B. Analysis of the Research
1. Sea as the Father Archetype
There is one common thing in every death that Molleen had to face was that her father, a boy named Macdarragh and her beloved horse that also named
Macdarragh, they were dead in the sea, and in the end of the story, Molleen in fact died in the same place as them.
Sea is one form of collective unconscious. If we go back to the definition of collective unconscious, it points at inherited memory. Every person knows that we
live on earth that consists of land and water. Therefore sea is something that we need the most beside land. According to Jung, a person who lost his father figure always
spends his time in the sea or doing something that connected with the sea. But in Molleen’s case, the sea became something frightened her because the sea had taken
her three beloved persons and she had to put her fear in her unconscious by repressed it in her deepest psyche. She is even rather to live poor than to have her husband die
in the sea. I’d rather eat poorer than the rest than have the sea swallow you and keep you from me. I’ll eat the rocks and the kelp. McBride 2005, 230
Sea became her enemy in this story but in the end, it became her choice in ending her life by jumping to the sea because it was one way to meet her Self
archetype about this Self archetype, the writer will discuss it later in point number 4 of this chapter. From the end of the story we can conclude that Sea also acted as
Father Archetype, because father figure was something that she searched for and
when she could not find it in life, she rather gave her life and committed suicide because it has been said in previous chapter that father based on several elements, and
one of them is heaven. So she thought that she could meet with her father in heaven. She was willing to give her life in order to get her happiness like in sacrificial myth
where the hero gives his life to meet his lover in heaven. Molleen could not get it while she was alive so she chose to end her life by getting back to her collective
unconscious that was the sea and it also the place where her three beloved persons died. Jung also has mentioned in his book that Self archetype can only be achieved
when we die.
2. Father Complex
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