan pandangan masyarakat Perancis terhadap agama pada abad ke-18. Ketiga, hasil representasi masyarakat difokuskan pada karakteristik masyarakat, yaitu pandangan masyarakat terhadap agama. Toleransi beragama ditonjolkan melalui fanatisme beragama sebagai oposisi binernya. Fanatisme beragama memperlihatkan bahwa mempunyai agama secara murni dari iman. Pada kenyataannya, fanatisme beragama menunjukkan bahwa menganut agama merupakan suatu kewajiban yang memaksa seseorang untuk melakukannya. Pada dasarnya, menganut suatu agama adalah hak pribadi. x

12 Seseorang tidak diperkenankan memaksakan agama kepada orang lain. Maka dari itu toleransi beragama diperlukan. Sangat pentingnya toleransi beragama menunjukkan bahwa toleransi beragama mengungkapkan kebebasan beragama. Akhirnya arti dibalik representasi terungkap. xi

13 CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION A. Background of the Study Literature as a property of language is a verbal work of art that explores human desires or ideas. It expands people s mind and quickens people s sense of life. Literature does not only provide pleasure and knowledge, but it also conveys ideas and truth. Literature in Hudson s An Introduction to the Study of Literature is mentioned that: Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of it, what they have thought and felt about those aspects of it which have the most immediate and enduring interest for all of us. It is thus fundamentally an expression of life through the medium of language (1958: 10) The quotation above means that literary work is a depiction of reality that conveys the truth. It can be said that literature is a kind of medium that has social function. Literary work does not only represent the truth about reality in the outside world, but literary work also has its own meaning. Widdoson in his book Literature said that literature can be a new innovation that gives information or insights about social life. The English literary term the novel it can be argued retains traces of all these senses: a new story, new innovating, strange, perhaps even making strange or defamiliarising and offering news-information or insights-about social life (1999:136). Literary work is presented both as imagination that has its own meaning and as a medium of social life. Literary work uses an element such as setting to deliver the portrayal of reality and its own meaning. Setting is one of the intrinsic 1

14 2 elements of a literary work, refers to the description of place, the time and social condition where the action of character takes place. Abrams in the book A Glossary of Literary Terms mentioned that the overall setting of a narrative or dramatic work is the general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which its action occurs (1981:192). The setting includes the society in a certain time. Within the society, the setting encloses norm, rule or belief which guides its people. Society s circumstances present the phenomenon that happens there. When human being lives with others in the society, it is possible that some problems occur, so the representation of phenomenon happening in society in a certain time can be seen through setting. The examples are the issues in the twentieth and twenty first century French society that have close relation with the issues in the eighteenth century French society. Here, literature can play the role in revealing back that humans can learn about it. In the twentieth and twenty first centuries, many controversial issues happened in society in the world. One of them is a controversial issue concerning religion in France. The March 2004 issue of World Press Review (VOL. 51, No. 3) stated that French Parliament prohibited wearing religious garb for students in public primary and secondary school. In the National Assembly, an information-gathering commission under veteran politician Jean-Louis Debré studied the question of religious symbols in the schools. The commission s report came down categorically: The reaffirmation of the principle of secularism must take the form of legislative action explicitly to ban the visible wearing of any sign of religious or political allegiance on school property, both public schools and private schools operating under contract with the National Education system. <

15 3 The previous years, in the 1980s and 1990s, restriction to wear any religious symbols and political terms for students in France has already existed. This facts show that the people in France are not totally free to have freedom of religion. Religious controversy does not only happen in the twentieth or twenty first centuries. Basically, in the previous centuries it had occurred in France, such as in the eighteenth century. During the sixteenth century there was a controversy among religions, thus the agreement of religious worship was signed. In the late seventeenth century the agreement was broken; religious persecution occurred until the beginning of the eighteenth century and continued to be a problem. Those problems can clearly be viewed through Stevenson s Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes. In this novel Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes, Stevenson focuses on the condition of French society with the rule and belief. It tells that somebody who lives there must follow the rule and belief in which Catholic is a major religion of the society. The right about freedom of religion for everybody is questionable. Stevenson is attracted to discuss deeper and connect it with the condition of French society in the eighteenth century. Louis XIV ruled as an absolute monarch. Service of God and respect for king are united. King is absolute lord (Williams, 1972: 173, 174). In the appearance Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes represents the peasants, clergy and French society s view toward religion in the eighteenth century. Peasants undergo poverty and clergy undergo prosperous life. The French

16 4 society s view toward religion presents the religious fanaticism and religious tolerance. It becomes the surface representation of the novel. This study focuses on Stevenson s insights and ideas represented through the setting of French society in the eighteenth century, especially the representation of French society s view toward religion in the eighteenth century. Religious tolerance is more prominent in the representation. To get the representation of depth behind the religious tolerance, religious fanaticism is opposed with religious tolerance. The binary opposite aims to show off religious tolerance and gets the deeper meaning. Religious fanaticism looks like having a religion with its pure faith. In fact, religious fanaticism presents that having a religion is an obligation that forces someone to do it. Certainly having a religion is individual right. Thus, tolerance for other people is required. The prominent of religious tolerance shows that religious tolerance reveals freedom of religion. The essence behind the representation is revealed. B. Problem Formulation Based on the story Travel with a Donkey in the Cenvenes by Robert Louis Stevenson, some questions are the pillar of the discussion. 1. How is the setting in the novel described? 2. How does the setting in the novel represent French society in the eighteenth century? 3. How does the representation of French society in the eighteenth century reveal the freedom of religion?

17 5 C. Objectives of the Study The objective of this study is to find the representation of French society in the eighteenth century. In addition, there are three objectives of this undergraduated thesis based on the three problem formulations. The first objective of this research is to identify the setting in the novel. Then, the second objective is to identify how the setting represents French society in the eighteenth century. The following analysis is to find the representation of French society in the eighteenth century to reveal freedom of religion. D. Definition of Terms As stated in the title above, the writer discusses the representation of French society in the eighteenth century through the setting to reveal the freedom of religion. This part discusses the definition of terms that can help the readers understand this study. 1. Setting According to Abrams in A Glossary of Literary Terms, the overall setting of narrative or dramatic work is the general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which its action occurs; the setting of a single episode or scene within a work is the particular physical location in which it takes place (1981: 192). 2. Freedom of Religion McKean states in The New Oxford American Dictionary second edition, that freedom of religion is the right to practice whatever religion one chooses

18 6 (2005: 670). Boyle and Juliet states in Freedom of Religion and Belief that freedom of religion includes the right to believe that one has exclusive truth and that what another believes is lacking in truth (1997: 8). 3. Representation Birenbaum in his book entilted The Happy Critic said that representation is simply description, showing fairly and clearly what the work is and what it is like. It shows what is in the work as we experience it, describing what it is like, explaining what it is and how, in general, it goes about its business (1997: 11-12). 4. French Society in the Eighteenth Century Williams states in The Ancient Regime in Europe that French society in the eighteenth century consists of clergy, nobles, bourgeoisie and peasants (1970: 200).

19 CHAPTER II THEORETICAL REVIEW A. Review of Related Studies Robert Louis Stevenson is a popular author. People are familiar with him through his books. He has written many books and many people know him and his famous works, like Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Not all people know everything about Stevenson and his literary works. Some of his literary work may seldom or never be discussed. The novel Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes is one of Stevenson s novels that is not too polular. It is his second work since he became an author. This part presents a comment of the novel Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes and some reviews of other Stevenson s works, so that the readers will get the sight to the novel. Ricard Dury gave a comment about Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes novel in the website entitled Robert Louis Stevenson-Life and Works Outline in 1997 by stating a companion work, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes (1879), gives us more of his thoughts on life and human society and continues to consolidate the image of the debonair narrator that we also find in his essays and letters (which can be classed among his best works) < The study by Juli Purnani (2003) in undergraduate thesis entitled The Possible Messages seen from the Main Character and the Conflics in Robert Louis Stevenson s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explores one of 7

20 8 the literary works by Robert Louis Stevenson. The study focuses its discussion on the possible message implied in the main character s crisis. Stevenson wants to point out the idea that inside human being there are two personalities representing good and evil (2003: ix). While the undergraduated thesis study by Cahyo Roso Tunggal (2002) entitled The Contrasive Personalities between James and Henry Durie in Robert Louis Stevenson s The Master of Ballantrae discusses how the personalities of James and Henry differ in five aspects: complexity, fluidity, accessibility, resistance to change and centralization. Further, Tunggal found that the internal/heredity, genetic factor influences James and Henry s personality development (2002: xi). Another study in an undergraduated thesis The Character s Changes and Moral Development as seen in Robert Louis Stevenson s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Emmanuel Chayo Kristianto (2001) is concerned with the character changes and moral development. Kristianto found that a great desire, supported by intelligence and science, in fact, brings suffering. The interpretation of Jekyll is obviously different from Hyde s though they are actually one person. Jekyll represents a good figure, while Hyde is an evil figure. He is the result of Jekyll s experiment. Jekyll repeatedly experiences character changes, whereas Hyde experiences a minor change, but his character tends to be flat and monotonous. Science has a big role in realizing Jekyll s ambition that finally brings his own death and automatically the death of Hyde as well (Kristianto, 2001:ix).

21 9 Based on the quotations above, there are some opinions about Stevenson s thoughts in his other works and an idea about Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes. This thesis is written to develop the study of socio-culture historical background. Unlike other thesis discussing the same author of the literary work, this thesis is analysing the society in the novel as the representation of French society in the eighteenth century and the idea behind the representation. B. Review of Related Theories 1. Setting In a literary work, there are many intrinsic elements. One of them is setting. According to Abrams in A Glossary of Literary Terms, setting is the general locale, historical time, and social circumstances in which its action occurs (1981: 192). Setting in literary work has four elements. In A Handbook to Literature Holman and Harmon stated that the elements of setting are: The actual geographical location, its topography, scenery, and such physical arrangements as the location of the windows and doors in a room. The occupations and daily manner of living of the characters. The time or period in which the action takes place. The general environment of the characters, for example: religious, mental, moral, social, and emotional conditions through which the people in the narrative move (1986: 465). General environment of the characters refers to the environment of the characters in general through which the people in the narrative move. Meanwhile, in the

22 10 types of setting give more understanding of the first element of setting, the actual geographical location. There are two types of setting: natural and manufactured setting as discussed in Roberts and Jacobs Fiction: An Introduction to Reading and Writing. Natural The setting for a great number of stories is the out-of-doors, and naturally enough. Nature herself is seen as force that shapes action and therefore directs and redirects lives. Bushes may furnish places of concealment, while mountain top is a spot protecting occupants from the outside world. Nature is one of the major forces governing the circumstances of characters who go about facing the conflicts on which the plots of stories depend. Manufactured Manufactured things always reflect the people who make them. A building or a room tells about the people who built it and live in it, and ultimately about the social and political orders that maintain the conditions (1987: 190,191). From the explanation above, natural setting is the environment in which the characters in literature exist and live their lives, while the manufactured setting includes artificial scenery, properties and clothing of the character. An ugly environment contributes to the weariness, negligence, or the hostility of the characters.

23 11 Furthermore, Roberts in his book entitled Writing Themes about Literature Second Edition said that Artificial scenery always refers to the societies that created it. Hence a building, or a room, bespeaks the character of those who build and in habit it, and ultimately it reveals the social and political orders that maintain the condition (1969: 41). Artificial scenery or manufactured setting like a building or a room gives information about the social and political condition of the character. A sumptuous artificial setting emphasizes the sumptuous of the characters living in it and also their financial resources. Based on the elements of setting above, it can be said that setting in literary work consists of three kinds: setting of place, time and society or social. The setting of place includes the natural type of setting that refers to the actual geographical location, its topography, scenery, flora, fauna and physical arrangements. The manufactured type of setting is also included in the setting of place. The setting of time refers to the time in which the action happens. It can be indicated by the consequent amount of light at which an event occurs, the sound described, the smells and the weather. Whereas setting of society or social setting includes the occupations and daily manner of living of the characters and the general environment of the characters, like religious, mental, moral, social and emotional conditions through which the people in the narrative move. On the very primary level, setting has served as a means of creating an impression of realism in literature. Realism in broad sense may be extended to include what is described from philosophical or religious, psychological and political viewpoints. It means that setting in literature may create an impression of

24 12 realism that can be seen from philosophical or religious, psychological and political viewpoints. Roberts in his book entitled Writing Themes about Literature Second Edition said that the setting may become so significant that it virtually becomes an active participant in the action (1969: 42). To study the setting of any particular work, the first concern should be to discover all details that conceivably form a part of setting and then to determine how the author has used these details. This concern is artistic. One might observe, for example, that the manipulation of setting may be a kind of direct language, a means by which the author makes statements that he may not interpret (1969: 43). Another way to use setting as a kind of statement is to describe a setting in lieu of describing events, in this sense placing the setting on the level of metaphor. The language used by the author to describe the setting is an important clue in interpreting his story. An author might also manipulate setting as a means of organizing his story structurally, for example, to move a character from one environment to another (provided that no harm is done in the process). Another structural manipulation of setting is the framing method: an author frames his story by opening with a description of the setting and then returns to the description at the end (1969: 43). 2. The Relation between Literature and Society There is a close relation between literature and history. Pater Widdowson in Literature said that the literary is a proactive writing of history in order to discover or rather, form out of nothing, an identity in a social formation whose

25 13 dominant discourses would consign a repressed group to silence (1999: 135). The texts are selected for their accessibility and/or familiarity, but which nevertheless involve many different kinds of production and which focus as a unique form of historical knowledge, issues of politics, race and gender (1999: 132). The English literary term the novel, can be argued, retains traces of all these senses: a new story, new, innovating, strange-perhaps even marking strange or defamiliarising and offering news-information or insight about social life (1999: 136). 3. Society In the book Society in the Novel, Langland said that society in novels does not depend on points of absolute fidelity to an outside world in details of costume, setting, and locality because a novel s society does not aim at a faithful mirror of any concrete, existent thing. This intersection of art and life is important. Absolute literary realism may be impossible, but art cannot help making claims to something beyond itself (1984: 5). Society is the medium, comprehending not merely people and their classes but also their customs, conventions, beliefs and values, their institutions-legal, religious, and cultural- and their physical environment (1984: 6). Society may also be revealed through human relationships, characters patterned interactions and their common expectations of one another. Society remains potentially everything we have seen to be norms, conventions, codes, background, places, people, institutions-but its particular manifestation in a novel will be dictated by its role

26 14 within the work (1984: 6,7). The novel was fashioned from the beginning as an instrument of social criticism. Expressing a new valuation of the individual, it brings with it a new awareness of how social values might warp or deny individual values and needs (1984: 11). 4. Representation According to Birenbaum in The Happy Critic representation is simply description, showing fairly and clearly what the work is and what it is like. It shows what is in the work as we experience it, describing what it is like, explaining what it is and how, in general, it goes about its business (1997: 11-12). Andrew Gibson in Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative said that there are two kinds of representation. One considers representation to be a matter of surfaces, the other theorizes it in terms of depths. Surface representation is a realism of particulars. Its view of language is innocent. It conceives of language as unproblematically adequate to what it represents. Surface representation does give primacy to the visible. It puts itself forward as a realism of self-evidence (1996: 81-82). Surface representation tells us about things only within certain norms of justification that determine what things are from the outset (1996: 83). Surface representation depends on the assumption of a neutral observation language (1996: 84). Representation of depths means penetrating the visible. It goes beyond what is visible. This is the metaphysical conception of representation. This representation is the representation of essences and general features. It pierces

27 15 through the veil the visible to what the visible supposedly secretes and embodies, capturing that distilled essence and saturating language in it (1996: 82). We can say that by using this representation we can reveal the unseen from the seen in the text to get the real meaning in it. C. Review on Socio-Cultural Historical Background of French in the Eighteenth Century 1. Religion In A History of Freedom of Thought, Bury stated that until 1676 the French Protestant (Huguenots) were tolerated; for the next hundred years they were outlaws (1952: 84). Will and Durant in the book The Age of Louis XIV: The Story of Civilization Part VIII mentioned that in 1666 the Huguenots were forbidden to establish new colleges, or to maintain academies for the education of the young nobility. On October 17, 1685, the King revoked the Edict of Nantes as unnecessary, since in France was almost entirely Catholic. All Huguenots conventicles were to be destroyed or transformed forbidden. Some 400,000 converts were forced to attend Mass and receive the Eucharist; a few who spat out the consecrated wafers when they left the church were condemned to be burned alive (1963: 71-73). In A Survey of European Civilization, Bruun stated that the last of 17th century Louis XIV s desire to see all Frenchmen orthodox Catholics were not inspired by zeal for Rome. During most of his reign he was on hostile terms with the papacy. However, he believed that to be one hundred per cent French and one

28 16 hundred per cent royalist, a subject must share the religion of his king. His conviction that to be orthodox was to be disloyal-a conviction, be it noted, that often had some foundation-goes far to explain why Louis persecuted both the Jansenists and the Huguenots (1942: 654). The poorer Huguenots, who could not afford to flee, took up arms in defense of their faith and defied from their fastness in the Cevennes all royal efforts to crush them (1942: 655). Meanwhile, McKay, Hill and Buckler in the book A History of World Societies stated that the most important and original idea of the Enlightenment was that the methods of natural science could and should be used to examine and understand all aspects of life. Nothing was to be accepted on faith. Everything was to be submitted to the rational, critical, scientific way of thinking (1984: 799). By the death of Louis XIV in 1715, many of the ideas that would soon coalesce into the new world-view had been assembled. Yet, Christian Europe was still strongly attached to its traditional beliefs, as witnesses by the powerful revival of religious orthodoxy in the first half of the eighteenth century (1984: 802). Science and the industrial arts were exalted, religion and immortality questioned. Intolerance, legal justice, and out-of-date social institutions were openly criticized (1984: 805). The philosophers hated all forms of religious intolerance. Simple piety and human kindness-the love of God and the golden rule-were religion enough (1984: 805).

29 17 2. Political Condition Hobsbawn in the book The Age of Revolution mentioned that France was the most powerful and in many ways the most typical of the old aristocratic absolute monarchies of Europe (1973: 75). The government of eighteenth century France was no enlightened despotism, however. It was despotic in form, though hardly oppressive in practice it was better described as despotism tempered by corruption, with the stress on tempered and on corruption (1973: 193,194). As stated by Williams in his book The Ancient Regime in Europe that France was ruled by the method of Louis XIV for the rest of the eighteenth century. When Louis XIV took command, ideological struggles were endemic and bitter. They mainly concerned religion (1972: 170, 205). 3. Economic Williams in his book entitled The Ancient Regime in Europe mentioned that everywhere one sees people sink to the ground, literally dead from famine. Everywhere one hears nothing but complaints and groans, from the greatest to the feebles (1972: 196). The burden of taxation thrust the lower classes permanently down to the borders of starvation and in years of bad harvest desperation drove them to insurrection (1972: 197). The peasant still held his land from his lord and still had to pay quit-rent to the lord. The peasant paid dues to the State, Church and to the King (1972: 213). To the peasants these seemed more burdensome and less just than the taxes they paid to the king and when the last straw came in the form of the harvest failure of 1788 (1972: 225). The bare plain of Picardy-eighty

30 18 per cent of it given over to grain in most places, with hardly any wastes, or meadows, or woods, or common-land, over populated and under-productive (1972: 215). The laboureur, one of subgroups of peasant possessed at least two horses and a plough and he probably would not posses more than eight cattle, five pigs and thirty sheep (1972: 213). As the eighteenth century advanced, clergy became the sword and buckler of conservatism and though in their clashes with the crown they talked the advanced language of liberalism, their only concern was to protect property and privilege from attack (1972: 207). D. Theoretical Framework Each of the theories and reviews is needed to answer the questions stated in problem formulation. The review of related studies is used to strengthen the importance of studying and analysing this novel. It shows that analysing this novel is worthwhile. Theories of setting and society are used because this study analyses the social setting. In addition, the theory about the relation of literature and society is important to show that literature, like novel, may have a relation with the society in the real world. Thus, theory of representation helps interpret what is represented in the text and to reveal the unseen from the seen. The reviews of socio-cultural historical background of French in the eighteenth century are needed to compare the novel and the real condition at that time. A literary work may represent the real condition. Based on the previous discussion above, this study can analyse the representation of the eighteenth century French society to reveal the freedom of religion.

31 CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY A. Object of the Study The main source of this study is Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes, a kind of travel novel by Robert Louis Stevenson edited by R. E. C. Houghton, M.A., a lecturer in English Language and Literature in King s College, London. The book was first printed in English Literature Series in The edition used in this study was reprinted at 1955 and published in London by Macmillan & Co Ltd. The book consists of 128 pages in five chapters. Each chapter consists of several parts. The five chapters are entitled Velay, Upper Gevaudan, Our Lady of the Snows, Upper Gevaudan (continued), and The Country of the Camisards. The novel Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes is one of famous travel novels of Robert Louis Stevenson, besides An Island Voyage, Across the Plains, the Amateur Emigrant, The Silverado Squatters, and other novels like Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hide. The story of the novel Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes is set in Cevennes, French. It is about the travel of a Scotsman through Cevennes. The topography and scenery show that it is an uncomfortable place to live in. Most of the areas are hills and valleys with rocky footpaths. People along the way show the occupation as farmers, peasants, shepherds or sellers who live in difficult condition. Many places are passed in the journey; it includes The Trappist Monastery of Our Lady of the Snow. Its society has a narrow view on religion. 19

32 20 The society believes that everyone who arrives at The Trappists Monastery of Our Lady of the Snow should change his or her religion. The novel shows that the Cevennes society has a kind of rule that obliges everyone to change his or her faith when arriving in that region. Meanwhile, the society in the south has a wide view of religion by respecting others. B. Approach of the Study This thesis deals with the social condition in Cevennes, French. Therefore, the writer employs socio-cultural historical approach to do this analysis. Rohrberger and Woods in their book entitled Reading and Writing About Literature said that literature is not created in a vacuum, and literature embodies ideas significant to the culture that produced it (1971: 9). The real world and the literary work have close relation based on sociocultural-historical approach. Rohrberger and Woods stated that: Critics whose major interest is the sociocultural-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 specific group of people and point out that literature takes these attitudes and actions as its subject matter. They feel therefore, that it is necessary that the critic investigate the social milieu in which a work was created and which it necessarily reflects (1971: 9). Literary work is not created only for pleasure, but it gives a reflection of the reality that produces it. Literary work presents the civilization as the reference. Therefore, socio-historical background is suitable to help study the literary work.

33 21 C. Method of the Study Library research was used in this analysis. The primary source was the novel Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes by Robert Louis Stevenson. The secondary one were books and websites about the theories, approach, and critic that were used to analyse the problems. The books A Glossary of Literary Terms, Writing Themes about Literature, Mastering English Literature, Society in the Novel, Reading and Writing About Literature, The Age of Louis XIV: The Story of Civilization Part VIII, Towards a Postmodern Theory of Narrative, A Survey of European Civilization, etc were used as the main sources to determine the approach and theories of this study. There were some steps in to analyse this novel. First, the writer read the novel comprehensively to understand the story. Based on the understanding of the story, the writer was interested in the social condition of French society in the Cevennes. To know about what the literary work actually implied, the writer read the sources about the socio-cultural historical background in French related to the novel. Then, the second step was collecting data about the review of related studies, opinion and information about the novel by the same author. It also consisted of collecting data about the theories of setting, society, representation and socio-cultural historical approach from books and websites. The third step taken by the writer was trying to answer the problem formulation by applying the theories to the work. Theories of setting were used to analyse the setting in the novel. Theory of society was applied to analyse the

34 22 society. Theories on representation were used to analyse the meaning of what the setting represents and to analyse the unseen from the seen of the text, then to get the real thing from it. Then, the socio-cultural historical background of France in the eighteenth century was used to strengthen the idea that the novel was a social criticism toward the society in Cevennes French at that time. Finally, after analysing the setting and examining how the setting reflects the French society and also the social criticisms toward the society, the problem formulation have been answered. From these steps, the conclusion could be drawn.

35 CHAPTER IV ANALYSIS This chapter aims to answer the problems which are formulated in the previous chapter. It consists of three parts. The first part discusses the setting in the novel. The second part discusses the representation of French society in the eighteenth century through the setting in the novel. Then, the third part discusses the representation of French society in the eighteenth century to reveal the freedom of religion. A. The Setting of Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes All kinds of stories have a particular setting that includes setting of time, place and society. The existence of setting makes the story more colorful and clearer. Setting has an important role to support other elements in the story, like character, tone, atmosphere, etc. In the analysis of setting of Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes, the writer discusses the actual geographical location, the occupations and daily manner of living of the characters, the time or period in which the action takes place and the general environment of the characters. In the first part, the writer analyses the geographical location of the novel, including its topography, scenery, and physical arrangement. In the second part, the writer analyses the occupations and daily manner of living of the characters. The third part of the analysis is about the time or period in which the action takes place. In the fourth part, the writer analyses the general environment of the characters. 23

36 24 1. The Actual Geographical Location In the novel Travel with a Donkey in the Cevennes, the setting of place is explained through the actual geographical location. It is a visible background that can be seen by descriptive passage in the novel. The geographical location in this novel is described in the form of natural setting like its topography and scenery. It can be seen from this quotation: Mount Mezene and the peaks beyond St. Julien stood out in trenchant gloom against a cold glitter in the east; and the intervening field of hills had fallen together into one broad wash of shadow, except here and there the outline of a wooded sugar-loaf in black, here and there a white irregular patch to represent a cultivated farm, and here and there a blot where the Loire, the Gazeille, or Laussonne wandered in a gorge (p.16). The topography of Mount Mezene is illustrated in a sharp, dreary plateau that is cold and has less sunlight. The area is still natural with many trees growing and an irregular patch which indicates a cultivated farm. The setting clearly reflects the natural landscape. The novel uses this kind of setting in most part of the story. As stated in Roberts and Jacobs that nature is one of the major forces governing the circumstances of characters who go about facing the conflicts on which the plots of stories depend (1987: 191). The condition of topography shows how life in that place is. It means that the topography influences the society s life in that kind of place. On all sides, Goudet is shut in by mountains; rocky footpaths, practicable at best for donkeys, join it to the outer world of France; and the men and women drink and swear, in their green corner, or look up at the snow-clad peaks in the winter from the threshold of their homes, in an isolation, you would think, like that of Homer s Cyclops (p.10) The condition of society s life in the novel can be seen from the condition of the landscape. The landscape influences the way of life and thinking of the society.

37 25 The place called Goudet is located among mountains with rocky footpath. The setting brings an uncomfortable of isolated society. This description of topography and scenery is used in the beginning of the story, the first chapter in the second subchapter entitled The Green Donkey Driver. It continues to be used throughout most of the story. Moor, heathery marsh, tracks of rocks and pines, woods of birch all jeweled with the autumn yellow, here and there a few naked cottages and bleak fields, these were the characters of the country. Hill and valley followed valley and hill; the little green and stony cattle-tracks wandered in and out of one another, split into three or four, died away in marshy hollows, and began again sporadically on hillsides or at the borders of a wood (p.26). The landscape of the road is mountainous. It is a cheerless prospect place. Stevenson describes the natural scenery generally for most places in the novel as areas of hill and valley, followed by valley and hill again such as in Allier, Goudet, etc. The topography gives the implication of a tedious, uncomfortable place to live where the society do their activities. The next natural setting of this novel still explains about miserable places. The road from Cheylard to Luc is described as a bad road with dry land in which there are less wood, trees or low plants. The road seems to be either kept in good condition or easy place to live in. It is showed in these sentences: It was like the worst of the Scottish Highland, only worse; cold, naked, and Ignoble, scant of wood, scant of heather, scant of life. A road and some fences broke the unvarying waste, and the line of the road was marked by upright pillars, to serve in time of snow (p.39). The other form of the scenery s picture used in the novel is the description about the hue in the river which is not clean. The meadows are described as dry meadows; the leaves color is not green. The weather is hot and dusty. The picture