KARMA DALAM NOVEL PANGGUNG KARYA ARI PURNOMO: KAJIAN SEMIOTIKA ROLAND BARTHES

Abstract

The study used the novel Panggung by Ari Purnomo as a material object and Roland Barthes’s studies of semiotics as a formal object. The novel depicts life in the stage world. The novel is also accompanied by facts about how the world of stage life lives both outside and inside the stage. This study aims to reveal the meaning of denotation, connotation, and the myth of karma in the novel Panggung. Roland Barthes’s semiotic studies were used to analyze the novel Panggung. This study is used to elaborate on the meaning of denotation as the first stage of dignification and to unravel the myth of karma as the content of the connotation form. The study used a qualitative descriptive method. The data collection techniques used are reading and note-taking techniques. From the results of the study, it was found that: (1) life in the stage world is no different from life in the real world. (2) The facts of the stage world depicted in the novel Panggung are closely related to life in the real world. These facts are expressed through the meaning of the denotation indicated by the author’s speech or the actions taken by the characters in the novel Panggung. (3) The advice of the karma myth is described using language not explicitly expressed through connotational meanings.