Representasi Guru dalam Cerpen dan Novel Sastrawan Bali

Abstract

This paper discusses two novels and two short stories
by examining modern teacher’s characters by Balinese
fictional authors. These four literary works are a novel
in Balinese language entitled Bukit Buung Bukit Mentik
(Buung and Mentik Hills) by Agung Wiyat S Ardhi, a novel
in Indonesian language Senja di Candi Dasa (Twilight in
Candi Dasa) by Aryantha Soethama, and two short stories
in Balinese language Sertifikat(si) (A Certificate (ion)” by
I Made Lewis, and Ngabdi (Serving) by I Nyoman Alit
Suwarbawa.
By reading them in parallel way, these four works of
fiction are analyzed using the theory of New Historicism.
It is found that the images of teacher characters in the
writers mind are identical with that in real life. The teacher
characters in these four stories seem to have changed from
that of the traditional images of the past. Then, teachers
were described as wise, knowledgeable and idealistic men.
These kind of quality only are found in the Bukit Buung
Bukit Menti. Whereas, in Senja di Candi Dasa, Sertifikat(si)
and Ngabdi, such moral fibers are changing because of the
increasingly glamorous lifestyle.
The analysis also concludes that these fictions and
facts appear together, complementing one another. If
fictions are a story and facts are history, then both appear
simultaneously.