The Analysis of Relative Clauses in Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's Novel "The Great Gatsby": A Dissertation, English Education Department Faculty of Education State Islamic College of Ponorogo. The primary data was in the form of sentences that included all relative clauses in the novel "The Great Gatsby". So this research takes the title: ―THE ANALYSIS OF RELATIVE CLAUSES IN FRANCIS SCOTT KEY FITZGERALD'S NOVEL ―THE GREAT GATSBY‖.
What types and forms of relative clauses are found in Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's novel 'The Great Gatsby'. What is the dominant classification of relative clauses found in Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's novel 'The Great Gatsby'. To analyze the types and forms of relative clauses in Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald's novel 'The Great Gatsby'.
To identify the classification of dominant relative clauses used in the novel "The Great Gatsby" by Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald.
Organization of the thesis
English Relative Clauses
Relative clauses modify the noun or noun phrase in the main clause by making it more specific or providing additional information. In those examples, the relative clauses modify the head that functions as the object of a verb, making RC also part of the noun phrase. Although the heading of these sentences is a preposition, the relative clauses still make changes to the noun/pronoun that actually functions as the object of preposition in a preposition.
When we get into the novel, the post modifier function of relative clauses in the novel can significantly lead us into the author's style. In the second example, the referent of the head is already identified, but the RC merely offers additional information,22 which, if removed, would not harm the meaning of the sentence: "The police are looking for Al Capone". Then non-restrictive RC can narrow a set of entities to a smaller set, making category, only restrictive relative clauses do.
Look at the example of paraphrasing a restrictive RC; we can see the ambiguity of the head: "man" becomes more obvious.
Forms of English Relative Clauses
The English Novel Definition of novel
The term novel itself is an English transliteration of the Italian novella, a short, compact, broadly realistic tale popular in the Middle Ages. As for origins, Russian cultural theorist Mikhail Bakhtin traces the novel back to Imperial Rome and ancient Hellenistic romance, while Margaret Anne Doody locates her birthplace in it. But in the twentieth century the novel has eclipsed poetry, both what writers write and what readers read, and since the 1960s the narrative has also come to dominate literary education.33 People still study poetry, but novels and short stories have become the core of the curriculum .
They contained a strong element of https://btk.ppke.hu/uploads/articles/135505/file/introduction/prose/novel/subgenres_of_t he_novel.html), accessed June 19, 2016. . supernatural and now traditional "haunted house" props. This is a term used to describe a novel that is the story of the hero or heroine's youthful development. 10) Künstlerroman shows the artist's development from childhood to maturity and beyond.
This form tends to be experimental and breaks away from traditional storytelling methods and the novel form. A popular modern branch of fiction that veers into the realm of the possible or probable, often investigating new technological possibilities, e.g. In 1998, the editors of the Modern Library voted it the best American novel of the 20th century and the second best English-language novel of the same time period.
In a sense, the novel is Nick's memoir, his unique view of the events of the summer of 1922. In town, they have a vulgar party at the apartment, which Tom throws because of the affair. Tom accuses Gatsby of his low birth and reveals to Daisy that he gained Gatsby's wealth by being a Christian (selling alcohol illegally during Prohibition).
George has come to the conclusion that the driver of the car that killed Myrtle must have been her boyfriend. Nick thinks about Gatsby, and the role of the past in dreams of the future.
Previous Study
The types of postmodification (restrictive vs. non-restrictive) as well as relativizers used in different text types were also examined to find out to what extent they were used in different texts. They are the second most common type of dependent clause within the four text types. On the other hand, the highest incidence of non-finite structures is in academic prose.
The results of the analyzes also show that the occurrence of finite and non-finite sentences and their basic function depends on the degree of formality of text types. The occurrence of both restrictive (essential) and non-restrictive (non-essential) relative clauses is determined by the medium as well as the degree of formality; the less formal the text type, the greater the occurrence of restrictive relative clauses. Most restrictive relative clauses are found in interviews and fiction.
The relationships between this study and her study are both investigated around relative clauses in the text. Her research was very similar to the objectives of this research: to find out the types and dominant type of relative clauses. But what makes it different is that it included more genres of text than just a fiction and only took samples of the text not the whole text.
The following previous study, Polly Tse and Ken Hyland, in December 2009 at the Language Centre, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, wrote a journal related to relative clauses titled: Claiming Territory: Relative Clauses in Magazine Descriptions. , Hong Kong.37 The main aim of their paper is to examine the role of relational sentence constructions in the corpus of journal descriptions, the text that defines and affirms the goals and position of the journal. A magazine description can be a good starting point for exploring structural relative clauses with them. The relationship between their research and this research is the study of RC in the text as a whole.
Thus, the first previous study changes with this search in object number while the second previous study changes in the object of analysis. Although all of them were trying to study the RCs in the text, but this research is new to analyze the RCs in the whole text of a novel.
Research Finding
Below are several analyzes of the structure and the limitation found in the novel "The Great Gatsby". In 38 the heading is 'a row' modified by RC ‗which almost reaches the newspaper'. The relative pronoun "it" is the subject of verb "reach". It is only matched by an adjective/adverb "almost". In 23 and 1 the relative 'what and who' is the subject and is directly followed by its verb. Who. - there were boys who saw a man acting 'kind of crazy' and motorists at whom he stared strangely from the side of the road.
Here the head of the RC is "the benefits", which is then modified by the RC "that you have had". But it can be identified by categorizing the referent of the head by looking at the RC. Most of the remaining restrictive RCs founded inside the novel were the same as this one.
The researcher notes that without the second RC 'they are always the last ones left on the train' the head is still vague because there are a number of seats opposite each other in the train. In 28 the head 'the car' is changed by a non-finite RC 'heading towards New York'. The head itself is the subject of RC. The verb . immediately follows his head and if paraphrased it will be 'the car going to New York'.
If rewritten, it will be "nothing better to do"... countless containers' and the RC is "to contain it". The paraphrased structure will be "innumerable containers which shall contain it". By removing the RC, we will not see any damaged meaning "The facade was broken by a row of French windows and wide open. It can also be rewritten as a coordinated .. structure ‗The front was broken by a row of French windows and it now glows with reflected gold and wide open...'.
Here the corrupted meaning can be seen by removing the RC ‗I had nothing in it. the hall". In 2 the head is "everyone" and the RC is "I knew". The head becomes the object of verb 'knew'. This can be paraphrased as "Everyone I knew". In 5 the head "chandelier" modified by "Ifollowed". This can be paraphrased as 'One of the three shops it contained was for rent'. In 4 the head is 'There was a slow pleasant movement in the air, hardly ' n wind' and the RC 'promises a cool lovely day'.
It was quite surprising that even though it is a rare form of RC, we still found it in the novel The Great Gatsby.
CLOSING
With 472 relative clauses, The Great Gatsby is a great resource for teachers to teach relative clauses. Teachers can take the RCs found from this research and empower students to gain more understanding through direct practice. This research can provide other researchers with data about relative clauses inside The Great Gatsby.
It will help those who want to conduct research related to subordinate clauses, complex structure, novel or etc.
