Rofika Kurniawati, 2250404560 (2009) The Reflection of Moncure’s Fairy Tale, Cinderella in Diana’s Life as Portrayed in Shyam Dua’s Biography, The Luminous Life of Lady Diana. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

This final project is about the reflection of Cinderella story in Diana’s life. The aims of the study are to describe the reflection of Cinderella story in Diana’s life found in a biography, to analyze the narrative structures of both Cinderella and Diana’s biography, and to find the similarities and differences of narrative structures in both sources. This research is descriptive qualitative. The objects of this study are Cinderella by Moncure and Diana’s biography entitled The Luminous Life of Lady Diana by Dua Shyam. The sources of the data in this study are Cinderella story and Diana’s biography. The data of two sources are in the forms of phrases, sentences, dialogues, explicit sentences and implicit sentences. The data were collected by means of preparing a table, reading, identifying, inventorizing, classifying, reducing, selecting and reporting. In analyzing question number one, the data in Appendix E1 were exposed, compared, interpreted, explained and then concluded. Question number two were analyzed by exposing the data in Appendix E2, interpreting and comparing them to the narrative structures theory presented in Chapter II; and then drawing a conclusion. To answer question number three, the data in Appendix E3 which were taken from the comparison between narrative structures of source one and two, were exposed, found the the similarities and the dissimilarities, explained and drew a conclusion. From the data analysis, the results of this study are 1) there is a reflection of Cinderella story as found in the biography, 2) from comparing the narrative structures of both sources, the similarities and the differences are revealed, 3)the similarities of both Cinderella and Diana are similarly a lonely girl who had a stepmother; then she married with a prince and became a princess, 4) the dissimilarities are they had unlike conflicts, they had different life as a princess, they also had different character in stepmother, Diana had physical and mental transformation, while Cinderella only had physical transformation; and the ending life of Diana was tragic, whereas the ending life of Cinderella was happy ever after. From the result of this study, the writer concludes that the differences are more dominant than the similarities. Therefore, it is assumed that the imitation or the reflection of Cinderella story in Diana’s life could not be proven. The explanation is supported by the characteristics of fairy tale that is magic as one of the differences of both sources, which indicates that fairy tale especially Cinderella story could not be applied in real life including in Diana’s life.

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