ATHEISM AS SEEN IN HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS NOVEL by JOANNE KATE ROWLING

This research analyzes one of Joanne Kate Rowling’s works entitled Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. This novel tells about the adventures of a wizard named Harry Potter in searching of horcruxes to defeat the evil wizard named Voldemort, with the helping of his friends. This research aims at observing the world view of the novel and the coherence between the world view that presented in the novel with the life of the author as well as the social life where the author writes her literary work. Therefore, the research applies Lucien Goldmann’s theory on genetic structuralism. This research employs dialectic qualitative research. The data from this research are all from the novel and other resources that relate to the formulation of the problem. The data are analyzed from the structure of Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows, binary opposition of elements, and categorization of character using genetic structuralism theory by Lucien Goldman. The result of this research shows that the world view of this novel is atheism. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows has binary opposition, those are good based value and general bad-based value. There are characters representing God, World, and Human. The main character, Harry Potter represented the god, Voldemort represented world, Cissy Malfoy and Severus Snape represented Human. This world view has no correlation with the religious life of the author of the novel Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows in which the author herself never mentioned the religion that she professed, but she still believes in the existence of god, but this world view has correlation with the life of European society at the time of writing the novel that the majority of whom are atheists. In the other word the author indirectly gets influence from her social environment when writing her work.