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Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies
Published by Universitas Negeri Semarang
ISSN : -     EISSN : 27214540     DOI : https://doi.org/10.15294/rainbow
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Rainbow journal has commitment to exchange and share ideas as well as research findings from researchers. Also, it provides the interdisciplinary forum for the most recent innovations, trends, concerns, practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted in the field of Literature, Linguistics, and Cultural Studies:
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Behind the Instagram post: unpacking ideological framing in @Folkative coverage of Indonesian political controversies Azhari, Azzahra Nabila; Rosyidi, Mohamad Ikhwan
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol. 14 (2025): Special Edition
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29637

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This research examines how @Folkative, one of Indonesia’s most influential Instagram-based information platforms, frames political controversies through ideological language. By applying Fairclough’s three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis, the research focuses on two viral posts: the Pertamina corruption case and the TNI Bill. The findings reveal that @Folkative employs strategic lexical choices, a visual and informal tone, and bilingualism as a powerful ideological framing tool to shape audiences’ perceptions of political events in Indonesia. The study also shows how @Folkative transforms passive media use into active discussion, where followers engage in comments, sarcasm, and debate over political issues. This research highlights how digital platforms, such as @Folkative, influence political narratives and public opinion in Indonesia’s evolving media landscape, particularly among young people.
The  Persona Analysis of the Clown Persona in Osamu Dazai’s A Shameful Life  Andhika, Anwar Willy; Prayudias Margawati
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol. 14 (2025): Special Edition
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29660

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Persona is one of Jung's archetypes, representing the mask or our other personality we make when we appear in front of people. The existence of personas is added to many forms of literature nowadays, especially in the character, which makes the story more complicated and enjoyable for the reader. Personas are given deep characteristics about the character's traits and psychological development. The novel "Shameful Life," also known as "No Longer Human," was written by Dazai Osamu and tells the life story of a man who lives as a clown to conceal his true nature from society. However, the clown persona that he is proud of and wears in his life becomes his prison for eternity. The qualitative research will be the main foundation of the paper’s method, which will be filled with a combination of data processing and theory. The method has succeeded in giving a detailed description of the Clown person and its cause and effect. The clown persona is a persona that is possessed and created by the main character using the reference of a clown. The main character believes that, if he could always use a clown persona and entertain people, he would be accepted by the human society, but those beliefs will be crushed by his own persona.   
The Role Model Influence on Behavior Transformation in Alexandra Andrews’ Who is Maud Dixon? Ayu, Anggun Patma; Wulandari, Rini Susanti
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol. 14 (2025): Special Edition
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29834

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This research presents a Freudian psychoanalytic interpretation of Alexandra Andrews’ Who is Maud Dixon?  It focuses on the psychological imbalance projected by the main character, Florence Darrow, as she becomes increasingly obsessed  with her role model. Employing a descriptive qualitative design, the study uses the concept of the id, ego and superego to explore the transformation of the ideal-self/desire into obsessive-compulsive disorder and how the obsession for the role model changes the behavior. Initially motivated by the desire of literary achievement, wealth, and fame, her desires escalate into harmful and unethical actions, such as plagiarism and identity theft. The psychological imbalance is characterized by the dominance of the id, the moral disengagement of the ego, and  the repression of the superego. It demonstrates a dangerous combination of ambition and obsession.  This analysis emphasizes the terrible effects of projecting the ideal-self in the role model, uncovering how the disastrous obsession results in self-disintegration and moral degradation.
Self-Withdrawal as Individual Liberty in Response to Gender Inequality in Circe by Madeline Miller Chairunisa, Nada Kamila; Rahayu Puji Haryanti
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol. 14 (2025): Special Edition
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29885

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Women are frequently controlled and subjugated as a result of gender inequality, which drives them to seek independence.  In Madeline Miller’s novel Circe, the protagonist’s act of self-withdrawal represents an assertion of individual liberty in response to patriarchal oppression. This study examines how gender inequality shapes Circe’s decision to isolate herself and how her withdrawal becomes a form of resistance and self-empowerment, analyzed through the lens of liberal feminism as outlined by Rosemarie Tong. This research employs a qualitative descriptive method, using the novel Circe as the primary data source. The findings reveal that Circe experiences various forms of gender inequality, which drive her to withdraw and develop her own identity and abilities. Ultimately, this self-withdrawal enables her to achieve a sense of individual liberty and personal agency. In conclusion, the novel depicts self-withdrawal as a deliberate and empowering response to gender inequality, consistent with the components of liberal feminism.
Constructing the good mother: Patriarchal control in Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers  Tahniah, Sandy; Wulandari, Rini Susanti
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol. 14 (2025): Special Edition
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29923

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This research is driven by the need to see motherhood as a social construct shaped by patriarchal norms—often tied to women and loaded with unrealistic expectations—while feminist perspectives push back, pointing to how the state plays a key role in controlling and judging mothers. Jessamine Chan's novel The School for Good Mothers has been analyzed from various perspectives, but it has rarely been studied explicitly through Adrienne Rich's concept of institutional motherhood. This study aims to analyze how the state shapes, supervises, and punishes motherhood through visible institutions, such as mentorship, and its impact on agency, identity, and mother-child relations, focusing on the main character, Frida Liu. This study employs a qualitative and descriptive approach, utilizing content analysis through close reading. Data were categorized into three domains of patriarchal control: surveillance, evaluation and punishment, and ideal motherhood standards. Results show Frida experiences four forms of oppression: state control, inner conflict, identity erasure, and emotional disconnection. This study offers insight into feminist literary criticism by demonstrating that motherhood in fiction can be employed as a tool of patriarchal control while reminding us of the importance of viewing mothers as whole human beings in social policy and cultural representation.
Reconstruction of Richard Matheson’s Button, button Saputra, Haqiqi Ranu Antariksa; Thohiriyah
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol. 14 (2025): Special Edition
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29944

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This study analyzes how the story reveals hidden systems of control. It shows how modern economic system trick people into thinking they're making free choices, when they're actually being manipulated. The method in this research is using close reading approach as well as the triadic form of construction-deconstruction-reconstruction, it work by establishing themes and binary oppositions in a story first, then deconstruct it by flipping the binary oppositions, and then reconstruct it by creating a new interpretation of the story based from deconstructed binary oppositions and themes. The triadic analysis uncovers contradictions, where Pandora's myth attributes evil to divine forces, Matheson's story attributes it to a systems that tempt and make Norma, the main character, into thinking that she got a free will over her choice. This research concludes that Norma thinks she's making a real choice, just like Pandora gave in to curiosity. But the shocking ending shows she was never really in control, the system had already decided her fate. This exposes how those in power fake 'freedom' to keep people under their thumb.
Representation of Indigeneity in Women’s Reproductivities in Sophie Mackintosh’s Blue Ticket Kumala, Sabrina Indah; Haryanti, Rahayu Puji
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol. 14 (2025): Special Edition
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29956

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This research examines the representation of indigeneity in women's reproductivities in Sophie Mackintosh's Blue Ticket, focusing on how the patriarchal system controls women's bodies and identities. The novel depicts a dystopian society where women's reproductive fate is determined through a lottery system, reflecting the way state power shapes and marginalizes women's subjectivity. With a qualitative method and close reading approach, this study uses Simone de Beauvoir's existentialist feminism and Gayatri Spivak's postcolonial feminism to analyze the interrelationship between reproduction, indigeneity, and gender-based oppression. The research findings reveal that the main character, Calla, portrays resistance to a system that erases women's agency and authority over their bodies. Despite demonstrating an attempt at freedom, Calla must face the consequences of exclusion and violence. This representation shows that women's efforts to resist patriarchal structures are frequently undermined by the system that supports their dominance. This research concludes that Blue Ticket presents reproduction as a realm of conflict between identities shaped by the system and women's struggle to achieve an autonomous existence.
Grief and resilience: The individual emotional transformation in Kanae Minato’s Confessions Bastomi, Naufal Adrian; Anam, Zuhrul
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol. 14 (2025): Special Edition
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29959

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This paper explores the emotional transformation of Yuko Moriguchi, the central character in Kanae Minato's Confessions, following the sudden loss of her daughter. Utilizing Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's Five Stages of Grief and Sigmund Freud's theory of defense mechanisms, the study investigates how grief manifests and evolves into various emotional and psychological states. Employing a qualitative descriptive approach, the research uses literary analysis to trace Yuko's journey through denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance, alongside the deployment of defense mechanisms such as denial, repression, rationalization, sublimation, and projection. The findings reveal that the trauma causing sorrow is experienced in accordance with the five stages of grief, and successfully channels this sadness into behaviors that do not harm and are acceptable to society. The paper concludes that Moriguchi's actions reflect a human struggle for emotional transformation and survival after trauma.
State reproduction through structural power and ideological continuity in Suzanne Collins' Mockingjay Janah, Miftahul; Haryanti, Rahayu Puji
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol. 14 (2025): Special Edition
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29978

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In Mockingjay, the fall of the Capitol gives way to a disturbing continuity of power, where the rhetoric of freedom masks familiar forms of control. While District 13 positions itself as the revolutionary alternative, its use of surveillance, propaganda, and authoritarian discipline reflects the very structures it claims to overthrow. This article argues that through Katniss Everdeen’s final act, Suzanne Collins exposes the cyclical nature of state power and the persistence of ideology in legitimizing domination. Drawing on Nicos Poulantzas’s theory of authoritarian statism and the state as a condensation of class struggle, the analysis reveals how the narrative critiques the reproduction of hierarchical structures under the guise of liberation. Rather than celebrating victory, Mockingjay asks whether the revolution truly dismantled power, or simply rebranded it.
Pearsonian archetypal analysis of Rin in R.F. Kuang's The Poppy War novel Rahma, Fryda Aulia; Widayanti , Maria Johana Ari
Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol. 14 (2025): Special Edition
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v14i.29979

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Archetypes reflect the deep psychological complexity of a person's life journey. The phenomena can be exemplified by Rin, the main character in R.F. Kuang's novel The Poppy War. While previous research has explored the themes of gender and history, her psychological evolution through archetype transformation remains unexamined. This research addresses this gap by analysing Rin's character through Carol Pearson's twelve archetypes, revealing how trauma and ambition shape her reactions to certain situations. Using a descriptive qualitative approach, this study examines Rin's dialogue, actions, and thoughts. Findings identified five dominant archetypes in Rin's development which illustrate her psychological development from vulnerability to destructive empowerment. Those archetypes are The Orphan, The Warrior, The Seeker, The Destroyer, and The Magician. This study contributes to literary scholarship by demonstrating how archetype theory explains character psychology, offering a deeper understanding of narrative-driven identity formation in fiction.

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