Bahasa Indonesia
Nurul Faizah Amiliyah
Abstract
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows are the last two novels of Harry Potter series written by J.K Rowling. Harry Potter is a serial novel tells about the life of magical society, which also represents the problems of real social life. Blood purity is the most peculiar issue among the other issues described in the novel. Blood purity is a concept that is created on the basis of political interest, in which then creates social classes. Through social class system, people are grouped according to their blood lines. It then leads to a social discrimination, in which the upper classes always expel the lower classes and treat them arbitrarily. This article has three problems to discuss: the first is the social discrimination represented in the novels, the second is the ideology constructed in the novels, and the third is the politics beyond discrimination. We use qualitative research method for this article to examine the analysis. This article begins with the analysis of the novel and applies Stuart Hall’s theory of representation. We analyze the structure of the novels which construct the discourse of social discrimination. This analysis results an explanation of the discourse of social discrimination represented in the novels which later becomes a critique towards the social class system in British society, especially the upper class society whom, at times, benefits their position to act arbitrarily against the lower class. The image of discrimination constructs the author’s ideology which reveals that the novel is a critique towards the pattern of societal life in which the social class system itself is formed due to the political interest of a group of people who aim to dominate society.
Keywords: Blood Purity, Ideology, Social Discrimination, Theory of Representation