HEGEMONI BUDAYA PADA TEKS NASKAH DRAMA DANTONS TOD KARYA GEORG BÜCHNER

Abstract

The text of Dantons Tod's Drama is a literary work that presents the practice of Hegemony
and Culture. The event studied is Cultural Hegemony. The background of the French
revolution presents two revolutionary leaders named Danton and Robiespierre. Robiespierre
acts as the dominating party and Dantons as his political opponent as the dominated party.
This study uses a qualitative method to describe Antonio Gramsci's theory of Hegemony
found in the text of the play Dantons Tod by Georg Büchner. The results of the study
indicate that the discovery of 5 key concepts of cultural hegemony from Dantons Tod's
Drama Script including Hegemony, Agreement and Consensus, Domination, Intellectuals,
Language and Ideology. The concept of hegemony consists of 5 data consisting of 5
dialogue quotes written by Georg Büchner. This study uses data collection techniques,
namely reading techniques and note-taking techniques by researching, understanding and
classifying them. Then, qualitative descriptive data analysis techniques identify, classify
and draw conclusions. This research makes legitimacy fall to the dominant party, namely
Robiespierre. The actions of this character and his group gain victory on the basis of the
authority, power of each character contained in Dantons Tod's drama script. Based on
Gramsci's theory of hegemony, it shows the form of hegemony of every leader and ruler in
obtaining his power and how the life of the French people is when hegemonized by the
ruling class. Gramsci's theory of hegemony is part of the research foundation.