STUDENT WORKSHEETS

Name of Group Member:

1. Nur Hidayah Ayu Puspita Ningrum / 2211420074
2. Bintang Felix Jatmiko / 2211420085
3. Tania Prasanti Putri / 2211420091

Matrix of Binary Opposition Analysis

Datum Excerpt from novel The Center The periphery Explanation
Number
1 The Courtroom The crowd The Center It criticizes how
outside the stands for the the judicial
courtroom established legal system upholds
order that repressive power
preserves the systems.
authority of the
ruling class. The
unrepresented
masses on the
periphery who
are shut out of
the judicial
system are
represented by
the Periphery.
2 The Palace The crowd The prince lives It examines the
outside the in the affluent, social and
courtroom aristocratic royal economic divide
court represented between the
by the Center. governing class
The Pauper's and the general
neighborhood of populace and
London's assesses how
impoverished power is
streets is concentrated in
represented by the hands of a
the Periphery. select few.
3 The Royal Procession The common The Royal The
people watching Court's pomp and representation of
the procession circumstance, the ruling class
which serves to emphasizes the
awe and frighten value of empathy
the populace, is and
represented by understanding
the Center. The amongst various
perspective of socioeconomic
the common strata as well as
people, who are how they retain
cut off from the their power via

Description of Real Happening the Place Where the Author Had Been Living
Datum Real happening, concrete
number historical/ social condition
1. The English Tudor dynasty.
Political unrest, religious strife,
and the development of the
middle class and the British
Empire were characteristics of
the Tudor dynasty.
2. England's Industrial Revolution.
England's transition from an
agricultural to an industrial
civilization during the Industrial
Revolution had a significant
impact on the country's economy,
society, and politics.
3. The English Protestant
Reformation. Political and
religious upheaval resulted from
England's conversion from
Catholicism to Protestantism
during the Protestant
Reformation.
royal court's spectacle and
luxury and ritual.
authority, is
reflected in the
periphery.
Similar events Explanation (relation
happened in the story between them)
The monarch of The Twain discusses the
Prince and the Pauper is tensions and conflicts
Edward VI, the king's
that shaped the time
son and a significant
player in the period while also looking
Catholic-Protestant into the historical and
conflict and the
social context of Tudor
expanding class split
during the Tudor era. England.
The predicament of the The novel underscores
pauper in the book the human cost of these
serves as a metaphor for transformations while
the widespread illustrating the huge
exploitation, poverty, changes brought on by
and child labor that the Industrial
people had to deal with Revolution.
during the Industrial
Revolution.
The fight between This book explores the
Catholics and tensions between religion
Protestants in The and politics in Tudor
Prince and the Pauper England, as well as how
serves as a religion was utilized to
representation of the keep the populace under
religious tensions that control. It also
existed in Tudor demonstrates how to
England. contextualize the
Protestant Reformation
and its consequences
within the broader
 historical context of
England.

Description of the Authorship of the Writer and the Social Group and Social Class Associated
with the Writer
Datum The writer’s Similar events to the writer’s Explanation (relation
number moment of life moment event of life in the story between them)
1. Experiences Mark Manual labor and poverty as Having worked as a
Twain had as a experienced by The Pauper printer and a journalist,
printer and a he was familiar with the
journalist. misery of the working
class and the poor, and
he used the struggles of
the Pauper in The Prince
and the Pauper to
express this
understanding. It also
emphasizes the
importance of
compassion and
understanding across
class lines.
2. Twain's worries The exploitation of power by the Twain stood resolutely
about power abuse elite in 16th-century England against power abuse and
and political political corruption. His
corruption worries about repressive
institutions and the role
that the legal system
plays in upholding the
power of the ruling class
are confirmed.
3. The fascination The lower classes' plight and squalor Social and economic
Twain had with in 16th-century England inequality bothered
social and Twain. His words show a
economic clear separation between
disparity the wealthy and the poor.

Description of the Relation of World Vision of the Class Reflected on the Author’s Mind
Datum Description of the writer’s
number idea reflected on the story
(author’s life)
1. Mark Twain's criticism of
power structures and
inequality.
2. Twain's conviction in the
value of human liberty and
self-determination.
Description of the class’
idea related to the story
(real happening)
Tudor England's social and
economic inequalities.
Tudor England's political
and religious conflicts.
The governing class
leaves the masses behind
as they maintain their
wealth and power
through show and
tradition.
Description of their
relation of them (society’s
world vision)
The Prince and the
Pauper reflect Twain's
condemnation of
inequality and the
concentration of wealth
and power in the hands of
the few at the cost of the
many. Its goal is to
express the cultural
viewpoint of how power
systems prohibit
individuals from
engaging on a human
level, and how empathy
and understanding across
different social strata are
critical.
Twain stressed the need
of exposing faults in
power systems and
abuses by Tudor
England's ruling elite. It
demonstrates how power
sustains oppression and
highlights faults in the

3. Twain's interest in using
satire to expose social and
political concerns.
The ruling class's hypocrisy
and corruption in Tudor
England.
legal system that benefit
the ruling class.
Twain explores loss and
sadness through Tudor
characters' struggle for
meaning in the face of
misfortune. It critiques
how socioeconomic status
might limit one's
potential.