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  • The Five Narrative Codes of Roland Barthes in Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger
    Penulis : Evi Tarmila
    Dosen Pembimbing I : Erika Citra Sari H., S.S., M.Hum
    Dosen Pembimbing II :Suci Suryani, S.S., M. Hum
    Abstraksi

    Abstract: Aravind Adiga through his first novel The White Tiger brings the notion of the lower caste people. The White Tiger contains symbol, connotation, and cultures that exist in India like the dowry system, caste system and the social gap which appear among Indian society because of that caste system. This study attends to analyze symbol, connotation, and cultures in The White Tiger by using Roland Barthes’s five narrative codes. Those five narrative codes are; hermeneutic code, proairetic code, cultural code, connotative code, and symbolic code. This study applies qualitative research design to analyze the source of data. The result of this study shows that the five narrative codes are appeared in The White Tiger. The hermeneutic codes are found in the title of the novel, and from fugitive expectation from the reader. The proairetic codes are found into five sequences of the plot; exposition, complication, climax, falling action, and resolution. The cultural codes are found in the stereotypes of the master toward the servant, and Indian cultures; the caste system and dowry system. The connotative codes are found through the characters of Balram Halwai and Ashok, and the places of the lower caste and the upper caste. And the last, the symbolic codes are found in the binary opposition of ‘lower’ and ‘upper’ caste or ‘the Darkness’ and ‘the Light’. Keywords: hermeneutic, proairetic, cultural, connotative, symbolic, lower caste, upper caste.

    Abstraction

    Abstract: Aravind Adiga through his first novel The White Tiger brings the notion of the lower caste people. The White Tiger contains symbol, connotation, and cultures that exist in India like the dowry system, caste system and the social gap which appear among Indian society because of that caste system. This study attends to analyze symbol, connotation, and cultures in The White Tiger by using Roland Barthes’s five narrative codes. Those five narrative codes are; hermeneutic code, proairetic code, cultural code, connotative code, and symbolic code. This study applies qualitative research design to analyze the source of data. The result of this study shows that the five narrative codes are appeared in The White Tiger. The hermeneutic codes are found in the title of the novel, and from fugitive expectation from the reader. The proairetic codes are found into five sequences of the plot; exposition, complication, climax, falling action, and resolution. The cultural codes are found in the stereotypes of the master toward the servant, and Indian cultures; the caste system and dowry system. The connotative codes are found through the characters of Balram Halwai and Ashok, and the places of the lower caste and the upper caste. And the last, the symbolic codes are found in the binary opposition of ‘lower’ and ‘upper’ caste or ‘the Darkness’ and ‘the Light’. Keywords: hermeneutic, proairetic, cultural, connotative, symbolic, lower caste, upper caste.

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