The Class Struggle in Shirley Jackson’s Short Story “ The Lottery”

A Marxism Analysis Approach

A Research Paper (S-1)

Submitted in a Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for an Undergraduate

By

Ivan Setiawan

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FACULTY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL STUDIES

UNIVERSITY OF STIKUBANK (UNISBANK) SEMARANG

2020
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First of all, thanks to ALLAH S.W.T for giving me knowledge and strength
for my responsibilities as a student and complete this research paper within
stipulated time.I would like to thanks to my supervisor Wienny Ardriyati,
DRA,M.Pd,a lecturer of English Literature Department and Stikubank University
(Unisbank) Semarang.

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who help in this paper. Hopefully ALLAH replies all helps and bless you .

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 ABSTRACT
Setiawan,Ivan.2020.The Class Struggle in Shirley Jackson’s Short Story“The
Lottery” A Marxism Analysis Approach.A thesis.Faculty of English Language
and Cultural Studies,Graduate of English Literature Studies of Stikubank
University Semarang.Supervisor:Dra Wienny Ardriyati,M.Pd
Keywords :Marxism,Social Classes,Class Struggle,Human Exploitation,Oppression

This paper studied about the social classes and the effect of social classes in
Shirley Jackson’s short story The Lottery . The writer used qualitative method
and Marxism approach to analyze social classes in this short story . the writer
found that the short story “ The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson showed social
classes are divided into two main classes : upper class or the bourgeoisie and
lower class or the proletariat . The member of the bourgeoisie class are
Mr.Summer,Mr.Graves and Mr.Martin. The Proletariat class are Hutchinson
family,Old Man Warner and Mr.Adams. The Lottery short story is has shown
clearly an example of society divided into two class. The bourgeoisie class could
dominate and manipulated social classes in society, the proletariat class are
followed the order and the tradition that already existed .

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 Table of Contents
CHAPTER I ................................................................................................................................ 1

INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................... 1

1.1 Background of the Study......................................................................................................... 1

1.2 Statement of the Problems ...................................................................................................... 3

1.3 Objective of the Study ............................................................................................................ 4

1.4 Scope of the Study .................................................................................................................. 4

1.5 Significant of the Study........................................................................................................... 4

1.6 Approach of the Study ............................................................................................................ 5

1.7 Organization of the Paper........................................................................................................ 5

CHAPTER II .............................................................................................................................. 6

BIBLIOGRAPHY and SYNOPSIS ............................................................................................ 6

2.1 Biography of Shirley Jackson.................................................................................................. 6

2.2 Synopsis of The Lottery .......................................................................................................... 7

CHAPTER III ............................................................................................................................. 9

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK ............................................................................................. 9

3.1 Previous Studies ..................................................................................................................... 9

3.2 Definition of Literature and Short Story ................................................................................ 10

3.3 Marxism Theory ................................................................................................................... 13

3.4 Method ................................................................................................................................. 17

CHAPTER IV ........................................................................................................................... 18

FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS ............................................................................................ 18

4.1 Social Classes on The Lottery Short Story ............................................................................ 18

4.2 Effect of Social Classes onThe Lottery Short Story ............................................................... 23

CHAPTER V ............................................................................................................................ 29

CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTION ..................................................................................... 30

5.1 Conclusion............................................................................................................................ 30

5.2. Suggestions .......................................................................................................................... 31