BAKEMONO NO KO BY MAMORU HOSODA AND THE TRUE MEANING OF SMEKDAY BY ADAM REX

A COMPARATIVE LITERATURE OF ARCHETYPE

Authors

  • Ahmad Iklil Saifulloh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36815/snp2m.v0i1.332

Keywords:

archetype, comparative literature

Abstract

This research is going to analyze the psychological literature area from Archetypal Approach by Carl Gustave Jung. As a Comparative Literature that use American School, the researcher interprets the Japanese Author Mamoru Hosoda and his work Bakemono No Ko and Adam Rex works with the title The True Meaning of Smekday with the sense of major types of archetypes.. This research indicates how the main characters are entrapped by society and  nature with their own mask and personality. Their fake personality was entrapped deep down on their unconsciousness. Yet, in the end, both of the protagonist characters recognize their true self. By means using Descriptive Qualitative research, this thesis is focuses on describing the way of the main characters formulate their conditions by receiving another creatures as complementation of homosocial being.

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Published

2019-02-06