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The Materialization of the concept of ideal society in Ruby which leads to the attack to the women in the Convent by Ruby's people in Toni Morrison's paradise

The topic of this thesis is the materialization of the concept of ideal society in
Ruby which leads to the attack to the women in the Convent. First of all, I intend to
know what the materialization of the concept of ideal society is by the founders of
Ruby. Second, I want to know the reasons that this materialization of the concept of
ideal society leads to the attack to the women in the Convent by some of Ruby?s
people. Thus, I conduct this thesis in order to identify the materialization of the
concept of ideal society in Ruby. I also want to prove that the attack to the five
women in the Convent is a result of Ruby people?s feeling of being threatened by the
existence of the Convent outside Ruby. In conducting this research, I use literary
approach, namely setting, characterization and conflict. I divide my analysis into two
parts. In the first part I will identify the materialization of the concept ideal society by
analyzing the background of the people in Ruby before they finally end up in shaping
Ruby as their ideal society. In this part, I use a literary device named setting.
Moreover, I also use African-American survival technique to help me identifying the
ideal society. From that, I find out that the materialization of the concept of ideal
society in this novel is a society which strongly holds its purity of blackness, its self-sufficiency,
its religiousness as well as its conventionality in order to protect its
people from any domination or bad influences, especially from white people. Thus,
the materialization of this concept becomes the main reason of the attack in Convent
conducted by the founders of Ruby. In order to do that, I will firstly analyze the
character traits of the women. Then, I will go to the contrasts between the
materialization of the concept of ideal society and the lives of the women. For these
parts, I will use characterization and conflict. I conclude that the reason of the attack
in the Convent is Ruby people?s feeling of being threatened which is caused by the
differences between Ruby and the Convent women. The differences lay between
Ruby?s idealness and the lives of the women in the Convent.