THE ARCHETYPES OF HERO AND HERO’S JOURNEY IN FIVE GRIMM’S FAIRY TALES

This research has three objectives. The first is to reveal the archetypes of hero in The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales, the second is to reveal the archetypes of hero’s journey in The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales and the third is to reveal the literary methods used to reveal those archetypes. Jung’s archetype is the basis of analysis employed in this research. This research used qualitative approach. Content analysis is used as the technique of analysis of the short stories. The subject of this research is five fairy tales 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. The data analysis dealt with the process of data reducing, data displays and conclusion drawing. To obtain trustworthiness, the researcher used triangulation technique. There are 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