Nur Hasanah Sumarna , 2211411059 (2015) MUTANT AS A CULTURAL IDENTITY IN MARLO MORGAN’S MUTANT MESSAGE DOWN UNDER. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Cultural identity was essential to any individuals that belonged to a certain society as a bind together between the people and the culture itself. An identity of a society was gained by the culture that humans maintained in living their lives. Each society was different in terms of culture so that it created such characteristics and cultural identity to each society. In a literary work like novel, a cultural identity of a society could be constructed through language which was a system of signs and contained messages. This study used a novel entitled Mutant Message Down Under by Marlo Morgan as the material object in doing the research. The research problems of this study were: (1) how was Mutant characterized in the novel, (2) How was Mutant as a cultural identity constructed through embedded signs in the novel, (3) what were the differences between the Aborigines’ cultural identity in the novel and in reality. The objectives of this study were to explain the characterization of Mutant in the novel, to describe how Mutant as a cultural identity was constructed through embedded signs in the novel, and to explain the differences between the Aborigines’ cultural identity in the novel and in reality. The theory applied as a theoretical framework in this study was Semiotics by Charles S. Peirce. The data collected were explained based on the basic of this Semiotics i.e. signs, object, and interpretant. The results of this study showed that (1) the novel made some kinds of characterization of Mutant as an identity of modern society and to differ them with the Aboriginal society’s characteristics, (2) Mutant was as a cultural identity of modern society constructed by the author of the novel as a form of critique of property or things created by modern people and way of thinking or deeds that modern people had done especially in their influences towards universe preservation, (3) the Aboriginal society was portrayed in the novel with some differences and similarities in reality based on the cultures, values, etc. which meant the author wanted to create a certain cultural identity of the Aboriginal society itself.

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