LINGUA LITERA

The dystopian society is a reflection of a bad social environment that happened in reality. In this study, the researcher has found three problems of study, the government control, the loss of Todd’s individual identity, and how discourse works in the novel The Knife of Never Letting Go. It uses the sociological theory by Michel Foucault and uses descriptive method to analyze the data. The concepts from Foucault such as panopticon that underlined the bounderies in society to human being’s freedom, it is going to be way to uncover the first and the second problem. By using the concept of discourse that influences choices and actions in society is used to uncover the third problem.


I. INTRODUCTION
Dystopia is an unpleasant imaginary world. It is a condition in society that seems to be harsh to its citizens that can be found in many literary works. According to Atwood

II. REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE
This research will be dissected by using the theory of sociology by Michel Foucault's concepts which are panopticon and discourse.

Panopticon
As the philosopher and historian of post-structuralism, Foucault views panopticon as a symbol of the disciplinary in a society. He develops the relation of panopticon and power.
Panopticon also known as the prison building. It observes the individual from every single point where they live as a symbol of the disciplinary. According to Foucault (1979:197): there is resistance." Foucault recognizes that placing people under surveilance is seen as more efficient and profitable than getting them to comply with certain laws. In short, an institution is lead by someone who can survey and has a power to controll the members, which is a knowledge. Power itself according to Foucault (2007, para. 95) is not a thing but relation and power operates at the mostmicro levels of social relation. Power is at every level of the social body. It means that there is no certain meaning of power but in this era, one who has power sometimes use it to manipulated others. It shows panopticon concept is used to examine power relation that operate in almost all modern institutions. This is the perfect way to discipline society because all of the citizens must obey the norms and rules that set in the certain place automatically.

Discourse
Discourse can be identified as Discourse produces knowledge, objects, subjects. and practices of knowledge which different between one period and another period. According to Foucault (1980:114-115): "here I believe one's point of references should not be great model of language and signs, but that of war and battle. The history which bears and determines us has the form of war rather than that of language: relation of power not relation of meaning." It simply, the knowledge and practices represented in discourse is created in power of knowledge that someone has and organized by discourse practices and disciplinary system of a specific culture.
Discourse is knowledge, knowledge is power, hence, discourse is power.
The truth of a discourse can be found in this world, it is created from the knowledge which is linked into power. When someones' knowledge already linked to the power of his position it is not only assumes the authority of truth but there is a power to claim that the truth itself is true.
It happens because every society has their own truth formed by discourses which is accepted and run in everybody life in society.
In political case, there is someone who has power to state a discourse itself is true or not. It can be power of his position or the more knowledge he has than the others.

Todd'sLife and Society
In society, there is power that Another government control that seen as a dystopian society is when Mayor Prentiss leads his people to kill women.
Someone who against this rule will be killed as the punishment. It is become a rule since he found that women can hear men's thought whilst men cannot. It can be seen in the quotation below: "The men of Prentisstown killed the women of Prentisstown." Viola gaspseven tho she's got to have guessed it, too. "Not all the men," Ben says. "But many. Allowing themselves to be swayed by Mayor Prentiss and the preachings of Aaron, who used to say that what was hidden must be evil. They killed all the women and allthe men who tried to protectthem."

Identity
The norms in society is like a power to individual's mind to be what the society wants and as a reminder to what society do not want.

Discourses In Prentisstown
In this place, there are discourses to discipline society.
The leader of the city controlled the society by stated discourses instead of harming them physically. In society, there must be truth formed by discourses.
Someone who has power and state a discourse, it can be a truth for his followers. According to Foucault (1972: 25) discourse is secretly based on an 'already said'; and that this 'already said' is not merely a phrase that has already been spoken, or a text that has already been written, but a 'never said', an incorporeal discourse, a voice as silent as a breath, a writing that is merely the follow of its own mark. In this novel, the rules of not allows to study even at home is made by Mayor Prentiss. He is the man who has an authority to control all of the life there. It is because of his high position and what he says must be obeyed by everyone. As a leader, Mayor Prentiss has a power to make a statement as a discourse that sees as a truth. As it is found in the quotation

V. CONCLUSION
The dystopian society can be seen through the government control and the impact of it to the citizens where the system is applied. In dystopian society, the institution life seems to be strict. The people are under the dictatorship of the leader. There is a tradition as seen as the norm that harm the rights of the citizens. Dystopian society also can be seen from the loss of individuality of the citizens as the impact of the government control.
Also, there are discourses that the government use to discipline the society in order to hid the way the government took over the society life.