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Rahman, Gatricya. 2014. The Archetypes of Hero and Hero’s Journey in Five Grimm’s Fairy Tales. June.

This thesis was talked about the archetype hero and hero’s journey in five Grimm’s fairy tales. This thesis have three purpose, those were to reveal the archetypes of hero in The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, to reveal the archetypes of hero’s journey in The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales and to reveal the literary methods used to reveal those archetypes.  This research used  qualitative  approach  as the main data of this research are words, phrases, sentences, clauses, discourses and expressions taken from five Grimm’s fairy tales. As the objects of this research are fairy tales. This research also employs content analysis as the  technique of  analysis. Content analysis  is  used  as  the technique of analysis of the short stories. The subject of this research is five fairytales entitled “The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was” ,“The Devil with Three Golden Hairs”, “The Golden Goose”, “The Water of Life” and “The  King’s  Son  Who  Feared  Nothing”;  all  of  which  are  compiled  in The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales written by The Grimm’s Brothers. The data were some sentences and utterances showing the archetypes of hero and hero’s journey. The researcher  collected  the  data  using  read-write  technique. There were three results of this research. First, there are four archetypes of hero  in  five  fairy  tales  employed,  namely  innocent,  single-parented,  special environment  of  birth,  and  noble  hearted  hero. Second, there  are mainly  eleven stages among  twelve  stages of the  archetypes  of hero’s  journey found,  namely Ordinary World, Call of Adventure, Meeting with the Mentor, Crossing the First Threshold,  Test,  Allies  and  Enemies,  Approach  to  the  Inmost  Cave,  The  Ordeal, The  Reward,  The  Road  Back,  The  Resurrection, and  Return  with  the  Elixir with the  absence  of  one  stage  namely  Refusal  of  The  Call. Third, the  archetypes  of hero  are  mainly  revealed  by  character  revelation,  mostly  through  actions  and speeches, the archetypes of hero’s journey are presented through plot and setting of time and place.