Perbandingan Cerita Rakyat "Terjadinya Bukit Tangkiling" dan "Tangkuban Perahu": Sebuah Pendekatan Struktural

• Main Author: Kambang
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Balai Bahasa Kalimantan Tengah 2021-05-01
• Series: Suar Betang
• Subjects: contrastive analysis; structuralism; terjadinya bukit tangkiling; tangkuban perahu
• Online Access: http://suarbetang.kemdikbud.go.id/jurnal/index.php/BETANG/article/view/240/160

This paper aims to compare two folklores, Terjadinya Bukit Tangkiling and Tangkuban Perahu, based on structuralism. These folktale come from two different area. The story of Bukit Tangkiling from the area of Central Kalimantan and Tangkuban Perahu from West Java. These folklores tell the story of a central character who runs away from home as a result of being hit by his mother. That character then grows up and eventually falls in love with his own biological mother. The aim of this writing is to compare Bukit Tangkiling and Tangkupan Perahu in order to reveal who is the first to quote or transform from these two stories. The method used is a qualitative method. The analysis is to reveal the differences and similarities of the central figures in those folklores. The writer found that those stories contain several similarities and events: names of characters, settings, plot and subthemes.