Dystopian Characteristic in Megadeth Song Lyrics

DERA RAHMAN, . (2020) Dystopian Characteristic in Megadeth Song Lyrics. Sarjana thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI JAKARTA.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The study aims to find the dystopian characteristic of Megadeth song lyrics based on M. Keith Booker’s theory of dystopia by political and social issues. Following the theory of M. Keith Booker the political issue is described by a group of people who has authority, political practice, and the system which is created. Meanwhile, the social issue is described by the bad society, struggle live to survive, and social class. The idea of a social and political issue is to find out the dystopian characteristic in Megadeth song lyrics from the album called ‘Dystopia’ since Dave Mustaine is the founder and the leader of Megadeth, the song lyrics is about politics, drugs, and the occult following Mustaine’s style. This skripsi focuses on the denotative and connotative meaning based on Roland Barthess theory of semiotic to find out the dystopian characteristic in Megadeth four song lyrics which are The threat is Real, Fatal Illusion, Death from Within, and Post-American World from the album ‘Dystopia’. This Skripsi explains political and social issues as the key features of dystopia and how political and social issues impacted humanity. The result is political issues describe a political practice, a group of people, and the system which created; affected society following the regulation or the policy based on the political group who made the policy. The political practice is the system created by people who have the authority and should be followed by some people who have no authority. Following the social issue, those deals with the political impact on a society in which people struggle to live. To deal with the condition above these songs describe a certain condition of humanity in social life. On the other hand, political and social issues impacted each other at certain point which includes the system that created to make society worse instead of making it better. It can be concluded that Political issues and Social issues are the key points of dystopia. ABSTRAK Penelitian ini dibuat untuk menunjukan ciri – ciri gambaran dystopia pada lirik lagu Megadeth. Dengan pendekatan semiotic Roland Barthess dan teori dystopia menurut M.Keith Booker yang berlandaskan pada masalah politik dan sosial. Pada dasarnya, peranan politik pada dystopia di jabarkan dalam; praktek politik, para politikus, serta dampaknya terhadap social. Sedangkan untuk social sendiri dapat dijabarkan sebagai perjuangan untuk bertahan hidup, lingkungan yang tidak baik, seta kelas di masyarakat. Gagasan dystopia dapat ditemukan pada lirik lagu megadeth dari album yang berjudul Dystopia. Dave Mustaine yang merupakan pemimpin dari Megadeth memiliki gaya menulis lagu mengenai politik, peperangan, narkoba, serta hal-hal ghoib. Pada beberapa lagunya yang berjudul The Threat is Real, Fatal Illusion, Death From Within, dan Post-American World menunjukan ciri-ciri dystopia yang berhubungan dengan masalah politik dan social. Dengan metode makna denotative dan connotative dengan arahan teori M. Keith Booker, penulis dapat menjelaskan masalah politik dan sosial sebagai ciri-ciri utama distopia dan bagaimana masalah politik dan sosial berdampak pada kemanusiaan. hasilnya menunjukan bahwa masalah politik sangat berperan dalam terbentuknya dystopia dengan praktek politik yang tidak baik, politikus yang mementingkan dirinya sendiri, serta system yang dibuat demi mengendalikan masyarakat. Sedangkan pada masalah social, di jabarkan bahwa perjuangan untuk bertahan hidup sungguh berat, serta kelas sosial yang berdampak pada kehidupan.

Item Type:	Thesis (Sarjana)
Additional Information:	1). Rahayu Purbasari, M.hum ; 2). Hasnini Hasra, M.Hum
Subjects:	Bahasa dan Kesusastraan > Bahasa Inggris
Divisions:	FBS > S1 Sastra Inggris
Depositing User:	Users 5118 not found.
Date Deposited:	25 Sep 2020 12:17
Last Modified:	25 Sep 2020 12:17
URI:	http://repository.unj.ac.id/id/eprint/11121

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