ANALISIS FUNGSI DALAM DONGENG KLASIK “THE SLEEPING BEAUTY” KARYA THE BROTHERS GRIMM (PENDEKATAN STRUKTURAL)

Abstract

Fairy tales has many functions to society because it contains not only moral but also psychological aspects. Sometime parents and teachers also use fairy tales to teach their children about goodness, but many of them introduce fairy tales just to comfort their children. Children can grasp the point of fairy tales because of its pleased characters and interested story. But sometime people do not realize that many classic fairy tales actually has the same structure. In this thesis the writer uses fairy tale “The Sleeping Beauty” by The Brothers Grimm as her analysis object. The writer tries to find the stable structure and the simplest element in this classic fairy tale by using the theory by Vladimir Propp, Morphology of the Folktale (1968). This theory belongs to Structuralism, and by this theory, we can find the constant element of the fairy tales called functions. Propp introduced thirty one functions that could appear in fairy tales. After the writer finds the functions that “The Sleeping Beauty” has, then she will make the scheme that helps the readers to understand more about functions, the stable elements of fairy tale.