Abstract
The crisis that the world is in today has brought people together through the suffering they share. It leads to the presence of solidarity, which shows how people come hand in hand to help each other, showing that humanity exists even in difficult times. This paper seeks to analyze the portrayal of solidarity and suffering as part of the moral values of Han Kang's novel 'Human Acts,' which deals with the similar crisis that occurred in South Korea in 1980, known as the Gwangju Uprising. It applies descriptive qualitative research which concentrates directly and clearly on the aspects in the novel. It is learned that the characters in the novel convey the moral values most through the way in which they respect and care for one another and that the suffering shared between the characters is part of both their loss and their survival because of the solidarity they have built along the way. The moral values depicted in the novel �Human Acts� are not merely fiction. It was realistically shown during the Gwangju Uprising and is now being shown in the current situation of the pandemic.
Highlights
Since the beginning of 2020, the world has been faced with an unexpected pandemic, with lives being drastically altered and even stolen
Marsh (2002) assumed that literature is concerning with life and leaving. This is due to the fact that literary texts convey both writers' and readers' philosophies and beliefs as a type of social construction (Zyngier, 1994; Ariyanti, 2016) and that literary texts such as novels can be analysed in a number of ways that will lead to the same aim, that is, to make readers grasp what the authors plan to communicate
The results identified the moral values found by reference taken from the plot, character, point of view, setting, and theme
Summary
Since the beginning of 2020, the world has been faced with an unexpected pandemic, with lives being drastically altered and even stolen. The story of people who actively risk their lives by standing in the front line to combat this pandemic is just one of those messages that is worth sharing in every form of media, like a novel. Marsh (2002) assumed that literature is concerning with life and leaving. This is due to the fact that literary texts convey both writers' and readers' philosophies and beliefs as a type of social construction (Zyngier, 1994; Ariyanti, 2016) and that literary texts such as novels can be analysed in a number of ways that will lead to the same aim, that is, to make readers grasp what the authors plan to communicate
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