MORAL DEPRAVITY OF THE COURT MAGISTRATES
TOWARD THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AS REFLECTED
IN UGO BETI’S CORRUPTION IN THE PALACE OF JUSTICE
Hadiyanto
Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Diponegoro Semarang
ABSTRACT
Morality of the court magistrates has a significant role in administering work mechanism of the court. It is very much damaging if the court magistrates, who are relied on to uphold the law and sustain the justice and resist any crime against the law, are the criminals for their own profession. The purpose of this paper is analyzing moral depravity of the characters within the story of drama “Corruption in the Palace of Justice” which is plausibly the reflection of every day life. Method utilized in writing this paper is method of moral approach and of structural approach. The three main characters within drama “Corruption in the Palace of Justice” namely; Vanan, Cust and Croz have terrible morality in implementing their duty as law enforcers. They are corrupt toward their own profession so that credibility and reputation of the court are at worst and people no longer have any trust to them. Due to the distasteful deed in enforcing the law, those court magistrates eventually feel guilty and remorse upon society. Their moral depravity leads them to uneasiness in living a life amidst society since they are not willing to concede the crime. Only one of whom is admitting the fault he has already committed.
Key words: moral depravity, court magistrates, no public trust, feeling guilty, uneasiness Read the rest of this entry »
Women’s Excessive Superiority towards Social Class Structure
In Post Industrial Revolution Era as Reflected in Jane Austen’s Emma
Hadiyanto
Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Diponegoro Semarang
ABSTRACT
Industrial revolution in Britain has fragmented people into certain social class structure namely; upper, middle, and lower class as reflected in Jane Austen’s novel Emma. This essay is aimed at analyzing relationship between characters especially women in novel Emma and people’s manner, attitude, way of thinking, view of life, social perception tendency in post-industrial revolution era in which the novel is written. Emma, Miss Taylor, and Miss Hawkins are representation of middle class women who steadily keeps social limitation to show their existence in community by placing their social status as reference in socializing and interacting with people. The higher social status people tend to adore and defy their position excessively by despising the lower class. As a result of this, they turn to be superior, more self-important people if they meet the lower class ones in social interaction.
Key words: industrial revolution, social class structure, women’s superiority, negative manners in socialization Read the rest of this entry »
MURDERING CHILDREN
AS REACTION OF PSYCOPHATIC PERSONALITY DISORDER
A Psychological Study of Literature in Euripides’ Medea
Hadiyanto
Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Diponegoro Semarang
ABSTRACT
Literature-psychology relationship has given much contribution to development of both disciplines of knowledge. Such relationship enables any methods within psychology to be applied to analyze literary works, and vise versa, psychological phenomenon found in literary works can give feedback to development of psychology. This essay is aimed at analyzing the cause of Medea’s failure in marriage, her psychological state, and psychopathic personality disorder reaction so that Medea eventually decides to murder her own children. In this Euripides’ literary work, Medea, the sufferer of psychopathic personality disorder, has some psychological disorder indications such as maladaptive behavior and personal distress. Characteristics of psychopathic personality disorder are guiltless feeling and no remorse for every sadistic, maladaptive behavior she has committed all her life. She has no conscience, just follows her impulsive drive without considering other’s right to live, and has no ability to change her maladaptive behavior throughout her life. Murdering her own children, king Kreon and his daughter, and dismembering her own brother’s body into pieces for the dragon are evidence for a psychopath Medea. The importance factors having a role to shape Medea’s personality are biological and parental factor. Medea’s biological factor is her non-reactive nerve system which leads her to commit a cruel deed aggressively and unable to hear somebody’s advice and restriction. Whereas based on parental factor, Medea from childhood to adulthood is reared in killer family and environment, so it also shapes Medea’s personality to be a cold-blooded killer.
Key words: psychopathic personality disorder, murdering, guiltless feeling, maladaptive, personal distress, biological-parental factor. Read the rest of this entry »
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