SETTING IN JOSE SARAMAGO'S BLINDNESS

This thesis discusses the Setting in the novel Blindness. In this thesis the writer proposes two research questions. The first is the Setting that arises in the Blindness and the second is discussion about the effect of the Setting in the whole meaning in Blindness. In this thesis the writer uses New Criticism theory and Setting theory to answer those questions. In this thesis the writer uses a qualitative approach because the data collected are in the form of words. The procedures to collect the data are the writer reads the novel to get well understanding about the story. After that the writer is selecting and collecting the data in form of narration and conversation from the novel related to the problem of the study. The third is analyzing the data collected, firstly collect the story which setting rises up and analyze the setting that appear in that statement or conversation then analyzing the effect of the setting towards the novel’s whole meaning. And the last is making conclusion based on the result of data analysis. The finding of this thesis is there are many types of setting appears in Blindness and the effect of those settings in the whole meaning is to emphasize the moral depravity represented in the novel. Moral depravity is depicted with the broken rules of humanity, human without morality, filthiness, crimes, violence, murder, the scenery of the dead city and also the social collapse.