Heroism in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Gantina, Gina Nurul Arofah (2021) Heroism in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Sarjana thesis, UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung.

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Abstract

This research is initially invented because of the reading-ban issues toward the Harry Potter novel written by a British author J. K. Rowling. The issues are collected from several news media. The object of this paper is the first volume of the series novel Harry Potter titled Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. The researcher is going to identify the portrayal of adventure heroes and heroism traits through the heroic acts done by the heroes of the story. To analyze the object, the researcher uses theory of hero and heroism by Allison et al (2017) combined with adventure heroism by John G. Cawelti (1976) and Joyce G. Sarricks (2009). Hero in adventure story is a character whom readers put their attention on, and to whom readers relate. Adventure hero is always set to accomplish a great important moral mission and to overcome an array of dangerous obstacles along the way to reach the mission. The hero is also strong and honorable. The term heroism refers to the demeanors of being willing to do self-sacrifice while helping the other without expecting anything in return. Heroism in adventure genre is shown in the hero of the story through the actions during the process of overcoming obstacles as well as accomplishment of the mission. The collected data of heroic actions done by the heroes are later used to identify which heroism traits are being reflected in the story. This research applies the objective literary criticism as the approach with the method of structuralism in analyzing the data. The result of this research shows that there are several traits showed in the heroes that could be identified as heroism. As in this research, the discovered heroism traits are intelligent; strong; reliable; resilient; caring; selfless; inspiring; brave; moral integrity; conviction; courageous; self-sacrifice; protecting; determined; saves others; helpful; and sincerity. Those are resemblance to the good traits that are needed to be possessed by every human being on earth, no matter what belief they are into, nor if they do not have any, because those traits are universally valid to all human beings in general.

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