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Sayuri's Struggle to Reveal the Good Side of a Geisha in Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI SAYURI’S STRUGGLE TO REVEAL THE GOOD SIDE OF A GEISHA IN ARTHUR GOLDEN’S MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By AGATHA MARIA CELYNDA MAHARANI Student Number: 154214025 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2019 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI SAYURI’S STRUGGLE TO REVEAL THE GOOD SIDE OF A GEISHA IN ARTHUR GOLDEN’S MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA AN UNDERGRADUATE THESIS Presented as Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Sarjana Sastra in English Letters By AGATHA MARIA CELYNDA MAHARANI Student Number: 154214025 DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LETTERS FACULTY OF LETTERS UNIVERSITAS SANATA DHARMA YOGYAKARTA 2019 ii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI A Sarjana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis SAYURI’S STRUGGLE TO REVEAL THE GOOD SIDE OF A GEISHA IN ARTHUR GOLDEN’S MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA By AGATHA MARIA CELYNDA MAHARANI Student Number: 154214025 Approved by Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka M. Hum July 27, 2019 Advisor Dr. Tatang Iskarna July 27, 2019 Co-Advisor iii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI A Sarjana Sastra Undergraduate Thesis SAYURI’S STRUGGLE TO REVEAL THE GOOD SIDE OF A GEISHA IN ARTHUR GOLDEN’S MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA By AGATHA MARIA CELYNDA MAHARANI Student Number: 154214025 . On July 29, 2019 and Declared Acceptable BOARD OF EXAMINERS NAME SIGNATURE Chairperson : Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka, M. Hum. Secretary : Dr. Tatang Iskarna Member 1 : A.B. Sri Mulyani, Ph.D Member 2 : Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka, M. Hum. Member 3 : Dr. Tatang Iskarna Yogyakarta, July 31, 2019 Faculty of Letters Universitas Sanata Dharma Dean Dr. Tatang Iskarna iv PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY I certify that this undergraduate thesis contains no material which has been previously submitted for the award of any other degree at any university, and that, to the best of my knowledge, this undergraduate thesis contains no material previously written by any other person except where due reference is made in the text of the undergraduate thesis July 26, 2019 Agatha Maria Celynda Maharani v PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH UNTUK KEPENTINGAN AKADEMIS Yang bertanda tangan di bawah ini, saya mahasiswa Universitas Sanata Dharma Nama : Agatha Maria Celynda Maharani Nomor Mahasiswa : 154214025 Demi pengembangan ilmu pengetahuan, saya memberikan kepada Perpustakaan Universitas Sanata Dharma karya ilmiah saya yang berjudul SAYURI’S STRUGGLE TO REVEAL THE GOOD SIDE OF A GEISHA IN ARTHUR GOLDEN’S MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA beserta perangkat yang diperlukan (bila ada). 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 kepada saya maupun memberikan royalty kepada saya selama tetap mencantumkan nama saya sebagai penulis. Demikian pernyataan ini saya buat dengan sebenarnya. Dibuat di Yogyakarta Pada tanggal 26 Juli 2019 Yang menyatakan, Agatha Maria Celynda Maharani vi PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI FOR MY DEAREST FAMILY, MY BEST FRIENDS AND MY SAVIOR vii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ACKNOWLEDGMENTS First of all, I would like to express my deepest gratitude to God for His blessing during the process of writing this undergraduate thesis. Without Him, I will not be able to finish this. I would like to express my gratitude to Drs. Hirmawan Wijanarka M. Hum for being my thesis advisor. I would like to thank him for his time, support, advice and suggestion to lead me patiently finishing this thesis. I also would like to thank Dr. Tatang Iskarna for being my co-advisor who has read and given a lot of corrections for making this thesis better. I dedicated this thesis to my parents, who support and force me to do my best for finishing this. They also give me a lot of love and bless to make me do my best. I would like to thank my uncle Antonius Tri Wijanarka to keep forcing me finishing this whenever I let myself lazy. Finally, I would like to thank my friend Dan Jakobsson who supports me whenever I feel down on finishing this thesis. Special thanks go to my best friend and sister Kezia Maura who cheers me up in my day. Agatha Maria Celynda Maharani viii PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI TABLE OF CONTENTS TITLE PAGE ............................................................................................... ii APPROVAL PAGE .................................................................................... iii ACCEPTANCE PAGE ............................................................................... iv STATEMENT OF ORIGINALITY ........................................................... v LEMBAR PERNYATAAN PERSETUJUAN PUBLIKASI KARYA ILMIAH ........................................................................................................ vi DEDICATION PAGE ................................................................................ vii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ...................................................................... viii TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................................................ ix ABSTRACT .................................................................................................. x ABSTRAK ..................................................................................................... xi CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ............................................................... 1 A. Background of the Study .................................................................... 1 B. Problem Formulation ......................................................................... 3 C. Objectives of the Study ...................................................................... 4 D. Definition of Terms ............................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II: REVIEW OF LITERATURE ........................................... 5 A. Review of Related Studies ................................................................. 5 B. Review of Related Theories ............................................................. 10 1. Theory of Character and Characterization ................................ 10 2. A Brief Review on the Existence of Geisha in Japan ............... 12 C. Brief View of Arthur Golden ........................................................... 14 D. Theoretical Framework .................................................................... 15 CHAPTER III: METHODOLOGY ......................................................... 17 A. Object of the Study........................................................................... 17 B. Approach of the Study ..................................................................... 18 C. Method of the Study ......................................................................... 19 CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS ...................................................................... 20 A. The Stigma of Geisha Revealed through the Character of Sayuri ... 20 B. Sayuri’s Struggles to Show the Good Sides of Geisha .................... 29 CHAPTER V: CONCLUSION ................................................................. 40 REFERENCES ........................................................................................... 43 ix PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI ABSTRACT MAHARANI, AGATHA MARIA CELYNDA. (2019). Sayuri’s Struggle to Reveal the Good Side of a Geisha in Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha. Yogyakarta: Department of English Letter, Faculty of Letters, Universitas Sanata Dharma. People outside of Japanese culture are mistaken geisha as prostitute. On the other hand, geisha for Japanese culture is a woman entertainer who entertain the guests by Japanese traditional arts such as dancing, singing and playing shamisen. The goal of this study is to show the positive side of geisha by showing Sayuri’s works in the novel of Arthur Golden Memoirs of a Geisha. Inspired by the fact above, two objectives were formed in this study. The first was to find out the stigma seen in Sayuri’s life as a geisha in the novel. The second objective was to find out Sayuri’s struggle to show the good side of geisha. In this research, the writer applies the library research method. The main data source that is used from the novel entitled Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. The second source is from the books and articles from the internet to complete the objectives of this thesis. The writer uses historical biographical approach in analyzing the novel. There are three theories that are applied in this thesis. There are characterization, historical review and biographical review. In this analysis, there are two findings in this thesis. The first finding is the stigma attached on geisha seen in Sayuri’s life. The stigma on Sayuri are geisha as the tool to earn money, geisha as the male’s sexual fantasy and geisha as the vessel to give up virginity. The second finding is the good sides of geisha shown by Sayuri. There are studying the arts from the scratch, entertaining the guest by arts and jokes, moving out from okiya to get the freedom, putting aside her own feeling for the guests’ sake and struggling against Hatsumomo for her profession. Keyword; Geisha, stigma, art x PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN
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