The Life of Mafia as Reflected in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather: A Mimetic Approach.

By
Zefri Ferdhi Alkhotmi

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ABSTRACT

The title of this research is “The Life of Mafia as Reflected in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather: A Mimetic Approach”. The objectives of the study are to describe the similarities between Mafia’s crimes that occurs in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather.

This study is grouped into a library research. The subject of the research is the novel entitled The Godfather, while the object is The Life of Mafia. The researcher collects the data by using observation and documentation. The collected data are analyzed under mimetic approach by Abrams (1979: 3-29).Then they described through the descriptive qualitative method.

After conducting the research, the researcher gets some research findings. Mario Puzo’s The Godfather portrays the real life of Mafia. The way of Mafia Families solve the problems by killing their opponents, their involvement in drugs trafficking, their involvement in gambling business, the way to avoid from the law by bribery, their involvement in prostitution, and bootlegging are similar with the real Mafia’s life.