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The Cruciality of Self-Determination on James Baldwin’s Bruce and the Spider Pasopati, Rommel Utungga; Noviyanti, Anisa Dinda; Wijaya, Kusuma; Kartiningsih, Rindrah; Hariyono
SPHOTA: Jurnal Linguistik dan Sastra Vol. 16 No. 2 (2024): SPHOTA: Jurnal Linguistik dan Sastra
Publisher : Fakultas Bahasa Asing (FBA) Universitas Mahasaraswati Denpasar

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.36733/sphota.v16i2.8583

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This paper exposes the crucial points of self-determination in the flash fiction of James Baldwin entitled Bruce and the Spider. The short story is a narrative that describes a brief moment in the life of the main character, Bruce, a Scottish king who was defeated many times by the King of England. When he saw a spider weaving its web in the corner of his retreat, this moment became symbolic of Bruce's emotional journey and self-determination within himself and the kingdom of Scotland. In this flash fiction, it is witnessed how Bruce struggles amid his repeated failures. Using qualitative research method, this article illustrates small changes in perception and courage and asks questions about how simple moments can have a profound impact on a person's life. This writing is supported by Self-Determination Theory as conceptualized by Richard M. Ryan and Edward L. Deci. Through explorative approach, the analysis includes how self-determination accompanies the reflections of the meanings behind simple actions and the importance of facing failure. In conclusion, it is self-determination through self-confidence, self-understanding, and self-reliance that directs King Bruce to defeat his despair, get back up, and beat back the English soldiers.
Idealized Female Beauty as Represented in Alessia Cara’s Song Scars to Your Beautiful Attamimi, Fatimah Nurunnada; Galang Smarandreetha, Falsyawal; Wijaya, Kusuma; Pasopati, Rommel Utungga
Jurnal Ilmiah Multidisiplin Vol 1 No 3 (2023): Jurnal Ilmiah Multidisiplin
Publisher : PT KIMSHAFI ALUNG CIPTA

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.59000/jim.v1i3.82

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Kecantikan feminin yang ideal adalah seperangkat standar kecantikan yang dibangun di atas gagasan bahwa daya tarik fisik adalah salah satu aset wanita yang paling penting dan sesuatu yang harus diperjuangkan dan dipertahankan oleh semua wanita. Scars to Your Beautiful adalah lagu yang ditulis dan dinyanyikan oleh Alessia Cara. Lagu ini bercerita tentang seorang gadis yang ingin menjadi cantik seperti gadis sampul. Dia ingin semua orang terpikat dengan kecantikannya. Namun, dalam proses memenuhi standar kecantikan itu, dia melupakan apa yang berharga di dalam dirinya. Dia rela menderita rasa sakit dan kelaparan untuk menjadikan dirinya secantik yang standar kecantikan inginkan. Lalu, bagaimana kecantikan perempuan yang diidealkan dan dampak negatifnya direpresentasikan dalam Scars to Your Beautiful karya Alessia Cara? Melalui metode kualitatif, artikel ini menjelaskan bagaimana standar kecantikan berdampak negatif pada gadis dalam lagu Alessia Cara. Didukung oleh teori dari Savannah Greenfield, kecantikan wanita yang diidealkan dan dampak negatifnya tercermin ketika gadis dalam lagu ini mendambakan dirinya seperti gadis sampul. Kesimpulannya, gadis itu melakukan segalanya untuk menjadi cantik namun dia akhirnya tersiksa dalam usahanya untuk memenuhi standar kecantikan yang dipenuhi oleh gadis-gadis sampul.
The Fundamental Expressions of Fear in Sofia Samatar's The Huntress Hariyono; Wijaya, Silvia Marta; Wijaya, Kusuma; Pasopati, Rommel Utungga; Kartiningsih, Rindrah
Alphabet Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024)
Publisher : Universitas Brawijaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21776/ub.alphabet.2024.07.01.06

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This article underlines the expressions of fear in Sofia Samatar’s flash fiction entitled The Huntress. The fear felt by the townspeople was thick, the darkness and silence merged. The moon was shining, everyone had their windows shut tight, and a brave man had come to visit the town. The silence is in line with a frightening situation in the story of The Huntress by Sofia Samatar. This paper would like to answer the question of how may fear be accentuated in Sofia's Samatar's The Huntress? Through qualitative method with cultural studies approach in the theory of myth by Claude Levi-Strauss, this paper locates expressions of fear, darkness, and courage in a story of The Huntress by Sofia Samatar. Darkness expresses the threat and disgrace experienced by the townspeople, the hunters are like a feared tenor lion, but then comes a young stranger who calls for courage in the townspeople. The fear of the townspeople is such a socio-cultural myth that has been embraced by them for a long time. In conclusion, the story shows how a young stranger tries to dispel the fear that gnaws at the townspeople's souls, convincing them that hunters are not dangerous
The Noteworthiness of Meteion’s Will to Power in Naoki Yoshida’s Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker Annasai, Axlinabila Annisa; Pasopati, Rommel Utungga; Wijaya, Kusuma; Hariyono, Hariyono; Kartiningsih, Rindrah
Madani: Jurnal Ilmiah Multidisiplin Vol 2, No 2 (2024): Madani, Vol. 2, No. 2 2024
Publisher : Penerbit Yayasan Daarul Huda Kruengmane

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10801603

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This paper examines how Meteion’s Will to Power, a concept central to Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy, is manifested within the narrative of Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker. Meteion is a character from the game Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker, created by a scientist named Hermes. She and her sisters, known as the Meteia, were made to find the purpose of life but ended up wanting to destroy all existence after seeing too much destruction. Then, how is Meteion’s Will to Power reflected in Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker? Through qualitative method in explorative approach, this study analyzes the relationship between Meteion’s actions and Nietzschean nihilism, where the disintegration of values leads to a perception of life as meaningless. Nietzsche’s perspective posits the will to power as the primary driving force in humans, emphasizing self-determination and the exertion of one’s will on the environment. Meteion’s journey, marked by despair and a wish to end all suffering, shows how Nietzsche’s idea of the Will to Power can lead to nihilism, moving from a passive to an active form. In conclusion, Meteion’s actions highlight Nietzsche’s belief that overcoming nihilism needs a reevaluation of values, showing the Will to Power’s role in facing existential despair. 
The Imperishable Sacrifice on Ralph Henry Barbour & George Randolph Osborne’s Thicker than Water Nurdin, Dewi Syifanaya Firdausy; Rosyadi, Machfianita Mirza Ayu; Putri, Alvina Salshabilla Linjani; Ramadhani, Riska Dewi; Wijaya, Kusuma; Pasopati, Rommel Utungga
Madani: Jurnal Ilmiah Multidisiplin Vol 2, No 2 (2024): Madani, Vol. 2, No. 2 2024
Publisher : Penerbit Yayasan Daarul Huda Kruengmane

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10801627

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This article underlines the perspective of sacrifice in a flash fiction of Ralph Henry Barbour & George Randolph Osborne entitled Thicker Than Water. Sacrifice is a gift for a better view of the future as it is in line with the short story that shows a sacrifice of a brother to his beloved sister who needs to be blood donated because her blood is thinner than ordinary blood. Through qualitative method in explorative approach, this paper points to the relation between Bataille’s theory and Barbour & Osborne’s short story. In analysis, Barbour & Osborn’s short story shows the sacrifice and sincerity of an older brother who had to donate a lot of blood and even hold the pain for the sake of his younger sister in order to save her from dying. In conclusion, sacrifice in this story is engaged with sincerity in which all goodness of one's self is given to the other.
Medical Tourism, Radical Democracy and Its Discontents: The Case of Indonesia Pasopati, Rommel Utungga; Ramadhani, Riska Dewi; Wijaya, Kusuma
The Sunan Ampel Review of Political and Social Sciences Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024): June
Publisher : UIN Sunan Ampel Surabaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/sarpass.2024.3.2.131-144

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This article underlines tensions between medical tourism and radical democracy in Indonesian sense. Medical tourism tends to prioritize those who have money to gain more options, yet change the ideas of medical aspects into such trivial recreations. Meanwhile, radical democracy works to realize such welfare states in which all people could reach better options in life. Radical democracy, as indicated by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe, is analyzed through genealogy of hegemony as discourses that are used to be owned by several people are distributed to every person’s needs. Through qualitative method and explorative approach, the analysis of this paper emphasizes on how radical democracy promotes undeveloped people to have better access to basic needs but medical tourism still asks answers from capitalism itself. The discourses will only remain as dialogues while the applications of being ideational have shifted into matters of being recreational. Intertwinements of medical aspects and tourism indeed focuses on those who travel and stay, but will slowly eradicate the truth of the needs of those who need better medical assistances. In conclusion, while radical democracy would like to erode hegemony, medical tourism worsens the situation by pushing more trickle-down effects than fairness and equality before everyone.
The Significance of Preservation of Memories in Yasunari Kawabata’s God’s Bones Wijaya, Kusuma; Pangestu, Imelza Novia Rakhmadani; Wulandari, Siti; Hariyono, Hariyono; Pasopati, Rommel Utungga
KIRYOKU Vol 8, No 1 (2024): Kiryoku: Jurnal Studi Kejepangan
Publisher : Vocational College of Diponegoro University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14710/kiryoku.v8i1.47-58

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This paper investigates the matters of preservations of memories in Yasunari Kawabata’s God Bones. This flash fiction tells about a girl who has never married but already has a baby in her womb. That condition reminds her and her surroundings about the history of the past, especially when she gives the ashes of the baby's bones  to many men. Through qualitative method, this study explains about a person's memory that has happened and will continue to overshadow her. In analysis, memories are not merely collections of events or repositories of knowledge, those are also identities that shape further decision making processes. In conclusion, this story shows how memories link past with present and future. Those are the results of circulation of signs, regarding various concepts and contexts of the past.
The Noteworthiness of Negotiated Understandings on Japanese Flash Fiction Entitled Two Frogs Pasopati, Rommel Utungga; Napitupulu, Johanes Claudio Perdana; Wulandari, Siti; Wijaya, Kusuma; Kartiningsih, Rindrah
KIRYOKU Vol 8, No 2 (2024): Kiryoku: Jurnal Studi Kejepangan
Publisher : Vocational College of Diponegoro University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.14710/kiryoku.v8i2.97-107

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This article exposes crucial points of negotiated understandings between two characters in Japanese flash fiction entitled Two Frogs. The story tells about the different dreams between two frogs that have plans to reach their destination to see another town. This folktale wants to tell the readers about the similarities between Kyoto and Osaka. Through qualitative method, this research underlines that, in fact, Kyoto is more traditional than Osaka, but later the characters reach such understandings than flourishing the conflicts. Any difference should be negotiated so that it never comes into bigger conflict. Negotiated understanding then could not be separated from such reciprocal cultural appreciations as well. In conclusion, the description, interpretation, and narration of the story explores indications of moral messages of negotiated understandings. It is simply taken as a token of peace that should always be gained rather than unworthy loss due to upcoming frictions between assumptions and interpretations of the characters.
The Crucial Points of Subtextual Analysis in Contemporary Literary Criticism Pasopati, Rommel Utungga; Wijaya, Kusuma; Andharu, Devito; Fadillah, Muhammad Reza Ishadi; Ananta, Bintang Ryan
Journal Corner of Education, Linguistics, and Literature Vol. 4 No. 2 (2024): November
Publisher : CV. Tripe Konsultan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.54012/jcell.v4i2.343

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This paper explores the crucial aspects of subtextual analysis in contemporary literary criticism. Modern literary criticism tends to play on the definitional aspects of literary works, but subtextual analysis goes beyond by regarding implied meanings. The idea is that meanings are waiting to be revealed by the audience. Through explorative approach and qualitative method, the analysis of this article revolves on the strategies, the critical roles, and the instance of subtextual analysis in literary analysis. The strategies of subtextual analysis involve engaging the audience to foster a personal connection with literary works, synthesizing and correlating meanings within literary works, encompassing empathetic engagement with the narrative, and developing diverse perspectives from the audience's vantage point. The critical roles of subtextual analysis consist of facilitating deeper implications through insinuated meanings, enhancing meanings in intrinsic and extrinsic dimensions of literary works, unveiling repressions presented within the text, facilitating exploration of anticipated interpretations and underlying meanings, adopting interdisciplinary approach, engaging with societal dimensions of literary works, perceiving literary works beyond any definition, and propelling co-texts, hypertexts, hypo-texts, and intertexts. In conclusion, subtextual analysis underlines possibilities in literary analysis by comparing various implied meanings related to humans’ identities in particular.
The Perpetuity of Matriarchal Condition in Barbie Land of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Hariyono, Hariyono; Rengganis, Dewi Ayu; Pasopati, Rommel Utungga; Wijaya, Kusuma; Kartiningsih, Rindrah
EJI (English Journal of Indragiri): Studies in Education, Literature, and Linguistics Vol. 9 No. 1 (2025): EJI (English Journal of Indragiri): Studies in Education, Literature, and Lingu
Publisher : Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61672/eji.v9i1.2840

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This journal explores the enduring matriarchal condition alongside the dominance of female figures in Barbie Land in Barbie movie. The study investigates the representation of gender roles and the implications of such structure in contemporary feminist discourse in Barbie Land. Through qualitative method and explorative approach, by examining the perpetuity of matriarchal condition, the journal aims to shed light on the broader narrative of female empowerment and its complexities in Barbie Land and Real-World contexts. This journal provides in-depth exploration of the perpetuation of matriarchal condition in Barbie Land, using Heide Gottner-Abendroth's theory of matriarchy as a framework to analyze its cultural and social significances. The analysis includes how matriarchal condition in Barbie Land shapes women as central beings that own properties, do various jobs, and indicates great leadership. In conclusion, through Barbie Land, matriarchal condition is based on cooperation, mutual support, and belief that women can be powerful leaders in their own rights. The movie challenges audience to rethink traditional power structures and to consider the benefits of a society where women are central to leadership and decision-making. It is also noted that movie of Barbie may provide intertwinements of literature and real-world experience regarding gender equality initiatives.