Astri Supriyati, 2211415072 (2020) REPRESENTATION OF GREEK MYTH AND FANTASY IN RICK RIORDAN’S NOVEL PERCY JACKSON AND THE SEA OF MONSTERS. Under Graduates thesis, UNNES.

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Abstract

Literary works contain creative imagination and pleasurable language. Novel, as one of literary works, will then come close to myth, its characters portray symbols of permanent human states or impulses. Myth involves gods and goddesses or godlike beings that might be hapless or humanly fallible and also took place in heaven or earth. It has become the root of fantasy fiction which contains imaginary world and features the magic of mythical beings. Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monstersis one of the recent novels for young adult readers that adopts Greek myth in its plot and character. This study tries to identify Greek myth and fantasy of the novel within the narrative structure by using Greimas’ structuralism. The result shows that this novel still occupies with myth of golden fleece and its power but the subject is the modern demigod. The myth is connected by the fantasy of mythical mist since the location of the golden fleece and the truth appearance of gods/goddesses and monsters are covered from the human sight. The mist makes human could only see into understandable things. From the main narrative structure, the myth and fantasy represented that there is no different class between gods/goddesses, monsters, demigod/human.

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