A Brief Comparative Study on Tragedyin Desire Under the Elms and in the Javanese Chronicle Account of Rara Oyi

Widiarti, Tri Rini and Suseno, Bambang and Fajria, Astry (2017) A Brief Comparative Study on Tragedyin Desire Under the Elms and in the Javanese Chronicle Account of Rara Oyi. Universitas Ahmad Dahlan, ADJES.

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Abstract

ABSTRACT
This paper is aimed at analyzing tragedy in a play entitled Desire Under the Elms portraying the primitive desires
that influence several characters of the afore-mentioned play in the 1920s New England, and also that in a Javanese
chronicle account of RaraOyithat happened during the reign of SunanAmangkurat I from 1646 to 1677 in the kingdom of
Islamic Mataram.
Tragedy discussed in this paper is an occurrence that involves people of high status or people of high nobility, as
well as ordinary people, who suffer and whose lives lead to their downfall partly because of the trouble they are unable to
get rid of. The play Desire Under the Elms portrays tragedy that takes place among ordinary people, while the Javanese
Chronicle story of RaraOyidepicts tragedy of RaraOyi, an ordinary but beautiful young lady vied by two noblemen, the
king SunanAmangkurat I of the kingdom of Islamic Mataram and his own crown prince, PangeranAdipatiAnom alias
Prince Tejaningrat.
The analysis focuses on comparing the tragedy that befall either the protagonists or the antagonists in both the
play and the chronicle account mentioned above. It turns out that their lives are in ruins due to their fate as they are not
able to realize their dream of living with the lady they are madly in love with and wish to marry

Item Type:	Other
Subjects:	L Education > L Education (General)
Divisi / Prodi:	Faculty of Teacher Training and Education (Fakultas Keguruan dan Ilmu Pendidikan) > S1-English Education (S1-Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris)
Depositing User:	mr Bambang Suseno
Date Deposited:	19 Jun 2021 18:20
Last Modified:	19 Jun 2021 18:20
URI:	http://eprints.uad.ac.id/id/eprint/24922

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