@phdthesis{digilib11473,
           month = {January},
           title = {READING THE VIOLENCE IN GRAPHIC NOVEL
A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE: A STUDY OF SIGN

},
          school = {UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA},
          author = {NIM. 09150008 DANU RACHMAN WAHID },
            year = {2014},
            note = {




Pembimbing : Danial Hidayatullah M. Hum


},
        keywords = {Keywords: Violence, symbolization, A History of Violence, Graphic Novel.
},
             url = {https://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/11473/},
        abstract = {Comics, one of the literary works which is used to be seen unimportant in our
country is now raising and catching the attention in society. The efficiency and
pleasure of comic in some aspects are now convinced. Comics is often used as the
reading and learning material in academy. With the combination of visual and text
form, comic is considered as the device which surpasses the other scope of literary
work. In this paper, The writer analyzes how violences are symbolized and
interpreted in Graphic novel A History of Violence. The objectives of this research are
mainly to analyze and interpret the symbolization of violence in graphic novel. The
analysis is done through panel by panel analysis, facial expressions and text analysis
by applying the theory of semiotics from Saussure which requires signifier and
signified and semiotics theory of Pierce which represents tricothomy rule of sign
includings symbol, icon and index. The writer uses a descriptive analysis, firstly by
making scheme and classification data of violence, then divide it into three part of
violence: corporal violence, verbal violence and symbolic violence. The writer
classifies through the figure and panel analysis that there are some indicators which
make violence symbolize something. Those indicators are the doers, their intention,
chronological aspects and the tools of the violence itself. The writer discovers that
violence in graphic novel A History of Violence indicates the symbol of the hero,
manhood, comradeship, dominance, ingenuity, and insanity. From the analysis, the
writer concludes that this graphic novel is not only a comic book which full of
violence, but also a literary work that tries to communicate and emphasize violence
in any senses which are various and different to judge. Violence is not always as
bad as it looks; it is sometimes part of thing that must be allowed to happen in life
if it is not transgressing the ethical matter of life and has the right intention to do

}
}