Neil Gaiman's Depiction of Hero in His Novels

ANGGARSIH WIJAYANTI, Prof. Dr. Ida Rochani Adi, S.U.

2022 | Skripsi | S1 SASTRA INGGRIS

Coraline, The Graveyard Book, dan Fortunately, the Milk adalah buku petualangan anak-anak yang mengisahkan perjalanan hero masing-masing buku, yaitu Coraline, Bod, dan si ayah. Skripsi ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui bagaimana perjalanan masing-masing hero mengonfirmasi atau menganulir teori monomyth Campbell. Skripsi ini menggunakan teori hero's journey atau monomyth Campbell sebagai landasan analisis. Pembahasan skripsi menemukan bahwa hero's journey hadir dengan jelas dalam cerita, tapi dengan berbagai macam perbedaan. Disimpulkan bahwa ketiga novel mengonfirmasi lima tahapan Separation; semua tahap Initiation kecuali Woman as the Temptress, Atonement with the Father, dan Apotheosis; serta keenam tahapan Return. Ada tahapan-tahapan hero's journey yang urutannya berubah, tidak sesuai, menjadi satu, atau tidak terpakai. Hero's journey tidak memperhitungkan kasus ketika aksi karakter pendukung berkontribusi pada jalannya petualangan hero. Perubahan dalam hero's journey tidak terhindarkan dikarenakan perbedaan jenis cerita yang diteliti oleh Campbell dan fakta bahwa sebuah cerita memiliki unsur budaya, waktu, dan bentuk narasinya tersendiri.

Coraline, The Graveyard Book, and Fortunately, the Milk are children's adventure books that revolve around the journey of their respective heroes, namely Coraline, Bod, and the dad. This paper aims to find out how the hero's journey confirms or negates Campbell's monomyth. For the analysis, this paper applies Campbell's monomyth/hero's journey theory. It is found that the hero's journey is still apparent in the stories, although not without varying degrees of differences. The discussion concludes that the three novels confirm the five stages of Separation; all Initiation stages except for Woman as the Temptress, Atonement with the Father, and Apotheosis; and the six stages of Return. Some stages are reordered, revised, fused, or bypassed entirely. It is also revealed that the hero's journey does not take into account the case where the supporting characters' actions are the ones that contribute to advancing the hero's adventure. Alterations in the hero's journey are inevitable due to the differences in the type of stories perused by Campbell and the fact that stories are laden with their own cultures, times, and narrative forms.

Kata Kunci : hero's journey, Neil Gaiman, children's books, adventure