Morphology Of Legends Folktale Of The Minangkabau Boys In West Sumatra Who Was Rebellious To His Mother

Abstract

This research article contains a discussion about the morphology of the legends folktale of the Minangkabau boys in West Sumatra who was rebellious to his mother. This research is a descriptive qualitative study. Morphological data was obtained through a search of the structure of the motives and role functions of the four legends folktale of the Minangkabau boys in West Sumatra who was rebellious to his mother. The data sources of this study are legendary folktales (1) Malin Kundang and (2) Si Boko represents the coastal area of West Sumatra, (3) Batu Lengong, and (3) Bukit Talio representing the mainland area of West Sumatra. This study of the legends folktale of the Minangkabau boys in West Sumatra who was rebellious to his mother uses the theory of structural studies as used by Proop (1967, 1984), Greimas (1972), Scoles (1974), Rusyana (2000), and Hasanuddin WS (2018, 2019). The theory used assumes that the motives in the structure of folktale are the main thing because of the motives that make up the theme and explain the possibility of spreading the folktale to other regions. West Sumatra as the main residence area of the Minangkabau people has many legends folktale of rebellious children, both of rebellion boys and girls. The motive of the story of a rebellious boys to his mother is important to know and compare. Based on the research findings, the motifs of legends folktale of rebellious boys to their mothers have the same motive for the perpetrators' functions. The motives of the perpetrator's function on the legends folktale of the Minangkabau boys who was rebellious to his mother were (1) Initial situation: (a) living as an only child, (b) living only with mother, (c) living in very simple/ poor conditions (d ) want to change destiny for the better; (2) Transformation situation: (e) migrate following merchants and business people, (f) work hard and economically, (g) become rich and get married to women from families/ wealthy, (h) return to their hometown to meet their mothers; (3) Final situation: (i) meeting with an elderly and poor mother, (j) refusing to acknowledge her old and poor mother because she is ashamed of his wife, (k) condemned by her mother; (l) changes shape to stone due to the curse of his mother. The morphology of the legends folktale the Minangkabau boys in West Sumatra who were rebellious to their mother from the West Sumatra coastal region is more complete and intact than the legends folktale of the West Sumatra from mainland region.