The Sinking Ship Van Der Wijck Analysis

The sinking Ship Van Der Wijck tells about a love story that is not to be blocked by customs as very strong. He was a young man from a mixed marriage, the Makasar and his Minangkabau Zainuddin who bleed removal to Minangkabau experiencing time and married to the mother of Makasar Zainuddin who bleed Makasar, has an original lover of Batipun named Hayati. However, their relationship did not last long due to blocked because pengangan very strong traditions. Finally, Hayati had married a native Minangkabau youth peer named Aziz. After, He can know that Hayati had married, then get sick, but thanks to the impulse of the spirit, good friend Muluk Zainuddin, kondisinya start picking from punishment.

Finally, He has become a very well known author and has been living in Surabaya. However, in Surabaya Zainuddin met with Understanding who is sent by her husband own i.e. Aziz because they don 't have anything else. In addition, Aziz and Hayati had lost all his wealth and her husband was fired

They found some traditions incompatible with the tenets of Islam and common sense and continued to criticize adat (traditions) in his works.

The staging of "the sinking Van Der Wijck", the theme of true love, sincere and faithful love between a pair of lovers but can not be United because of the tradition of the Minangkabau adat so binding and customary discrimination too at the time.

In the path of this narration, has used elements of modernization which advanced because many repeats the story about the life of Zainuddin from beginning and end of the story. Zainuddin is the orphans, the death of his mother and his father. Later, tells about its transfer function to Surabaya, subsequently became a successful writer. The rest tells about life Zainuddin and