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1.2 Research Questions
Relevant to the background of the study above, this study attempts to address the following research questions:
1. How are the fantasy elements employed in constructing Wizard’s First Rule as
a fantasy fiction? 2.
In what ways does the story construct the logic of secondary world?
1.3 Aims of the Study
Relevant with the research questions above, the study aims at: 1.
Finding out how the fantasy elements are employed in constructing the story as a fantasy fiction.
2. Investigating the ways the story construct the logic of secondary world.
1.4 Scope of the Study
In this present study, the main focus of the writer is on narrative elements and secondary world in
Wizard’s First Rule by Terry Goodkind. It is pointed to analyze and to reveal the construction of the story as a fantasy fiction to present
logical secondary world in the novel.
1.5 Significance of the Study
Fantasy fiction has become a subject for several studies. One example is Salminen’s 2009 Fantastic in Form, Ambiguous in Content: Secondary Worlds
in Soviet Children’s Fantasy Fiction. It is a thesis that studied Soviet fantasy
Desti Ilmianti Saleh, 2013 Breaking the Magic
Code: Finding the Pattern of Goodkind’s Fantasy Fiction Wizard’s First Rule Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia
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fiction for children connected to the socio-historical of Soviet. To identify the structure of the Soviet Children’s Fantasy Fiction, she applied Nikolajeva’s
notions of fantasemes and chronotope. It indicates that Nikolajeva’s notions are an
applicable theory to reveal the nature of fantasy fiction. However, this theory is rarely adopted by Indonesian researchers, particularly in Indonesia University of
Education, whereas some of them used fantasy fiction as their research subject. Therefore, this present study conduct a similar approach
with Salminen’s thesis, namely applying Nikolajeva’s 1988 notions formulated in the magic code
to identify the pattern of Goodkind’s fantasy fiction Wizard’s First Rule.
Although this study applies a similar approach from the previous study, it is expected that the study provides new insights for understanding fantasy fiction
through a deep analysis of the nature of fantasy in Indonesia University of Education, generally in Indonesia. Thus, the different findings and conclusions
will enrich the knowledge about fantasy fiction.
1.6 Research Method
