The Practice of Symbolic Violence in George Orwell’s Novel 1984

ABSTRACT: In this study, the researcher discusses a practice of subtle violence which Bourdieu calls symbolic violence that occurs between two classes of society. By using Ian Watt’s sociological theory of literature, the researcher tries to analyze how violence occurs in a structured and organized manner and what forms of violence look like. By making the novel 1984 by George Orwell, the researcher found that there are various forms of violence that occur in the novel, namely: (a) political ideology, (b) culture, and (c) orthodoxa. This form of violence occurs because of differences in the social structure determined by group habitus so that a social class is formed in society. This study aims to determine the types of symbolic violence practices, as student library materials and notification to readers and the public that there is a practice of violence that not only attacks physically but also forms of violence that is subtle even the victim is not aware of being in the practice of victims of violence, which is called as symbolic violence.

KEYWORDS:1984, Symbolic Violence, Practice, Sociology ofLiterature.