The jungle book: a comparative study of classical western narrative structure in the novel and film

ENGLISH:

Many fictional works which have the theme of heroism often shows the same narrative. Those works can be in form of novel and film. Related to the form of film, it is no longer new that Disney often creates films based on the literary works. One of them is the film The Jungle Book 2016. The original work is written by Rudyard Kipling in 1867. The novel The Jungle Book has the theme of heroism which is presented by Mowgli saves the wolves pack from Shere Khan’s oppression. As well as in the film The Jungle Book 2016, the theme of heroism is also presented by Mowgli saves the wolves pack from Shere Khan’s oppression.

The classical western narrative structure is a narrative in the story which explains the struggle of hero to save the society from oppressive villain. In this case, the struggle of hero is divided into 16 functions, a function is one sentence statement that describes a single attribute action of the character. Actually, this narrative structure often appears in the mythology and story in the western which has the theme of heroism. Therefore this study is aimed to reveal the representation of the classical western narrative structure in the novel and film The Jungle Book.

The research problem in here is how the classical western narrative structure is built in the plot of the novel The Jungle Book and the film The Jungle Book 2016. This study belongs to the domain qualitative research. Therefore, the analysis is focused on the sentence in the novel and the dialog of in the film The Jungle Book which relates to the classical western narrative structure.

The result of the study shows that there are 15 functions of classical western narrative structure which is built in the plot of Mowgli saves the wolves pack from Shere Khan’s oppression in the novel The Jungle Book. Meanwhile, in the film The Jungle Book 2016, there are 10 functions of classical western narrative structure which is built in the plot of Mowgli saves the wolves pack from Shere Khan’s oppression. In addition, the film The Jungle Book 2016 has successfully recreated the new narrative of Mowgli saves the wolves pack from Shere Khan’s oppression.

INDONESIA:

Banyak karya fiksi yang memiliki tema kepahlawanan sering menunjukkan narasi yang sama. Karya-karya tersebut bisa dalam bentuk novel dan film. Terkait dengan pembuatan film, sudah sering kali Disney membuat film adaptasi dari karya sastra. Salah satunya adalah film The Jungle Book 2016. Karya aslinya ditulis oleh Rudyard Kipling pada tahun 1867. Novel The Jungle Book memiliki tema kepahlawanan yang ditampilkan oleh Mowgli yang menyelamatkan kaum serigala dari penindasan Shere Khan. Seperti halnya dalam film The Jungle Book 2016, tema kepahlawanan juga ditampilkan oleh Mowgli yang menyelamatkan kaum serigala dari penindasan Shere Khan.

Struktur narasi klasik barat adalah narasi dalam cerita yang menjelaskan perjuangan pahlawan untuk menyelamatkan masyarakat dari penjahat yang menindasnya. Dalam hal ini, perjuangan pahlawan dibagi menjadi 16 fungsi, fungsi adalah satu pernyataan kalimat yang menggambarkan tindakan atribut karakter tunggal dalam cerita. Sebenarnya, struktur narasi ini sering muncul dalam mitologi dan cerita di barat yang memiliki tema kepahlawanan. Oleh karena itu, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap representasi struktur narasi klasik barat dalam novel dan film The Jungle Book.

Masalah dalam penelitian di sini adalah bagaimana struktur narasi klasik barat dibangun di plot novel The Jungle Book dan film The Jungle Book 2016. Penelitian ini termasuk dalam penelitian kualitatif domain. Oleh karena itu, analisis difokuskan pada kalimat dalam novel dan dialog dalam film The Jungle Book yang berkaitan dengan struktur narasi klasik barat.

Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa ada 15 fungsi struktur narasi klasik barat yang dibangun di plot Mowgli yang menyelamatkan kaum serigala dari penindasan Shere Khan dalam novel The Jungle Book. Sementara itu, dalam film The Jungle Book 2016, ada 10 fungsi struktur narasi klasik barat yang dibangun di plot Mowgli yang menyelamatkan kaum serigala dari penindasan Shere Khan. Selain itu, film The Jungle Book 2016 telah berhasil menciptakan kembali narasi baru Mowgli yang menyelamatkan kaum serigala dari penindasan Shere Khan.