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Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Published by Universitas Negeri Semarang
ISSN : 22526323     EISSN : 22526323     DOI : -
Core Subject : Education,
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Anxiety and Defense Mechanism as A Means of Constructing Psychological Thriller in Hawkins’ “The Girl on The Train”
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 8 No 1 (2019): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v8i1.27917

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The topic of this study is Anxiety and Defense Mechanism as A Means of Constructing Psychological Thriller in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train. The objectives of this study are to describe how anxiety and defense mechanism are described in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train and to explain how anxiety and defense mechanism construct psychological thriller as represented in Hawkins’ The Girl on the Train. The object of the study is a novel entitled The Girl on the Train written by Paula Hawkins. This study is descriptive qualitative study by applying Freudian psychoanalytic theory. The data of the study were collected by reading, identifying, interpreting, and inventorying citations from the novel. Further, the data were analyzed based on Freudian psychoanalytic theory by describing anxiety and defense mechanism described in the novel. The data were also analysed by explaining how anxiety and defense mechanism construct psychological thriller. The results show there are three kinds of anxiety and six kinds of defense mechanism. Moreover, the results prove that those anxieties and defense mechanisms become a means of constructing psychological thriller since they make the characters suffer from psychological problem and become unreliable narrator, create plot twist, and make the novel become thrilling. Keywords: Psychological thriller, Freudian psychoanalysis, Anxiety, Defense Mechanism
Human Corruption as The Effect of Modern Technology as Represented in Okky Madasari's "The Last Crowd"
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 8 No 1 (2019): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v8i1.28543

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Modern technology plays big roles in influencing human life, especially millenial generation. However , it can create human corruption due to its function abuse. The objectives of this study are: 1) to explain how human corruption is described in Okky Madasari’s The Last Crowd and 2) to explain how the modern technology creates human corruption as described in Okky Madasari’s The Last Crowd. The methodology used in this study was descriptive-qualitative. This study analyzed the novel using Levi Strauss’ theory. There were two objects of the study, namely material object which was The Last Crowd novel and formal object from the analysis of the novel using Levi Strauss’ theory. The results of the study are as follows: 1) Human Corruption was described in Okky Madasari’s The Last Crowd through how the characters in the novel use modern technology unwise until it has a bad effect. Human corruption is divided into three kinds of corruption; corruption in time, corruption in function and corruption in behavior. 2) Human Corruption is created due to the influence of technology towards Jayanegara, which triggers him to be trapped in it. It shows when he decides to make a pseudo-identity for being a winner and a revenger. Keywords: Human Corruption, Modern Technology, Structuralism
The Psychological Development of The Main Character of Becoming A Gang Leader through Frustration; Reflections on Dashner’s “The Maze Runner”
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 8 No 1 (2019): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v8i1.29195

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In this study, the writer emphasized the psychological development of the main character reflected in the story. Then the main character must convince the other, there is a better place outside the Glade. Therefore, this study aims to analyze how the process of psychological developments of being a leader through frustration and to analyze how the main character shows an ability to lead. This is a qualitative study using psychoanalytic approach by Sigmund Freud. The writer collected the data relating to the psychological development from frustration to being a leader by using The Maze Runner novel. The secondary data were taken from some sources, such as books, dictionary, encyclopedia, and also articles related to this research. Meanwhile the procedures for collecting data were done by reading, identifying, inventorying, classifying, selecting and reporting. In conducting the study, Freud’s psychoanalysis including id, ego, and superego are employed to reveal the main character frustration and shows the leadership ability in The Maze Runner. The findings of the analysis showed that; first, the causes of frustration are anxiety, hatred, and fear. It had been found that frustration was the results of the superego pressure that cannot be controlled by the ego. The frustration can be dangerous if the person who is frustrated does not fight against the pressure he gets. Second, there are seven leading ability which found in the novel such as having a purpose, curiosity, fairness, giving the suggestion, appreciates, and source of inspiration. Thomas is able to control the pressure from superego and his desire from id. He can make a good decision for his ego whether yielding his id or obey the superego. Then, he does not only focus on his frustration, but he can develop from frustration to be a good leader. Keywords: psychoanalysis, psychological development, leader, frustation, adolescent
An Analysis of the Symbol in Westlife's Song Lyrics
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 8 No 1 (2019): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v8i1.29231

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Song is one example of literature. Listening song is enjoyable activity, but the listener cannot get a pleasure if they do not understand the meaning in the song. Sometimes song consists of symbol to describe the meaning of a song. Based on the reason, it brought the researcher to find out the symbol and meaning in the song lyrics and to explain the impacts of symbol toward real life. This study applied a descriptive qualitative method. Through this method the researcher tried to analyze, explain, and find out the meaning of the symbols by using Charles Sanders Pierce’s theory. In this case, Charles Sanders Pierce developed a triadic model in illustrating the definition of the sign as a symbol. The triadic model consisted of three components; representamen, object and interpretant. The unit analysis of this study were Westlife’s songs, there were more than 145 songs in 11 albums. Because of the large amount of the songs, the researcher chose 7 songs from the Greatest Album of Westlife that are Swear it Again, If I Let You Go, Flying without Wings, I Have a Dream, My Love, Uptown Girl, and You Raise Me Up. This study contained 5 kinds of symbols that were symbol of color (12 items), symbol of thing (19 items), symbol of situation (18 items), symbol of sound (5 items), and symbol of imaginative (7 items). Furthermore, the most dominant symbol was symbol of thing. Symbols brought some impacts to real life to help the listeners or the readers to understand the real meaning toward real life. Keywords: Symbol, song, semiotics, westlife
Construction of American Hunger in Richard Wright's Novel "Black Boy"
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 8 No 1 (2019): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v8i1.29289

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This study aims at explaining the construction of American hunger in Richard Wright’s novel Black Boy. This study is a qualitative analysis that relies on the power of word or explanatory reasoning. The data were collected by reading, identifying, classifying and analyzed using the structualism theories which used in this study by relating to binary operation to see the gap between black and white society. The results of this study were the segregation between black and white people in terms of the treatment, power, and superiority that in the end, it resulted that the black people are being treated different and has no right for freedom. The American Hunger is described in the novel through some events that go in the opposite between black and white people. The tention between them revealed from the different treatment, oppression, discrimination, superiority, and hunger that the black and white people or society experienced. The dominance and the power of the white people had harm the black people in some aspects in their life. Second, American Hunger that was described in the novel was regarded as the desire of the black people when they were living side by side with the white people in America. When the discrimination, segregation, and oppression occurs toward the black people, they satisfied their American hunger by standing agaisnt racial oppression, strengthen the superiority, and against the hunger. Keywords: American hunger, construction, discrimination, structuralism
TRANSLATION METHODS AND DEGREE OF EQUIVALENCE IN ENGLISH-INDONESIAN TRANSLATION OF LEO TOLSTOY’S “GOD SEES THE TRUTH BUT WAITS”
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 7 No 2 (2018): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v7i2.29435

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This research is conducted to identify the methods used by the translator in translating Tolstoy’s God Sees the Truth, But Waits, to describe the degree of equivalence between the English original version and the Indonesian translation of the short story, and to show the relation between them. The translation method used in this research are proposed by Newmark, while the degrees of equivalence are analyzed using Bell’s. This research applies qualitative method to describe the aims of this study. The data are analyzed by comparing the English short story and its Indonesian translation. After the data are identified, they are examined to find the relation between the methods used and the degrees of equivalence.The findings of this study show that (1) six translation methods were used to translate God Sees the Truth, but Waits into Indonesian, These include semantic translation, communicative translation, literal translation, adaptation, free translation and word-for-word translation, (2) In terms of the degree of equivalence, it was found that 57 data are partly equivalent with increased meaning, 41 data are fully equivalent, 39 data are non-equivalent with different meaning, 32 data are partly equivalent with decreased meanig and 1 datum are non-equivalent with no meaning, (3) most of the translation methods used produce partly equivalent translation with increased meaning.
DUALISM IN THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYL AND MR. HYDE BY ROBERT STEVENSON: A DEMOLITION OF ALTER
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 7 No 2 (2018): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v7i2.29436

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This final project is the analysis of the multiple personality disorder that reflected in the novel entitled The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Stevenson. There are three objectives of this study. The first is to find out how does multiple personality disorder develop in the main character. The second is to find out how the main character deals with multiple personality disorder. And, the third is to find out the impacts of the disorder in character’s life. The analysis and the description of the data are provided to find the conclusion. The analysis of this study is using Freudian psychoanalysis theory. The study shows that the main character has two personalities. He can be Dr. Jekyll who is smart and kind or he can be Mr. Hyde who is cruel. This multiple personality disorder has the bad impacts to the character. His idea about dual human nature does not have support from his colleagues, even they deny it. It makes his relationship with his colleagues as scientist become worst. The multiple personality disorder also makes him being psychiatric disorder as his willing to do physical abuses in the form of Mr. Hyde in purpose to keep his reputation as Dr. Jekyll safe. In the end, the multiple personality disorder brings him to death. As stated in the novel he commits suicide to eliminate Mr. Hyde. These impacts affirm that multiple personality disorder causes a messy life psychologically and physically.
Women’s Disempowered Behavior as an Impact of Over-ruling Government as Reflected in Collins’ The Hunger Games
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 7 No 2 (2018): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v7i2.29437

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This study aims at explaining the over-ruling government in society results women’s disempowered behavior as reflected in Collins’ The Hunger Games which compared to the historical and social condition happening in the American society. This study is a qualitative analysis by applying a Carol Gilligan’s approach, especially in care-focused feminism. The data were collected by reading, identifying, interpreting and analyzed using the approach and theories which used in this study by relating to binary opposition, social and historical events and society belief in seeing women in the real life where the author produced the novel. The results of this study were the explanation of how government’s rules affect and result women disempowered behavior which begins with the internal conflict that women felt when the way society around them expect women to act and behave in some certain ways which was not parallel with some government’s rules. The government’s rules indirectly demand women to act and behave in some certain ways outside the way society expect women to act and behave when the rules were made without considering women’s position in society.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MEMORY IN SOLVING INDIVIDUAL’S IDENTITY CRISIS DEPICTED IN JAMES DASHNER’S THE MAZE RUNNER
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 7 No 2 (2018): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v7i2.29438

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Identity crisis is a psychological condition that happened to an individual because of the confusion of roles someone experienced in the society. This study was conducted to analyze the significance of memory in solving individual's identity crisis depicted in James Dashner's The Maze Runner. The purposes of this study are to describe how identity crisis depicted in the novel and to explain what factors cause an identity crisis. This study was done using a descriptive qualitative method and using Erikson's psychosocial theory to explore the identity crisis of the main character in the form of words. The object of the study was the novel The Maze Runner and this study focused on Thomas as the main character. List of an observational sheet was used as the research instrument and the data was taken through library research. The analysis was conducted by interpreting Thomas’ utterances and actions using Erikson’ stages of development’s theory to describe Thomas’ identity crisis. The study results showed that the identity crisis Thomas’ experienced was the results of the changing environmental condition and Thomas’ missing memories that made him unable to make new sets of values needed to form an identity. In order to solve his identity crisis, Thomas had to remember old memories he had forgotten in order to create new sets of values.
THE DISTRESS OF BEING AMERICAN AS A REJECTION OF DIFFERENTIATION IN TONI MORRISON’S PARADISE
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 7 No 2 (2018): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Publisher : English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v7i2.29439

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America is a diverse nation. America has many races from all around the world and been recognized by the world as salad bowl. America also known for country of freedom. The fact that freedom and diversity who build America is interesting. Besides, American diversity has unique historical story which is between black and white. Paradise captures the journey and struggle of people fighting the distress of becoming American as a result of the diversity exist which create differentiation within the society of America. This study aims to find the way how to fight the distress as rejection of differentiation in the land of America and its relevant of American nowadays. The method of this study is a qualitative study analyzed by deconstruction method of Jacques Derrida. Then, the method of data analysis is based on the distress experienced by people described in the novel and how they deal with the distress. Morrison’s novel shows that differentiation within the society of America is various; race, gender, background, age, etc. but actually it can be changed. They can fight the differentiation that exist by put the distress in reverse. The final finding of this study shows that power, constructs and control the distress experienced by American which is also still relevant today.

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