2. Deconstruction
Deconstruction In Practice In deconstruction the
signified and the signifier are unstable, and can take
on multiple meanings.
In other words
Deconstruction looks at the ambiguities in signifiers,
and states that there can be many different signified
meanings for a single signifier
4. Sitti Nurbaya
o Siti Nurbaya, a modest and pretty girl, was falling in
love with Samsul Bahri, a handsome young man of
Minang people in West Sumatera, Indonesia. They
had planned to get married soon after they reached
the age of maturity. Their parents had made an
agreement that they would allow and even positively
encourage Siti Nurbaya and Samsul Bahri to get
married.
5. .
o In an unfortunate situation, Bagindo Sulaiman, as
the father of Siti Nurbaya, and her wife as well, had
a great debt to Datuak Maringgih. Datuak
Maringgih was an old man, very old, with many
wives. He could have that chance to marry many
girls in that town because he was rich and a
landlord in the area.
6. .
o Knowing that she had been forced to get married
with Datuak Maringgih, Siti Nurbaya killed herself
by eating poisonous “lemang”, a specific food made
by rice and red sugar in Minang.
7. .o When Bagindo Sulaiman wanted to beg for the mercy
of Datuak Maringgih about the debt, the old man
decided that the debt could be considered as over
when Bagindo Sulaiman let him married Siti Nurbaya.
Bagindo Sulaiman had no other choice in that
condition.
8. .
Lately, Datuak Maringgih and Samsul Bahri were
met in a battle when fighting with the Dutch
colonial. They were both finally dead. At last, the
love of Siti Nurbaya and Samsul Bahri was never
realized
9. Response of the public Reader
In general of reader assumes that Samsul Bahri is a
protagonist hero, handsome and white. Datuk
Maringgih an antagonist, Old, malicious and
moneylenders.
By way of deconstruction
the situation it will reversed
10. Point of view in Deconstructionist
Critism
Be mentally, samsul is a a whiny man, failed in love
with a girl where he thinks she is a good girl, actually
she was a widow. he tried to suicide himself.
Samsul is the betrayer of the nation
Fighting with the Datu Maringgih, actually he fighting
with his own country and defend against the Dutch.
11. . In the other side Datuk Maringgih is a bad man,
moneylenders, and had many wives, but in fact ,he
againsts to rebellion ( Dutch colonialists ) although it
is motivation itself tobe a richman , because the Dutch
get the most a tax.
