Mulad Aji Muhammad. C0310040. The Representation of Eastern Europe and Western Europe as the Metaphoric East and West and the Ambivalence in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Postcolonial Approach). Undergraduate Thesis. Faculty of Cultural Science. Sebelas Maret University. This research analyses some issues related to the representation of the Eastern and the Western Europe as the metaphoric East and West and the ambivalence issue reflected in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The aims of this research are to reveal representation of the East and the West according to human characters and to explore ambivalence issue reflected on the novel. This research applies theory of Orientalism and theory of mimicry and ambivalence as the main theories. This research is qualitative research. All the collected data which is related to the representation of the East and the West Bram Stoker’s Dracula are analyzed with Orientalism theory. After that the data is analyzed with mimicry and ambivalence theory to find the ambivalence issue.
From the analysis, it can be concluded that Dracula by Bram Stoker contains the representation of Eastern and Western Europe as the metaphoric East and West. The Eastern Europe as the origin of Dracula representations are exotic landscape, tradition and superstition, and lustful. The West representations are the technology and rationality, and protagonist characters. The narrative of Dracula is also the representation of the West domination over the East through the monolith stigmatization. It reflects the strength as well as the flaw of the West in taking information about the East. As the result the text remains ambivalent.
Keywords: Poscolonialism, Representation, East, West, Ambivalence
