The Violence in William Faulkner's Novel Dry September = The Violence in William Faulkner's Novel Dry September

HARISA. 2023. The Violence in William Faulkner’s Novel Dry September ( Supervised by Burhanuddin Arafah, dan Herawaty Abbas).The aims of this research are to find discuss the acts of violence committed by white people against black people which are described in the novel. To analyze them, the writer examines the intrinsic elements of the literary work by using the strucruralism genetic approach by Lucien Goldmann.In this research, the writer applies descriptive qualitative methods to analyze, the data and in this case, the data is a literary work namely a novel entitled Dry September written by William Faulkner. Through this study indicate that the violence in the novel is centered on social status. This means that black people often experience violence without due process of law. Racial hatred of blacks was a key driver of the violence described in Dry September, presenting a highly critical view of race relations in the 1920s South where black male behavior was criminalized while white males were free to commit acts of violence without fear.

Keywords : violence, race, social status differences, genetic structuralism.