THE ARCHETYPAL ANALYSIS ON RICK RIORDAN'S PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE SEA OF MONSTERS (“ANALISIS POLA DASAR PADA NOVEL RICK RIORDAN PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS: THE SEA OF MONSTERS")

Abstract

This article is aimed to know and analyze what archetypal elements of myth found in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters, what relation between ancient Greek and USA today, and why the author put American ideology since the novel talks about Greek gods and goddesses. Northrop Frye's archetypal theory on genre and elements and also Althusser ideology are used as the theories in this analysis. This research has three questions as the main problems which are also the main goals in doing research. The first question asks about what the archetypal elements that exist in the novel are. The second question is how the novel represents the archetypal elements of myth on Northrop Frye theory. The third question is what the relation between the ancient Greek legends and the ideology of American in the novel. Since this research is a qualitative research, this research applies documentary method. The primary data are taken from the novel. The data in this research are selected dialogues and narrative structure of Percy Jackson and the Olympians: the Sea of Monsters which have relation with the problems. The result of this research shows that summer with romance is the archetype element that exist in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters. It is known through six phases of elements analysis focused on the life of the main character. Beside that, the American ideology shows in the Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Sea of Monsters is about the superiority of USA especially about their power and the people that are smarter than another country.