The construction of moral symbols in 'Murwakala' text and its entanglement in Javanese community order

Masitoh, Siti and Huda, Miftahul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0196-9262 (2023) The construction of moral symbols in 'Murwakala' text and its entanglement in Javanese community order. Presented at The 4th Annual International Conference on Language, Literature and Media (AICOLLIM 2022), 21-22 Sep 2022, Malang, Indonesia.

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Abstract

The study aims at scrutinizing the construction of moral symbols in the 'Murwakala' text of Ki Suprapto, H.S., the designated successor of Ki Panut, one of the best Indonesian Dalangs (shadow-puppet artists). He was cordially invited to perform ruwatan (traditional Javanese ceremonies conducted to release people from misfortunes or threats) at Keraton Surakarta. Analyzing moral symbols is necessary to thoroughly understand the text as it shows a spectacle and a guide for the community. The 'Murwakala' text used as the data source is a story narrated by Dalang Ruwat named Ki Suprapto, H.S at the mass ruwatan in Nganjuk, East Java on Sunday, January 21, 2011. The study is projected to elucidate moral symbols in the Murwakala text, how they are constructed along the narratives, and how the symbols (and narratives) are entangled in the Javanese community order. The study reveals that moral symbols in the 'Murwakala' text appear in the characters' names, the events in which the characters take part, and the objects used in the story. The construction of the 'Murwakala' narratives depicts the concept of Javanese philosophy sangkan paraning dumadi, an attempt to see the ‘self’ by interrogating its origin and life purpose. Moral symbols in the 'Murwakala' text shape the order of the Javanese community in terms of, for example, how they are supposed to spend time and communicate with others.

Item Type:	Conference (Paper)
Keywords:	community order; dalang; moral symbols; ruwat(an); wayang
Subjects:	20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2005 Literary Studies > 200526 Stylistics and Textual Analysis 20 LANGUAGE, COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE > 2005 Literary Studies > 200599 Literary Studies not elsewhere classified
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities > Department of English Language and Letters
Depositing User:	Miftahul Huda
Date Deposited:	03 Apr 2023 10:19

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