Mind Style, Gender and Islamic perspectives in two short stories "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell and "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston

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Cahyani, Rizka (2019) Mind Style, Gender and Islamic perspectives in two short stories "A Jury of Her Peers" by Susan Glaspell and "Sweat" by Zora Neale Hurston. Undergraduate thesis, UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya.

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Abstract

This study focuses on analyzing mind style, gender and Islamic perspectives in “A Jury of Peers” and “Sweat” Short Stories. It is chosen because mind style, gender and Islamic perspectives as the study to analyze the differences behavior between woman and man characters in the area of language use through their mind, gender differences in language use and the Islamic perspectives responses. It is very important to know the differences between them to get deeper understanding the differences behavior in woman and man mind also their language as our reflection through characters life in short stories. The research designs are descriptive qualitative and content analysis to analyze the differences between women and man through their mind style using Leech and Short’s (2007) theory. Language use based on Lakoff’s (1975) theory and respond with Islam views using Qur’an verses and Hadith. The instrument is the writer herself as human instrument. Reading, marking and selecting the dialogue and sentence are the steps to collect the data. Moreover, to analyze the data the writer has some steps such as identifying, analyzing, responding and interpreting. The data of this study takes from dialogues which contain of schema, unique metaphor, figurative language, hedges and swear word that related to mind style of the characters and language use of gender. The findings on mind style especially in schema are “prison schema” and “bullying schema”, while in metaphor “women are trifles” and “the war between good and evil”. Those findings indicate that man as a powerful and strength characters that can do underestimate, bully and oppress the woman characters. In figurative language that focus on the use of simile such as a riddle, a hard man, cheerful, Delia retort’s to Sykes and the snake fangs represents woman as the victim, not equal with man and the woman as a good characters whereas man as a bad characters. Whereas in gender language use the writer finds from the use of hedges and swear word both of man and woman are use it but in different function. Man using hedges and swear word to express logic, power, concrete function and emotion, while women using hedges and swear word to express insecurity, unwillingness, powerless, carefulness also emotion. Islamic perspectives gives the real values and regulation based on An-Nahl: 90, Al-Hujurat: 11, Al-Baqarah: 263 and Muhammad SAW narrated by Muslim, Bayhaqi, Bukhari, Iman and Adab.