A BAD TEACHER AND THE BEST KING IN ELISABETH HAND’S ANNA IN THE KING

(DECONSTRUCTION APPROACH ANALYSIS)

Abstract

Deconstruction approach theory is a critical outlook concerned with the relationship between text and
meaning. It also as a strategy of rules for reading, interpretation, and writing. Deconstruction approach
considers that language hasn’t a definite meaning or certain. Deconstruction essentially is a way how to read a
text that subvert the notion (if it is only implicitly) that text has a foundation in the language system applicable
to affirm the structure, wholeness, and meaning that has been stabilized (Abrams, 1981: 38). Deconstructive
readings, in contrast, treated works of art not as the harmonious fusion of literal and figurative meanings, but
as instances of the intractable conflicts between meanings of different types. There is no idiom or linguistic
forms meaning certain and definite. Deconstruction approach attacked the assumption that these structures of
meaning were stable, universal, or a historical. This study was designed by using qualitative research model.
Anna and the King novel will be analyzed by means of deconstruction approach with the title of my study : A
Bad Teacher and the Best King In Elisabeth Hand’s Anna and the King. My study are deconstruction research
may consider by the multiple meanings of key words in a text, etymological relationships between words, and
even puns to show how the text speaks with different (and often conflicting) voices (Balkin 1990b; Balkin
1989). This analysis according to the deconstruction analysis although it has been asserted that poststructuralism (in this case deconstruction is not an applicable method). I am sure it is possible to apply some
basic deconstructive moves to Elisabeth Hand text, which seems especially receptive, given its overt
oppositions and emphasis on language
Key words: deconstruction approach theory, Anna and the King novel, qualitative research, post-structuralism.