2020_Social-Psychological Alienation in 1984, The Stranger, and the Awakening
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| spelling | 15985 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/view.php?ref=15985 https://intelek.unisza.edu.my/intelek/pages/search.php?search=!collection3 General Document Malaysia Library Staff (Top Management) Library Staff (Management) Library Staff (Support) Terengganu Faculty of Languages & Communication English application/pdf 1.5 Server storage Scanned document Universiti Sultan Zainal Abidin UniSZA Private Access UNIVERSITI SULTAN ZAINAL ABIDIN SAMBox 2.3.4; modified using iTextSharp™ 5.5.10 ©2000-2016 iText Group NV (AGPL-version) Copyright©PWB2025 218 2020_Social-Psychological Alienation in 1984, The Stranger, and the Awakening SOCIAL-PSYCHOLOGICAL ALIENATION IN 1984, THE STRANGER, AND THE AWAKENING (PHD_2020).pdf 2020-12-06 Mohammad Nusr Al-Subaihi Orwell, George, 1903-1950—1984—Criticism and interpretation Alienation (Social psychology) in literature Existentialism in literature Individualism in literature Alienation has been repeatedly studied in the works of Hegel, Marx, Weber and Fromm. This study applies Seeman’s Social-Psychological Alienation Theory to examine Orwell’s 1984, Camus’s The Stranger and Chopin’s The Awakening through their three protagonists (Winston, Meursault and Edna). It aims to apply the concepts of ‘powerlessness, meaninglessness, and normlessness’ based on the protagonists. Since this study offers an understanding of these three concepts, it provides a clear discussion about the portrayals of social-psychological alienation in the selected novels, the causes of social-psychological alienation onto the protagonists and their effects, and the effectiveness of their efforts to overcome alienation. Without discussing the exact reasons for alienation, people will develop a false sense of alienation. Thus, neglecting this will have drawbacks on people, keeping them immature of their social integrity and will distort understanding of avoiding feeling alienated. The study adopts the qualitative approach that goes along with the philosophical premises of the study that is constructivism. This study adopts the thematic analysis approach, combined with Seeman’s Theory of Social-Psychological Alienation. It follows the six phases of the thematic analysis as its research design, including the familiarity with the texts, generating codes, searching for themes, reviewing themes, defining themes and producing a report. The study investigates only three concepts of Psychological Alienation Concepts coined by Seeman, they are powerlessness, meaninglessness and normlessness. The study exposes many points and findings from the thematic analysis made. Major findings reveal that the protagonists develop a sense of alienation due to several reasons, including Totalitarianism, Absurdity, and Feminism. The findings also show that the major reason behind the sense of alienation in Orwell’s 1984 is the suffering from Totalitarianism. Findings show that the real reason behind the sense of alienation in Camus’s The Stranger is Absurdity. Similarly, the findings reveal that the reason behind the sense of alienation in Chopin’s The Awakening is Feminism. These reasons entrap them in situations such as fear, rejection, and suicide. Accordingly, these situations, along with the protagonists’ sense of alienation, lead them to pay efforts to overcome their dilemma, including helplessness, suicidal, and escapism through Art. The study concludes that many reasons, including the Totalitarian regimes, Absurdity, and Feminism, lead to creating three images of social-psychological alienation, which are powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, respectively. The findings from this study benefit not only scholars but also enthusiasts and readers who are aware of the circumstances and factors that could lead to the sense of powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness. Finally, this study contributes to the awareness that the world today lives the same circumstances as shown in the selected novels where people in some areas still suffer from totalitarian regimes, as women still suffer from male dominancy and other people still suffer from the sense of Absurdity due to the illogical world in which they live in. Dissertations, Academic Thesis |
| spellingShingle | 2020_Social-Psychological Alienation in 1984, The Stranger, and the Awakening |
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| subject | Orwell, George, 1903-1950—1984—Criticism and interpretation Dissertations, Academic |
| summary | Alienation has been repeatedly studied in the works of Hegel, Marx, Weber and Fromm. This study applies Seeman’s Social-Psychological Alienation Theory to examine Orwell’s 1984, Camus’s The Stranger and Chopin’s The Awakening through their three protagonists (Winston, Meursault and Edna). It aims to apply the concepts of ‘powerlessness, meaninglessness, and normlessness’ based on the protagonists. Since this study offers an understanding of these three concepts, it provides a clear discussion about the portrayals of social-psychological alienation in the selected novels, the causes of social-psychological alienation onto the protagonists and their effects, and the effectiveness of their efforts to overcome alienation. Without discussing the exact reasons for alienation, people will develop a false sense of alienation. Thus, neglecting this will have drawbacks on people, keeping them immature of their social integrity and will distort understanding of avoiding feeling alienated. The study adopts the qualitative approach that goes along with the philosophical premises of the study that is constructivism. This study adopts the thematic analysis approach, combined with Seeman’s Theory of Social-Psychological Alienation. It follows the six phases of the thematic analysis as its research design, including the familiarity with the texts, generating codes, searching for themes, reviewing themes, defining themes and producing a report. The study investigates only three concepts of Psychological Alienation Concepts coined by Seeman, they are powerlessness, meaninglessness and normlessness. The study exposes many points and findings from the thematic analysis made. Major findings reveal that the protagonists develop a sense of alienation due to several reasons, including Totalitarianism, Absurdity, and Feminism. The findings also show that the major reason behind the sense of alienation in Orwell’s 1984 is the suffering from Totalitarianism. Findings show that the real reason behind the sense of alienation in Camus’s The Stranger is Absurdity. Similarly, the findings reveal that the reason behind the sense of alienation in Chopin’s The Awakening is Feminism. These reasons entrap them in situations such as fear, rejection, and suicide. Accordingly, these situations, along with the protagonists’ sense of alienation, lead them to pay efforts to overcome their dilemma, including helplessness, suicidal, and escapism through Art. The study concludes that many reasons, including the Totalitarian regimes, Absurdity, and Feminism, lead to creating three images of social-psychological alienation, which are powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness, respectively. The findings from this study benefit not only scholars but also enthusiasts and readers who are aware of the circumstances and factors that could lead to the sense of powerlessness, meaninglessness, normlessness. Finally, this study contributes to the awareness that the world today lives the same circumstances as shown in the selected novels where people in some areas still suffer from totalitarian regimes, as women still suffer from male dominancy and other people still suffer from the sense of Absurdity due to the illogical world in which they live in. |
| title | 2020_Social-Psychological Alienation in 1984, The Stranger, and the Awakening |
| title_full | 2020_Social-Psychological Alienation in 1984, The Stranger, and the Awakening |
| title_fullStr | 2020_Social-Psychological Alienation in 1984, The Stranger, and the Awakening |
| title_full_unstemmed | 2020_Social-Psychological Alienation in 1984, The Stranger, and the Awakening |
| title_short | 2020_Social-Psychological Alienation in 1984, The Stranger, and the Awakening |
| title_sort | 2020_social-psychological alienation in 1984, the stranger, and the awakening |